Arkadiy “Kamsky” Tsinis became the latest Ukrainian World Series of Poker champion when he won the $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em championship, held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, for $540,136.
Tsinis overcame a huge field size totaling 2,192 players en route to his first gold bracelet victory. This marks the third [...]

Three Badbeat-mentored players finished in the money at the recent Newcastle leg of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT). Badbeat.com is the original and leading online poker staking site.
With three years’ Badbeat sponsorship under his belt, Tim Slater finished in 5th place, adding £14,050 to his lifetime winnings. Johnathan Gawith took 6th place taking [...]

The possible unmasking of Swedish high stakes player Isildur1 is just one element that is exciting attention around the Party Poker Big Game, where the action starts next Sunday at the Les Ambassadeurs Club in Mayfair, London and will continue for 48 hectic hours.
Big names for the Big Game have been signing up and now [...]

Next-gen online poker room PKR.com has released details of its 2009 Oktoberfest poker festival which will see ten tournaments played over as many days starting October 15.
A range of events have been scheduled to ensure variety and that every kind of player is catered for. Favourite formats such as Deep stack, Double Chance and the [...]

As reported by The Sunday Business Post: “Online betting firm Betfair …has been ordered not to use people under 25 in its poker advertisements.
“An e-mail ad for Betfair’s online poker site showed a photograph of a young woman and stated ‘online experience is measured in games, not years. Join the new breed. Annette [...]

Anticipating liberalized online gambling laws in France, leading European online casino and poker room software developer, Playtech, has announced plans to open a stand-alone internet poker network targeting the French market. As revealed to EGR Magazine, Playtech’s CEO, Mor Weizer, said the company is making plans so that they are ready to start doing business [...]

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc., the owners and operators of the Canadian Poker Tour and Canadian Poker Player Magazine, has announced the upcoming launch of its own internet television network “CanadianPokerPlayer.tv.”
Having successfully completed a series of sponsorship negotiations, the announcement is a key step in the process HeadsUp has been building to launch its new [...]

NeoGames, Global leaders of online scratch cards, have created a new game, Pirates Paradise, as an addition to their extensive range of games.
Pirates Paradise is a one line slot game themed on a Pirates Paradise island, filled with riches and pirate symbols. Players seek to match 3 symbols the same in order to win. [...]

PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has smashed its own world record for hosting the ‘LARGEST ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENT’, as officially certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The previous World Record was set by PokerStars.com on December 28, 2008 when 35,000 players took to the tables. On Sunday July 19, 2009, PokerStars.com [...]

Online gambling regulators in the Caribbean licensing jurisdiction of Antigua and Barbuda have long trumpeted their capabilities and the respect in which they are held internationally, even successfully fighting for inclusion on the UK’s advertising “white list”, but a banking scandal unfolding in the United States has the potential to impact the islanders, and one [...]