Monthly Archives: December 2009

Facebook Online Gambling Ad filter

Facebook‘s policy led to a ban of online gambling ads and application of a ad filtering. All ads with gambling related content were removed except for gamling industry-relevant websites that offer free guides for poker, poker news and poker reviews. … Continue reading

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Merger rumour: PartyGaming and bwin

According to Guardian and other reliable sources, the reports and rumours over the last days about PartyGaming and bwin merging, were played down. However, Partygaming shares went up sharply and bwin’s shares increased around 4%. bwin‘s representative, Teufelberger, mentioned that … Continue reading

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Unibet Open 2009 Winner – Warsaw

Jimmy Jonsson is the Swedish poker player who won €161,271 for being in top of a total 400 players who participated in the tournament at Casinos Poland in the Warsaw Hyatt. Jonsson declared “I’d like to think it was all … Continue reading

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BLUFF Magazine Readers Choice Awards 2009

BLUFF Magazine is awarding the best poker blog, poker players, poker room and everything related to poker, through their readers. More specifically, the 2009 BLUFF Magazine Readers Choice Awards will give to poker fans the chance to vote on a … Continue reading

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Online Poker Player of the year update – 101209

Bluff Magazine updates on the Online Player of the Year rankings and report that Jeremy "daisyxoxo" Fitzpatrick is still in the top, but there have been changes in the middle of the top 10 of Online Poker players. Michael "anfo500" … Continue reading

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American online poker player – new 24 hour record!

His nickname is “joeingram1”. He is the new owner of the world record, after playing in 21-hours, a 50,470-hand poker session. "joeingram1", who also posts on the 2+2 forum as "ChicagoJoey", started his odyssey when he set up a challenge … Continue reading

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Operator of 2009: Bwin

Bwin is the Operator Of The Year, winner of EGR Awards 2009. The Austrian gaming and betting giants, Bwin, topped the competition, beating other strong players in the industry such as Bet365, PartyGaming and Betfair. The awards took place at … Continue reading

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ESPN’s Poker Top 10 Players

ESPN with the help of the Bluff magazine, issued a list with the Top 10 poker players in December 2009. According to the list Phil Ivey is first, followed by Antonius and Negreanu. "The Nuts" ESPN’s Poker’s best in December … Continue reading

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