Archive for January, 2010

Gaming software provider and developer Playtech, have announced an increase in their Q4 gross income of 23% to €38.5m compared with €31.9m in Q3. The company also released  a full-year trading update for 2009, revealing an increase in revenue of 3% to €114.8m... 

Full Tilt sponsored pro David Benyamine has become the latest player to be added to the Poker Premier League IV, which is slated to get underway between the 12th – 18th February 2010 in Las Vegas. Benyamine is a French high stakes poker player, who originally... 

Juan Antonio Maceiras Barros, aka “vietcong01″ has won his second Sunday Million title, just two and a half years after taking down PokerStars’ flag ship tournament for the first time. With his latest online victory, vietcong01 earned a massive... 

Phil Ivey has now taken his place at the top of tournament poker’s all-time  money list after an impressive 2nd place finish at the Aussie Millions $100k Challenge this week. Ivey’s career earnings now stand at $12,804,433, which puts him around $400k... 

PartyPoker have just announced that Daniel Negreanu and Vanessa Rousso will be making their first ever appearances at next month’s Premier League Poker IV tournament. Negreanu is one of the most popular poker pros on the circuit, and with $12,432,367 in live... 

One of the biggest ambitions of a poker player is to get their hands on a prestigious WSOP bracelet. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that the poker community is now awash with theories as to why 6 times WSOP title holder T.J. Cloutier, should have sold one of... 

It is now just a matter of days before Singapore opens its first legal casino, as part of the $4.5 billion Sentosa island complex developed by Malaysian gaming giant Genting. In recent years, Singapore’s main third party manufacturing industry has been losing... 

Antanas ‘Tony G’ Guoga has just been signed to Team Party Poker, in a deal which also includes his own online poker room, Tony G Poker, being acquired by PartyPoker, as part of his association with the company. Following an announcement of the deal,... 

In a display of high emotion and low etiquette, high stakes poker player Jeff “ActionJeff” Garza spat on Bryn Kenney, while he was playing in a $5,000 side tournament at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). Jeff Garza had just busted out... 

Frank Pang could have been forgiven for believing his quad two’s were way out in front, as he played poker at the Maryland Heights casino near St Louis on Saturday night. However, in the back of his mind he may have been secretly praying he would be beaten,...