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Monday 11th February 2008

Irishman Triumphs at Green Joker Poker European Deep Stack Championship The €1,500 main event featured a strong field which included Joe Beevers, fellow Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman, and EPT Baden and two-time GUKPT winner Julian Thew. Despite the best of the...

Monday 11th February 2008

PKR Announce New Tournament Schedules They might be one of the pioneering sites leading the next-gen poker playing market, but PKR refuse to rest on their laurels. Over the weekend the site announced a completely new tournament...

Monday 11th February 2008

Dutch Player Wins $2.5 Million Jackpot at 32Vegas.com Rens S. from the Netherlands was playing at home at 32Vegas.com, drinking a coffee and fantasizing about the huge jackpot that had accumulated. He was winning a bit and loosing a bit. He was almost...

Monday 11th February 2008

Scotland’s Largest Casino Opens Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment has opened Scotland’s largest casino in Glasgow. One of the firms responsible for turning the Las Vegas’ strip into the world's premier casino...

Monday 11th February 2008

What’s Cooking At Online Casino Online casino CasinoTropez.com has premiered two new video slots, Bonus Bears and What’s Cooking, featuring bonus rounds and large prizes. The Kahnawake-licensed site stated that the new...

Monday 11th February 2008

Vote On Dutch Casino’s Online Launch Delayed A vote in the Dutch Parliament on whether to grant the nation’s gambling monopoly permission to launch online gambling operations has been put on hold. The vote on whether to allow Holland...

Monday 11th February 2008

Gambling Tax Proposed in Scotland A politician in Scotland has called for a mandatory levy on gambling firms operating in the nation with a view to more adequately funding programmes for addicts. Scottish National Party member...

Monday 11th February 2008

Mega Moolah Progressive Jackpot Nears £5,000,000 -- Total Jackpot Prize Pool Over £7,000,000 Microgaming’s Mega Moolah progressive jackpot is nearing £5,000,000 ($2,500,000) and three other jackpots at Microgaming online casino sites are hovering around £1,000,000 each. The network has...

Friday 8th February 2008

Paris Hilton in poker invitational? While Paris Hilton is the talk of the town after being named Harvard University's Woman of the Year - by its satirical Lampoon magazine - she could be getting her Jimmy Choos on to head to Los Ange...

Friday 8th February 2008

Virgin Poker Festival checks into Newcastle Following the success of the first ever Virgin Poker Festival in Birmingham last year, Virgin Poker today announced the much-anticipated return of its poker extravaganza at Aspers Casino,...

Friday 8th February 2008

Ads from 1,000 gambling sites to be axed The UK is set to ban advertising from around 1,000 international online casinos and gambling websites because the countries they come from do not adhere to government regulations. According to int...

Friday 8th February 2008

Underdog named WSOP Circuit champ The latest champion on the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) Circuit overcame almost insurmountable odds to triumph, but then he admits he is a man with a plan. Michael 'Mickey' Pickett from Minnesota ...

Friday 8th February 2008

Final Table Set at the WSOP-C in Rincon With a 12 hour session on the opening day of the WSOPC Rincon, Day 2 seemed like a relatively comfortable day for those who had made it through the first day. With the action starting off to a...

Friday 8th February 2008

Austria Follows Sweden's Lead with Online Poker Monopoly Austria's state-controlled Osterreichische Lotterien and Casinos Austria opened their new online poker room, Win2Day, on the Boss Media Poker network, a site which was developed in partnership...

Friday 8th February 2008

Big Names Make It To The National Poker Championship The Genting Stanley National Poker League has got off to a barn-storming start, with over 4,000 players taking part in a first month which saw over £500,000 being paid out in prize money. Those...