http://onlinegamblingnews.net Online Gambling News has Casino, Poker, Sports betting, hotel and travel industry info from Las Vegas to Macau. Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:46:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jason Mercier beat back a tough field of 85 poker players to take down the PokerStars EPT London £1 Million Showdown. If you think I’m exaggerating about how tough it was, think Phil Ivey, Scotty Nguyen, David Negreanu, David Benyamine and Gus Hansen. Let’s make it even tougher. Mercier ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/mercier-beats-juanda-to-win-pokerstars-ept-london-1-million-showdown/10/09/ It’s not as though online poker doesn’t have its hand full thanks to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Now, thanks to fears of global economic instability that are emerging due to fears of a prolonged U.S. recession, some poker sites are left with no other choice but ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/duplicate-poker-closes-doors-amidst-recession-fears/10/06/ When an agency calls itself Poker Royalty, it will be hard-pressed to live up to its title. It’s a good thing that the high-profile agency for professional poker players is meeting expectations and working double-time to beef up its roster of clients. Poker Royalty’s newest client ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/poker-royalty-beefs-up-roster-by-signing-up-david-chiu/10/02/ The possibility of Curlin facing Big Brown in the horse betting Breeders’ Cup Classic is not dead just yet. Curlin will be racing this Saturday in the Jockey Club Gold Cup as he attempts to top the $10 million dollar mark in career earnings, topping the all-time record ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/curlin-still-possible-for-breeders%e2%80%99-cup/09/26/ The 2008 Breeders’ Cup will be run at Santa Anita on October 24th and 25th over a new synthetic surface. The surface is a Pro-Ride surface that was installed over the summer and replaces the mess of a surface that Santa Anita had last year that wouldn’t drain ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/synthetic-track-the-wildcard-in-breeders%e2%80%99-cup/09/26/ Thanks to the thousands of dollars that can be stored in online poker accounts, it is no wonder that the poker community is now the target of high-technology crime. Still, despite the stories you’ve heard about stolen passwords and account hackings, you never really think it could happen ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/cautionary-tale-your-poker-account-can-be-hacked-into/09/19/ While other poker sites are forced to shell out cash from their tills to meet tournament guarantees, PokerStars isn’t sharing in their woes entirely. In its second week, PokerStars’ 2008 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is still drawing in players like bees attracted to honey—particularly the No-Limit ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/pokerstars-2008-wcoop-update-ddrufnek-scores-win/09/18/ Hoyt Corkins was away on vacation for a month when his Las Vegas home located in an upscale, gated Spanish Trails community was broken into by thieves who took their sweet time searching through his belongings and stealing his valuables. Poker fans would be interested to know that ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/robbers-make-off-with-hoyt-corkin%e2%80%99s-wsop-bracelets/09/17/ When PokerStars.net EPT Barcelona ended, one thing was certain: professional poker player Sebastian Ruthenberg is having a great poker year. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet this year, and he now has an EPT trophy to go with it. Aside from bragging rights, the young German also ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/sebastian-ruthenberg-triumphs-at-2008-barcelona-open/09/16/ U.S. poker player Yevgeniy Timoshenko bested 257 entrants to the APT Macau Main Event to win first prize and $500,000 in prize money. The 20-year old Timoshenko, known as ?Jovial Gent? in online play, was in full control of the last stages of the game as he eliminated all ... http://onlinegamblingnews.net/2008/yevgeniy-timoshenko-takes-down-asian-poker-tour-macau-title/09/11/