Loyal Heartland Poker Tour players received an early holiday gift last week when HPT officials announced a new tournament structure. Posted at HPTpoker.com, the new structure provides longer levels, additional rounds, and adjusted payouts.
“As our prize pools have grown over the years,” said HPT Co-Founder Greg Lang, “players have consistently asked for more time to get their chips in good. We listened.” Read More
By popular demand, Heartland Poker Tour announced a tour stop in the company’s home state of Minnesota. The nationally-televised poker show will film two episodes at Canterbury Park Racetrack and Card Casino in Shakopee April 20-30, 2012. The event, which could offer the largest poker tournament prize pool ever in the state, is open to the public. Read More
Few days before the nation observes Veterans’ Day, Heartland Poker Tour honored Vietnam Vet Ken Rosheisen as the latest champion of the nationally-televised poker show. The weekend tournament was Rosheisen’s 10th HPT attempt, second TV table, and his most profitable. Investing just $360 to play, the retiree takes home $90,598 to Janesville, Wisconsin.
HPT has a long history of supporting veterans through a commitment to the non-profit organization, Disabled American Veterans. The tour donates one percent of each prize pool to DAV and airs public service announcements in the show 52 weeks each year. Read More
The FBI has long been targeting to ban online poker and gambling sites from tapping the US player base.
The ban imposed by the FBI on the domain names of the famed 3 sites serving the US market like the FullTiltPoker.com, PokerStars.com and AbsolutePoker.com, as being responsible for initiating illegal gambling activity and fraud charges for allowing players to sign and play for real money games in their sites.
It is indeed a bold move by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Read More
Dear Ipoker member,
Following to feedback we received from some of you, we found it necessary to explain the following points with regards to the WSOP packages:
Famous online poker sites that have been allowing US residents to play in their sites are facing FBI seizure of their business domains.
Players who are visiting to Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, UB Poker and Absolute Poker are heading to get a seizure notice from the FBI.
This is not the first time. A similar seizure of Bodog Poker has occurred in the past where the domain owners had to work via the court to get the domain name back and working in shape. Read More
