Archive for October, 2009

The World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Chicago Main Event has been won by Dan Livingston (22) after he outlasted a field of 248 players over three days to take down the title and $291,749 in prize money. Livinston had recently quit the auto-detailing shop... 

Members of Titan Poker are reaching for the stars, literally.  Titan Poker is running a promotion during the last half of October and in order to qualify you must earn stars. Stars are earned while playing at cash games and in order to qualify you must earn the... 

Players at Bodog Poker were in for a bad surprise on Sunday when they went to play in the weekly $100,000 dollar guaranteed tournament.  The surprise was it was canceled due to technical issues. According to online poker forums users began experiencing issues... 

Party Poker has announced the details of their new promotion, ‘The Gladiator Returns’.  For one month Party Poker is going Roman and giving players entries into tourneys and more. A spokesperson from PartyPoker said, “The Gladiator is back and is stronger... 

A dream come true soon turned into a nightmare after two friends hit the 2.2 million euros ($3.6 million) jackpot at the Palavas-les-Flots Casino, near Montpellier, south-western France and then tried to claim the prize each for their own. The incident, which originally... 

Casino entrepreneur Mark Campbell, 53, has been charged with murder after the body of his wife was found at their £500,000 penthouse in Harrow north-west London. The high flying couple, thought to be worth around £300 million, had been apart several months and... 

Time is running out for Clonie Gowen’s ‘breach of contract’ lawsuit against “Tiltware LLC, et al” after a  federal judge dismissed the case for a second time. Gowen was formerly a member of “Team Full Tilt” but filed a... 

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Warsaw event has a winner.  There were 203 players in all at the Casino Poland this week all vying for a piece of the prize pool.  But after almost a week there was only player left sitting at the felts. The winner is Christophe... 

The PaySafeCard is one of the popular methods used to fund online casino and poker accounts.  A PaySafeCard doesn’t involve your bank account or credit card but is a prepaid voucher you can buy from local stores depending on where you live. Mansion Poker has... 

In his latest book, James McManus has given the reader a comprehensive look at the history of poker from its early origins in Chinese dominoes around 900AD to becoming an American national craze by the Civil War to the global phenomenon it is today. More than just...