Archive for January, 2010

In Michigan, all gambling is illegal unless for charity or organised by a state regulated casinos. However, it  wasn’t too difficult for Michigan police to track down this particular poker get together as the Grand Rapids Poker Club game had been openly... 

Norwegian poker pro Annette Obrestad has just won Event 4 Of the Aussie Millions 2010, where she defeated a field of 160 players at Pot Limit Omaha to lift the title and claim the $40,000 first place prize. The $1,100 AUD buy-in event managed to attract a first... 

The list of poker pros lining up to join season four of the PartyPoker Premier League continues to grow, with none other than ‘Poker Brat’ Phil Hellmuth and Luke ‘_FullFlush_’ Schwartz adding their names to an already impressive line-up. A PartyPoker spokesman... 

Liv Boeree has been adding a touch of glamour to the poker world ever since she was picked on the reality TV show “Ultimatepoker.com Showdown”, to be coached by poker legends Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke. That was in 2005, and since then the 24 year... 

A Scandinavian gaming site, named Tell Gaming, is offering shares or ‘ownership units’ in the company to reward regular players for their custom. Tell Gaming was founded in 2006 and since its launch has already given away 20% of the company to loyal players,... 

Lena Mae Tibbs, 57, of Indianapolis had to endure a relentless campaign by Indiana Live! Casino to prosecute her for exercising unauthorized criminal control over a $100 bill found on the floor of their casino. The incident took place on July 29, 2008, when Tibbs... 

Nevada casinos received their first piece of good news for some time, as November’s gaming results revealed a modest increase in revenue of 4.4% year on year. Nevada casinos had a total revenue of $873.2 million in November 2009, which was $40 million up... 

Matthew Ephraums has just won the first event of the 2010 Aussie Millions, after beating a field of 1,143 players to take down the $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em event and the Aus $200,025 first prize. The tournament took place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne,... 

In a bid to reorganise its poker business, online gaming company bwin has appointed Peter Bertilsson as Managing Director of bwin games AB, the poker subsidiary of the company. He now takes on the position, previously held by Carl Klingberg. Bwin is an Austrian... 

DoylesRoom was left with four sponsored pros after Alec “traheho” Torelli left Doyle’s budding Brunson 10 in order to be involved in a venture elsewhere, believed to be a new poker site starting on the Everleaf Network. Alec Torelli joined Doylesroom...