November 21st, 2008
Las Vegas Sands took a major blow this year as its share dropped to $5 a share since its peak of $122.Founder of Las vegas,Sheldon Adelson has 1 billion of his personal dollars wrapped up in the construction of a casino in Singapore.
November 19th, 2008
Clonie Gowen decided to sue full tilt poker after she has been told that she is no longer needed to be a part of full tilt pro this past weekend.She claims that she had a verbal agreement of 1% ownership with the owner of full tilt.According to her affadavit,she was due $275k in 2007 and whats interesting is that she waited until end of 2008 to file suit.
November 19th, 2008
Michael binger taking down the wsop Circuit champion is his first major poker tournament win.His 3rd place finishing at the wsop main event brought him more than $4 million in winnings.Over the last three years,he has won more than $5.7 million in poker tournament winnings.
November 18th, 2008
Mark “buster love” seif and Amit “amak316” were 2 of the named pro making up the final table which amit took home a amazing $550,000.
October 28th, 2008
Full Tilt Poker has just held the largest online poker pot to ever be played out on online poker. The hand was worth over $600,000 and high stakes poker player Tom “durrr” Dwan got the best of it; scooping it from LarsLuzak.
October 28th, 2008
What started as a small post on 2+2 blew up and became news across the online poker world and created a stir in forums about the possibility of iPoker removing all poker sites that are associated with the Tain Poker. This includes NoIQ Poker, Chili Poker, Carlos poker and several more.
October 27th, 2008
Party Poker and Cryptologic have entered a five year licensing agreement which gives Party Gaming access to several casino games that Cryptologic owns. The two companies are also talking about a possible merge if both companies can find value in doing so.
October 27th, 2008
Party Poker has just launched their new software version that provides users with a new layout, look and overall new product. The new software also comes with two brand new Party Poker promotions that are named, The Big Deal and the King of the Table Tournament that pay out over $4 million.
October 20th, 2008
Duplicate Poker has closed its doors to everyone and posted a message on their website saying they regret closing and thanked their players for their support. However, they ran into financial issues with the unsettling USA financial market. Duplicate Poker members also received an email with the news and players are also able to withdraw any funds that were in their player account, by visiting DuplicatePoker.com.
October 20th, 2008
Full Tilt Poker has set the schedule for the upcoming Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) which begins on Wednesday, November 5th. The series carries a main event that has a guaranteed prize pool of $2.5 million and is expected to have over 5,000 players competing.