Cake Poker and the CakePoker network is nothing not diligent about protecting the integrity of its players and the game of online poker, and they just proved it–ousting a player from the upcoming Bluff Online Poker Challenge. The player is Josh Field (aka JJProdigy) and the offense, permitting another player to compete using Field’s account. Though [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2009
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Attention all AbsolutePoker players (and would-be Absolute Poker players)–one of the world’s top poker sites is now no longer offering exclusively poker but Blackjack as well. Now Absolute Poker players wishing to take a break from the poker tables but not from online card playing altogether can hop on over to the AbsolutePoker Blackjack room for [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2009
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The wait is finally over–Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for the eagerly-awaited annual event of events: The Full Tilt Online Poker Series. Starting February 4, 2009, the 11th installment of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (known this year as FTOPS XI) promises more players, more opportunities to win free seats, and–most excitingly–more cash [...]
Continue reading...9. December 2008
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On December 21, PokerStars will begin its World Blogger Championship of Online Poker, or WBCOOP (not be confused with their recent, and ever-popular, World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP). To play you should first get your PokerStars bonus code here so you can max out your deposit bonus. This poker bonus code is one [...]
Continue reading...24. November 2008
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After less-than promising reports of low player interaction, the World Poker Tour announced the end of its long-standing partnership with Cryptologic, the gaming software company responsible for many of our favorite online poker sites. Instantly, WPT fans playing at Cryptologic online poker rooms, in part entering satellites and qualifiers to win seats into World Poker [...]
Continue reading...21. November 2008
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The Playtech iPoker Network’s biggest internet poker room and (allegedly) Europe’s leading poker site, Titan Poker, announced the approaching of it’s 3rd installment of the European Championship of Online Poker (aka ECOOP III). The European Championship of Online Poker runs from November 24 through December 7. This 3rd incarnation of the ECOOP is the first to [...]
Continue reading...27. October 2008
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The recently achieved record for the largest pot in a real-money online poker game ever – $609,730 on Saturday, September 13, did not last for long. Just a month-and-a-half later that record was smashed, not once, but four times over. And three of those in the same night! Last time it was the FullTilt Poker high-stakes [...]
Continue reading...21. October 2008
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The eGaming Review Industry Awards has recognized poker site Everest Poker as its “Operator of the Year”. Among the factors cited for awarding Everest Poker this honor were that it’s supposedly the only poker room online that runs its own customer service center and operates its tables using its own proprietary software. Whether these boasts are [...]
Continue reading...10. October 2008
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DuplicatePoker.com was not your ordinary poker site. It offered players a novel new way of enjoying the game of online poker – a way that emphasized the game’s element of skill over luck. But unfortunately, the folks behind the scenes at Duplicate Poker were not so skillful, or lucky, at keeping their online poker room, [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2008
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Bodog Poker launches the second incarnation of its week-long, 14-tournament event, the Bodog Open. This year, the culmination of the event is a BPO II Main Event with a guaranteed minimum prize pool of $300,000. 8 of the tournaments in the Bodog Open II will be “Championship” events with the other 6 being special “Bounty” tournaments [...]
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20. February 2009
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