entertainment - "international poker"

Analysts were prepared for another loss from World poker Tour Enterprises, Inc. this quarter. The shift from the Travel Channel to GSN for the televised WPT series had resulted in lower per episode fees, WPTE's online money site...

On this week's episode, we show off a number of games including Age of Booty, Flock, Shred Nebula, Metal Slug 7, Mega Man, Perfect World international, and more!

Poker is booming in Russia, and next week's Zavidovo Open seems to attest to the sport's popularity. That's right - sport. In Russia, poker has been officially declared a sport by the government. The fact that the game...

The Full Tilt Online poker Series (FTOPS) IX kicked off Wednesday night with a bang. Event #1, a $200+16 no-limit hold'em event with $1,000,000 guaranteed, drew 5,779 players for a total prize pool of $1,155,800 and a first-place prize...

Publisher's casual label bringing popular how-to manuals to PC and DS, beginning with the just-released poker trainer.

New York international Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 12th annual festival from August 8th - 24th, 2008. The festival offers works covering a wide range of disciplines including theater, dance, performance art, children's theater, spoken word, puppetry, comedy, improv and multimedia. This year, the Festival will present nearly 1200 performances by 202 of the world's best emerging theatre companies representing 7 countries (including Spain, Australia, Canada, England, Switzerland, and Mexico) and 16 US states (including Oregon, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, California, Florida and Illinois).

Last year was the first World Series of poker Europe, with events spread out over three London casinos. This year all the events will be held in one of those casinos, the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square. Lots of big name players will appear at the tables this year, including Phil Hellmuth, who showed up last year with a bevy of English beauties as an entourage...

Online poker room Bodog poker has updated their software and a lot of players are responding, 'It's about time!' The update may seem insignificant to players who do not spend a lot of time online, but for the online grinders and rounders it is a big deal. The update will allow players at Bodog poker to resize the window that holds their game table. This will, in turn, allow for more games to fit on a computer screen - an important thing if you are a multi game player...

Once again online poker room Full Tilt poker has launched their impressive FTOPS tournaments, the Full Tilt Online poker Series with huge prize guarantees. Last year the FTOPS VIII exceeded just about every one of their events when it came to the guarantees, and players are looking for a repeat with FTOPS IX. The first event kicked off on Wednesday with a $1 million tourney with Allen Cunningham as the host...

888 Holdings, online gaming company and home to Pacific poker, posted a healthy second quarter financial report this week. Net gaming revenue (NGR) came in at $67 million, up 33% from the same period last year and up 4% from last quarter...