Author Archives: Erik Kassidi

HPT Unveils New Tournament Structure

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 [...]

HPT Announces Minnesota Event

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 [...]

Vietnam Vet Scores HPT Championship, $90K

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 [...]

Famous Online Gambling Sites Banned By FBI

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 [...]

WSOP Packages clarifications

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: A player can qualify through the different promotions to any of the WSOP packages. If a player is qualified to the exact same package through super satellites, he [...]

Online Poker Domains Seized by FBI

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 [...]

Getting Started in Online Poker

Picking a Poker Site: There are many online poker sites too choose from, some well known by all, like party poker and some known by only the best because they have a few donks and fish (some are like sea world!) like for example cake poker but once you have picked your poker room that [...]

Absolute Poker Down & Bodog on the way to be close by the FBI.

The industry is changing pretty fast theses days, the US government decided to close all the top illegal gambling operators. from full tilt poker, pokerstars then ultimatebet and now Absolute poker . Who’ll be the next? As far we understand from the blacklist the next one could be Bodog and certainly Carbon poker. If you [...]

PokerStars, fulltilt and ultimate bet down by FBI!

Today is a big day for the Poker world, the FBI did close down most of the biggest poker website such pokerstars, fulltiltpoker , ultimatebet and many more… Most of the players will certainly look for a new poker room to keep playing illegally. While the law is changing it will be hard to keep [...]

Poker games at Play Now

The players of Play Now have got the excellent opportunity of playing online poker games now. The leading gaming site has recently introduced the game poker. One can play peer-to-peer poker with the players of BC and Quebec now. Players can also compete in various online poker tournaments over there. The arrival of poker has [...]