14 Feb 07
Ultimate Poker Challenge: RIP ... Not!
cardplayer.com - “You may have read recent online articles claiming that the Ultimate Poker Challenge is dead,” sites the official UPC website, “but don’t you believe it.”
The UPC vows it will continue to air its series on schedule, since scheduling was the only factor that forced the cast and crew to take a short break from their Las Vegas venue.
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13 Feb 07
Party Poker CEO: Profits Halved in '06
pokerpages.com - PartyGaming CEO Mitch Garber optimistically said he expected to report full-year profits for 2006 of over USD$140 million ...
PartyGaming's 2005 net profits were over double those expected for 2006, at USD$293 million ...
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13 Feb 07
UK: Playing Poker Via Television
cardplayer.com - An innovation long in the cards is being introduced by an already well-known name: Sky. The media empire's latest channel promises more than the eerie specters of animated greyhounds and lone roulette presenters talking through the small hours of the morning: a dedicated channel with an ambitious new program aiming to get people playing poker via TV – the medium that may well have introduced them to the game.
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13 Feb 07
Ultimate Poker Challenge: RIP
pokernews.com - The Ultimate Poker Challenge has become the latest victim of the draconian enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. Sorting out what remaining parts of the Ultimate Poker Challenge will actually survive is a week to week guessing game.
The posted notices at Binions and on the web have said that all future television tapings have been cancelled.
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12 Feb 07
Dutch Govt. Enters Online Poker Market
cardplayer.com - Much to the joy of Dutch poker players, the state of poker is finally improving in the Netherlands. The liberal Dutch government has partnered with Holland Casino in entering the lucrative online gaming market.
CryptoLogic, the leading public e-gaming software developer and supplier, will power a new Dutch state-sponsored gaming portal. The site will launch in June 2007, and will be open only to Dutch players.
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12 Feb 07
Edler The New Heads Up Champ
online-casinos.com - Las Vegas poker pro Bill Edler proved that expertise travels well when he took the World Heads Up Poker Champion title at the beautifully renovated Crystal Casino in Los Angeles this week, beating a series of top opponents drawn from a pool of 64 top players on the way.
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12 Feb 07
Everest gains as US pressures increase
uk.pokernews.com - In the clearest signal yet that the multi-lingual community is taking up the online poker reins, Everest Poker has leapt to number 4 in the table of cash games traffic, fast catching up with Pokerstars, Party and Full Tilt!
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12 Feb 07
Alberta Gov't Studies Poker Options
pokerpages.com - The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission is reportedly considering creating websites for people to play poker, blackjack or to bet on sports online. The commission has ordered two polls to gauge how Albertans feel about the idea.
Marilyn Carlyle-Helms, spokeswoman for the commission, says they're in the early stages of player research. She says they're "moving slow and steady" on the idea.
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09 Feb 07
Sportingbet to Close Paradise
cardplayer.com - Sportingbet, the parent company of Paradise Poker, announced it will shut down its Paradise Poker platform and transfer all its players over to SportingbetPoker.
SportingbetPoker.com runs on the Boss Poker Network. Paradise Poker ran on its own network and it didn’t make much sense to company officials to run two separate networks.
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09 Feb 07
GB Poker Tour Launches, Prize Pool Tops $1.4 M
cardplayer.com - The Great British Poker Tour - www.gbpokertour.com - in association with Gala Casinos, will feature five televised Festivals across the UK and a £2,500 buy-in Grand Final, for a combined estimated prize pool of over £750,000 (over $1,400,000).
The inaugural tournament starts at the Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh on 21st February 2007 followed by Festivals in Teesside, Nottingham, Bournemouth, and Bradford before culminating in the GBPT Grand Final in late October 2007.
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08 Feb 07
Plenty of Poker, But Not For USA
online-casinos.com - The past few weeks have seen several major poker site launches, underlining yet again the confidence in this sector by large and well backed companies.
Probably the highest profile launch was that of Playboy Gaming ... Playboy's investment in the market shows that even established big-name brands are bullish in their approach to the future of the industry.
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08 Feb 07
Intelligent Holdem Raises
gambling911.com - Let’s begin by examining what to do when you get a strong hand in Holdem. Intelligent Texas Holdem poker raises should occur before the flop with a strong hand because you really only want one caller. If you have the best two starting hands of aces or kings, you can handle a couple of callers, but you never want more than two. Why is that? It is because too many hands mean too many drawing opportunities. Your raise needs to be big enough to force most everyone out of the hand.
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07 Feb 07
WSOP Champ Gold Settles
pokerpages.com - Reigning World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold agreed to an out-of-court settlement with Bruce Crispin Leyser. Terms of the agreement, tentatively reached on Friday, February 2nd, were not disclosed.
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07 Feb 07
Virgin Poker to Become Major Player
gambling911.com - If online poker site Virgin Poker's premiere launch on the Gambling911.com website is any indication of how successful this new venture from the Virgin Group will become, we might be in for an incredible ride.
"The results over a three day period on the Gambling911.com website have been staggering," disclosed Payton O'Brien of G911.
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06 Feb 07
FBI Freezes NETeller Funds
The FBI has frozen funds held in customer accounts at NETeller, the "virtual wallet" payment processor, as part of its case against the firm's two Canadian founders who were last month arrested and charged with racketeering and money laundering.
NETeller refused to disclose how much had been frozen but company filings make clear huge sums were flowing between its U.S. customers' "e-wallets" and online merchants - particularly gambling websites - up until the firm was pressured to close its American operations in the wake of last month's arrests.
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06 Feb 07
The Venetian Announces "Deep Stack Extravaganza"
pokerplayernewspaper.com - Poker excitement continues this February with The Venetian Poker Room's latest tournament, Deep Stack Extravaganza. The tournament runs February 21st - March 11th. ...
“The Deep Stack Extravaganza offers both the novice and professional player a chance to win big,” stated Kathy Raymond, director of poker operations. “With the variety of the games being offered and the substantial amount of starting chips, this tournament is sure to attract poker players from all over.”
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05 Feb 07
Everest Identifies EU Poker Playing Trends
igamingbusiness.com - Everest Poker has commissioned Jupiter Research to conduct a Pan-European survey identifying the demographic and behavioural characteristics of the poker playing community in Europe.
Nearly 2,000 players in France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Italy completed the survey online which is the first poker-specific survey on European players to be published.
According to the survey, poker remains a predominantly male game, particularly in southern European countries. ...
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05 Feb 07
Player of the Year Race Starts With a Bang
pokernews.com - With a flurry of activity, the 2007 Poker Player of the Year race is already being hotly contested. The leader board after the plentitude of January poker tournaments brings poker fans some familiar names and also highlights the efforts of the previously unknown players who may have an impact on the game over the next eleven months.
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05 Feb 07
National Heads-Up Championship begins March
pokerpages.com - A veritable who's who in the poker world will be attending the third season of the popular National Heads-Up Poker Championship, March 1 to 4, 2007 in Las Vegas.
The tourney pits 64 top players competing in a series of heads-up games (one-on-one games of Texas Hold'em). The tournament has a unique, single-elimination, bracket-style format modeled after college basketball tournaments.
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02 Feb 07
WY: Poker bill wins House backing
casperstartribune.net - Wyoming poker fans won another hand Friday when the House Travel Committee approved a bill, already passed by the Senate, that would permit the return of "social" poker games to state bars and restaurants.
"The counties were not consistent in their interpretation of the gaming laws of this state, and we felt we needed to clean that up," House Travel Committee Chairman Rep. Pat Childers, R-Cody, said.
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