Archive for August, 2009

In an ironic twist of fate, Maxim Lykov became the first Russian to win an EPT tournament, after the event was hurriedly switched from Moscow to Kiev following the Russian poker ban in July. The Russian managed to beat a field of 296 players from 33 countries to... 

The Tilt Room was introduced early on to viewers in Week 2 after Stern, the only member of the team posting a loss in the first week, continued to slide and dropped a further $10,000 by Day 1 of the second episode. After proclaiming:  “Lately, I’ve been losing... 

Sportingbet is one of the world’s biggest online gaming companies and its websites covers over 30 markets across Europe, Australia, Canada, South America and South Africa. As well as sports betting, the company owns the successful Paradise Poker brand and... 

Jeremy Gaubert, aka “thechemist83”, overcame being one of the short stacks at the final table of the Gold Strike World Poker Open, to lift the title of the $5,150 buy-in tournament and walk away with the $192,000 first prize. During the tournament held in Tunica,... 

The presenters of the WSOP, Harrah’s Interactive Entertainment, have been airing the event on ESPN since 2003, and have now agreed to keep the tournament on the ESPN television network for another 7 years. The arrangement was due to expire in 2010 but will... 

The professional gambler and poker player Ernest Scherer III, will discover this Friday whether he will stand trial for the murder of his parents, Ernest Scherer Jr., 60, and his wife Charlene Abendroth, 57, back in March 2008. Ernest Scherer III had carved a living... 

The drive to legalise online poker in California has divided rival Indian tribes into those for the move and those who believe it would impact their businesses negatively. The ‘pro camp’ is spearheaded by the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians... 

UltimateBet has just added Billy Kopp to their highly successful Team UB, which includes such players as Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. Kopp at 23 has been a successfully poker player for several years and has amassed over $2.6 million in both online and live play... 

A 65 year old Pennsylvania man failed to convince the court that poker was a game of skill and has now been charged with twelve illegal gambling offences. In 2007, Lawrence Burns was found to be running poker tournament at two local fire halls in Westmoreland County,... 

Gary Kaplan, the founder of BetOnSports, has accepted a plea offer from the US Department of Justice that will result in a 41 to 51 month prison sentence and the paying of $43.6 million in forfeitures. The online sports betting mogul started the company in 1995,...