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Tuesday 25th July 2006

Japan Opens Up to Online Casino Industry The rise in popularity in online gambling throughout Asia has been well documented recently, and while there are those who are committed to erasing Internet gambling altogether such as China,...

Tuesday 25th July 2006
BetonSports Fires CEO David Carruthers The online gambling company BetonSports has today sacked its chief executive David Carruthers, following his arrest and subsequent detention in the US on fraud charges. In a statement issued...


Tuesday 25th July 2006
BetonSports Fires David Carruthers The online gambling company BetonSports has today sacked its chief executive David Carruthers, following his arrest and subsequent detention in the US on fraud charges. In a statement issued...


Monday 24th July 2006

The Swede Smell of WSOP Success Topping an enormous field of 2,126 players, Mats Rahmn, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Stockholm, has won the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em championship at the 2006 WSOP. After 2,1...

Monday 24th July 2006

Benjamin Lin Wins First Gold Bracelet at WSOP 2006 Benjamin Lin walked into Las Vegas’ Rio as a 31-year-old accountant from Washington-DC, who liked to play poker in his spare time. Having won the Seven-Card Stud championship at the 2006 WSOP and ...

Monday 24th July 2006

Video Added to PokerListings.com’s WSOP Coverage PokerListings.com is offering its readers coverage of the WSOP straight from the epicentre of the poker world, the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The site has gathered a large team o...

Monday 24th July 2006

The Master Nguyen Endorses DoylesRoom.com Six times WSOP bracelet winner Men “The Master” Nguyen will endorse poker legend Doyle Brunson’s DoylesRoom.com. A four time Card Player Magazine “Player of the Year,” Men “The Master” has placed...

Monday 24th July 2006

Jesus and Fossilman Join PPA Board of Directors The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots organization of 29,000 American poker players, has announced that world-renowned poker and WSOP champions Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson and Greg 'Fossilman' ...

Monday 24th July 2006

PokerShare's Monkey Business At WSOP PokerShare.com is to sponsor Mikey the Chimp in what is the most bizarre marketing coup of this year's World School of Poker (WSOP) main event. There will be a press conference at 2:00pm (PST) on...

Monday 24th July 2006

Canadian Online Casino Players Sent to WSOP Thirteen players from Canada have won TigerGaming.com and PokerInCanada.com's all-expenses-paid VIP trips to Las Vegas, and a crack at an estimated $10,000,000 first place prize. Thousands of pla...

Monday 24th July 2006

Online Casino Releases New Games Winwardcasino.com has announced the launch of 20 new games to heat up the summer action. It is the only casino to integrate 3 software partners to play their games with the latest additions to t...

Monday 24th July 2006

Lasseters Online Casino Offers Australian Adventure Lasseters Online, the world's first government licensed and regulated Internet Casino, is giving one new player and their chosen companion an unforgettable trip to Australia, valued at approximate...

Friday 21st July 2006

WPT Responds to Complaint Filed by Seven Poker Players WPT Enterprises, Inc. has announced that while it has not received formal notice of a filing of suit, based on an initial review of a complaint posted on a website by seven professional poker playe...

Friday 21st July 2006

PokerStars.com Hosts Largest WSOP Super Satellite in History On July 16, PokerStars.com hosted a huge WSOP Super Satellite tournament, awarding a whopping 255 WSOP seats in one night. 7,377 players from every corner of the globe entered the online tournamen...

Friday 21st July 2006

Musician Aims for Hit at WSOP Singer and songwriter Brian McFadden will be representing CelebPoker.com by taking his seat at the 2006 WSOP in Las Vegas this July. Having already worked with the 2005 World Music Awards and Amer...