Online poker room Party Poker has introduced a tempting poker promotion. The online gambling company offers entry for life to the World Series of Poker main event. Party Poker offers two tickets for life to the World Series main event. Players can compete for these unique tickets at a leader board challenge and a tournament.

Party Gaming has signed a B2B agreement with Aviation Club de France (ACF). The online gaming company delivers the French card room a white label online poker service. ACFPoker joins Party Gaming’s poker network that already consists of Partypoker.fr. After obtaining the necessary license, players can profit from a shared pool of player liquidity. Poker fans can play on a single portal.

Spanish F1 ace Jaime Alguersuari has performed well at his initial bounty tournament at the Party Poker website. The Party Poker ambassador finished 53th in the €734 added event. The tournament consisted of 199 runner-ups who joined the Spanish ‘pangeboy’. Jaime Alguersuari finished in 10rd position at the Gran Premio de España, which provided him one point.

Online gambling company Betsson has acquired Betfriends. Betsson is headquartered in Malta and offers online gambling. Betfriends has a customer base of 4.000 players and offers online sports betting and casino entertainment. Betsson’s press release didn’t reveal the acquisition price. The acquisition should improve Betsson’s deteriorating online poker activities.

The International Mind Sport Association (IMSA) has officially acknowledged poker as a mind-sport of strategic skill. With this recognition poker joins bridge and chess. IMSA president José Damiani commented: “I’m excited that the International Federation of Poker (IFP) joins the IMSA. Chess and bridge are other mind sports that feature the yearly IMSA events. The participation of poker in these events proves that it’s a skill game and mind sport.”

Internet poker room RaiseandFold offers players a 40% rakeback to stimulate its players to play more. The generous rake back plan has been introduced to support players in a difficult economic environment. RaiseandFold is part of the Everleaf network. The rake back surely appeals to a lot of players. The plan gives players the chance to spend more money at the internet casino.

Online poker room Cake Poker launches the Gold Stacks Cash Grab for the month of June. This new promotion truly enriches the Gold Stacks loyalty scheme. All Super Turbo prizes reward 50% more in June. Online gamblers can win more than €254.605 as winnings are not capped. Cake Poker is popular among players of all levels due to the fact that it’s the most lucrative online poker website.

Party Gaming owns the World Poker Tour (WPT) and has added London to the WPT schedule. The capital of England and the United Kingdom hosts the popular poker tournament. The high-end Mayfair district, and particularly the Palm Beach Casino in the Mayfair Hotel hosts the WPT event. The WPT London takes place from August 29 to September 5 2010.

Swedish professional poker player Sofia ‘welllbet’ Lövgren joins Team PKR Pro. The 20 year old from Gothenburg, Sweden, is the first female player to strengthen the ten-strong Team PKR Pro. She joined PKR in March 2008 and has been a frequent player at the cash game tables. Lövgren has become one of the most successful players among the increasing group of female poker stars at the PKR website. ‘welllbet’ strives to become as successful as the Swedish Isildur1, but for now is pleased to join Team PKR Pro.

Denmark capitulated to the European Commission pressure to liberate the online poker industry. Danish legislators have created a major competitive advantage for the state monopoly Danske Spil. In theory the new online gambling legislation creates a more competitive internet poker market. July 1st 2010 marks the opening of the online poker market in Denmark. Online poker operators need to apply for a license to enter the Danish online poker market.

Online and land-based poker is very popular in the Czech Republic, according to a report in the Prague Daily Monitor. It shows that poker venues have flourished and the number of poker players have increased to approximately 200.000. Big prices make poker a very interesting game for new players.

Both Poker Channel and Poker Heaven are owned by Gaming Media Group. The Daily Telegraph reports that the British internet gambling firm considers to sell both companies. Cavendish Corporate Finance has been appointed to review the future options. Several trade buyers have approached the online gambling firm, according to the UK newspaper. Poker Channel was established in 2005 and is expected to post earnings of €365.521 on a €1.571.009 turnover this financial year.

Candywriter is an user-driven software label based in Seattle. This software developer has introduced Dogs Playing Poker. This fun game can be played on the iPod and iPhone. Dogs Playing Poker is an exciting and fun mobile poker challenge. It surely appeals to Texas Hold’em beginners and veteran players. Dog fanatics also love this new poker game.

