OnGame, the world’s 6th largest online poker network, has just brought on the largest sports betting exchange, Betfair. Though the biggest exchange betting site, Betfair has had little luck when it comes to the online poker arena. A sponsor of the World Series of Poker Europe, Betfair regularly lags in the number 16 spot of [...]
Amidst all the hustle and bustle at the Rio Hotel and Casino, site of this year’s World Series of Poker, the chaos was interrupted by orchestrated acts of kindness at this year’s Ante Up for Africa event. When the cards went up in the year, 83 players, which included a dazzling array of poker pros [...]
UB and PokerPlayersUnite.org join forces to support Crystal King on her road to recovery, and poker players can help Crystal and her young family with a small outlay of $10. UB.com and PokerPlayersUnite.org is teaming up for a second time in as many months to deliver another amazing ‘Second Sundays’ online fundraiser, this time to [...]
British players continue to do well in World Series of Poker, with Steve Jelinek claiming a fifth gold bracelet for the Brits in event 41 of the 41st WSOP. Event 41 was a $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better competition entered Day 3 Thursday afternoon with15 players left from the initial entry field [...]
While many states are attacking and raiding Internet cafes, the state of New Hampshire has decided to take the idea and make it work for them. Starting July 1st, online gambling will be offered in the state where lawmakers recently rejected casino gambling. PlayNowNH will offer customers the opportunity to buy $100 worth of credit [...]
Bwin are known for their fearless innovation within the online gambling market, and recently have expressed this by taking out a majority shareholding in UnitedGames, the EU Massively Multiplayer Online Game developer & Publisher. This deal follows closely the recent deal carried out with Gioco Digitale, the Italian Poker & Casino operator and is Bwin’s [...]
Vienna-listed online gambling group Bwin has scored a major coup and some formidable positioning in the Italian market following an agreement to acquire the Italian group Gioco Digitale. With hopes high for an imminent and positive regulatory system in Italy the agreement is especially valuable and significant. Closely held Gioco boasts it is Italy’s first [...]
Through 10 episodes, the 2009 WSOP has earned an average rating of .75, which translates to 741,311 household impressions. That is up about 3 percent from 2008′s .73 rating through this time period, which translated to 704,826 household impressions, according to ESPN. The real test will come with the "nearly live" World Series of Poker [...]
Leading online poker room PokerStars.com has announced that its virtual school at PokerStars.net has signed up to be the official sponsor of the all-women High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT). Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the HHPT was created in 2007 to empower women that had a desire to become world-class poker players. Its next event, [...]
Police in the small Utah city of Murray raided an Internet cafe on Sunday evening and arrested over 50 people on allegations that they were conducting and participating in illegal online gambling activities. The Murray City Police Department revealed that it had conducted several undercover operations at The Fortune Cyber Cafe in the Salt Lake [...]
