PokerStars Winner Gets Seat on NBC's Heads-up Poker Championship
Blandino Gines, a 52-year-old welder from San Jose, California, won a free satellite on PokerStars for a chance to compete head-to-head with the world's top celebrities, athletes and poker pros at the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas from March 6-8. The championship will be televised nationally on NBC and CNBC.
Friday, February 27, 2009
AbsolutePoker Promotion Sends 12 Lucky Players to Playboy Mansion
AbsolutePoker.net is gearing up to make every man's sweetest fantasies come to life for 12 lucky Texas Hold'em players. The leading free-play online poker site today announced that it's giving away six trips for two to the Kandyland Party at the Playboy Mansion, getting underway on June 13, 2009.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ultimatebet Offers Slamming Wrestlemania Online Poker Promotion
A pair of tickets to WWE(r)'s 25th Anniversary of WrestleMania(r) could be just a pocket pair away for one Canadian* Texas Hold'em fan.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Schedule Released
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, today announced the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo Grand Final Season Five schedule – Europe's largest and richest seven-day poker extravaganza. The PokerStars Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final will run April 27-May 3, offering fourteen separate events making the Grand Final the most exciting poker festival ever held in Europe.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Heads-Up Poker Championship Competition is Heavy
Get your tournament brackets ready! NBC's 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the granddaddy of all heads-up poker tournaments, will take place once again at Caesars Palace Las Vegas on March 5-8. Now in its fifth year, this year's event will feature an array of many of the greatest poker players in the world.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Devilfish Wins at His Own Game
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott's winning streak continued last week when he won the DevilfishPoker.com weekly bounty tournament. As a result the €250 bounty wasn't claimed and DevilfishPoker.com has added the cash to this week's bounty tournament on Thursday February 19 at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
London Poker Circuit to Host 2009 Poker Tournaments
The London Poker Circuit (LPC) has announced an exclusive live poker tournament series. The series will take place at three prestigious hotel venues in central London between 16th March and 11th November 2009.
Monday, February 23, 2009
South Carolina Joins Other States Citing Poker as a Game of Skill
South Carolina judge made his opinion known that Texas hold'em is a game of skill.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Party Poker Opens Online Satellites for 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championship
The Canadian Poker Tour is pleased to announce that exclusive online satellites have begun at Party Poker to qualify for the Main Event of the Canadian Open Poker Championships. The event will be held at the Stampede Casino in Calgary, Alberta, May 13-17, 2009.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Latin American Poker Tour Ready for Fourth Event
The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Season Two makes its way to its penultimate stop of the tour in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The three day event will be held at the beautiful Mantra Resort Spa Casino from March 18-20, 2009.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Titan Poker Hosting ECPokerTour Salzburg
The ECPokerTour Salzburg 2009, in its unique Austrian Alpine setting, takes place between April 3rd-5th 2009 and offers players unrivalled luxury and a shot at poker glory. The hills will be alive with the sound of shuffling chips in April when the ECPokerTour Salzburg, descends upon the picturesque Saalbach-Hinterglemm valley in Austria for three days of poker, fun and luxury.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Poker Channel Now Offering Online Live Video Streams
The Poker Channel, Europe's largest dedicated gaming TV network, has today announced the launch of its live stream offering online at www.pokerchanneleurope.com/pokertv.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Fox Sports Net Continues World Poker Tour Broadcasts
WPT Enterprises, Inc. and News Corporation's Fox Sports Network (FSN) announced today that they have officially extended the television broadcast license to include World Poker Tour® (WPT) Season VIII. The new season begins filming mid-2009 and is the latest WPT programming scheduled for FSN.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
iPhone and iPod Card Counter Download on Watch by Nevada Agents
Users of iPhones beware -- state gaming agents are watching you. California gaming authorities tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Bad Beat Jackpot Hits Big at Absolute Poker
Online poker players at Absolute Poker have a whole bunch of reasons to be looking at life with a much rosier outlook today after sharing in $813,341.85 when HDCOWBOY, a 65-year-old resident from Pennsylvania, 'lassoed' the latest Bad Beat Jackpot on the eve of Valentine's Day.
Monday, February 16, 2009
UltimateBet Celebrates a Decade of Success with New Tournaments
UltimateBet spring boards its landmark 10th Anniversary festivities with the launch of its hotly-anticipated satellites for the 2009 World Series of Poker and the debut of STEP Tournaments, giving online poker players a shot at qualifying for this year's $10,000 buy in WSOP Main Event in ten simple steps, and for a tiny investment of ten cents.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Carbon Poker Alpine Package Promotions
Poker News and Carbon Poker have teamed up to give PokerNews players exclusive access to three $7,800 packages to the 2009 PokerNews Cup Alpine.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
New Poker Channel Show Premiering on Valentine's Day
This Valentine's Day, Saturday 14th February, poker fans will be able to indulge their love for cash game poker with the online premiere of the Cash Game Master Class (6 x 30') online. The series is the first 'how to' series of its kind on cash game strategy and features expert insight from poker professionals Eric Liu and Albert Iverson.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Fleet Street Players Accepted by PokerStars
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, has come to the rescue of thousands of poker players after fleetstreetgames.com was forced to close down.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
PokerStars Celebrates 25 Billionth Dealt Hand
PokerStars is close to hitting another milestone and is inviting everyone to the bash. The world's biggest poker site is about to deal its 25 billionth hand and is hosting the "25 Billion Bash" to celebrate the achievement.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
CelebPoker Hosting Online Tournament
European licenced poker-room CelebPoker.com is proud to announce the International Championship of Online Poker (ICOP) - a series of tournaments running over 7 days (9th March-15th March 2009), with a guaranteed prize-pool of €600,000.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dream Team Poker Hires New Director of Business Development
Dream Team Poker today announced the hiring of Katherine Kowal to be the company's new director of business development, adding another industry veteran to their impressive executive team. Kowal will be charged with further advancing Dream Team Poker's casino presence and enhancing brand recognition among poker players.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Bad Beat Jackpot Reaches $500,000
Just in time for Valentine's Day, players at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker are falling "head over heels" for the Bad Beat Jackpot on the CEREUS Poker Network as it swells to over $500,000 as of Tuesday evening.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Spanish Poker Tour Announces 2009 Season
After a very successful first year, the organizers of the Spanish Poker Tour have announced the launch of their 2009 season. Once again, EverestPoker.com, one of the world's leading poker rooms, will sponsor the Tour that will bring hundreds of professional players to the most beautiful destinations across the country.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
National Heads-Up Poker Championship Returns to NBC in March
Sixty four of the world's top poker players are going "all in" at the 5th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship on March 6-8 in Las Vegas. Heads-Up brings a who's who of the poker world to the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room to compete in its distinctive, bracket-style head-to-head format for $1.5 million in combined prize money.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009