Attendees at this week’s Poker In The Park event can pick up an advanced pre-publication copy of a new tell-all book from professional player Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott entitled Devilfish: Life And Times Of A Poker Legend. Now in its fourth year, Poker In The Park is Europe’s largest free poker event and its next edition is scheduled to take place this Thursday and Friday with upwards of 20,000 fans expected to converge on London’s Leicester Square. Ulliot is scheduled to officially launch his latest endeavour at seven o’clock on Friday evening in the Lecture Marquee followed by a public reading [ Read More ]
Archive for August, 2010
Poker experts are getting younger and younger. It used to be a man’s game that people didn’t expect to get mastered until you were in your thirties. Times are changing, though, primarily because of the Internet. Though in Las Vegas you have to be 21 to enter a casino, as is the case in Atlantic City and many casinos worldwide, players are starting so young that they are becoming experts at online poker well before they can even set foot inside a casino on the Vegas Strip. It is a trend that has become so noticeable that it even caught [ Read More ]
In a speculative article this week the Reuters news agency considered the online gambling scene following the merger between giants Party Gaming and Bwin Interactive, commenting that 888 and Sportingbet are possible future takeover targets as the industry consolidates, but only once their legal liabilities in the US market are cleared. The article points out that serious negotiations in the Party Gaming – Bwin merger were only concluded once Party Gaming had secured its $105 million settlement with US authorities. “A resolution would clear the way for the (888 and Sportingbet) companies to re-enter the lucrative U.S. market should moves [ Read More ]
Gibraltar-licensed online bingo site BingoFabulous.com is currently running a special promotion that is promising to reward the ten players that have triumphed the most on its special school patterns with a share of a £400 prize pool. This special promotion is running until the end of the month and is also set to hand out ten runners-up prizes of £15 in Amazon vouchers while the subsequent ten will share in 50,000 bingo points. “To coincide with the start of the new term this September, we have an A-star promotion that could give you a top-of-the-class cash boost,” read a statement [ Read More ]
