Women poker pro Maria “Chili” Demetriou took first place in Event One of the The Sky Poker UK Tour and a seat into the Grande Finale Event. The inaugural Sky UK Poker Tour began last Saturday at the UK’s grandest card room, Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. Demetriou was among 120 players who qualified through online Satellites at SkyPoker.com as well as live Satellites held at Dusk Till Dawn. Read more…
From the founder of the High Heels Poker Tour, Lauren Failla, will soon come the Women’s Ultimate Poker Academy. Failla recently played in the 2008 World Series of Poker and placed 63rd in the WSOP Ladies No Limit Hold’em Event. The event had 1,060 entrants and became the second largest poker event to date featuring women only. Several top women poker pros will be joining Failla to help manage the poker school. Read more…
The whirling rumors have come true with today’s announcement of CardRunners‘ and Stoxpoker’s new partnership. Separately, both these sites operate online training libraries run by several of the world’s top poker instructors. Combined, these two will provide players with the largest online educational poker resource while still continuing to operate as individual websites. Read more…
Poker Battle, an elite poker social networking community that touts a triple effect of retail, gaming and lifestyle is pre-launching their upscale fashion line this week.
The man behind the concept of Poker Battle is French poker player, Phillippe Rouas. With the help of Creative Director and Visionary Kevin Watson, Rouas’ vision of Poker Battle has come full circle. Read more…
Do you have your seat yet for Titan Poker’s $2.5K State 1R/A 50 Seat Satellite? There’s still time to register for a qualifier or satellite. Stage 3 ‘1hand’ Sit N’ Go Tournaments have $2.20+$.20 buy-ins and Stage 2 Satellites have $20+$2 buy-ins still available for online poker players up until Sunday, August 31st and 8:35p.m. (GMT+1).
Prefer a direct buy-in instead? Read more…
Reno, Nevada will be host to the 1st Annual State of Nevada Poker Championships. The inaugural poker tournament will be hosted at the Grand Sierra Resort and will run from September 25th through October 5th. The thirty-two event series will have three events played each day at 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Included in the events will be eleven State Championships Read more…
The Chan Poker shocker came without warning today to most of the poker world with the announcement that it will be closing its poker room doors. Chan Poker, which was part of the Ongame Network was established in 2006 by none other than Johnny Chan. Chan is notably among the best poker players around the world and literally a poker legend. He has amassed Read more…
Over at Gambling 101 Thomas Gill wrote an interesting piece on the latest poker forum scandal. It’s in relation to strategy posts over at the Two+Two poker forums and how Mason Malmuth, owner and publisher: Read more…
Peru will soon be introduced to the lovely ladies of poker as the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) graces the country with the LIPS Tour. Pro Poker Challenge of America in conjunction with LIPS is setting afloat the history making poker series on August 23rd. The series will run through September 1st and will be played at the Casino Atlantic City, in the City of Miraflores in Lima, Peru.
Buy-ins will begin at $225 to $550 for the daily events Read more…
CG&E Gives US An Entirely Skill Based Texas Hold Em Online Poker Game
Carlyle Gaming and Entertainment Limited is contending that it can take the luck out of the game of poker and make it a completely skill based game. The Canadian company will be unveiling their new Texas Hold Em online poker game PokerTwin™ this Fall.
PokerTwin™ will be marketed to US poker players and Carlyle ascertains the game eliminates the chance factor. In achieving this, Read more…
