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Crockfords Casino Sued by Poker Pro Phil Ivey

Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 Professional Internet

One of the best poker players in history, known as “the Tiger Woods of Poker” has issued a writ against Crockfords Casino in London’s High Court as he claims that the Mayfair casino owes him almost £7.3 million that he won playing Punto Banco (a variant of Baccarat). Ivey claims that Crockfords,London’s oldest gambling [...]

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PokerStars Announces $130k Re-buy Tourney

Date: Fri, May 3, 2013 Professional Internet

PokerStars has announced that it will be holding a great tournament in its new poker room, PokerStars LIVE Macau, at the City ofDreamscasino. The new tournament, the “GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions” (GDAM) with a double re-buy $130k buy-in main event, is expected to attract in excess of 100 players.  Several of the expected players [...]

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Party Poker Cancels Several Tournaments in Pokerfest III Event

Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 Professional Internet

Party Poker, one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world, is currently holding a Pokerfest III online tournament.  The event commenced at 00.00 CET on Sunday 21st April, 2013 and will run until 23.59 on Sunday, 5th May, 2013.  Qualifiers for the event started on 25th March, 2013. The festivities were to [...]

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Approval Granted to Station Casinos for Internet Poker

Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 Professional Internet

According to a report in the Las Vegas Sun on Thursday, 18th April, 2013, the Nevada Gaming Commission was assured by Station Casinos that it would not permit any money laundering or underage betting and that the commission had cleared the Casinos to operate and develop its own Internet poker system. Officials of Station Casinos [...]

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Full Tilt Founder Awaits Heart Transplant

Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 Professional Internet

The Guardian revealed this week that co-founder of Full Tilt Poker, Ray Bitar is waiting for a heart transplant in California.  The information was revealed within the context of an article relating to a plea bargain that has been reached between the 41 year old and the US Departmentof Justice, based on Bitar’s poor health. Bitar faces [...]

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Blue Square Poker Players Redirected to Betfair

Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 Professional Internet

Account holders at Blue Square Poker trying to access the domain this week will see that they are being automatically redirected to Betfair, the industry leading betting exchange and online gambling platform. “Blue Square is now a part of Betfair. Your new account is waiting for you,” players are being told, and are being presented [...]

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Record Attendance at UK Student Poker Championships

Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 Professional Internet

A record number of students packed the Coventry G Casino to take part in the UK Student Poker Championships for the 2013 edition of this popular UK land poker tournament.  The Main Event of the tournament attracted 469 players, with the prize pool reaching over GBP 14,000.  This was in sharp contrast to  last year’s event [...]

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Reece Lewis Bags £80K in WPT National London Main Event

Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2013 Professional Internet

Reece Lewis, the young poker pro, has bagged himself £80,000 by beating his opponents to win the World Poker Tour National London Main Event . The event attracted over 200 players, until it was finally whittled down to an eight man/woman final table which played out the finals on Tuesday night at the Aspers Casino [...]

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Ladbrokes Poker Plans Shift to iPoker Platform

Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 Professional Internet

As part of a new five year deal signed with gambling software provider, Playtech, the leading UK group, Ladbrokes has announced that it will shifting its poker client from the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) to Playtech’s iPoker Network.  The shift will not be immediate and will be done in due course, according to a press [...]

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Poker Stars New Jersey Plans Hit Opposition

Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 Professional Internet

Poker Stars, the worlds largest online poker room, recently announced plans to return to the US gambling market by acquiring the Atlantic Club land casino and hotel resort on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.  New Jersey recently legalized intrastate online gambling, and Poker Stars plans to roll out its own software from its new land base [...]

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Start of a good 2013 For PKR

Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 Professional Internet

Award winning PKR, the world’s leading 3D poker room, signed up its five- millionth player in November 2012 and after showing a tremendous number of recruits over the Christmas period the poker room is gearing itself up for a busy 2013. London-based PKR has gone from strength to strength in the past few years [...]

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PokerStars to Celebrate Sunday Million’s Seventh Anniversary

Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 Professional Internet

PokerStars, one of the biggest and most popular online poker rooms in the world, has announced that it will be celebrating the seventh anniversary of poker’s richest weekly tournament – the Sunday Million with a fabulous event that will feature a $7 million guaranteed prize pool. The special event is scheduled to take place [...]

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PartyPoker.com Confirms Six Players for Premier League VI

Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2013 Professional Internet

The sixth edition of the PartyPoker.com Premier League is scheduled to take place at Aspers Casino from Sunday, 17th March to Saturday, 23rd March, 2013.  Sixteen of the world’s top players are due to battle it out in this popular tournament which will cost each player an amount of $125,000 to enter. The players [...]

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Schedule for London’s Largest Poker Festival Confirmed by European Poker Tour

Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 Professional Internet

Details have at last been announced for the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 9’sLondonpoker festival. TheU.K.and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) and the European Poker Tour (EPT) will get together for the first time during this festival that is bound to create a substantial set of tournaments and opportunities for players at all levels. [...]

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