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One lucky online poker player, Lionel Foulquier from France, has won 210,000 Euros in Poker Heaven’s largest ever Bad Beat Jackpot.
At long last, online poker players from Canada can sign up and play through the much sought after Bodog brand by accessing a site launched for them at Bodog.ca in celebration of the brand’s 15th anniversary. North American players were previously not officially accepted at Bodog.
Twenty year old Canadian online and land poker pro Mike McDonald (known as “Timex” online) has announced that he will be retiring from the game of poker after earning over $2.6 million in live tournament earnings. Mike feels that his involvement with poker is keeping him from living a balanced life and posted the news of his retirement on his CardRunner blog last week.
The online gambling industry in Europe is at the moment very busy buying up a number of smaller companies.
There is no better feeling for an online poker player than to take the head of a big-named professional in an online tournament. This is why Doyle’s Bounty Tournament – offered by none other than Doyle Brunson at DoylesRoom.com – has created quite a stir.
New changes are being made with effect from 8th April 2010 at CakePoker.com when this leading Curacao-licensed online poker room increases the minimum buy-in for its no-limit hold’em games from 20 big blinds to 30. It is hoped that this new policy will help to decrease short-stack play and offer players more fun and competitiveness.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the United Kingdom has banned an email advertising campaign for Betfair Poker as it ruled that the ad encouraged underage gambling.
“AkaliEars” thought that he was the unluckiest online gambler in the world when, after holding 4 Jacks in a poker game, he found that his opponent was holding 4 Kings. He was very envious of his opponent who won an amount of 72,236 Euro until he learned that he himself was the winner of the “Bad Beat Jackpot” of 144,473 Euros. He was aware of the fact that he had won a consolation prize but did not realize that his prize would be even more than that of his opponent.
Two gaming companies, European online poker giant PartyGaming and France’s pari-mutuel horse racing company, have signed a new multi-year agreement in terms of which PartyGaming will cooperate with their partners to create a PMU-branded online poker service that will not only retain their own poker software but will also incorporate PMU’s own player account systems.
A Danish poker player was not very happy recently when he was ordered by the Supreme Court to forfeit an amount of $38,000 that he had won while playing online poker. The Court found that he had been unemployed for a year and that his only source of income was derived from playing poker over the internet.
The European Poker Tour will no longer take place in Moscow next month as planned but will have an alternate venue for its Season 6 opening.
Microgaming is the latest software company to join the Italian poker industry by launching a brand new network. As such, Ladbrokes is the first poker room to join the Italian language network, with the hope of gaining a good segment of the fast growing market.
PokerStars.com’s virtual school at Poker.Stars.net will now be the official sponsors of the all-women High Heels Poker Tour (HHPT).
Italian players are no longer able to play on the international version of PokerStars due to changes that were made this week to their country’s online gaming laws.