Come January 1st 2012, 38 websites/operators will be the first to provide legal online gambling to residents of Denmark. The Danish “orderly” regulatory framework will have each operator pay a 20% tax on their gross income. Pokerstars, 888 Poker, Betfair and Unibet are among those who managed to secure a license. Danish minister of taxation [...]

After ten years as a member of the Betfair family, Chief Executive Officer David Yu has announced that he will not seek a renewal of his contract with the gaming giant.

Now is the time at BetFair poker to get in on Summer Slam 2011! Plenty of cool gear is up for grabs including Rayban sunglasses, the newer, lighter, and faster iPad2, Xbox 360 Slim and HD monitors! Summer Slam will be running for the entire month of June. To get in cheap on the action, [...]

Win a trip to the WSOP 2011 at Betfair now! Enter the Betfair WSOP 6 shooter for a chance at $74,000 in WSOP packages! There are 6 WSOP freeroll finals running on 6 consecutive days in early June. Twelve winners will win a $5,700 WSOP package, which includes flight, hotel and buy-ins to $1,000 and [...]

Monday 1st November 2010 Betfair Poker Live! Prague, the sixth leg of the popular poker series, proved a hit with poker players once again. The event, which was hosted by the Card Casino Prague attracted players from far and wide. Betfair Poker Live! Prague, NLTH €820+80 Main Event saw 113 players from Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, [...]

Online legend Annette Obrestad finally got to see her name in red when she signed on as the newest Full Tilt Pro this week, just in time to host the FTOPS XVI Main Event on May 2nd. Obrestad’s years of play on Full Tilt have paid off big for the young rising star, who has [...]

Betfair, one of the largest and most well respected gaming establishments in the world, has joined forces with the Amateur Poker Association and Tournament. Now, on the cusp of an APAT season which will feature 28 live events across Ireland, the UK and the European mainland, Betfair has become the exclusive host for the organization’s online qualifying tournaments.

There was another $1,500,000 at stake on Sunday night over at the Full Tilt Poker tournament tables. The tenth FTOPS event of 2010 kicked off at 6:03 PM ET, hosted by renowned pro Chris Ferguson. 4,682 players bought in to the $300+$22 event in which the top 720 places were paid.

If you’ve been looking forward to this year’s FTOPS as much as we have, then you know the excitement that’s been generated by this playing field. After several grueling hours of neck-and-neck poker, we can comfortably say that the contest lived up to the hype. This year’s inaugural FTOPS tournament was a $200+$16 No-Limit Hold’em [...]

$25,000,000 will be up for grabs on Full Tilt Poker during the week of Jan 25th through 31. For that particular week, Full Tilt Poker will double the guaranteed prize pools for every single one of their Weekly Guarantees tournaments, culminating in the biggest Big Money Sunday ever. The time and buy-ins of each event [...]