World Poker Tour (WPT) is heading for Paris to celebrate the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. Party Poker presents this event at the Aviation Club de France. It takes place May 8 – 12 and the final table is scheduled for May 15. The main event is broadcasted worldwide and rewards €10.000. World Poker Tour broadcasts the opening high roller event. This takes place May 14 – 15, while the Final Table is scheduled for May 16.

European sports book PlanetWin365 has inked a contract with Entraction. PlanetWin365 will deliver poker software and will get access to Entraction’s global poker network. Entraction poker will join additional gaming products in Vegas365 Poker’s portfolio, which is Planetwin365’s sister brand. Furthermore, it will enhance Entraction’s position in the South and Eastern European market.

PowerPoker has entered the internet casino market. The poker brand has added a range of CTXM casino games, mini-games and fixed odds. “PowerPoker is very suitable for marketing due to the popular professional poker high stakes ace Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies. We believe that entering the internet casino market is without doubt a good decision. The partnership with CTXM guarantees an effective entry to this market. We think that CTXM’s software is one of the best on the market,” Chris Morton, the Power Entertainment Ltd. chief operating officer, commented.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of international poker tournaments. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the largest poker event in the world. Las Vegas hosts the WSOP every year. The WPT is the second largest poker tournament series on the globe. Bucharest, Romania hosted the latest World Poker Tour and the entry field featured many skilled poker players. The latest edition wasn’t won by a big name but a regular poker player from France took home the title.

Cigital, the leading software security and quality consulting firm, has proclaimed that it has certified the reliability and safety of the random number generator (RNG) that PokerStars applies to shake cards on its poker website, proving that the product meets, and surpasses, the highest standards in producing unsystematic and statistically random numbers for dealing cards.

Lithuania has recognized poker as an official sport, while the Baltic state is also making progress with regard to legalizing online gambling. The Department of Physical Education and Sports recognized the Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation (LSPF) as an official sports association on March 20.

HeadsUp Entertainment, owner of the Canadian Poker Tour (CPT), has proclaimed that it is in talks with one of the leading poker firms on the globe that would either entirely acquire the Canadian Poker Tour or co-brand it. Both transactions depend on the process of investigation into the details by both parties and on the fulfillment of many standard requirements.

PokerStars and Ukash jointly offer new Ukash users in Europe the opportunity to get all-inclusive seats at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in San Remo, well known as the Milan-Sanremo cycling classic arrival.

Democratic politician Joseph Abruzzo proposed the Internet Poker Consumer Protection and Revenue Generation Act of 2010, as he beat other political Representatives in Florida to the draw.

The US is on the point of legalizing online poker and even internet casinos in individual American states, but not all parties support the proposed legalizing. A lot of American state governments are blinded by the potential money flows of legalized online gambling and are seriously thinking about intrastate legalization that should increase state revenues. California was among the initial American states to consider internet casinos, especially online poker, as a way to finance state programs. However, many of the state gambling operations are run by the tribes, who fear to lose some business to the online poker websites. The California Tribal Business Alliance questions the first claims of possible revenues that could result from legalized online gambling.

Dragonfish, the independent business-to-business division of 888 Holdings PLC, has signed a deal with the Greek operator Lex Online Entertainment Limited. The agreement targets on regions in the South Eastern market, a territory with a considerable potential for internet gaming, according to a representative of the company.

A Dutch college student, Joeri Zandvliet, has been crowned as the winner of the opening British event on the fresh PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). He won GBP 63.200, as he also received admission to the EPT London event, which awards GBP 5.250 and it will be the season finale to the UKIPT. Furthermore, he will place first on the Season 1 UKIPT leader board, which will offer GBP 60.000 in prize money to the top 100 players over all events from the first season, while the number one placed finisher will walk away with all their buy-in and hotels for the second season.

Sega introduced its long-expected internet poker platform, SegaPoker, last week. The online poker room is a professional, slickly designed, completely interactive poker website that contains all standard options, all non-essential features and has an attractive design. SegaPoker features all the characteristics of a modern internet poker platform.

