Poker News
BetFair Director Resigns after Data Hack
Sean Catlett, director of group security for Betfair, has announced his resignation from the online gambling site effective at the end of October. The resignation follows the revelation that the world’s largest online betting site’s data storage was hacked by cyber criminals who stole 3.15 million usernames featuring encrypted security questions, ...
Casino Industry Changes Its Tune on Online Poker
Las Vegas casinos, who just a couple of years ago were strongly opposed to the legalization of online poker, are now a staunch ally in the push to allow poker players in the U.S. to play once again from their home computers. For many years, the casino industry feared much of ...
Canada Claims The Americas Cup Of Poker
Winning is good but winning back to back titles is the mark of a real champion and the Team Canada Poker team can be feeling rather content with themselves at the climax of another Americas Cup of Poker. 7 teams from North, South and Central America convened in Uruguay for the ...
Scottish Footballers Turn To Poker
A good sporting manager needs to have a poker face in order to get the best from their players and to outwit their opponents but not too many will turn to poker to inspire their team. This is the situation that the Scottish national football team is experiencing at the ...
Leo Boxell Finds Top Gear to Win APPT Melbourne
Leo “The Mechanic” Boxell gave the young internet “whizz kids” a lesson in poker at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, as he used his years of experience to claim the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour title and $330,000 prize money. Leo, whose “handle” originates from the job he used to ...