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Thursday 29th March 2007

Jamie ‘Hands up’ Gold off the hook Current World Series of Poker title holder Jamie Gold will not be subject to retroactive penalties for showing a whole card and describing his hand at the WSOP main event last year. WSOP commissio...

Thursday 29th March 2007

Poker’s Good Boy Beats Poker’s Bad Boy in Poularity contest Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi has won Cardplayer’s Player of the Year title. A sample of 50,000 online poker players who were asked which pro most deserved the title. Absolute poker.com listed Th...

Thursday 29th March 2007

Police Shut Down Tournament in Sweden Last week we reported that a tournament in Ireland was called off minutes after it had started. This week, over 700 Swedish poker players were disappointed at the 2007 European Poker Challenge in S...

Thursday 29th March 2007

Online Casino Players to Pocket Crucible Tickets Tickets to the snooker World Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, UK, can be won with 888.com. Online casino site 888 and Chad Sport are offering nine pairs of tickets for the aftern...

Thursday 29th March 2007

Online Casino Announces New Wagers for the Irish Open Online gambling and poker site Paddy Power has announced fifteen new match and group bets for the 26th Irish Open, which kicks off at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin over the Easter weekend (6-9 Apri...

Thursday 29th March 2007

Prime Online Casino Goes Live Following the success of its online poker site, Prime Gaming has launched a brand new online casino. The company, also known for ScratchCards, is using Microgaming software to ensure that the vari...

Thursday 29th March 2007
Hitman Unites Microgaming and Edios Microgaming and Edios have entered into a global licensing deal which builds on Microgamings success with the Laura Croft series. Building on the Croft success of game and movie, this launch comes ...


Thursday 29th March 2007
Citadel Sets up for European Growth Like many of its counterparts, Citatel has joined companies seeking asylum outside the USA where the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) has made business almost impossible. Despite...


Wednesday 28th March 2007

Caesars croupiers add a union to their hand Dealers at Caesars Atlantic City have learned that big bosses have decided not to challenge a proposal for a croupier union, the International Herald Tribune reports. Caesars' parent company, Harr...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

Terrorists same as poker players says FBI agent Joe Navarro, a former special agent, says that the interrogation skills he learned during his 25 years with the FBI can be used to decode poker tells. Navarro used to interpret the physical behavi...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

Mansion Continues Daily $100K Tourneys Gibraltar based Mansion Poker, having given away over $4 million dollars since January 3rd this year, is continuing to promote its site with $100K a day tournaments. The tournaments have an average...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

Bad Beat Poker Psycho Skips Town A man who tried to shoot his opponents following a home game of poker, has gone on the run after a County Judge in Williamsport, Pennsylvania issued a bench warrant against him. 45 year-old Harold...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

Hands-On Mobile Agrees WPT Extension Hands-On Mobile, a respected international developer and distributor of mobile content and applications, and World Poker Tour Enterprises have announced a lengthy extension to their highly profita...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

New US Congress May be Democratic to Online Casinos Top5GameSites.com, a leader in online casino reviews, has announced that the United States House of Congress has recently welcomed a number several casino-friendly Democrats to its ranks. The move...

Wednesday 28th March 2007

CryptoLogic Marvels at its Online Casino Success CryptoLogic, a leading developer of software for the online gambling industry has announced that its deal with comic giant Marvel Entertainment has been extended to 2010. The partnership has alrea...