May 2, 2014
Playtech may have departed the ring-fenced Belgian online gambling market in a general sense, but its iPoker product apparently remains accessible to Belgian punters through the newly launched Ladbrokes.be website. Licensed by the Belgian Gaming Commission, the Playtech-powered site is in partnership with the Middelkerke Casino-Kursaal NV, one of nine land based casinos in the […]
May 1, 2014
PokerLoco.com, a Latin American focused online poker site owned by Poker Loco Nordic SA that was formerly part of the Ongame network, has signed with Microgaming’s MPN network. Manuel Lopes, head of poker at PokerLoco, explains: “Our players will now benefit from larger tournaments, unique promotions and the player-friendly features that the MPN has become […]
April 30, 2014
WPT Enterprises has partnered with the DeepStacks Poker Tour (DSPT) to form the WPTDeepStacks, which replaces WPT-Regional and DeepStacks Poker Tour brands. “This is one of those rare win-win-wins,” said WPT President Adam Pliska. “Combining WPT’s brand with DSPT’s staff and cutting-edge approach is a victory for both brands. We couldn’t be more excited about […]
April 30, 2014
The publication Poker News has revealed the identities behind three key “handles” that frequently feature in high stakes poker games over the internet. Asian high roller Chun Lei Zhou has confirmed he is “samrostan” and that he previously used the handle “patpatpanda”. According to data from HighStakesDB, the “samrostan” account is currently down $6.2 million […]
April 29, 2014
It appears that lobbying companies are not the only businesses benefitting from the struggle for online poker legalisation…polling companies are doing pretty well off the debate as well. The latest study, commissioned by pro-legalisation action group the Coalition for Consumer & Online Protection, shows that most of the respondents have no problem with online poker […]
April 29, 2014
The launch of a new Bitcoin-denominated online poker network is imminent, according to a report in the publication Coin Report this week, which reveals that online poker software provider Enterra is behind the project. The new network is apparently specifically designed to allow skins to accept Bitcoins for deposits and withdrawals Enterra CEO, Dimitry Starostenkov, […]
April 28, 2014
InstaDeal’s Fast Fold poker product will be used by The Hive while parent company Connected Table is assisting on the development of an HTML5 version for the poker network. “We’re thrilled to get this opportunity,” said Stefan Olsson, chief executive officer of Connected Table AB. “It adds a new exciting service to our existing Turnkey […]
April 28, 2014
The intriguing question of why poker pro David Rheem failed to claim his $15,000 free seat at the WPT Championships at the Borgata last week has reportedly been answered by the pro himself on Twitter…he forgot he had won the buy-in for the prestigious event, in which winner Keven Stammen took home the main prize […]
April 27, 2014
Daniel “mrGR33N13” Colman, a 23-year-old mainly online poker player, has defeated a field of 61 other entrants and re-entrants to win the Euro 1,539,300 main prize in a live tourney with a prize pool of Euro 6,015,240 prize pool and an impossibly long title – the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino European Poker Tour Grand […]
April 27, 2014
Long-suffering Lock online poker players impacted by what appears to be an ongoing slow-pay policy have a new champion….this week the Poker Players Alliance stepped in to assist in sorting out this frustrating problem for many poker fans. In firing its first shot in what could be serious confrontation, the PPA contacted Lock management expressing […]