Pokerstars Official Statement PokerStars today announced that it would cease providing real-money poker to residents of Washington State. To date, PokerStars has operated in Washington on the basis of legal opinions where the central advice was that the state could not constitutionally regulate Internet poker, or at least could not discriminate in favor of local [...]
There was more bad news for American online poker players with the news that the federal government are to ask banks for the details of all international electronic funds transfers, rather than just those of more than $10,000. The intention behind the law as officially stated is that it is to aid federal authorities in [...]
The WSOPE may be over, but there is no shortage of high stakes poker tournaments in the capital as the London leg of the European Poker Tour Season 7 kicked off on Wednesday at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. The first of two opening days attracted 339 players, each paying £5,250, and with 360 already registered [...]
British Professional James Bord triumphed in the Main Event of the WSOPE in London last night to take his first gold bracelet and the £830,000 first prize. The final table took a gruelling thirteen hours to complete, and it was the former banker from Stanmore in north-west London who came away with the big prize. [...]
Neovia Financial Plc, the company which runs e-wallet payment system Neteller, unveiled its results for the first half of 2010 yesterday. Total revenue fell 6% to US$30.8, but gross earnings rose 25% to $6m. CEO Mark Mayhew commented, “The World Cup depressed some sectors of the e-gaming market, particularly poker as reported widely elsewhere. However [...]
The World Championship of Online poker (WCOOP) is over with POTTERPOKER crowned the online World Champion bagging a gigantic $2,278,097, a new record for an online poker tournament.. The main event saw 2,443 players put up the $5,200 buy in which created a prize pool of more than $12,000,000. Andy McLeod finished top of the [...]
We are now down to the final 9 which includes 3 British based players, Roland de Wolfe, James Bord and Nicolas Levi. Play will resume at noon today with 10K/20K blinds and a 3k ante. The average stack is 1.15 million which around 57 big blinds is so it could be an exhausting day for [...]
Rob Yong’s £40K GTD Grand Prix Update Open letter from Rob Yong Well, we launch our marketing campaign this week for our first attempt at breaking the record poker field by getting 800 runners into our Grand Prix event on the 29th – 31st October. We have 31 runners bought in through our online card [...]
The final two days of the WSOPE Main Event will be broadcast on ESPN3, complete with hole cards but with a 5 hour delay. The broadcast will start at 5pm (UK Time) with complete coverage of the final two days day on the 27th & 28th of September. “ESPN is committed to delivering the best [...]
We are now down to 36 players headed by Canadian Andrew Pantling (888,000). John Eames has just doubled up calling an all in with 99 which held (320,000). Negreanu will not make a third consecutive WSOPE Main Event final table as he was knocked out over an hour a go. We are now left with [...]
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