Archive for September, 2009
PokerStars Breaks Poker Traffic History
PokerStars, the world’s largest and busiest poker site has again broken records to earn itself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.The successful online poker room has gone from strength to strength, and has now recorded the largest number of online players at any single time at 307,016 players. Started in 2001 by [...]
Direct Seats Sold Out for the Boylepoker International Poker Open 2009
Boylepoker – a member of the successful Irish sportsbetting company BoyelSports – has recently announced they have sold out all of their direct buy-in seats for the Boylepoker.com International Poker Open 2009. The $225 + $25 buy-in event is on target to smash its own previous entry record of 1,300 players Рand 1,347 more [...]
888 B2B Division Signs Lucrative South African Deal
Dragonfish, the business to business division created by the UK gambling group, 888 Holdings, has announced a lucrative new deal signed with the South African gaming group, Tsogo Sun Gaming. The terms of the deal mean that Dragonfish will provide Tsogo Gun Gaming with an online gambling platform that will incorporate casino, bingo, sports betting [...]
Online Gambling Will Not Be Paying For Health Care Reform
Ron Wyden recently introduced an amendment to the health care reform bill. This amendment would have used money from the Internet gambling industry to help fund health care, effectively offsetting some of the costs of using tax dollars. At first glance, this amendment seems like it would have been a responsible use of money, lowering [...]
US Online Casinos Not Likely to Help Fund Health Care
In an unexpected move, Senator Ron Wyden withdrew his amendment and support for taxes from online casinos, which could have been used to help subsidize the new health care fund. His proposal was met with enthusiasm from some, such as online casinos and other supporters of online gambling, while others were adamantly opposed to having [...]
The Biggest Cash Game In History
The biggest cash game pot ever featuring none other than the high stakes legend of Tom "durrr" Dwan has been played, filming is taking place of the Full tilt Poker Million Dollar Cash Game which is being played in London this week, what better time to hold such as prestigious occasion as all the World’s [...]
Is The Poker Boom Over?
All those concerned in analysing statistics and predicting the future trends seem to be saying that the poker boom has come to an end. It all began in 2003 with the Moneymaker effect and has shown no real signs of slowing ever since. The Moneymaker effect as you probably know is named after Chris Moneymaker, [...]
Ukraine Gambling Operators Circumvent Gambling Ban
For those online gamblers in the Ukraine, gambling operators have found a solution to the gambling ban which has recently been implemented in their country. It seems that according to the law in the Ukraine, online gambling has not been outlawed, as long as the servers for the online casinos are located outside of the [...]
Can US Online Casinos Help Fund Health Care?
Although Barney Frank’s online gambling bills have receded into the background for now, it is possible that a suggestion by Senator Ron Wyden will bring it to the foreground once again. While Congress is spending much time focusing on the very important issues of health care funding and the unstable US economy, Ron Wyden, an [...]
The 2010 WCOOP
Planning is already under way for next Year’s online championship and a countdown has begun, at the time of writing this there is just 345 days 5hrs to go until the start of the next WCOOP event, Poker Stars have really excelled themselves once again and proven why there are truly the World’s Largest Poker [...]