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WPT Releases Season XI 2012 Schedule
The World Poker Tour (WPT) released the 2012 portion of next season’s schedule Wednesday, touting its expanded international selection of tournaments. Season XI will begin in August after taking a break following the Season X-ending WPT World Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, which starts this weekend. The first two events on the schedule [...]
Illinois Senate President Wants Online Poker
The Illinois State Senate President suggested to the state’s legislators Tuesday that it may be time to look at legalizing and regulating online poker in the Land of Lincoln. With no states having intrastate online poker up and running yet, Sen. John Cullerton (D) wants Illinois to jump at the opportunity to be the online [...]
PokerStars Officially Launches Zoom Poker
PokerStars officially launched Zoom Poker Tuesday, making the popular game a formal offering for the world’s largest online poker room after two months in public beta testing mode. There was plenty of testing done during that period; more than 300 million Zoom Poker hands have been dealt since mid-March. Zoom Poker is PokerStars’ fast-paced ring [...]
Korean Buddhist Monks Caught in High Stakes Poker Game
It’s been said that to succeed in poker one must “have the patience of Buddha.” As it happens, it appears that a handful of men took that a bit too literally. In a scandal that has shaken South Korea, a group of Buddhist monks were caught drinking and playing high stakes poker in a luxury [...]
PartyPoker Launches Championship Challenge Promotion
Fresh off the excitement of Manchester City’s historic injury time comeback in its season finale to win the English Premier League, PartyPoker has launched the Championship Challenge. Running May 14th through June 30th, the Championship Challenge is a promotion that gives real money players the opportunity to win cash prizes and freeroll entries by earning [...]
Belgium Bans More Online Poker Sites
The Belgian Gaming Commission is certainly taking its new online gambling laws seriously. This past week, the Commission placed more online poker sites on the country’s blacklist, making it a crime for the country’s citizens to play on those sites. Including in the new batch of blacklisted sites are such popular names as Betfair, William [...]
Mohegan Sun Teams With Pocono Raceway For Charity Poker Tournament
While the world descends on Las Vegas this summer for the 2012 World Series of Poker, one of the top casino operations on the East Coast will be teaming up with arguably the top auto racing tour in the world for a special charity event. The Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs will team up with [...]
Jonathan Duhamel Still Leads Major POY Races, But The Lead Is Shrinking
With slightly more than two weeks to the start of the 2012 World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour World Championship beginning next week, former World Champion Jonathan Duhamel still leads two of the three major Player of the Year races, but that once dominant lead is now shrinking. Duhamel, who started off [...]
New Jersey Internet Poker Legislation In Limbo
According to a report in a prominent Pennsylvania newspaper, the legislation that would open up the state of New Jersey for internet gaming and poker is now in limbo, apparently due to the politics of the 2012 Presidential election. In an extensive article, Philadelphia Inquirer writer Suzette Parmley reports that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie [...]
WSOP Retires Fun Police
It appears that World Series of Poker (WSOP) officials are going to lighten up and let the players have a little fun this year. In a conference call Tuesday, WSOP representatives discussed some changes to what had previously been strict rules governing behavior at the tables. One of the biggest complaints from players last year [...]
