Posted by PokerFelts on Mar 24, 2010 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Titan Poker has had a long hard look at its online image and with the addition of a new more professional logo and website look, the popular France based online poker room has truely opened up their locker to show other online poker rooms exactly what they areRead Full Article

Posted by PokerFelts on Mar 24, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premier League football club, has today accepted a libel payout from a newspaper that published false claims that the Russian billionaire has a “bad gambling problem”. Roman Abramovich was reported to have been playing a game of poker with aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 24, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first ever World Poker Tour event in Indiana has played down to just 15 competitors after three days of action. Among the players still in contention for the title are the 2001 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, Carlos Mortensen, as well as online poker proRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 22, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Tony Hachem, younger brother of 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Joe Hachem, outlasted a field of 221 players to become the first champion of the Australia New Zealand Poker Tour’s Perth event. Hachem will pocket an impressive $132,750 AUD for the win. Hachem, a PokerStarsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 22, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With all four armed robbers behind bars, Berlin Police announced they have arrested a 5th suspect in the robbery of a poker tournament in downtown Berlin. Officials are saying that the 28 year-old Lebanese man not only planned the crime, but also drove the getaway car. With allRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 21, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The final two suspects in the daring mid-day robbery at the Hyatt Hotel were taken into custody. The final two suspects who remained at large –and were thought to have fled the country– Mustafa Ucarkus and Jihad Chetwie, turned themselves in at Tegel Airport in Berlin. Both menRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Mar 21, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Lawrenceburg Indiana seems like a strange place to be hosting a major poker tournament, and even stranger when you consider the tournament has the name “Hollywood” in the title, but that is precisely where the WPT has landed this week. The Hollywood Poker Open is first ever WPTRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 20, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In their nightly rundown, PokerNews announced that Estonia has joined the current movement to localize online poker. From now on, only online poker sites licensed in Estonia will be permitted to operate in the country. Obviously, Estonian poker players are outraged, with only one small online site

Posted by Allinstevie on Mar 20, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The AP is reporting that Berlin police were able to arrest the 3rd member of the group that robbed the EPT Berlin event on March 6th. Police were alerted that 20 year-old Mustafa Ucarkus was arrested at Tegel Airport in Berlin after his lawyer tipped off authorities toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 19, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The $5,000 buy-in Main Event at the Wynn Classic attracted 242 hopefuls this year, and in the end it was UB Poker’s Brandon Cantu who walked away with the title and a nice payday of $363,844. Cantu entered the final day with the chip-lead, and was able toRead Full Article