Paul Sandells
Monday 8th February 2010
As if playing online poker wasn’t difficult enough for most residents of the United States, things got a little tougher today as credit card giants, Mastercard, blocked deposits by players. Mastercard has apparently figured out how some gaming sites were manipulating the coding, to previously allow transactions to go through, and have now blocked the process.
Now the major online poker rooms including Doylesroom, Bodog, Absolute Poker, and UltimateBet no longer list Mastercard as an option in their cashiers.
Mastercard have previously worked out the “gambling deposit loophole” only for sites to find a work-around and offer the method again within a few months.
Paul Sandells
Thursday 4th February 2010
British poker pro’ Marcus Bebb-Jones could face the death penalty if found guilty of the murder of his wife. Bebb-Jones is accused of murdering his wife, Sabrina, in 1997 before embarking on a “playboy lifestyle” in Las Vegas.
Ben Cooper, counsel for the defence, said he was seeking assurances Bebb-Jones would not face the death penalty if extradited to the United States.
Mr Cooper told an extradition hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court: “He faces a minimum sentence of life without parole in Colorado but this is not yet fixed – he is also eligible for the death penalty.”
Lucy Speed
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
You might expect the occassional large pot in a cash game title “Million Dollar” but rarely do you see a pot exceed the one million mark in Full Tilt’s flagship televised cash game.
$1,108,500 found it’s way into the middle of the table when two old rivals, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan, locked horns. Fellow Full Tilt Poker pro’ Patrik Antonius was also involved in the action but the savvy Finn had step aside from this particular hand before both players held monster hands.
When the turn fell both players held a straight but it was Phil Ivey who was in big trouble…
Paul Sandells
Monday 1st February 2010
Tournament players get ready for an incredible February at Sun Poker. A colossal $250,000 is on offer in Sun Poker’s Double Up Tournament Race. Double up tournaments, as the name suggests, pay 50% of the players an equal share of the total buy-in amount. So, if you can beat half the field you’ll double up!
The Double Up Tournament Race starts today! and runs each week (leaderboards are reset weekly) for the entire month of February. The race suits all sizes of bankroll with double up players eligible to take part from the smallest buy-ins at only $1.
Paul Sandells
Wednesday 27th January 2010
Our exclusive $20 free cash bonus is still available at Sun Poker. All new players that join Sun Poker via a link on Poker News Headlines are eligible for this promotion. So, if you want a bankroll booster for very little effort this January and February, then this is the bonus for you!
Not only are we giving you $20 for free for joining Sun Poker, we’re also boosting up the first deposit bonus as well! Generally the deposit bonus at Sun is, an already chunky, $500 but if you join the poker room via our links you can take advantage of a $600 bonus. That’s $120 in free money that you will not find at any other poker site.
Mike Stephens
Tuesday 26th January 2010
In a final jam-packed full of “action” hands, the EPT Deauville concluded last night with Britain’s Jake Cody taking the first tour crown of 2010. Cody had a very solid main event but during the final table he simply could not miss the big hands and he must have been in dreamland when each big hand was paid off.
That’s not to say Cody didn’t play well, of course he did. You need a lot of talent to win an EPT event and Cody clearly has that in abundance. When faced with a former WSOP champion you need a lot of courage as well. Even if Peter Eastgate was short stacked and was the first to be eliminated.
Paul Sandells
Monday 25th January 2010
Full Tilt Poker’s Rush Poker has taken the poker industry by storm in the past week. The ability to fold quickly and then be moved to another table to instantly play a new hand has attracted players in their thousands to FTP.
Instead of playing around 80 hands an hour some players are reporting 250 – 300 hands being banked. That amount of action can’t be ignored and now tracking software company “Hold’em Manager” have launched a new version of their popular software to cater for the new games on Rush Poker.
The traditional Hold’em Manager HUD won’t work with Rush Poker so some tweaks have been made to the latest version.
Lucy Speed
Monday 25th January 2010
The big names just keep on coming in regards to the next Party Poker Premier League. Perhaps the lure of Las Vegas is attracting some but surely the $1.5 million prize pool is pricking up the ears of all the “big hitters”.
Today, David Benyamine and been revealed as the next player to join the Premier League IV. Benyamine Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Luke Schwartz and, as we announced last week, Tony G.
Each player (12 in total) is putting up $100,000 to buy in and Party Poker are adding $300,000 to the prize pool.
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Perhaps the old saying; “You can’t have your cake and eat it” isn’t completely true when it comes to playing online at Cake Poker. Poker forums burst into life late yesterday when news of a losing hand being awarded a pot hit the wires.
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fell giving a nut flush for the Ace holder. Strangely though the pot of $5.72 pot was awarded to the K high flush player!
