December 31 2008
According to the Remote Gambling Association, the settlement that Party Gaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit has reached with the US DoJ a couple of weeks ago represents a blatant breach of international law.
In a move meant to secure the protection ...
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December 29 2008
Poker After Dark’s 5th season will feature a group of participants who have all made it to the WSOP Main Event’s final table at least once in their careers, but who have all failed to take the coveted piece of jewelry ...
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December 28 2008
On Christmas Day, Gus Hansen ended up being one of the most generous gift suppliers at Full Tilt Poker. He lost several huge pots to his opponents, and ended the day with a huge deficit, having made several ...
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December 25 2008
After the cheating scandals that rocked Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet during the year, the Cereus network, made up of the above named two poker rooms, had one more cold shower left for 2008: a software glitch which ...
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December 24 2008
Despite the lull in player numbers that the year’s end usually brings about, the biggest online poker rooms, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have had great weekends to look back on. They both surpassed their weekly $1 ...
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December 23 2008
If you were wondering why Gibraltar was such a hot destination for businesses (online and otherwise) ponder no longer. Among the attractions that the tiny British territory has for enterprise is the meager 15% corporate tax rate on profits. This fact ...
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December 19 2008
Bwin Interactive AG, Europe’s biggest online sports betting company has been working with the Division on Addictions of the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate, to detect addiction patterns among its player base and to elaborate measures meant to ...
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December 18 2008
Indian millionaire and PartyPoker co-founder Anurag Dikshit was rumored to be eying a settlement with the US authorities by pleading guilty to charges of violation of the Wire Act and paying a fine of $300 million after which ...
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December 17 2008
178 players took to the tables in Atlantic City 3 days ago, battling for a top prize of $280,940, but only one could walk away with it, and that one player who had the skills and was lucky enough to dispose ...
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December 15 2008
Salvatore Bonevana began the EPT Prague final table with the chip lead. When all was said and done and the dust settled over the final table, it was him who was still standing, even though he lost his ...
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December 14 2008
32 players started Day 3 of the European Poker Tour’s Prague stop as the field would narrow down to 8 by the end of the day, with Italian Salvatore Bonavena holding the chip lead for the final table action. Frenchman Ludovic ...
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December 12 2008
The Prague Hilton hosted 177 players on Day 2 of the European Poker Tour’s Prague event. Casey Kastle, Juha Helppi, Johnny Lodden, Steve Devlin and Gino Alacqua were among the survivors who started on Day 2, unfortunately, by ...
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December 11 2008
Day 1B of the European Poker Tour’s Prague event broke Day 1A’s attendance record. Almost 300 players bellied up to the tables, a hefty field which included EPT Budapest Champion Will Fry, Davidi Kitai, Pascal Perrault, and Dario Minieri.
Anthony Lellouche ...
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December 10 2008
PokerStars, the LAPT’s main sponsor, decided the event which was supposed to take place in Nuevo Vallarta a few days ago, and which got interrupted by the intervention of Mexican authorities in a rather unexpected manner, will after all be ...
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December 10 2008
There were no fewer than 272 players bellying up to hte tables of the European Poker Tour’s Prague stop, out of which only 88 were still in contention at day’s end. The list of illustrious players taking part in day 1A’s ...
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December 08 2008
9 players bellied up to the tables of the APPT Sydney on the final day of the competition. Although void of big poker names, the field was a pretty colorful one nonetheless. There were a couple of pros, engineers, students and ...
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December 07 2008
48 Day 2 survivors returned to the tables of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Sydney stop to set the final table on Day 3. In contrast with the grueling and lengthy Day 2 affair, Day 3 featured a much shorter confrontation, ...
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December 06 2008
217 Day 1A, B and C survivors squared off on the second day of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Sydney stop. While many of the big names had already been sent to the rail on the previous days, the Day 2 ...
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December 05 2008
Day 1B of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Sydney event saw a much larger field hit the tables than on the day before. 172 players bellied up to the tables of the Star City Casino, a field which was a rather ...
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December 05 2008
The largest Day 1 field waited till Day 1C to get rolling in the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Sydney event. 197 players took to the felt, among them no fewer than 3 WSOP Main Event Champions. Joseph Hachem, Chris Moneymaker ...
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December 03 2008
The Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheating scandals that rocked the online poker world earlier this year were featured by a Washington Post article and by a special investigatory piece, authored and aired by “60 minutes”.
The article ...
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December 03 2008
The Star City Casino in Sydney was once again the focal point of a major live poker event. This time, it was the Asia Pacific Poker Tour’s Sydney stop that filled up the tables with a rather select team ...
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December 01 2008
Having held the lead for most of the event, JC Tran needed to come from behind to knock smash-mouth Tony G out and to secure the PartyPoker Premier League’s title together with the $300,000 first prize.
After several ...
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December 01 2008
Member of Full Tilt Poker’s team of professionals, Tom Dwan is fast becoming a household name for poker-loving people all over the world, on account of his recent live tournament successes.
While the live circuit seems to ...
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