Theo Jorgensen won the bracelet in the £5,500 pot limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE). This was a deep-stacked event with each player starting with 20,000 chips.

One of the fastest markets in the online poker industry these days is undoubtedly happening in Italy. Playtech has been at the forefront of this expansion as it continues to attract poker room after poker room to its Italian network, including Gala Coral’s Eurobet and Snai.

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is currently being played at the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square in London. The first event, the £1,500 No Limit Hold’Em was won by the 24 year old Dane Jesper Hougaard.

Last week before the commencement of the WSOPE in London the world’s first aerial tournament was arranged. The table was hanging from a crane 45 meters above the streets of London. The table was in level with the City Hall and looking down on the famous Tower Bridge.

One of the greatest dangers to online poker is the fraud and collusion committed by players. Ethoca has been in the forefront of the war against this kind of fraud. Ethoca was founded in 2005 for this purpose. According to Ethoca sharing information is vital in this task.

An ad promoting the innovative poker site, PKR has been deemed inappropriate by the UK Advertising Standards Authority. ASA said that certain elements of the ad ‘glamorized’ poker playing and was thus socially irresponsible.

Event # 20 at the on going World Championship of Online Poker, sponsored by PokerStars, was the $1,000+50 No Limit Hold’Em with a guaranteed prize pool of $3,000,000.  Since there were 3,467 entries the prize pool swelled to $3,467,000. Of this  $1.34 million was payable to the top five players.

Sebastian Ruthenberg won the trophy at the Barcelona Open, the first event of the European Poker Tour. His share of the prize was its €1,361,000.

Poker Lounge, the exclusive and classy poker room of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has been in the news for the last few months. It finally opened its doors with a grand celebrity tournament on Saturday the 13th. The second inaugural celebrity event is slated for Monday.

PurePlay.com, the free online poker site that operates out of San Francisco, was proud to announce this week that it had managed to increase its membership numbers to over 1.5 million. Since the end of 2005, PurePlay.com has given away $4 million in prize money at its site that offers free games and subscription games.