2006 February 16 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) recently-launched online poker venture could eventually supersede the WPT-brand television shows as the number one source of revenue for WPT Enterprises. This, according to company officials, is likely to happen in the coming years based on growth figures cited from a study of worldwide online poker income potential. While it is unlikely that WPTOnline poker revenues will exceed those of the WPT television programming in 2006, company CEO Steve Lipscomb didn’t rule out the possibility that it could happen quite soon.
SONOMA, Calif. — A junior of the Sonoma State University has endured some good fortune and some bad fortune over the past month. Twenty-one-year-old Bobby Neary won about 520-thousand-dollars in January for finishing second at the Aussie Millions poker tournament in Melbourne, Australia.
Sure, it’s chock full of bugs and disappearing tables, but Party Poker continued to be the focus of the internet poker world today by releasing a …
Larry Chebowski would never think of surrendering $10,000 of his own hard-earned money to play in the World Series of Poker, but he’ll be competing anyway, courtesy of Fort McDowell Casino, a charitable spirit and an ugly little 5-3 off-suit.
Last year the fight was making the headlines of all the online poker news sources and now it looks like things are coming to a close in the tumultuous relationship between PartyGaming and Empire Online. Both outfits are online poker companies that had a benefitial partnership last year, with EmpirePoker, the poker site of Empire Online, being one of the poker skins of PartyGaming. Empire was interested in having PartyGaming buy them out, but when the later announced they were cutting off support of their skins, Empires stock plummeted…
Full Tilt Poker has announced an incredible promotion for this year’s World Series Of Poker 2006 main event. They will give away 100 seats at the big dance through a series of five freeroll tournaments. They put up the $1 million, and 100 players win there way to Las Vegas for free!
(PRESS RELEASE) — Titan Poker, one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, has launched a series of tournaments geared for college students in conjunction with Campusfood, the nation’s leading network of restaurants, providing innovative marketing to restaurant partners and offering online menus with interactive ordering for students and local communities.
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