Two of Party Poker’s online qualifiers finished in second and first spot in the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event at the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex in Melbourne. The 27-year old Frederik Jensen from Copenhagen finished in second place and won $A1.100.100, while the 23-year old Tyron Krost, from Bondi, Sydney finished in first place and walked away with an amazing $A2.000.000. Both online qualifiers prevailed a final table that also featured poker stars like Sorel Mizzi and Annette Obrestad.

Many internet poker players attach much importance to speed, particularly in case of multi-tabling. The leading online poker tracking software and analysis tool, Holdem Manager, has created a solution. TableNinja is offered on a 30 day trial and should convince turbo players on websites such as Pokerstars that it is an essential feature at approximately USD35.

Phil Ivey, the best poker player on the globe, has claimed the top spot on the poker all-time money list, which is determined by tournament winnings in live events. Ivey earned $600.000 after being the runner-up at this year’s Aussie Millions USD $100K Challenge tourney, upgrading its career tourney winnings to $12.802.783. This puts him above prior leader Daniel Negreanu, by about $400.000.s

The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti and stroke the lives and homes of millions of people. Today, Crazypoker has organized the ‘Help for Haiti Poker Tournament’, which gives online poker players the possibility to donate to the catastrophe relief program.

Patrik Antonius, by many considered as the best earning internet poker player, has won millions on European websites, as well as a recorded eight figures on Full Tilt. This in combination with his 2009 earnings that total up an unbelievable USD 8.899.508, HSDB reported.

GlobetVIP revealed that it will provide affiliates the opportunity to win share of a €500 pot at its online poker room thanks to a freeroll competition next month. The online gambling operator announced that the exclusive tournament would take place on February 11 from 7 p.m. (Paris time). Qualifiers will be excluded since a password is necessary to access the tournament.

Online gaming and poker could be fully legalized in the US. However, politicians could try to delay the legalization and fail to focus enough on this controversial issue.There are plausible reasons to believe that at the end of the day the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) will be executed. Nevertheless, there seemed to be a slight advantage for the groups trying to regulate and legalize online gambling at the end of 2009, given the delay of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and the late congressional hearings where US Congressman Barney Frank explained why online gambling should be legalized and regulated.

The recent trend of consolidation in internet poker has continued this week with announcements that two major poker rooms on the iPoker network (Playtech) have merged forces.

The Pokerstars APPT (Asian Pacific Poker Tour) event that took place in Cebu in the Philippines brought in over 300 participants over the course of the weekend. This makes the event the largest poker tournament ever held in the country. The event was the 3rd APPT visit to the country. Previous APPT events took place in Manila.

After months of working out the acquisition, this week PartyGaming finally confirmed that they are the new owners of the brand World Poker Tour in addition to other World Poker Tour related assets. There was a last minute attempt made by a media company based in Los Angeles to stop the deal, but the U.K. Telegraph reports that this attempt was quickly averted.

International professional poker playing legend Doyle Brunson has expressed his embarrassment for his colleague Phil Hellmuth's record of grand entrances. Hellmuth creates these grand displays in order to draw a high level of publicity at massive events such as the WSOP.

TMZ.com, a United States entertainment publication has reported that two players from California have initiated a litigation against internet poker giant Full Tilt Poker.

Poker Copilot, software developed by MacUpdate, will now see retail availability. The software has been flaunted as the only poker hand analysis tool available for OSX that supports PokerStars in addition to Full Tilt Poker.

While rugby is not a highly popular sport in the United States, it's popularity is comparable with major league baseball internationally. England is one of the countries that it is most popular in.

Nearly 20,000 fans from all across the United Kingdom visited London's Leicester Square for this year's Poker In The Park. Attendees enjoyed free competitions, live coaching, and the opportunity to learn from some of the most famous players in the game.

To celebrate the launch of their new tournament series, TitanPoker.com is hosting a massive poker tournament of epic proportions. Players will be given the chance to outwit their opponents in hopes of taking home their cut of the available one million dollars in cash prizes.

August 25, 2009 -- PartyGaming Plc, a British online gaming company, announced today that they will be purchasing World Poker Tour (WPT Enterprises Inc.) for $12.3 million dollars cash.

Online poker gamers have the chance to win a share of a cool one million dollars courtesy of the new tournament series that will be launched next month by the online game maestro, TitanPoker.com.

