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PokerTracker Now Supports Cake Poker & Bodog Poker

TheGambler — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:38:30 +0000

If you’re a fan of PokerTracker then you’re going to want to read this. If you use the leading online poker aiding software yourself, then you already know that it’s compatible with most of the major online poker rooms, including Full Tilt Poker, Poker Stars, Party Poker, Titan Poker, and Everest Poker (among a few others).

But now there’s PokerTracker 3 which, in addition to some new features, has added support for two more leading poker sites: Bodog Poker and Cake Poker.

While pokerbots are making a big stir in the online poker world, far less controversial and more universally loved is software like PokerTracker that helps you play better online poker without actually playing the game for you.

Players at Full Tilt using the software will also enjoy the new support for its Super Turbo Matrix tables and recognition for Heroes. Also improved with the latest update are hand histories for iPoker rooms (like Titan Poker) and better accounting for PokerStars tournament rakes.

Priest Wins Big For Church In Poker Stars Million Dollar Challenge TV Show

TheGambler — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:41:17 +0000

When Team Poker Stars launched the Million Dollar Challenge t.v. show on FOX television October 11, they probably never imagined that one of the top winners of the televised heads-up poker tournament series’ inaugural season would be a preacher playing for charity.

The preacher is Father Andrew Trapp and the charity that he’s playing for is his church’s building fund. When not ministering to his flock, Father Trapp has a friendly home poker game. It was by being one of the top 10 finishers in a PokerStars online qualifier for the Million Dollar Challenge t.v. program that he landed an opportunity to audition for the show. His audition, a short video, took him the final stride to the studio where he earned $25,000 and then $100,000, besting even show headliner Daniel Negreanu. Now he will face the 3 other $100,000 winners at the December season finisher for the $1 million winner-takes-all grand prize. This is much higher than any casino signup bonus he could have received.

Churches are nothing new to using gambling as a means to raise money. However, many have not tried to play keno online yet.

Courtroom Victory for Online Poker

TheGambler — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:35:54 +0000

A Judge in the Southern District of NY ruled today in favor of the request made by the online poker community (in the form of Costigan Media which owns, among other relevant properties, Gambling 911) that all of the warrants and related affidavits regarding the recent seizure of over $30 million in Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars player funds from bank accounts in that district may no longer be kept secret but must be unsealed so that all parties involved can become fully abreast of all the details of the case and the investigation leading up to it.

Judge Laura Swain determined that the Government (in the form of the FBI) did not produce enough evidence to merit her allowing those records to remain sealed. This is a big courtroom victory for online poker in a time when it is direly needed. And it bodes well for the affected players receiving back all of the money wrongfully taken from them.

PokerStars SCOOP Names One Last Winner

TheGambler — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:43:35 +0000

As the first ever running of PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker came to an end, and all 42 names on the winners list are announced (that’s 14 events with 3 stakes levels for each event), there was one more winner yet to be named, and it turned out to be Brett Richey (aka “get crunk”).

What event did he win? None of them, actually.

But what Brett Richey did accomplish to deserve the free seat in the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) main event, a prize package that includes a free seat in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and another prize package including a free seat in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Grand Final Main Event was come out on top of the SCOOP Leaderboard.

Though Richey didn’t win first place in any of the SCOOP events, he did appear in 5 final tables, and accrued about $95,000 in winnings for doing so. Richey also gets a Player of the Series trophy to commemorate his accomplishment by.