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Partial Block Of U.S.

11/7/08

Due to the legal issues going on in Kentucky over the seizure of more than 140 domain names, online software network Microgaming implemented a block on its websites to 13 states within the U.S. Microgaming has a large number of it’s sites tangled up in the Kentucky domain seizure case. One of the biggest sites involved in the case is DoylesRoom, which the famous Doyle Brunson is the face of. Microgaming ...

Introducing The Bluff Poker Tour

11/7/08

The virtual tour is back once again after a two-year hiatus. The Bluff Poker Tour will be starting once again and the first tournament will begin on November 6th at the Pitbull Poker Website. The remaining tournaments will bounce between different online poker sites through the tournament. The sites which will be involved include PokerHost, Poker4ever, TruePoker, UlitmateGameRoom, StinkyFishPoker, SwankPoker, ReeferPoker, CellsinoPoker, RaiderPoker and PitbullPoker.

The cost of each tournament will ...

davin77 Victorious in FTOPS X Event #1

11/7/08

The time has come for another round of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, the tenth round since its inception. FTOPS X started with a $200 + $16 NL Holdem 6-Max tournament, hosted by Full Tilt Pro Mike Matusow, and Event #1 drew a playing field of 5,124 poker players, all eager to nab some of the $1,024,800 prize pool. After battling for eight and a half hours, six ...

Ryan Fee Captures LAPT San Jose Title

11/7/08

Ryan Fee, a twenty year old from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held the chip lead when final table play began at the Latin America Poker Tour San Jose, and he would continue to accumulate chips until he held all of the chips. His victory earned him $285,773 and the LAPT San Jose title.

Final table play started cautiously, as the players were unwilling to take big risks in the opening ...

PokerStars Goes Italian

11/4/08

This past week it was announced by PokerStars officials that the popular online poker website was going to launch PokerStars.it. The site is going to be a portal to the wonderful world of PokerStars and to everything it has to offer online poker players. That is true, it is going to offer more to online players, but here is the kicker, it is only going to be available to poker ...

UltimateBet Signs New Pro

11/4/08

It seems for a while now all you hear is bad news when referringto UltimateBet. We are now glad to say that we actually have good news about the online poker site UltimateBet. The online poker giant has made an announcement that it has recently signed Adam “Roothlus” Levy, an online tournament genius.

Roothlus has been playing online poker for quite sometime now. It was just a couple of years ago  ...

New Fall PartyPoker Promotions

11/3/08

Lets hear you say it, “I’m the king of the world”, sorry that wasn’t loud enough let me really hear you say it, “I’M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!”. That’s better, now you wanna know what’s better than being king of the world, well that’s easy to answer as long as your a poker player. It’s being king of the table. Now I’m not going to have you yell again, ...

Caesars Palace Finds Hevad Khan Victorious

11/3/08

Its the Caesars Palace Poker Classic NL Hold em’ Championship and the last hand was just dealt. The player that came out on top was the famously loud mouthed Hevad “Rain” Khan. This is Hevads second major tournament win (first one came at Foxwoods Poker Classic) and his second major tournament cash (received $108,000 for winning Foxwoods) since he finished 6th in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event.

The final day of play ...

WPTE Gets Extension

11/2/08

When a company is listed in the NASDAQ on Wall Street, there are some simple rules that a company must follow. The simplest rule to remember is your company must consistently trade above $1. Well because of the economy, World Poker Tour Enterprises has had trouble staying above $1 on a consistent basis.

Since the closing bell on August 14, WPTE has known that it had 180 days to get its ...

William Fry Wins First Ever EPT Hungarian Open

11/1/08

The European Poker Tour saw an additional stop in this year’s tour, the EPT Hungarian Open, which took place in Budapest, Hungary. This new event drew a playing field of 532 players, out of whom eight would make the final table, with William Fry of the UK emerging as the victor and capturing the €595,839 first prize.

Johnny Lodden was the first to fall at the final table, ...