May 7, 2014
The momentum for intrastate online poker legalisation in the state of New York picked up this week when Rep. Gary Pretlow introduced a companion bill to SB 6913 introduced to the Senate earlier this year (see previous report). The Assembly bill closely follows the thrust of its Senate counterpart that poker is primarily a game […]
May 6, 2014
The High Stakes Data Base reports that Finland’s Patrik Antonius topped the leader board for nosebleed players on the virtual poker tables during April, earning around $1.8 million. Despite some recent losses, he is closely pursued by German ace Niki Jedlicka, whilst prominent names like Viktor Blom and Phil Ivey are experiencing a bad spell […]
May 6, 2014
Professional poker player and author Russell “Dutch” Boyd will be out around $60,000 following this week’s ruling by a federal appeals court, which upheld a prior court judgment that he had infringed the trade mark of the popular Two Plus Two information and forum site with his twoplustwopoker.com website. The court found that Boyd had […]
May 6, 2014
Attaching someone’s name to an op-ed article when that person did not participate or even know about the piece constitutes a desperately low level of integrity, but that appears to be the case in a recent article allegedly penned by professional poker players Bill Byers and Dewey Tomko that appeared in the reputable Press of […]
May 5, 2014
In an op-ed article in the Sacramento Bee over the weekend, writer Dan Morain revealed some startling statistics and information on the current moves in the legislature to bring legalised online poker action to California. But opposing the concept of legalised online poker in general, and the involvement of Pokerstars in particular, is the big-bucks […]
May 5, 2014
Real Gaming, a Nevada online poker joint venture between 20-something cyber-entrepreneur Lawrence Vaughan and land casino owner Michael Gaughan of South Point Casino, has approached the intrastate online poker market slowly and carefully, but plans to accelerate as the market grows. Lawrence, who is the CEO of Real Gaming, discussed the soft launch process in […]
May 3, 2014
After almost 18 hours of fierce, competitive action, the final table of the Euro 10,600 buy-in 2014 European Poker Tour Grand Final main event in Monte Carlo produced a winner Friday, with Italian pro Antonio Buonanno claiming the main prize of Euro 1,240,000. 650 players entered for the event, generating a massive prize pool worth […]
May 3, 2014
Molly Bloom (36) the New York poker hostess dubbed by the media “Poker Princess” for her role in a sensational illegal poker ring bust in New York last year, escaped a jail term Friday when she appeared before Judge Jesse M. Furman for sentencing. The court was told that she played only a small role […]
May 2, 2014
Live tournament action has been good to German poker ace Philipp Gruissem in recent months, with a string of high value wins that has included a couple of coups over a million Euros, and on Friday he did it again in Monte Carlo, taking down the Euro 25,000 buy-in European Poker Tour Grand Final High […]
May 2, 2014
One of the early entries into the online poker network market, the initially branded Boss Media product that evolved into GTech’s International Poker Network, has announced that it is to close its virtual doors on May 28 this year, and has already begun the winding down process with its constituent skins. The platform will continue […]