Jun 28 2010

WSOP wins for Michael Linn, Chance Kornuth and Ryan Welch

Three more gold bracelets have been awarded to players at the 41st World Series of Poker over the past twenty-four hours as the world’s biggest poker spectacular closes in on the much-anticipated Main Event 57. Michael Linn bested an entry field of 2,543 in event 49, the last of the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em contests [...]

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Jun 28 2010

Tribal gambling interests prove a stumbling block to California online poker proposal

Tuesday’s much anticipated Californian Legislature hearing on the legalisation of online poker in the state made little progress, with proposer Sen. Rod Wright saying he was temporarily putting a hold on the bill whilst he considers concerns raised by opponents. “This bill still needs a great deal of work,” Wright said of his Bill SB [...]

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Jun 23 2010

North Carolina senate votes for ban on internet sweepstake parlours

The state of North Carolina has acted on the vexed issue of Internet sweepstake parlours and the uncertain gambling laws impacted by these offerings. This week the state Senate voted 47 to 1 in favour of a ban on the genre, which has been spreading rapidly across the state as operators and punters try to [...]

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Jun 23 2010

Florida pair wins UltimateBet.com promotion – Online Casino News

Leading online casino UltimateBet.com has announced that players Gregg Mardirosian and Justin Leichter have won its Craziest Last Longer Bet promotion and will compete in the main event of the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) on July 1. The Craziest Last Longer Bet encouraged players to send in their ideas for the wackiest side wager [...]

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Jun 13 2010

WSOP day 19 highlights

Day 19 saw another action-packed session at the 41st World Series of Poker as new bracelets were won and fresh events kicked off, with UK player James Dempsey narrowly missing his second bracelet and serial side better Tom Dwan still hunting for his first. By the completion of Day 3 play around 9pm Vegas time [...]

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Jun 8 2010

Van der Sloot No Off Line Poker Tourney Wins: Only Wanted Girls

For someone who’s played a lot of poker at casinos all over the world, murder suspect Joran van der Sloot hasn’t done much winning, at least not in major offline poker tournaments. According to professional poker player databases maintained at Poker Pages (www.pokerpages.com) and Hendon Mob (www.hendonmob.com), van der Sloot, 22, has NEVER finished in [...]

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Jun 8 2010

Van der Sloot a “Homicidal Maniac” Says Private Investigator

Private investigator Bo Dietl appearing on the CBS "Early Show" has met Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway and a man who this week confessed to killing a young Peruvian student Stephany Flores. "This is a homicidal maniac," said private investigator Bo Dietl on CBS’ "The Early [...]

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May 30 2010

Van der Sloot Attorney Claims Inconsistencies

Joran van der Sloot remained on the lam Thursday following news that a woman had been stabbed to death in his Lima, Peru hotel room Sunday.  The body was found three days later. Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez, who was reportedly an out lesbian struggling with her sexuality, was found beaten and stabbed to death in [...]

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May 25 2010

UB.com Loses Lacey Jones as Pro

Lacey Jones has announced she will no longer be playing poker for Team AbsolutePoker.com. Aintluck.com point out that Jones, one of the more attractive female poker players out there, and an aspiring model and actress, has kept mum about the decision, save for a Twitter tweet made on May 25th which read "Today is a [...]

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May 20 2010

Mr Green casino expands into the UK

The Swedish founders of Betsson, Fredrik Sidfalk and Henrik Bergquist, saw the culmination of months of planning this week with the launch of their popular Mr Green online casino into the UK market under the country managership of Kate McClure. The central concepts of the franchise – responsible (‘green’) gambling and entertainment are present in [...]

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