April 26, 2014
The Illinois class action against Pokerstars launched by Kelly Sonnenberg has been around for what seems like ages, but it entered a new phase this week with the submission of a second complaint. Our readers may recall that Sonnenberg invoked the Illinois Loss Recovery Act, a state law that allows gambling losers to reclaim their […]
April 26, 2014
Finnish online poker ace Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius continued his winning streak this week on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables, scoring another six-figure win according to the High Stakes Data Base. Taking home $718,952 in 891 hands over five sessions, the fighting Finn topped his $614,207 profits from the previous week playing with skill and […]
April 26, 2014
The World Poker Tour decision to relocate this year’s Championship to Atlantic City after years at the Bellagio in Las Vegas has had a sobering consequence; there have been fewer buy-ins at 328 entries vs. last year’s 545. Comparing the numbers, this year’s event has generated a prize pool of $4,852,400 which will see the […]
April 24, 2014
Spokesmen for a variety of interests for and against the legalisation of online gambling in California presented their arguments to the state’s Assembly Governmental Organization Committee hearing Wednesday, with testimony from 33 witnesses heard over a marathon more than five hour session in the state capital. Chaired by Rep. Isadore Hall, the committee listened and […]
April 24, 2014
The news that online poker giant Pokerstars was in talks to form a business alliance with Californian tribes and cardrooms (see previous reports) has been out there for so long that the confirmation by those involved Wednesday was almost an anti-climax. The announcement came as Californian politicians and the great and the good of the […]
April 24, 2014
The European Poker Tour (EPT) has released five dates for its Season 11 tour kicking off with the EPT Barcelona Poker Festival. Other stops will be announced at a later date but the first five have been confirmed as: – EPT Barcelona – 16 – 27 August, 2014 (Main Event 21 – 27 August, 2014) […]
April 23, 2014
Patrick Clarke will be delighted with his return on investment over the holiday weekend, which saw him turn a Euro 4 online satellite entry into a main event win totalling Euro 250,000 in the Euro 2,250 buy-in 2014 Paddy Power Poker Irish Open. Clarke had to best a field of 410 other pokerheads on his […]
April 23, 2014
Following an exhaustive testing process 888Poker has released its accelerated version of the popular fast-fold poker variant, dubbing its new product Snap Poker. The new product allows fast-fold players to ditch their hand and instantly be dealt a new one without have to wait for everyone else at the table to act. In promoting Snap […]
April 23, 2014
Today (Wednesday) is an important day in the legislative history of online poker in California as 33 witnesses with different views on legalisation give testimony before a California State Assembly committee. Titled rather ponderously as “The Future Public Policy and Fiscal Implications of Authorizing iPoker Gaming in California,” the hearing in front of the 19 […]
April 22, 2014
Former poker pro James Hinton of Napa, California has ambitions to switch his bluffing skills to a new game – politics, going all-in in a challenge to unseat the incumbent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, in the heavily Democratic 5th Congressional District. The publication Times Herald reports that the 39-year-old underdog has described himself as […]