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Wednesday 26th April 2006

Poker Industry Expo Hits Costa Rica in December Away from the table, poker continues to be big business. Once again, the top web companies, affiliates and marketing executives are already planning their annual get together – presumably to shmooz...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

Unknown UK Player Wins WSOP Ladies Event Seat at Betfair There’s every chance that this year could see an unlikely new WSOP Ladies champion – a complete unknown from Halifax, England. Angela Thacker, 30, won herself a seat at the event having beaten off ...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

Poker Players Alliance Goes All-In for Arrested Players The Poker Players Alliance has kicked up a fuss about the arrest of 22 poker players during a home game in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The body which represents the interests of poker players a...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

Van Alstyne Chip Leader at WPT Champs Going into the final day of the World Poker Tour championship at the Bellagio, James Van Alstyne is the favourite and chip leader. Having learnt to play whilst studying at Stanford, Van Alstyne bec...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

Playtech Announces Q1 Financial Results International software developer for the iGaming industry Playtech has announced their trading figures for the first quarter of 2006. The figures report an extremely positive start to the year and ...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

XXL Club Announces Online Casino Launch XXL Club has announced plans to start an online casino entity, which will mark the first crucial milestone of its multiplatform operations plan. The casino will be followed by an online poker servi...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

PokerShare Announces New Affiliate Program Details The new PokerShare affiliate program is now fully operational and ready to accept new players. Max Wright, Poker Room Manager said, “Affiliates are excited about our return because PokerShare.com i...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

PokerShare Announces Generous Affiliate Program The new PokerShare affiliate program is now fully operational and ready to accept new players. Max Wright, Poker Room Manager said, “Affiliates are excited about our return because PokerShare.com ...

Wednesday 26th April 2006

Online Casino Merges Poker and Casino Accounts River Belle Online Poker is now offering its players the ability to play poker and any one of 19 different casino games from within the same software. With just one download, players will now able...

Wednesday 26th April 2006
PAF Group Launch New B2B iGaming Service As part of their new gaming strategy, The PAF Group have announced the launch of a new business-to-business service aimed at European non-gaming consumer brands who would like to expand their busin...


Tuesday 25th April 2006

Poker Pro Joins Illustrious Internet Sex Tape Club Poker has been mainstream for what seems like an eternity, but so far its stars have avoided major scandal. Until now that is. Top pro David Williams, part of Calvin Ayre's Bodog team, has found ...

Tuesday 25th April 2006

UK High Stakes Poker Hits Challenge Channel High stakes poker is about to hit even more UK TV screens in one of the countries biggest ever TV gaming deals. Sunset and Vine, a Wales based production company, yesterday announced deals for 5 ne...

Tuesday 25th April 2006

WPT Five Star World Poker Classic Begins After all the hype, the satellites and people desperately begging for a buy-in, the 4th annual WPT Five Star World Poker Classic has started at the Bellagio, Las Vegas. 600 players who have either ...

Tuesday 25th April 2006

Online Poker Thief Finds Security Loophole It's not a secret that every online poker room tries to be tight on security. However, for nine unfortunate folks in Sweden, none of whom have ever played internet poker, one site failed to pick up...

Tuesday 25th April 2006

New York Poker Room Caters to College Students Catering for what owners say is part of the burgeoning poker scene, an upstate New York casino has opened a huge new poker room. While it's aimed at all ages, the main man at the Turning Stone casi...