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Durrrr Challenge: Is the "Portuguese Poker Prodigy” Next?

March 28, 2011 at 1:13 PM |

There has been an interesting conversation going on between Jose ‘Girah’ Macedo and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan on Twitter. It would seem that the 18-year-old prodigy is to take on the challenge.

Poker Players

Daniel Negreanu's Account Hijacked

February 4, 2012 at 1:10 PM |

While Canadian PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu was enjoying his flight home, someone was playing from his account without his knowledge, the unknown infiltrator lost $46,000 in one session.

Poker Rooms

Win a 32GB iPad Air in the Winamax Tablet Challenge

May 15, 2014 at 3:02 PM |

From 19 to 29 May, Winamax Poker offers a Tablet Challenge: in addition to tournament tickets worth hundreds of Euros in total, the winner of the Super Finale will be rewarded a 32GB iPad Air tablet.

Online Poker

Online Poker Grows Once Again in Two Years

October 19, 2012 at 6:16 PM |

According to H2 Gambling Capital's most recenty survey, online poker is growing once again after a steep decline in the last two years. The main reason could be the poker market's development in Asia.

Poker Rooms

Anonymous Tables at Ladbrokes

October 25, 2010 at 5:53 PM |

Leading UK betting company Ladbrokes has recently made the first anonymous tables available at their online poker room. Switching between normal and anonymous tables being an option, the latter has the advantage of your data, including your screen name and avatar, being completely unavailable to fellow players.

Poker Rooms

€350,000 Unibet Online Series to return in May

May 16, 2018 at 6:43 PM |

After the successful debut of the festival earlier this year, the site decided to spoil the tournament players once again with increased prize pools.

Poker Tournaments

Dusk Till Dawn Backs Up ISPT, Says Overlay is Almost Certain

May 5, 2013 at 6:23 PM |

Dusk Till Dawn’s Simon Trumper says there is at least 80% chance than the €1,000,000 guaranteed tournament will run with overlay. Interview.

Poker Rooms

Purple Lounge Put into Liquidation, Player Funds Gone?

June 1, 2012 at 2:29 PM |

Following a review conducted by the new leadership, it has been revealed that the financial position of Purple Lounge is no longer tenable. The staff of the poker room has been made redundant and Media Corp. seeks a solution to the compensation of players.

Poker Players

Phil Ivey Launches Coaching Site

November 2, 2012 at 6:18 PM |

Eight times WSOP champion Phil Ivey launches a brand new poker site with 2012 Main Event winner Greg Merson as a sponsored pro, in addition to Patrik Antonius and Jennifer Harman.

Poker Rooms

Partypoker to anonymize cash game hand histories

September 28, 2016 at 6:03 PM |

After October 5, players won't be able to see player names in cash game hand histories, check out the details below!

Poker Rooms

$5,000 exclusive cash races all year at Intertops!

April 19, 2016 at 8:07 PM |

Intertops Poker and JuicyStakes Poker announced that they will be running $5,000 exclusive cash races for Rakerace.com players every month in 2016! This is the best private race in the Horizon network and players can now enjoy the raceback returns all year!

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Everleaf Gaming Network $4,000 rake race, 16th January - 30th January

January 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM |

Grab your share of the $4,000 prize pool by playing cash tables and overtaking your opponents at Everleaf Gaming Network.

Poker Tournaments

WSOP 2013 - Event #61 - Daniel Alaei Has Second $10,000 PLO Bracelet, Fourth Overall

July 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM |

An immensely strong field of 32 players returned on Day 3 of World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 Event #61 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha. Alexey Rybin led the players to the finale of the last WSOP 2013 bracelet side event.

Poker Rooms

888 and Rank Group will not make new offer for William Hill

August 19, 2016 at 5:40 PM |

888 Holdings and Grosvenor casinos operator Rank Group have decided to step away from the deal.

Online Poker

Entraction Network Shuts Down by Late 2012

September 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM |

The IGT network, also known as Entraction, has closed its Stockholm headquarters and is going to shut down by the end of this year. Player bankrolls are safe, IGT rooms join other networks.