Card Player Magazine annoucned that it was making changes to its Player of the Year race to include more preliminary events at tournaments outside of the United States. This will serve to make the POY race more competitive, as with more events there are more chances to earn points, making every tournament more important in the year-long race to be the best player in the poker world.
Some of the events that will be affected by the change are preliminary [...]
Tony Guoga had surged to the head of the leaderboard with victories on the first two days of play, but he slowed down considerably on Day 3, gaining only one point. That one point is now all that separates Tony from Andy Black whose two consecutive victories have helped him over come his last place finish on Day 1.
The second match on Day 3 saw Tony Guoga, Marcel Lüske, Annie Duke, Alex Kravchenko, [...]
Andy Black had gotten off to a bad start in the Party Poker Premier League by finishing in last place in his first match, but then immediately bounced back with a victory in his second match. On Day 3 Black took down another victory, bringing him to 18 points and guaranteeing that he would either finish day 3 in second place or tied with Tony Guoga for first, pending the outcome of Tony [...]
Tony Guoga, coming after a strong victory on day 1 would not be denied a chance to take firm control of the leaderboard, winning his second match to take a commanding 9 point lead over his nearest competition, Andy Black and Roland de Wolfe. Tony Guoga won’t relax though, as he knows that he is the target now that he has separated himself from the pack.
The second match on Day 2 consisted of [...]
On Day 1 of the Party Poker Premier League Tony Guoga and Roland de Wolfe won their matches to take an early lead in the competition while reigning champion Juha Helppi and Andy Black were the big losers, finishing the day with zero points. In a tournament that is fashioned in the way the Party Poker Premier League is, there are plenty of ways to overcome a bad starts, and Andy Black found [...]
On Tuesday, Card Player Magazine launched their Spade Club poker software. Spade Club is a poker community that focuses on helping players improve their game. To this end, Spade Club comes with a host of poker tools, including an odds calculator and a hand helper, which will advise you on just how strong your hand is given the hand strength and number of opponents. By playing on Spade Club [...]
The 2008 Party Poker Premier League has begun. Twelve poker players are now fighting to win a piece of the prize pool that is now totaling $1 million. Nine of the twelve competed in the Party Poker Premier League in 2007. These players are Andy Black, Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth, Tony Guoga, Eddy Scharf, Ian Frazer, Roland de Wolfe, Vicky Coren, and the 2007 champion, Juha Helppi. Joining [...]
A study performed by Price Waterhouse Coopers has determined that if two online gambling bills currently in the U.S. Legislature were to pass, up to $17.6 billion in taxes over the next ten years could be generated for collection by the U.S. government. The two bills are Representative Barney Frank’s (D-MA) Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 and Representative Jim McDermott’s (D-WA) Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act. [...]
The Dutch Senate had been scheduled to vote on whether to grant an exclusive online gaming license to the Holland Casino, which is owned by The Netherlands. However, the Minister of Justice, Hirsch Ballin, postponed the vote, saying that he did so because the Dutch Senate would not approve the license.
This comes as another part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice’s efforts to crack down on online gaming. Just last week, the [...]
Sweden announced last year that they would be targeting online poker sites and poker affiliates in an effort to crack down on tax evasion. At the time it was assumed that poker players would be in no danger, mostly because Dag Hardyson, who was the project leader for the internet division of Sweden’s national tax board, Skatteverket, said that they were only interested in the poker sites and affiliates. However, it has [...]
