Online Poker NewsOctober 25, 2005 Harrahs Announces World Series of Poker Schedule for 2006 The WSOP will be held again at the Rio Suites in Las Vegas, and in 2006, the event will be scheduled to begin on June 25 and run until August 10. Last year the World Series of Poker generated over $106 million in prize money, and the expect to do at least that well again in 2006 if not better. World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Ultimate Poker Challenge, and Heads Up Poker are all losing mindshare apparently, since their ratings are falling. But GSN still has plans to launch a new poker tv series called High Stakes Poker. October 20, 2005 AOL and Harrahs Teaming Up to Offer Free Poker Tournaments and Games They're not sure whether or not you're going to be able to win a WSOP seat for 2006 or 2007 yet, but it looks like you'll be able to win a seat using a free-money poker game from AOL that Harrah's is co-branding with AOL. I think any entry by AOL or Yahoo into the online poker space is a good thing for the industry, if nothing else for the legitimacy it adds to it, perceived or not. World Poker Tour Video Game Now Available I'm not entirely sure I understand the fascination with X-box and Playstation poker games like this new World Poker Tour game, or the recent World Series of Poker game for the X-box, but I guess there's a big market for it. I suppose teenagers can get ready for real poker with these games. Ashton Kucher Buys a Poker Lesson from Annie Duke Celebs are continuing to try to get their names attached to poker in some way. As if Ashton didn't get enough press marrying Demi Moore, who's a good 15 years his senior. I guess he bought the lesson for charity, so it's a good thing. Annie Duke is one of the celeb poker players associated with Ultimate Bet poker, which is one of my favorite poker rooms, so I'm cool with that too. Bluff Magazine is the Exclusive Sponsor for Black Tie CEO Poker Tournament The CEO poker tournament will be taking place in the spring of 2006. The tournament will be made up of CEO's and decision makers, presumably for large companies, who will be playing no limit holdem. The winner will receive the title "Poker Chairman". Harrahs Moves the National Heads-Up Championship to Caesars The National Heads Up Poker Championship is a 64 person event where players play heads-up and are eliminated one by one. I watched part of it one television with my dad this last year. The 2006 tournament will take place March 3-5 at Caesars this next year, and 1st prize will be $500,000. October 14, 2005 Interview with Poker Babe Shirley Rosario She's not only pretty, but smart too. Be sure to read her answer to the question, "What does a woman bring to the poker table that a man doesn't?" in that interview. Laughed out loud at that one today. October 13, 2005 Party Poker Divorces Its Skins This is possibly the biggest news in the online poker world right now. Party Poker suffered from some downtime last weekend, and when they came back up, the "skins" of Party Poker were on their own, separate network, and Party had added blackjack and some other sidebets to their offerings. This has been the subject of much discussion on poker player forums and poker affiliate forums. Most of the controversy has arisen because a lot of the Party Poker skins made rake rebates and rakeback plans available to players in violation of Party's agreements with these affiliates. Now the players are mad, because money's coming out of their pocket, and some affiliates are mad, especially if they're receiving MGR from the poker skin that used to be able to access the 70,000 players at Party every night. October 8, 2005 Cameron Diaz Hooked On Poker Because of Ellen Degeneres There were at least 5 versions of this article online today, but I chose to post a link to the one with the hottest pic of Cameron Diaz. Wow. Big Poker Winners Getting Accounts Frozen Fascinating article about a customer, a high stakes poker player, in fact, who was winning too much on average per hand that he played, and the poker site froze his funds for 3 weeks. The article concludes with several suggestions and ideas for poker sites to take better care of their customers. Courtney Friel is Excited to be the New World Poker Tour Spokesmodel This is a piece from Cardplayer magazine, where Courtney is interviewed about her new assignment with the World Poker Tour. The article includes 3 stunning photos of Courtney Friel, and judging from the pics, she is a striking beauty indeed, and possibly a very worthy successor to Shana Hiatt. October 6, 2005 This is a great article from iGaming News which lists the top ten gambling sites for different countries. Some of the stuff I found interesting: PokerRoom.com was the #5 gambling site for USA traffic. This is possibly because they hold a #1 ranking for the word poker in Google. Apparently Party Poker is big just about everywhere, but I didn't realize they had such a big presence on the UK web, but they're #9 there. I attribute this to their recent IPO though. When I think of UK players, I usually think of Interpoker. The stats from the article quoted above are from a company called Hitwise. Pacific Poker, 888.com, Cassava Goes Public Seems like going public is the trendy thing to do in the gambling world these days. Cassava, the company which owns Pacific Poker and 888.com, also known as Casino-on-net, went public about a week ago. Looks like their market cap is around $300 million, which I converted in my head from a week-old article which listed the price in pounds, so don't hold me to that, and look up the price for yourself if you're really interested in the market cap there. October 3, 2005
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