2007 January 13 Poker News, Events and Happenings
For half of the founding duo of the online poker company PartyGaming, this has been a profitable week, but a week of change. Vikrant Bhargava, who founded PartyGaming with Anurag Dikshit, sold off his 160 million shares at 30.5p each, resulting in £49m for the 34-year-old. Bhargava is not out to retire, however, having his new hedge fund called Sirius in which to utilize his cash surplus…
Australia’s former king of spin Shane Warne will keep his life after cricket kicking along today, launching Australia’s richest poker event. Warne will speak about his love of the game - poker not cricket - when he opens the Aussie Million Championship’s No Limit Holdem main event.
When online poker room Mansion Poker partnered with Tottenham Hotspur on a £34 million shirt sponsorship deal in the summer of 2006, hopes were high for the four year commitment and what it could produce for both parties. For Mansion Poker, however, it seems to have been a complete wash, underperforming instead of taking off. While an eGaming Review Magazine report suggested that Mansion would lower their focus on their sports betting sector to focus on online and offline poker, Mansion Poker has said that is not the case.
In some circles, players from Up North are considered among the best at poker, and now native Norwegian speakers can play at online poker room Titan Poker without having to do any translating. The poker room’s software, previously available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, and Swedish, is now also ready in Norwegian. When downloading the Titan Poker program, new players get their pick of languages, allowing them to play in their native tongue if they choose so…
Wyoming poker industry and the people who play it were given a freeroll recently when the Senate Travel Committee, by unanimous endorsement, passed a bill that allows social poker games to come back to the pubs and bars of the state. “Social gambling” is what Sen. Mike Massie, D-Albany called it when people play poker at a bar and buy drinks there at the same time, and the state has decided that social gambling is just fine…
Australia’s former king of spin Shane Warne will keep his life after cricket kicking along on Sunday, launching Australia’s richest poker event.Warne will speak about his love of the game - poker not…
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He defeated a record field of 8,773 players to capture a record $12 million prize at last year’s World Series of Poker. So what does Jamie Gold of Paramus do for his next challenge?
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