On the iPoker network, Titan Poker is the leading online poker room site, launching an exclusive tournament series for members of its elite club. The Elite Club has introduced by Titan poker, to challenge the players. They also reward the players, who have represented the poker room around the world, in their efficient way. This is a way to thanks all those players and gives them a heads-up at additional poker tribute.
To ban the payment handling online poker and internet gambling business, the Norwegian Government has continued to press forward with legislation, using UIGEA-style. A Gambling Compliance reported that recently the government has submitted the proposed ban for online poker internet gambling to parliamentary vote.
Last night, a 24-year-old professional poker player, Jesper Hougaard, created a history by winning a gold bracelet on WSOP Gold Bracelet Event: 56. This was his second WSOP gold bracelet of the year, with a win in the ₤1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event.
On Monday and Thursday, a top poker player, Adam Noone participated in Full Tilt Poker’s Million Pound Challenge and the game has ended up with cool prize of £200,000.
London: The Second WSOPE is about to start, so the European players will be heading to London double quick. If you are not able to attend, no worries it is covered by ESPN and distributes them all over the world.
In the Tuesdays meetings the House Financial Services Committee have announced something to be happy for online poker players. At the end of the meetings 30-9 vote approved a positive note as Barney Frank’s Payments Systems Protection Act.
According to Barry Carter “it’s impossible to turn back time; as anyone who has gone out just before the money of a tournament after making a stupid ‘bubble play’ will know. Yesterday, he played live poker for the first time and it was a horrific experience something, like how it should have been the first time for me, at the Sky Poker, UK Poker Tour at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. He was making string bets, trying to rise without announcing it and generally making a jester of him. What’s more, the atmosphere was grubby and the table talk was very offensive, all the players were smoking and some of them were horrible.
PacificNet Inc. has come under a sue agreement with bondholders in a Delaware federal bankruptcy court. According to this agreement, PacificNet has renovated certain terms in its bonds at an amount of approximately $6.2 million. It has been precise in the agreement that under the bond terms, PacificNet has paid $150,000 of the obligations and issued 668,322 shares of common stock to the bondholders.
Borgata Hotel Casino &spa, the most excellent poker destination in the East Coast, setting a turnout records in the first week of Borgata Poker Open Championship 2008. This seizes the biggest guaranteed prize pool in the history, by a casino. The tournament is going to be finish on September 14th to 18th, 2008 with $5 million WPT championship.
The biggest prize, of guaranteed USD 100,000 have been added in accretion to USD 5 million guaranteed championship event by a casino, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa on 13th September, till a winner is announced.This event will be organized in the hotel’s Event Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.