It's time to get excited as Bet Raise Fold: The Story of Online Poker (the first feature-length documentary film about the online poker boom) is set to be released in June, 2013! Check out the latest trailer below and feel free to discuss it in our forum.
On Tuesday, the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, signed a bill to legalize intrastate online poker in New Jersey, making it the third state to approve such a measure - following Nevada and Delaware.
Daniel Negreanu - just like many other pros - has left America and moved to Canada in order to play poker online. Negreanu is now located in Toronto and has already taken care of all necessary paper work etc. In his latest blog "Boy Did I Miss Online Poker!" he wrote the following:
"It took a couple days, but I successfully set up shop in Toronto so that I can play on PokerStars again. I already had the Canadian passport, but just like everyone else, I needed to attain the necessary documents then wait for the call from PokerStars security to verify the phone number, and voila! I'm back in action! I jumped right into some $25-$50 PLO 6 max deep with ante games, and within 5 hands I lost my first buy in HAHA. Had an open ended straight draw/flush draw versus top set and didn't hit. Oh well, it didn't hurt a bit, I was just glad to be playing again."
888 Poker have now launched their Face2Face poker. This is a webcam feature that will allow players to play each other, face2face. This is said to bring a "new dynamic to the world of online poker". The webcam system is now live in the 888 poker software and it also include a communication system that should be similar to Skype. As of now, 888 is running the Face2Face on a variety of different cash tables.
Not less than 9031 players paid the buy-in of $200+$15 and took part in the world’s most popular online tournament yesterday, PokerStars Sunday Million. Thanks to the big starting field, not less than $1,806,200 was up for grabs.
The final table was very interesting and thrilling this time. When there were 6 players left, they all had about the same amount of chips left. This is quite unusual thing to see on a final table. Anyhow, it came to be the player "palurdo" who took home the tournament at the end. For the win he received $257,930.
PokerStars Sunday Million tournament is just getting more and more popular. PokerStars now thinks that the current guarantee simply isn't enough, and therefore they have decided to add another $1,000,000 to the pot in the next tournament on Sunday.
PokerStars are expecting a huge starting field as $2,500,000 is up for grabs in the next Sunday Million. It will be very interesting to see what the first prize will land on. In last Sunday Million the winner got $236,000. Probably it will be double that amount on Sunday!
PokerStars are running lots of daily satellites for just a few dollars to the next Sunday Million tournament with $2,5000,000 in the pot. We give you a 100% bonus up to $600 at PokerStars to get started!
Online poker players have gotten some great news from the state of Florida where Governor Charles Grist has signed off on a new bill passed by the state legislature earlier in May this year. This bill authorized an in depth study of the impact that legalising online poker in certain states will have on the economy and on the people.Read more » Florida looking to legalise online gambling
21 year old Andrew Feldman from Watford, a previous paperboy have won £4 Million playing online poker since he made the choice to leave his job to pursue a carrier as a poker player. The £4 million was won over less than three years which has to be considered an amazing achievement. It seems like the former paperboy is now living a life in luxury as he has already bought a £90.000 Audi R8 and a $500.000 house. Read more » UK Paperboy Wins £4 Million Playing Online Poker
The Finnish poker players are among the world's best, such as Future
Patrik Antonius, Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies, Juha Helppi etc. But they might experience some difficulty playing online poker within their own country in the future.
The Finnish politicians are preparing a new gaming legislation.
According to an interview with Jouni Laiho, the working committee
is ready to take more drastic steps. Initially it is a tight ban on
advertising of poker companies and a ban on bank transfers to poker sites.
A ban on Internet access to poker sites are also an option, which has also been practiced in Italy.
Patrik Antonius is the Finnish poker pro that few players dare to play against at the moment. He grew up in a poor family and went on to become a model a tennis player and later on one of the most respected poker players online. In a Swedish poker magazine he is telling the story about his life, how he went from poor to rich and living the good life.Read more » Interview with Patrik Antonius
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