Online gambling group Party Gaming has released its first half results, showing a 6.5% fall in operating profit, which management has attributed to competitive pressures and the consumer slowdown. However, the group offered the more encouraging news that trade in the last three weeks had been strong. In the three weeks to August 18, the [...]
Writing in the UK poker magazine Inside Poker this week, Alun Bowden asked some interesting questions about the future of high stakes poker and the development of the game on Internet nosebleed tables. Following a week of particularly big pots and frenetic action on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker.com it’s a timely [...]
"If the media and oversensitive racism watchdogs continue this witch-hunt for racists, they are doing more to slow relations between races than to improve them." So writes Ricky Bauer of Gambling Review, one of many online gambling and poker information websites commenting on this week’s controversy suggesting that poker pro Daniel Negreanu might be a [...]
NBC’s prime time Saturday poker show, Face The Ace, had only 1.46 viewers in its second showing. Things could have been worse as the program apparently didn’t lose many viewers (debuting with 1.59 million). As it turns out, Face The Ace is not being broadcast in all markets. Salt Lake City residents are being deprived [...]
One way to improve Face the Ace, the NBC prime time poker show that bombed in the ratings with its premier this past Saturday, is to add a pretty face…Say, more Megan Abrigo. She’s the hostess of the show but we probably didn’t get enough of her. More Megan Abrigo and less Steve Schirripa, that’s [...]
Online gaming laws are in a constant state of confusion these days. In the United States, the debate has been raging on for years ever since the creating of the Unlawful Internet and Gambling Enforcement Act. It seems sometimes as though companies are engaging in a massive shell game just to remain legally compliant while [...]
The £5 million land version of online casino, poker, sportsbetting and mobile operation CasinoRed.com appears to be in dire financial straits only eight months after it opened its doors in Huddersfield, UK. The Huddersfield Daily Examiner reports this weekend that the premises remains deserted with no sign of relief for the 100 employees who were [...]
This week saw a strong Poker Players Alliance presence in Washington DC as the one million member poker organisation flew in state directors and top poker personalities to interact with politicians and sell the idea of legalised online poker in the United States as part of the National Poker Week initiative. At a dinner kicking [...]
A few months ago, I had dinner with some prospective investors in High Stakes Entertainment. They were also poker players and wanted to go to the high-stakes poker room at the Bellagio to play poker. When we got to Bobby’s Room, there weren’t enough high limit players to start a game. A nice looking kid [...]
Just over eight hours of high-pressure poker whittled the remaining World Series of Poker Main Event field of 64 players down to 27 on Day 7, with the chipleaders at the 10.45pm Vegas time close almost the same as the previous day despite fluctuations in fortunes during the day’s action. Again heading the chip counts [...]
