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Former Senator Alphonse D’Amato, who serves as the Chairman of the powerful Poker Players Alliance, has issued a statement showing the group’s disappointment in the recent guilty plea put in by Party Gaming founder, Anurag Dikshit.
The PartyPoker sponsored Premier League III has completed its fourth day and eighth heat. The top three players are J.C. Tran, Peter Eastgate and Tom Dwan with 32 points, 26 points and 22 points respectively. These three have virtually sealed their place in the finals.
Good news for the poker world in the United States: A Pennsylvania judge has decided to do what the legal world should have done long ago – rule that poker is a game of skill and not a game of chance.
A large number of items from the final table of the WSOP 2008 Main event was auctioned. These include decks of cards, dealer button, table felts and signage. However the prized item is the final table itself. The auction was conducted at WSOPshop.com by XP Events.
PartyPoker has preponed its Season 3 of the Premier League from 2009 to the last week of November 2008 at the insistence of the broadcasters. The event will take place in London.
Speaking in an interview to the Financial Times this week, the Chief Executive Officer of PartyGaming, Jim Ryan said that he foresees the poker industry being run by only five major groups within three years – and he intends to have his company up there with them.
The online poker room RedKings has launched its 3G Mobile Poker Client. This will enable its members to play poker on their handsets. Mobile players will share the same platform as online players and therefore will be assured regular competition.
A new poker network, comprising two of the most well recognized poker sites in the industry – Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet – has been officially launched on their parent company’s new poker platform, the CEREUS network.
The parent company of Ultimate Bet, the poker site under the spotlight for a software glitch that affected payouts on at least 36 games, has issued a statement on the latest incident.
In a packed Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio Peter Eastgate of Denmark beat Ivan Demidov of Russia in the heads-up of the WSOP 2008 Main Event. It took 104 hands and four hours of seesaw battle for Eastgate to wear out his opponent. Eastgate won the bracelet and the top prize of $9,152,416.
As from Thursday 20th November, the popular World Poker Tour online poker room will be closed down. This follows a decision made by World Poker Tour Enterprises in October after a dismal financial report for the group.
Ultimate Bet has promised to investigate a suspected software glitch on its poker site after losing players were awarded prizes or congratulated on their wins.
Microgaming, the Isle of Man software developer, has announced that it has acquired the rights to operate the PokerWize three-dimensional poker brand from its redundant parent company, PlayWize.
Poker fans will be pleased to note the release of a brand new poker site, PayNoRake.com, which operates under the banner of high commission and rakeback rates. The site was released by Playsafe Holding, a Norwegian company, and is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.