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Friday 4th January 2008

Grosvenor unveils 2008 poker schedule Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) has announced the schedule for its 2008 season, following a successful 2007. GUKPT, in conjunction with its sponsor, Blue Square Poker, has announced ten tournament...

Friday 4th January 2008

Poker year gets underway The first major poker tournament of 2008 is up and running at the Radisson Hotel, overlooking Galway Bay in Ireland. This year's Party Poker Irish Poker Championship will see over 400 poker player...

Friday 4th January 2008

High Stakes Winners and Losers Unveiled Online poker tracking site Highstakesdb.com has monitored the biggest games on the net, and this week they released the compiled list of movers and shakers in 2007. The lists themselves give a...

Friday 4th January 2008

Poker Loving Presidential Candidate Giving Hope to Internet Players Barack Obama’s recent win in Iowa has been heralded as a key moment in American politics, but for many poker players the win has offered new hope for those wanting prohibitions on Internet...

Friday 4th January 2008

Full Tilt Poker Overtakes Party Poker in Online Market Full Tilt Poker, home of the likes of Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Howard Lederer, overtook PartyPoker this week in one of the industry’s most cherished rankings list. Real cash players on the...

Friday 4th January 2008

Esfandiari to Play at Four Winds Casino One of the most recognisable faces in poker will be playing a $300 tournament this weekend in Michigan, USA, providing a rare opportunity for poker players to take on one of the games best...

Friday 4th January 2008

Online Presence For Women’s Event A new site has been launched to promote the Florida-based High Heels Poker Tour, a unique concept developed last year by promoter Lauren Failla to promote female live poker. The new site at...

Friday 4th January 2008

Nuts Launches Online A new online gambling site has been launched for the UK’s The Nuts Poker League (TNPL) on the iPoker Network through the Playtech platform. The new site, TheNutsPokerLeague.com, follows a...

Friday 4th January 2008

Online Poker League Launched Recently launched online poker site PokerTrillion.com has announced the debut of its Trillion Poker League, which sees all players entered into a multi-table tournament consisting of 31 players or...

Friday 4th January 2008

Interviews From TwoPlusTwo.com Go Online Online poker message board TwoPlusTwo.com has announced the launch of its new PokerCast series featuring a wide variety of interviews, strategy discussions and other poker-related content with...

Friday 4th January 2008

Newborn Online Poker Site Answers Critics The Danish entrepreneur behind recently launched online poker site T6Poker.com, Torben Hubertz, is defending claims over how much he has spent in an effort to make the site one of the largest in...

Friday 4th January 2008

No Changes For WSOP In America, Harrah's Entertainment has announced that there will be no significant changes to its annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament despite its imminent $17.5 billion purchase by Texas...

Friday 4th January 2008

Duke Street Capital Set to Make Offer for Mecca According to the Sunday Times newspaper, private-equity firm Duke Street Capital has made an offer to Rank for its Mecca bingo operation but the gaming firm's board is not believed to be interested...

Friday 4th January 2008
Online Betting Company Maintains Performance London-listed online betting company Sportingbet has reported to shareholders that sales have continued to meet analysts' estimates since its first quarter ended in October. Sportingbet owns a...


Friday 4th January 2008
Coral and Ladbrokes Get Turf TV In the UK, bookmakers Coral and Ladbrokes have broken ranks with fellow operators William Hill and BetFred and signed five-year contracts with Amalgamated Racing to utilise its Turf TV service in...