Account Services, a payment processor that handles online poker transactions, will be attending a hear scheduled for August 21st regarding $14 million in poker funds seized from them by the US Department of Justice. The hearing was initially scheduled for August 14th but has been pushed back a week. The Poker Players Alliance had filed a motion with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, where the hearing is to be held, to allow them to appear and present an amicus brief, and the motion was granted by the court.

Online poker room Everest Poker recently turned five and is offering five exclusive promotions to celebrate. The poker room, known for its focus on the European poker market, will host a $500,000 guaranteed tournament that will conclude its final table live in Las Vegas. The nine final talbe players will be flown to Sin City to play the final table at the same time the 2009 World Series of Poker main event final table is to be played in November. Everest Poker will cover the flights and hotel rooms for the event.

The most exclusive and luxurious entertainment center in Australia, the Crown Casino Melbourne, is gearing up to once again play host to the 2009 PokerNews Cup Australia – and you can be there FREE!

This is an amazing opportunity for players who have dreamed of a trip to Australia, to not only vacation in the ‘Land Down Under,’ but to play in the fantastic PokerNews Cup too! Carbo Read the full post …

The newest mobile phone generations make it possible: play poker whenever and wherever you want to! Just take out your mobile and play for a bit, while you are on the train, in the university or waiting for someone.

Dragging along your laptop can be very tedious after a while. And those gadgets are not really suitable for a quick game on the run, anyway.

Provided you don’t want to play on too many tables at once, the students’ favourite Netbooks are a good alternative. Yet the real groove hits when you take your mobile out on the train and make a euro or two just so.

With Windows Mobile’s new phones and our partner’s mobile client you can do just that.

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After five weeks of voting, the public has chosen the top 10 individuals they think should be inducted into the Poker Hall Of Fame. Likes of Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan have found themselves on this list.

The Poker Hall of Fame marks its 30th Anniversary this year.

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Two well established UK casino companies in the mobile gambling sector, technology provider Mfuse and AIM listed Probability plc have teamed up in a mutually beneficial agreement that will see a bigger and wider section of games available for the growing numbers of gamblers on the go.

Probability, which has developed more than 30 mobile games, is the first company to make use of Mfuse’s mobile gambling platform, which links directly to betting firms including Betsson, Bet365, Gala Coral Group, Ladbrokes, Sky Bet, Sporting Index, Sportingbet, Paddy Power and William Hill, reported The Guardian newspaper this week.

Mobile gambling is booming despite the recession, the newspaper reports, quoting independent experts Juniper Research which estimates that the global mobile gambling industry will be taking $16.6 billion worth of bets – ranging from casino betting and lotteries to sports betting – by 2011, up from $1.35 billion in 2006.

London-based Mfuse’s NOVO Open API platform is now open to any game developer who wants to pitch games to the company’s partners. Pro

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>The 2009 World Series of Poker has now reached its finale with the first two flights of the Main Event heating up the Rio Hotel and Casino over the last few days. The opening flight saw 1,116 players take to the felt with the decision made the just play four levels to avoid the potential situation of getting too close to the money before the players merged into one field.   Several Australians took to the felt with cricketing legend Shane Warne have a tremendous day on the felt. He ended the day with 87,625 to be ranked in the top 35 chip counts, but the honour of top Australian went to ANZPT Sydney champion Paren “Puzz” Arzoomanian who topped the Aussies in 23^rd place with an impressive 98,825 in chips. Read the full post …

The last preliminary tournament of the 2009 World Series of Poker was an opportunity. While many used the days before the $10K main event to rest and relax, others were anxious for the chance to cash in, make a final table of, and potentially win the no-limit hold’em short-handed event. This was their chance.

There were 928 players who took their $5K shot at it, and the combination of those numbers made for a $4,361,600 prize pool for the last 90 players standing to split according to their finishes. And the first place prize? A whopping $1,003,218.

Day 1 saw the field thin to only 160 players, so it was the second day of action that brought the field into the money. W Read the full post …