Poker News

This year sees the start of a new era for the Poker Hall of Fame, the general poker playing public are actually getting their chance to have a say in who is finally inducted into this prestigious poker club with the other poker elite. It won’t be a cut and dried process of those with the most nominations being automatically entered, the top ten poker players nominated by the public will then be sent to the existing sixteen living members of the Poker Hall of Fame to have the final vote.

Are you reaching the pinnacle of your online poker game, do you know feel that you are ready for a showpiece, something with a bit of kudos that is a statement about who you really are? Do you like fast cars? Are you reaching that sensitive age? You know the one, the male mena-porsche , do you have an urge to grow a ponytail and drive a sexy car? If the answer is yes to any of the above (or more worryingly all of them) then Poker Stars is the place to be because they are giving away a brand spanking new Porsche Cayman S, and it could have your name on it.

Ladbrokes Poker have the online poker promotion that dreams are made of, each Wednesday until the 10^th June it is possible for online poker players to take part in the weekly finals to win a fantastic Las Vegas WSOP Poker Package.

The final fantastical episode of the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour (EPT) took place in Monte Carlo and saw Dutch ‘Team Poker Stars Pro’ Netherlands player Pieter de Korver emerging victorious. The Grand Final main event attracted 935 poker players with the final table seating the last eight who had managed to remain in the game.

Just when it looked like the new Obama administration would bring some good old common sense to the ban on internet gambling in the U.S. the Minnesota Department of Public Safety has to go and upset the apple cart again. Minnesota have issued a list of internet gambling sites that includes big name players like BoDog, Party Poker’s casino site and Full Tilt Poker.

Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko is fast becoming a poker legend after walking away with the WPT championship title and is the second youngest to achieve such success. Timoshenko who was born in the Ukraine but raised in the U.S. is only 21 and has already gained some major poker wins including the Asian Poker Tour in Macau in August 2008 which provided him with $500,000, but the latest World Poker Tour win leaves him $2.15 million the richer.

If ever there was a time for the gambling industry in the UK to be both worried and dismayed, it is now. Alistair Darling has taken a side swipe at the poker world with the surprising decision to tax poker in the same fashion as casino games. Alistair Darling remained impassive as he delivered news of the budget even though this was one of the toughest budgets on record from any Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The shock budget news saw Rank shares take a massive tumble of 9 per cent immediately after the budget details were released. In fact so incensed has the Chief Executive at Rank, Mr Ian Burke, been that he has written to the Chancellor in protestation. He has stated in his letter that it is his belief that poker games will be ‘driven underground’ and that card rooms will close.

The fourth Annual World Poker Congress takes place from Wednesday 24^th June to Thursday 25^th June at the Sheraton Porto Hotel and Spa in Porto, Portugal. The World Poker Congress is a ground breaking conference because it embraces both brick and mortar poker and online poker sites, which allows for a unique building of relationships across the industry and from around the world.

Shocking news has reached Poker Hideout that a major company press release distributor will no longer accept any press releases from poker or online gambling websites. PRWeb has decided to make the shock decision in light of recent search engines amending their editorial policy including Google and Yahoo, who are now refusing to promote online gambling sites.