March 17, 2015
The Pokerstars $215 buy-in Sunday Million 9th Anniversary tournament Monday provided an American player living in Mexico with an opportunity to win some serious money, and he did just that after 15.5 hours of gruelling action and a 7-way chop at the virtual final table. ‘BRAYDEN93’, an American player who now lives in Mexico, was […]
March 16, 2015
The US Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section has approved a new round of payments that will see Petitioners who have disputed their Full Tilt Poker (FTP) balances receive payments. Administrators Garden City Group (GCG) said payments will also be made to “Petitioners who have confirmed their FTP Account Balances and recently […]
March 15, 2015
Anthony Zinno (33) has gone on something of a heater in the first quarter of the year and is now a member of an elite stratum of players who can claim to hold three World Poker Tour titles and have achieved more than $3 million in career earnings. His latest success this week in the […]
March 15, 2015
Californian poker pro Taylor Paur almost doubled his career earnings of $1,56 million in a single tournament Friday when he took down the $7,500 buy-in 2015 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star main event. The 26-year-old’s prize money of $1.2 million dwarfed his previous individual tournament earnings after he survived a field of 707 […]
March 15, 2015
Online poker fans were informed this week that PartyPoker has made improvements to its network facilities that include changes to the time banks and a new software update that permits re-entries into some tournaments. The company says that it has listened to player requests in introducing the changes, which will see time banks increased, enabling […]
March 14, 2015
The Red Dragon main event, part of the 2015 Macau Poker Cup, has been won by Chinese businessman Yuguang Li (36), who took home HK$ 1,848,000 (about US$ 238,000) following a two-way chop at the heads up stage of the game. The event pulled in a field of 987 players, generating a prize pool worth […]
March 14, 2015
The always innovative organisers at the traditionally land-based World Series of Poker (other than internet satellites for seats in land events) have introduced a new – and the first – online event for this year’s edition of the prestigious Las Vegas tournament. The event will see the initial action taking place online, with the final […]
March 12, 2015
Disagreement over what form online poker legalisation should take in California continued this week with six tribal gambling groups expressing their opposition to Rep. Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s AB167 proposal. The first group to note their disapproval in a communication with Jones-Sawyer was the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in San Diego, apparently acting independently. That […]
March 12, 2015
Pokerstars Montreal-based parent, Amaya Gaming, has issued a further comment on the Italian tax issue, news of which broke yesterday (see previous report). In a statement issued late Wednesday to add more clarity to the matter, the company noted: “The tax dispute relates to operations of PokerStars dating from before the acquisition of the company […]
March 11, 2015
Online poker giant PokerStars has responded to media speculation regarding accusations of fraud and tax evasion levelled against its Halfords Media subsidiary by Italian finance police amounting to Euro 300 million. According to the finance police, Halfords hid its taxable income by decreasing the worth of services performed for its parent company Pokerstars and, by […]