Poker News

Breaking Epassporte news is just coming out, it appears they are leaving the US market. For full details read this news release.

Erik Seidel had accomplishment many great things in his tournament poker career including $7+ million in tournament winnings, an impressive 8 WSOP bracelts, a runner up finish at the Aussie Millions Main event and much more. The one thing Seidel was missing was a WPT title, that was until moments ago when he won the Foxwoods Poker Classic, read our WPT recap here.

Staypuff sent us a great article today point out how Phil Ivey is heating up just in time for the WPT Championship and the 39th annual World Series of Poker, You can read it by clicking the title above.

PokerStars is offering a 20 percent reload bonus to help kick off their Battle of the Planets promotion. This promotion is an amazing Sit and Go leaderboard that is scheduled to give away more than $3,000,000 per year in prizes. For full details on the leaderboard promotion click here. For terms of the bonus visit the PokerStars website.

Poker-Prop.net is reporting a preliminary update to the situation relating to poker players funds being frozen on former Microgaming rooms which were licensed by Tusk Investment Corporation. This update involved a circular which has just been released to creditors. Poker players with funds tied up on one of these poker rooms, such as Red Nines, Battlefield Poker, Royal Card Club, Arctic Poker, etc. are encouraged to read this update here.

In our latest column we cover a variety of poker news and notes that include: Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh showing it all in Playboy magazine, a police raid in Kahnawake finds grenade launchers plus 2.5 million dollars worth of drugs, and Pharaohs Poker Palace folding for good. Read the full recap here

Today’s real money ring game traffic reports are showing that for the first time ever Cake Poker has entered the top-ten list of largest online poker rooms. In recent weeks they passed Bodog, Microgaming, Pacific Poker and Absolute Poker to reach the tenth slot. For more information about this online poker room see our Cake Poker review.

DoylesRoom.com has released a brand new version of their software which has many improvements and new features. The new features include re-sizable tables, instant hand replays, customizable table themes and the ability to use self uploaded avatars. Existing DoylesRoom players will be automatically upgraded to the news software on next load, while new players can download the software here.

Everest Poker promotion allows players to ‘Live The Dream’ of being a poker pro. Two Hundred qualifiers were interviewed and evaluated based on their skill, personality and passion for Everest Poker. After two days of interviews and deliberation at the Palais Auersperg in Vienna, ten lucky players were chosen to live the life of a poker pro. Each of the 10 Finalists will receive a $100,000 prize package, including entrance into several major poker events and $21,000 spending cash.

Harrah’s Entertainment, the owner of the World Series of Poker have signed a multi-year deal with Everest Poker being the sole sponsor of the WSOP. This means that on all WSOP tv tables there will be a strategic placement of the Everest Poker logo and Everest has satellite tournament rights. This agreement will benefit both companies immensely. The WSOP reaches an audience of approximately 200 million and the WSOP brand will strengthen its brand globally.

It didn’t take long for Everest to launch a massive amount of satellites to the 2008 World Series of Poker. Read the complete news article and check out the awesome promotions that they are running. Full Article