‘Poker News’ Category

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Betfair Announces move to OnGame Network & Goodbye to Rakeback

By Paul Jones • Jul 12th, 2010 • Category: Lead-Story, Poker, Poker News, poker features

Online betting exchange and poker site Betfair.com has today announced that they are moving their poker operation to a third party poker network, the OnGame Network. This marks the demise of poker rakeback on Betfair from today, however any players who signed up to Betfair before 12th July 2010 will continue to have their [...]



ECOOP VI comes with more action than ever before

By Paul Jones • May 16th, 2010 • Category: Poker News

If you check out any online poker room rankings, you will probably find Titan Poker on one of the top three positions. The competition is rough and to keep the current place, Titan brings larger tournaments full of action and bigger prize pools.
One of that huge tournaments is the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) [...]



James Akenhead Wins Poker Million

By Lisa Rogers • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Lead-Story, Poker News

The 2010 Full Tilt Poker Million has been won by young British poker player James Akenhead for a prize of half a million dollars.
The final table was no easy lineup. Luke “__FullFlush__” Schwartz started as chipleader with 397,000 chips. Akenhead was close in chips 338,000. High stakes cash-pro and owner of poker training [...]



Russian Poker Star Catgirl Bares All on $576,000 TV Poker Game

By Paul Jones • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: Poker News

This week five of the world’s top poker players will bare up to the ultimate poker challenge at the $8,000 Buy in, $576,000 televised PartyPoker.com World Open, where body language will take on a new meaning.
Up and coming poker star, Russian player 23yr old ‘Catgirl,’ was due to celebrate her birthday by playing poker in [...]



Pokertrillion V Boss Media Press Release

By Paul Jones • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Bingo, Casinos, Poker, Poker News

We reported earlier that online poker site Pokertrillion.com was leaving the Boss poker network and was filing law suits against Boss Media. Boss Media have had millions of Euros frozen in their accounts, and some speculate that Boss may not be able to pay all of their players who decide to cash out.
PokerTrillion.com have just [...]



Irish Masters- Irish Winter Festival Of Poker

By Paul Jones • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Poker, Poker News

€1 Million estimated prizepool for October Bank Holiday Tournament (Online satellites begin Sunday April 13th).



World series of Poker Comes to Europe 2007

By Paul Jones • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Betting, Casinos, Poker, Poker News

The World Series Of Poker originated in the USA, and the first event was organised by Tom Moore of San Antonio, Texas, in 1969 at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno. The WSOP has always been played on American soil.. Until now, that is!



International Poker Open – Dublin

By Paul Jones • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Poker, Poker News

The International Poker Open commences in Dublin on October 6th 2007, (Shelbourne Hall, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4) – promising to be the biggest ever poker tournament in Europe.



WCOOP winner thev0id disqualified

By Paul Jones • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Poker, Poker News

The winner of the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) main event has been disqualified after accusations that they had used multiple-accounts in the tournament.



Fulltilt Axes WPT Champ Jonathan Little as FullTilt Pro

By Paul Jones • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Poker, Poker News

World Poker Tour Champion Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little has been axed from his role as a Fulltilt Poker Pro player – and has had his account on Fulltilt Poker terminated. Little Has has cashed 6 times in the World Series of poker.



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