April 9, 2014
A growing number of online poker fans are being given the opportunity to test drive the next iteration of Pokerstars’ popular software following an invitation to twoplustwo forum players to take version 7 for an alpha test run. Experts have opined that Pokerstars 7 is a major step forward and the biggest change from the […]
April 8, 2014
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout reports that traffic fell, albeit a marginal 0.1 percent, last week for the eighth consecutive week, underlining the lower traffic trend that has seen eleven of the last twelve weeks in decline. On a global basis, the monitor reports that online poker traffic is down 12 percent on the […]
April 8, 2014
Bodugi Limited, a social sports betting company founded in 2010 by Dave Nevison and Michael Wilson styling itself as one of the pioneers in the sector, is out in the cold after the British Gambling Commission pulled its licence this week. Back in February this year the Commission announced that it was suspending the licence […]
April 8, 2014
Tomsk, Russia-based gambling software provider Connective Games LLC and the Bosnian operator Balkan Texas d.o.o. based in Banja Luka have inked an agreement to combine technical and other resources in creating an Eastern Europe-focused online poker network. The two companies said in an announcement Monday that an intensive two-month set-up period is envisaged in […]
April 7, 2014
The 2014 PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour main event in Seoul, South Korea concluded over the weekend with Thai professional Chane Kampanatsanyakorn claiming the trophy and a main prize reduced after a three-way chop to $142,200. When the action reached final table stage it was US player Sam Cohen comfortably in charge with a chip […]
April 6, 2014
The latest High Stakes Data Base report on the high stakes online poker action at Full Tilt Poker notes something that is rarely seen – four of the biggest names at the nosebleed tables all at the top of the “biggest losers this week” list. The four – Cates, Ivey, Blom and Hansen – each […]
April 5, 2014
One of Sheldon Adelson’s allies in the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling, and a well-known anti-online gambling activist, Florida software engineer Jim Thackston presented the latest op-ed supporting federal banning of online gambling Friday, attacking online poker in the Washington DC publication The Hill. In an op-ed piece clearly designed to influence federal lawmakers in […]
April 4, 2014
Top German online high stakes poker player Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker enjoyed a profitable 48 hours this week on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker, seeing off some of the best players around to end a 48-hour period $754,750 in profit, according to a report on the High Stakes Data Base site. Already last year’s […]
April 4, 2014
According to a report on the poker information site Pokerfuse Thursday, a source at Bwin.Party has confirmed plans to move the Bwin poker sites in the French and Italian markets from the Ongame network to its own Party Poker.fr and .it networks sometime this year. Bwin sold off Ongame to Amaya Gaming in 2012 (see […]
April 3, 2014
2013 EPT Barcelona Champ, Tom “hitthehole” Middleton took down the WCOOP $2,100 NLHE Main Event Challenge Series, taking on and winning a tough heads-up against “bboooommmmmm”. A few hands in to heads-up play, the final two agree a deal that culminated in Middleton taking home $500 000, a customised money clip and a $5 200 […]