www.pokerverdict.com Launches in a Momentous Week For Online Gambling

The site is being launched by former Daily Mirror journalist James Hipwell – half of the infamous duo known as the City Slickers – alongside Warren Wooldridge, who finished on a final table at the World Series of Poker this summer, and David Gross, who won $150,000 when winning two big online poker tournaments in one day.

www.pokerverdict.com is a site for the UK and European poker community and contains poker news, blogs by famous players, videos of amazing poker showdowns and a tournament search engine that will help poker players to find the best online poker tournaments to play in.

The site will also keep a directory of ‘Most Feared Players’ so that online players will be able to tell if they are up against an expert or a ‘fish’ (poker lingo for someone who is easy to beat).

Gross founded the sports betting community site www.easyodds.com, where users can compare odds to get the best price for all their bets, back in 2000 while Wooldridge is now its CEO. Wooldridge, a former main board director of Dennis Publishing, launched gambling magazine InsideEdge with Hipwell back in 2004.

Due to imminent legislation in America billions of pounds has been wiped off the value of some of the world’s biggest poker companies this week. Shares in London stock market-listed companies such as PartyGaming (owner of PartyPoker), 888.com (Pacific Poker), SportingBet (Paradise Poker) and Excapsa (UltimateBet) have plummeted with the passing in the US Senate of the 'Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006'.

Quick to respond www.pokerverdict.com is partnering with each of these companies and others to help them market their sites to UK and European poker players unaffected by the US legislation.

“The online poker market is growing very quickly in the UK and the rest of Europe, and with www.pokerverdict.com’s help the likes of PartyPoker can reach a community where most of their growth will come from in the immediate future,” said Gross.

For more information please call James Hipwell on 0044-(0)-207-691-0660 or 07764-420773 or alternatively David Gross on 07812-190199