Poker
# poker - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Here’s what it’s like to be 27, Irish and gamble €5 MILLION in one year
Irishman John O’Shea left his job as an accountant to take up full-time gambling. This is how he got on.
# poker - Tuesday 30 October, 2012
World Series of Poker: Final 3 set to play for $8.5m crown
The final table of poker’s richest tournament will be settled in Las Vegas tonight.
# poker - Thursday 2 August, 2012
Millions to be refunded to online poker players
The payment is part of a settlement between PokerStars and the US Department of Justice in New York.
# poker - Friday 2 March, 2012
Cyprus drops gambling charges against elderly women
Around 40 women, one of whom is 98, were facing illegal gambling charges over their weekly poker sessions.
98-year-old woman facing gambling charges in Cyprus
Dozens of elderly women have been summoned to court over their weekly poker party.
# poker - Saturday 21 January, 2012
Column: ‘I’d lost over a grand gambling by 11 on Christmas morning’
A casino might close – but online gambling goes on all the time, everywhere. Former addict Marc tells TheJournal.ie why it’s worse than drug addiction.
# poker - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Meet the poker sharks representing Ireland tomorrow
London will host the the International Federation of Poker ‘Nations Cup’. Here’s who we’re sending.
# poker - Sunday 30 October, 2011
Column: If the cards fall my way, I’ll win €6million in Vegas this week
Dubliner Eoghan O’Dea leaves for Vegas today for the final of the World Series of Poker Main Event. He’s ready to sit down at the big table, he writes.
# poker - Tuesday 4 October, 2011
Fears remain over Full Tilt jobs despite takeover ‘deal’
The Groupe Bernard Tapie says it has provisionally agreed to buy the poker website – but will offer shareholdings to its users.
# poker - Friday 30 September, 2011
Hundreds of Dublin jobs at risk as Full Tilt Poker loses licence
Hundreds of jobs could be on the line, following the decision of a Channel Islands gambling regulator to withdraw the site’s licence.
# poker - Thursday 22 September, 2011
Fears for Dublin jobs as poker site is labelled a ‘global Ponzi scheme’
Prosecutors in New York have alleged that the owners and management of Full Tilt Poker took customer cash for themselves.
# poker - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
Fears over as many as 250 jobs at Pocket Kings in Dublin
Pocket Kings employs 700 people in Cherrywood in Dublin but cost-cutting measures means some of those jobs could now be at risk.
# poker - Thursday 4 August, 2011
A-Rod to be interviewed by MLB in poker probe
Star will have to answer questions about alleged involvement in illegal games.
# poker - Sunday 31 July, 2011
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
# poker - Friday 22 July, 2011
Interview: Poker ace Eoghan O’Dea on his World Series success
“I got a few Facebook emails from random American girls asking me if I’m still in Vegas and saying they saw me on TV,” – the life of Ireland’s newest card shark.
# poker - Wednesday 20 July, 2011
O’Dea seals his place at World Series of Poker final table
The Dubliner is one of nine players in with a chance of winning €6.1m when play resumes on 5 November.
# poker - Saturday 2 July, 2011
Investors step in to buy Dublin-based online poker company
Around 700 people are employed at Pocket Kings, which is the service provider for Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt had its licence suspended earlier this week.
# poker - Wednesday 29 June, 2011
Online poker site with HQ in Dublin has licence suspended
Full Tilt Poker has halted play this evening after its licence was suspended. The company employs 700 people in Cherrywood in Dublin.
# poker - Wednesday 20 April, 2011
Online poker companies allowed to reuse domain names to refund US players
US authorities have brought charges including the facilitation of illegal gambling against 11 people involved in three of the biggest names in online poker.
# poker - Saturday 16 April, 2011
The Daily Fix: Saturday
Our collection of the day’s news, developments and random tidbits.
Director of Dublin-based online poker company charged with fraud in US
Eleven people and three major poker sites – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker – facing a number of different charges relating to unlawful internet gambling.
US charges major poker websites with bank fraud
PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker are accused of bribing banks to process transactions from illegal gambling.
# poker - Wednesday 10 November, 2010
Canadian takes $9m World Poker tournament
College drop-out Johnathan Duhamel scooped the world’s largest poker prize in Las Vegas.
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