WPT Enterprises, Inc., the company that is behind World Poker Tour and Professional Poker Tour brands has announced a sale of a huge chunk of its assets to Gamynia Limited.

Full Tilt Poker has announced they have an all-new software upgrade, which brings better player-friendly features into one of the most popular online poker destinations.

In a commemoration of their fifth year in online gaming, Everest Poker have announced some amicable series of player promotions destined to become real hot topics in the poker player community around the Internet.

The world’s longest running and largest affiliate marketing directory exclusively dedicated to affiliate marketing of the online poker industry, PokerAffiliatePrograms.com, has announced a launch of a complete redesigned website with all new features.

Bluff Europe, the leading poker publication has revealed the Casino at London’s ‘the Empire’, will be hosting satellites and sit-and-go tournaments to the 500-pound Jamie Gold Charity Poker tournament during the annual third Poker in the Park festival.

A Pulitzer Prize winner, U.S. influential thinker and a Washington Post Columnist, George Will, in an article, defended the notion that online poker should be played freely.

The novel initiative by an influential Southern California tribe, which is pursuing a new legalization of online poker in the state, is apparently not enjoying a lot of support among all tribes within the state.

The Internet poker marketplace has become more popular and even more crowded. The current time online poker player has unlimited options about where to play and where to go. Thus, how does one entice players to linger near and play not just once but consecutively and at a specific site? A perfect and great way is through the maintenance of a hot series of promotions.

The struggle to have online poker regulated and legalized fully has received a huge interest in California as well as a nationwide movement having the same goal.

A new poker online reality television program is set to start filming this autumn in the crevices of Las Vegas where 16 contestants will be competing for cash prizes and their favorite charity.

Readers of the leading magazine in the European poker scene, Bluff Europe, were treated to a chance to win a share of the $5,000 for free, all courtesy of the virtual poker site in conjunction with the sportsbook BetFred.com.

Online poker players who are living in Canada have the chance to sign up and begin playing through the immaculate Bodog iconic brand through accessing a novel site launched specifically for them at Bodog.ca.

Senate Leader says they need more Time
The Senate President Tem Darrell Steinberg in California, a Democrat who comes from Sacramento, has said that he needs additional time to review the novel plan for legalization of online poker within the state, as has been advocated by many lobbyists, Indian gamblers and card clubs.

Last weekend, at the online poker room Bodog.com is the Sunday 100.000 dollar Guaranteed Tournament won by the online poker player xBlah. He won a prize of 25.000 dollar.

Players who are hoping to win a seat into the main event of the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival, next month, have been offered a final chance via satellite series at iPoker Network and Party Poker.com.

The defense of a poker game Organizer in Pennsylvania claims that poker is generally a game of skill and falls because of that outside the gambling law limitation, report The Pittsburgh Post.

The annual poker festival, the largest in Europe and now in its third anniversary, Poker in the Park, organized by Bluff Europe, will take place commencing from five in the afternoon to half past nine in the evening in the heart of Leicester Square. The action commences from 14 August from midday, to half past nine in the evening.
Unibet will host top numbers of top pro players, who will deliver lectures starting with a welcome speech from the legend, Jamie Gold, at five fifteen in the afternoon UK time. 

The tireless poker advocacy group that is behind National Poker Week, plus other initiatives, The Poker Players Alliance or PPA, has in the wider battle to keep poker legal and under protection by the United States law asked the Colorado Supreme court to hear a case that involves settling Chance vs. Skill argument within that state. The filing came as a response to Colorado District court earlier ruling this month that defined the game of poker as gambling, thus making the distinction a state law.

The second biggest online poker company of the world, FullTiltPoker.com had upgraded brand new software with interesting new elements in it.

The big name behind twelve new poker tournaments, titled Paradise Series of Poker, is Boss Media’s International Poker Network which is owned by 888.com. these new, live, poker tournaments will start in August 26th this year.

Online poker sites underneath each other is the secure chip transfer in a business gaining very much ground in the online poker business, a brand new service from SendMyChips.com is the first on the market which is leading the way.

Dutch minister of justice, Hirsch Ballin, has been known as an aggresive opponent of both the online gambling and the online poker industry. The European Commission already warned the Dutch government several times to change their monopolistic behaviour in the country's gambling industry. Holland Casino still helds the monopoly on gambling in the Netherlands.