260 plus players made the $2500 buy-in for the main event of the Asian Poker Tour recently held at the Dusit Thani hotel in Manila. Three exciting days of No Limit Texas Hold’em tournament play saw some of the best poker professionals from all over Asia visit the Philippines and take their shot at [...]

Asian Poker Tour
 
Now that the Filipino Poker Tour is on its last leg as I speak, the Asian Poker Tour is lingering on the sides. The whopping 1 million dollar even is sure to call all kinds of poker enthusiasts.
 
Buy-in for the said event is $2,500 with a guaranteed $1 Million in the bank. Participating [...]

Filipino Poker tour II
Entering the late stages of this year’s Filipino Poker Tour, things are heating up. The event is sponsored by PAGCOR for the third time. The 2nd leg boasts the remaining 18 players. Three of which are Metro Card Clubs Nick Galan, Luis Carballo and Ronel Sto Tomas.
The Filipino poker tour is a [...]

Asian Poker Tour
 
The Asian poker tour will be storming into the country this coming 27th of May up until the first of June 2008. The manila event is sure to call in the crowds of poker lovers and just plain civilians. Especially when it comes to the jackpot of $1 million. Yes you read it [...]

Filipino Poker Tour
 
Another high paying event that is sure to catch your attention is the Filipino Poker Tour. The event is once again sponsored by Pokerstar.com. Pokerstars is acclaimed as one of the most trusted poker sites today that boasts an approximate of ten million members.
 
Pokerstars is banking on the success of Asia Pacific Poker [...]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google – the three largest Internet companies agreed on Wednesday to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal internet gambling.
The companies said they stopped taking the ads years ago. The settlement was announced by Catherine L. Hanaway, the United States attorney for [...]

A dispute is brewing in The Philippines between local and national authorities as to who has the right to issue online gambling licenses.
The quarrel is between the Zamboanga City Special Economic Zone (ZSEZ) And Freeport Authority and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCor).

The Special Economic Zone is located about 15 miles from Zamboanga on [...]

Pacific Conference to Bridge the Great Divide
The River City Group is to host its fifth annual conference aimed at bringing iGaming companies together to diminish the cultural gap between the East and West and capture their most sought after market: Asia.
Located in the luxury Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Macau on February 26-27, the Pacific Congress [...]

WPT Enterprises, Inc. announced that it has inked pacts with Macau Cable in Macau and MediaCorp in Singapore to air its flagship show, World Poker Tour (WPT). The agreements elevate to 154 the territories in which WPT shows now on air [...]

THE PHILIPPINES will have a taste of Las Vegas when several world-class gamblers attend the fist ever 2006 Pagcor World Celebrity Charity Poker Tournament at the Airport Casino Filipino in Parañaque City tomorrow.   Jack Binion, owner of several casinos in the United States particularly the Las Vegas’ Horsehoe Casino [...]