Player Receives $55,000 as Titan Poker Deals Its Billionth Hand
Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, dealt its Billionth Hand on May 27 and player “wootrigged” from Finland went home with a prize of $55,000. The other five players playing at the same table received $5,000 each, just for participating in […]
World Series of Poker
Last May, Jerry Yang was just a 39-year-old social worker from Temecula with six kids, a hefty mortgage and a wife who worked at night to make ends meet. Poker was a recently acquired, TV-inspired hobby he indulged in at the nearby Pechanga Casino.
But as this year’s 55-event, six-week World Series of […]
Texas Hold ‘Em Free Poker
By Alexis Brooke
Texas hold ‘em poker free games have advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage is that one loses nothing if they play free games and the disadvantage is that one might take a long time to improve in Texas hold ‘em poker free games.
Advantages of Texas hold ‘em poker free […]
Huge Player Interest in Titan Poker’s European Championship Tournament Series
Titan Poker, the largest online poker room on the iPoker Network, has seen unprecedented player interest in its 10-day European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) tournament series. The ECOOP series staged by Titan Poker guarantees $3,600,000 in prizes, but the large number of online poker players […]
Poker group goes all in with $1-M tourney in RP
MANILA, Philippines—If morality were a poker game, then organizers of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) have just gone “all in” with their chips, whipping up a cash-rich tournament with a total pot of $1 million.
The tournament, which kicks off Tuesday at the Dusit Hotel in Makati […]
After 46 years, poker club folds its hand
When Grant Erwin started his poker club in 1962, there was no such thing as a personal computer, an online accounting tool or an Excel worksheet. The eight or nine men who met monthly around kitchen tables in Seattle and Bellevue to play low-stakes poker kept track of […]
Poker machine king Bruce Mathieson wins
BILLIONAIRE pokies king Bruce Mathieson is bracing for the loss of up to 2000 machines under a Brumby Government industry crackdown.
But a decision to hand pokies venues a greater share of profits means he will still become even richer.
Gaming Minister Tony Robinson has revealed the Government is investigating laws to […]
Following on from the outstanding response to the first European Championship of Online Poker in December 2007 Titan Poker have announced ECOOP II!
The second European Championship of Online Poker begins on the 23rd of May with guarantees of $3.6 Million this series promises to be one of the most exciting events on the online poker […]
Huge settlement a poker in the eye for Aristocrat
POKER machine maker Aristocrat Leisure is believed to have agreed to pay between $150 million and $170 million to settle a landmark class action brought by shareholders, who argued the company six years ago failed to keep the market fully informed.
The payout, which will be confidential […]
Judge deals blow to online poker players
Game enthusiasts tried to get gambling ban overturned
A King County judge Thursday upheld a state law that bans Internet gambling in a widely watched case filed by a Renton poker player.
Lee Rousso had argued that the 2006 law, which made Internet gambling a felony, violates the U.S. Constitution’s commerce […]