Every December, Card Player Magazine takes a little extra time out of their busy schedule to mull over the accomplishments of all poker players over the last 12 months. One of those players – the one who stands out the most – is awarded the 2010 CardPlayer Player of the Year Award.
There's a new name rising among the online bingo industry that could have Edwin S. Lowe, the inventor of Bingo himself, rolling over in his grave. Rollover Bingo entered the market just a few short months ago and is already attracting a massive player base through ingenious marketing and promotional campaigns.
Peter Eastgate, winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Championship, shocked the world last summer when he announced his untimely retirement from an intensely successful professional poker career. He did it again last week when he decided to auction off his 2008 WSOP Championship Bracelet on eBay.com.
The online poker industry has become fiercely competitive of late, not that it wasn’t always competitive before, but it seems all of the major online poker rooms are vying for licenses in once restricted or isolated territories. The most recent regional penetration comes in the form of a sister site to Party Poker as its parent company, PartyGaming, just received a license to legally operate in Venezuela.
Poker pros are known to cash in big and drop massive chunks of change in a very short amount of time. It is the nature of their profession as high rolling gamblers. The best poker pros win more often than they lose, but this week, one ill-fated green-felt specialist suffered a tremendous downswing that cost him $1.5 million – in a single week!
Want to be a part of the World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic come this December? Want to get there without spending a single dime out of pocket? UB.net is offering just such an opportunity via its new Freeroll Series, dangling a $12,000 WPT prize package at the end of the rope.
PokerStars has been the world’s largest online poker room for several years running, and the online poker site only continues to see more rapid growth. The latest expansion for PokerStars comes in the way of a new geographical license obtained in Estonia.
It was a long and fortuitous weekend for online poker players, including some well known poker pros, as the biggest online poker tournaments brought sizeable profits to their wallets. A multitude of poker pros finished deep in the money at the largest online poker tournaments of the holiday weekend.
Tom “durrrr” Dwan always seems to be making the headlines in online poker industry news, and he’s done it again this past Sunday, making up for any losses suffered in London in recent weeks by racking up $1.5 million on the cash tables at Full Tilt Poker.