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Monday 23rd July 2007

Avatars Come to Life at Scottish Rock Fest Online poker site PKR.com pulled a huge marketing coup with its casino tent at the Scottish Rock Festival, T in the Park. The tent proved to be a big draw, with over 5,000 people playing poker, rou...

Monday 23rd July 2007

Rahme’s Record Result Raymond Rahme has put Africa on the poker map after finishing third at last week’s World Series Of Poker (WSOP) event in Las Vegas. The South African player became the first person from Africa to ...

Monday 23rd July 2007

High Stakes Poker Returns To GSN American cable television network GSN has announced that its High Stakes Poker programme will return for a fourth season next month. Formerly known as the Game Show Network, GSN said that the line...

Monday 23rd July 2007

Guaranteed prizes at MansionPoker.com In the increasingly competitive world of online poker rooms, one key selling point is ‘guaranteed payouts’. This means that no matter how many people enter a tournament, the prize pool will have a ...

Monday 23rd July 2007

Support for Online Poker Alliance Grows The Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), Alfonse D’Amato, has announced that the organisation has accomplished much over the past six months. The PPA is an American nonprofit interest gr...

Monday 23rd July 2007
NETeller Pulls Out of Israel Troubled Isle Of Man based e-wallet NETeller Plc has announced that it will no longer process online gambling transactions from residents of Israel. 'Recent legal developments have increased the u...


Monday 23rd July 2007
Payment Processor Leaves Israeli Online Market Troubled Isle Of Man based e-wallet NETeller Plc has announced that it will no longer process online gambling transactions from residents of Israel. 'Recent legal developments have increased the ...


Monday 23rd July 2007
Italy’s Promising Internet Gambling Future The Media and Entertainment Consulting Network (MECN) has released a report describing Italy as one of the most promising for online and offline perspectives. The London-based group has published...


Friday 20th July 2007

Second-placed WSOP champ no show-off Tuan Lam, who placed second at this year's World Series Of Poker (WSOP), has said that he doesn't want the $4,840,981 of prize money to change him. Lam arrived in Canada 20 years ago as a 'boat pe...

Friday 20th July 2007

Poking his nose into poker lands dad in cell A man from Jacksonville was thrown into jail this week after his curiosity to play poker led to him leaving his children waiting in a parked car in the blazing heat. Terrence Bowman Davis had ent...

Friday 20th July 2007

PokerStars.com Plays For Charity Online poker room PokerStars.com has announced that the final in a string of charity events to aid refugees in the Darfur region of western Sudan will take place this Sunday. The Costa Rica-based ...

Friday 20th July 2007

Man Versus Machine For Poker Title In a match reminiscent of 1997’s battle between IBM’s Deep Blue chess program and world chess champion Garry Kasparov, this weekend will see the inaugural $50,000 Man-Machine Poker Championship in ...

Friday 20th July 2007

Full Tilt Celebrates WSOP Final Table Presence Online poker site Full Tilt Poker has announced that one of the members of its Team Full Tilt, Lee Watkinson, made it all the way to the final table at this week’s World Series Of Poker (WSOP) tour...

Friday 20th July 2007

Artificial Life’s 3G Texas Hold’em Leading mobile telephone 3G technologies, games and applications provider Artificial Life Inc has announced the forthcoming release of its first Texas Hold’em game. The Hong Kong-based firm said t...

Friday 20th July 2007

Great Poker League’s New Online Casino The Great Poker League Ltd has announced the launch of a new online casino to compliment its current online poker league offering. The new casino at GPLCasino.com and is a white label, no download...