Poker news from 2008-08-09

Here are some archived poker news articles.

Bodog Poker offers biggest guarantee yet

The weekly $100,000 Guaranteed tournament normally hosted each Sunday at Bodog Poker will be boosted to a $250,000 Guaranteed Online Poker Tournament on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 4 p.m. ET. The buy-in for the tournament is $260+$20, and players can get in for even less through qualifiers. The qualifiers... Read more...

Ladbrokes Poker joins Microgaming network

"Joining the Microgaming network will give our players more action on a wider variety of games, particularly at higher staking levels. Microgaming is a leading network and will offer Ladbrokes Poker players faster access to the games they want," said John O'Reilly, Ladbrokes remote betting and gamin... Read more...

Press Release: WSOP Europe Schedule Announced

The second annual World Series of Poker Europe presented by Betfair.com has solidified its ...
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World Poker Tour Inks Deal with Fox Sports Net

After the Game Show Network declined to pick up ...
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Ladbrokes Poker to Join Microgaming

Online poker room Ladbrokes Poker will be leaving its standalone network in order to join the slew of other poker rooms on the Microgaming poker network. In actuality, Ladbrokes was already on the Microgaming system, but as a stand alone client. Now that Ladbrokes will be a full member of the Microg... Read more...

Betfair Poker Pays Big

Online poker room Betfair Poker had a big prize on the offering for August, a hundred thousand dollar bonus to any player that could win both the $20k guaranteed and a $6k guaranteed event in the same month. To everyone's surprise the bonus was not only paid out, but it paid out on the first day of ... Read more...

8th of August

London will be the setting for several poker events over the next couple of months, starting with the Poker In The Park exposition on August 15th and 16th. A number of marquees will be set up on the green in Leicester Square to create an event similar to the Gaming Life Expo held at the Rio during t... Read more...

Turning Pro

Turning professional...what exactly does that entail? What exactly does “professional” mean? I know it sounds fancy and many people have desires to become one of these so called “professionals” but I will bet my last dollar that the vast majority of these people haven’t... Read more...

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