After a two week run that has seen over one million dollars in cash handed out to its players, Ultimate Bet will wrap up the Third Annual Ultimate Bet Online Championships with a battle for the $1 Million Guaranteed Championship starting this Sunday. Read more »
One events that has grown in numbers as well as prestige at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) over the past few years has been the Ladies' No Limit Hold'em Championship. Since 2005, when Jennifer Tilly captured the title against 600 other players, the tournament has doubled in size and routinely drawn well over 1,000 players for each event in succeeding years. Read more »
According to a press release by the Ongame Network of poker rooms obtained by Poker News Daily on Thursday, Betsafe will become its newest member. The site is the latest to depart from the CryptoLogic Network, which is poised to turn over its online poker clientele to the Boss Network by the end of the first quarter of 2009. Read more »
On Wednesday night, Ultimate Bet pro and 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth appeared on the "Best Damn Sports Show Period," which airs on Fox Sports Net. The focus of the three minute segment was promoting the "Best Damn Poker Show," sponsored by UltimateBet.net, which debuted its second season on Monday. Read more »
In November, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association (iMEGA) filed its response brief in a legal challenge to declare the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) unconstitutional. On Thursday, the organization announced that it had been contacted by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals about its availability in April. Read more »
According to a customer service e-mail received on Wednesday, Playboy Gaming, the parent company of Playboy Poker, will shut its doors on January 29th. Poker News Daily has also confirmed the news with CryptoLogic, the network Playboy Poker belongs to. Read more »
PaddyPower Poker announced today that they will be beginning the third edition of one of their most popular promotion campaigns beginning on January 18th. Read more »
Despite the sagging economy in the United States and throughout the world, subscription-based online poker site PurePlay has thrived. The site doubled its player base during the 2008 calendar year and, according to a press release distributed on Tuesday, is now 10 times as large as its next closest competitor. Read more »
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission released revenue figures for the state for December of 2008 as well as full year to date numbers. The result: casino revenues plummeted by 7.6% in 2008 and 18.7% in December of 2008 in comparison to December of 2007. Still, casino win was $4.5 billion during the 2008 calendar year. Read more »
On Monday, two prominent organizations in the online poker world - Players Network and the National League of Poker - entered into an agreement to create an online poker room for Players Network that will be accessible to the American consumer. Read more »
Titan Poker has revealed the winners of its Titan Poker Team promotion for 2009. The twelve members will be representing the online poker site at live tournaments around the world. Read more »
On March 1st, a familiar face will hit the airwaves in primetime. Ultimate Bet pro and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke will appear on the second installment of "The Celebrity Apprentice," joining the 16 member star-studded cast. Contestants on the NBC reality series compete for money for charities of their choice. Read more »
On Monday night, the second season of Ultimate Bet's "Best Damn Poker Show" debuted on Fox Sports Net with the first of seven new one-hour episodes. Season 2 began with 24 poker hopefuls vying for a spot on one of two teams and 60 minutes later, only 22 remained. Read more »
The outlying islands of Taiwan will now be open to legal land-based gambling, according to Bloomberg. However, its mainland will remain inaccessible to companies such as MGM Grand and the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. Previously, gambling anywhere in Taiwan was not permitted. Read more »
The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently released its report on gambling "win" for November of 2008. The final numbers, which are released two months after the time period in question, show a state-wide decrease in gambling revenue of 14.80% year over year, marking the 11th straight month of declining revenues. Read more »
I have been thinking lately about a particular paradox in my life and trying to figure out how to handle it. The paradox is that as I have become more well-known for playing poker, it has become harder and harder for me to find time to play poker at all. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Baron: My friends and I started watching poker on television during the broadcast of the 2003 World Series of Poker. It was more of a joke than anything, but then we all got into it and started holding home games. Read more »
Recently, the World Poker Association (WPA), which seeks to provide standardization to many aspects of live poker tournaments, announced that political consultant and poker player Nancy Todd Tyner is the newest member of its Board of Directors. Based in Las Vegas, Tyner brings an important political perspective to the organization, which was founded by Jesse Jones. Read more »
A record-setting 1,347 players entered the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), the largest field ever assembled for a live poker tournament held outside of Las Vegas. At the end of the day, Canadian poker player Poorya Nazari grabbed $3 million and the title of PCA Champion. Read more »
In December, Carlos Poker and the iPoker Network parted ways. The move was effective in January and, this week, Carlos Poker announced that it was headed to the popular Microgaming Network. The online poker room is owned by Unibet, which also operates a Microgaming Network site. Read more »
The world of Google AdWords is about to change, as the site recently announced a modification of its policy towards gambling. Affiliates of internet gambling sites can now bid on popular industry terms, such as "online poker," according to a press release distributed Friday by Income Access. Read more »
After a tumultuous 2008 for the company, the Swedish online gaming conglomerate Svenska Spel announced today that a new Chief Executive Officer for the company has been found. Read more »
Online poker room Ultimate Bet has started the New Year off on the right foot, sponsoring the fifth annual Merage Jewish Community Center's (JCC) No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. The event, which takes place this Sunday, January 11th, will benefit the Merage JCC Scholarships and Children's Programs. Read more »
Up and coming poker star Tom Dwan recently issued a Million Dollar Challenge, offering the sum of money to anyone who could defeat him. Recently, two prominent poker stars announced they will take part, David Benyamine and Phil Ivey. When the Challenge will take place is unknown. Read more »
In a state with no poker rooms, only one Indian casino and which in the past couple of years only offered its citizens a state lottery, poker will be the featured attraction to raise money for two very deserving charitable organizations. Read more »
