NetPlay TV To Buy Channel 848
NetPlay TV has announced that it has agreed to purchase Channel 848 from Hollywood TV Limited in order to launch a new live blackjack service by the end of the month.
The purchase comes following...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Poker up to 40th on Lycos list
Poker remains in the Lycos top 50 search term list for another week after moving up to 40th over the last seven days. News of the World Series of Poker main event changing its schedule to accommod...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Twaddle beats Lang to Borgata title
Schuyler Twaddle won the first big tournament of his career last night, after a chopped prize pot handed him victory at the $500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack Poker Tournament at the Borgata in Atlanti...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Swedish Court Rules In Grebbestad Case
In Sweden, the District Court in Uddevalla has ruled in the long-running case against the alleged organisers of the 2007 European Poker Challenge, which included the founder and former Chief...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Playtech Revenues Climb 97 Percent
Isle of Man-based online gambling turnkey provider Playtech Limited has reported record revenues of $39 million for the first quarter of the year, a rise of 97 percent over the same period last...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Marty Smyth Wins PartyPoker.com World Open IV
Thirty-three year-old Marty Smyth scooped $250,000 after winning the PartyPoker.com World Open IV in London. The 72-runner $8,000 buy-in event offered a total prize pool of $576,000 and featured a...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Liv Boeree Wins Ladbrokes European Ladies Championships
Liv Boeree has won the $2,000 buy-in LadbrokesPoker.com European Ladies Championship, outlasting a field of 52 on her way to winning $30,000 and a seat to the Main Event of the WSOP.
Boeree...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Betfair Relaunches Stax#Rating
Online casino Betfair.com has announced the return of its Stax#Rating promotion with up to $200,000 in cash and Word Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) prizes up for grabs.
Beginning this month and...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
May Issue of Bluff Europe Out Now
The May issue of Europe’s most widely read poker publication, Bluff Europe, has hit newsstands this week featuring one of the UK’s most modest professional players on the cover, Neil...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
Julien Nuijten Wins Latin American Poker Tour Rio
Being on holiday in Rio de Janeiro is enough for most people to be enjoying themselves. Not for nineteen year-old Julien Nuijten though, who decided he should play the first ever PokerStars.net...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
BingoMagix Launches Play, Win and Smile All May
UK-based online bingo site BingoMagix.co.uk has launched its new Play, Win and Smile All May promotion offering players three digital cameras each week.
BingoMagix.co.uk is one of very few sites...
Wednesday 7th May 2008
GameVillage Celebrating Anniversary
Online bingo site GameVillage.com is celebrating its first birthday this month by rewarding customers with thousands of dollars in free cards, points and prizes.
The Malta-based site is similar...
Wednesday 7th May 2008 Svenska Spel Threatens Legal Action
Lawyers representing Sweden’s State-owned gambling monopoly, Svenska Spel, have threatened UK bookmaker Ladbrokes with legal action over a new advertising campaign.
Launched earlier this...
Tuesday 6th May 2008
Favourite wins 1,000 Guineas
Bookies favourite Natagora was the winner of this year's 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. The Christophe Lemaire-ridden grey led the race from the start and finished half a length in front of Spacious....
Tuesday 6th May 2008
Smyth nears $2 million career earnings mark
There are not many poker players from the UK and Ireland who have earned more than $2 million in live tournament winnings in their careers. Dave "Devil Fish" Ulliott and Roland de Wolfe ...
