Annette Obrestad Becomes First Woman Aussie Millions Champion

January 21, 2010 Sadonna Price 0

Event #4 of the 2010 Aussie Millions was a $1,100 Pot Limit Omaha tournament and one hundred and sixty players registered to compete. It was Annette ‘Annette_15’ Obrestad who would outlast the field of competitors to take down the title win. With the win Obrestad would become the first woman to become an Aussie Millions Champion.

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Twenty People Arrested for Illegal Poker Tournament

January 20, 2010 Sadonna Price 0

This past Saturday night, twenty people were arrested at The Ramada Plaza Hotel in Kentwood, Michigan for participating in an illegal poker tournament. The Michigan State Police had been running an undercover operation to try and bust the illegal poker tournaments and this past weekend they made their move.

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Full Tilt Poker Launches Rush Poker

January 19, 2010 Sadonna Price 0

Full Tilt Poker has announced an addition to their online poker room that according to Full Tilt ‘is set to revolutionize the online poker industry’. The new addition is called Rush Poker and it is a new poker format available at the online poker room.

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Calvin Ayre Posts Challenge to Online Gaming Industry to help Haiti

January 18, 2010 Sadonna Price 1

Calvin Ayre the founder of Bodog online gaming and entertainment brand has issued a challenge to the online gambling industry to help the relief efforts in Haiti. Ayre has stated that he has asked his foundation to donate £10,000 to U.K. based Oxfam to aid their relief efforts in Haiti. Ayre has also challenged the rest of the online gaming industry to contribute to Oxfam’s Haiti relief efforts. Ayre’s private foundation will match all donations made to Oxfam by people from the online gambling industry up to $1 million dollars.

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Party Poker Signs Kara Scott to Sponsorship Deal

January 14, 2010 Sadonna Price 0

Party Poker recently announced that Kara Scott, a well-known television presenter and poker player, is their latest sponsored player. Team Party has welcomed Scott as their newest member and she will join the list of other poker players who are part of Party Poker.

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2010 PCA Ladies Event won by Vanessa Rousso

January 13, 2010 Sadonna Price 0

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure finished up recently and one of the events during the series was the $1,000 Ladies Event. This event saw 91 ladies turn out to compete over two days to try and win the first place prize. In the end it was Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso who would claim the title.

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