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Friday 29th February 2008

Play for Team Bluff Europe at Sunday’s eSport Poker Free Roll Europe’s leading poker magazine Bluff Europe is giving players the chance to represent Team Bluff Europe this Sunday at the eSport-Poker league. The magazine is entering a team into Europe’s first...

Friday 29th February 2008

Ivey Wins the WPT L.A. Poker Classic One of the best known and most feared poker players in the world has finally won his first WPT poker title. Phil Ivey, one of the most successful tournament and cash game players in the world,...

Friday 29th February 2008

NBC Heads-Up Championship First-Round Matchups Set The NBC Heads-Up Championships have made the draw for this year’s tournament at the PURE Nightclub at Caesars Palace. With nearly all of the 64 players arriving at the pairing party, the...

Friday 29th February 2008

Virgin Poker to take Vegas by storm this summer Virgin Poker is enlisting the help of its Virgin sister companies to send players to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas this summer - for free! Every player winning a WSOP main event seat...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Santa's charity poker tour branded illegal Officials in Alaska have put the kibosh on a charity poker tournament that was raising money for Santa Claus to answer Christmas wish list letters from kids. A series of poker games were to be hel...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Lovestruck poker fan bets on proposal A poker player from Queenstown, New Zealand, put his whole future at stake on the turn of the cards at a poker tournament. According to Mountain Scene, Michael Westra promised to propose to his g...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Bookies to sell off horseracing pitches Bookmaker Neville Porter has suffered such poor results over the year that it has decided to sell off its UK horse racing pitches to raise more funds. The cash-poor bookies, which is based in Coun...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Roulette machines not such a gamble While Ladbrokes is synonymous with betting on horse racing, last year it seems that roulette machines installed in its betting shops had generated quite a bit of money of their own. One of the UK'...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Second WSOP Academy Announced The World Series of Poker Academy has announced its second annual event, to take place on the weekend of March 29th at Caesars Indiana casino in the USA. The WSOP Academy camps are designed to...

Thursday 28th February 2008

'Queen of the Internet' Endorses New Poker Room A new online poker room has been launched and endorsed by Tila Tequila, the lass who has risen to become the Queen of the Internet. Tila found fame through social networking site MySpace, being...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Online Bingo Attraction For Entraction Online gambling group Entraction has signed a deal with Scandinavian software company NYX Interactive that will see its licensees launch of a range of new online bingo offerings later this year....

Thursday 28th February 2008

Day Five of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic While the stage for the WPT final table was literally being set up behind them, 18 players returned to the Commerce Casino to navigate their way to the televised final table of six. The two...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Angry MP blasts ‘gambling den’ proposal An MP from Wolverhampton has lambasted plans for a new casino in his constituency as ‘an ultimate insult’. Ken Purchase, who has been the Labour MP for Wolverhampton North East since...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Sky City Profits Plummet Kiwi casino operator Sky City Entertainment Group has reported its smallest profits in over a decade following the $49 million write-off of its cinema assets. The New Zealand firm announced...

Thursday 28th February 2008

Genting Reports Stanley Losses Genting International Plc, the Singapore-listed subsidiary of Malaysian gaming giant Genting Berhad, has revealed losses for the year of $273.6 after factoring in a $325.9 million impairment loss...