March 24, 2014
27-year-old Hungarian poker pro Zoltan Gal claimed the title and the winner’s prize of Euro 208,655 in the Pokerstars Eureka Vienna main event over the weekend after an aggressive heads up tussle with Andreas Freund of Austria in which the duo agreed to a last-minute chop. The event attracted a record number of 1,432 players […]
March 23, 2014
Last week’s reports that the international online poker giant Pokerstars has been in partnership negotiations with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and three large Southern California card clubs to offer online poker in California (see previous report) has provoked a negative reaction from the California Tribal Business Alliance. In a statement Saturday, the chair […]
March 22, 2014
The vagaries of poker fortune played against online poker pro Dan “Jungleman” Cates this week, reversing his profitable nosebleed action on the Full Tilt Poker high stakes virtual tables in the preceding week to a painful $1,001,078 loss after playing 3,845 hands, according to the High Stakes Data Base. Jungleman went from the million dollar […]
March 20, 2014
The respected international poker pro and live tournament veteran J.C. Tran scored another memorable victory this week in taking down the inaugural 2014 World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder, a $3,500 buy-in, NLHE main event. On the way through a field of 455 other hopefuls, many of them top names in the global game, Tran displayed […]
March 20, 2014
Prominent tribal gaming spokesmen have been ramping up the coverage on the sovereign nations’ position on California online poker legalisation as state lawmakers focus closely on the prospect in the current session of the legislature. Speaking to Casino Enterprise Magazine this week in the latest statement of tribal interest, Ernie Stevens, chairman of the National […]
March 20, 2014
The usually well-informed French online poker information site Club Poker reports that MyPok.fr, shuttered since November last year with players denied access to their accounts, may be resurrected following a deal with iPoker France skin JOA-online. The site will be rebranded My Joa Pok, the information site claims, recalling that MyPok endured several financial difficulties […]
March 19, 2014
The second running of The BIG ONE for ONE DROP $1 million buy-in No-Limit Hold’em charity poker event due to be held as part of the 45th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has already confirmed the participation of 23 poker players, despite the event being over three months away. Almost half […]
March 19, 2014
The publication iGaming Player is the latest to give voice to a growing rumour that online poker giant Pokerstars is working with the powerful Morongo Band of Mission Indians in California as the state moves forward on internet poker legalisation. There are currently two online poker legalisation bills awaiting attention in the California state legislature […]
March 19, 2014
A new independent study based on 1,027 respondents and commissioned by the Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego – Spains online gambling regulator – suggests that online poker players are on average better educated than the average player encountered in online gambling. The interesting results gleaned from the recently completed survey suggest that: * The […]
March 18, 2014
The Swedish online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom enjoyed one of his huge upswings over the weekend, adding a further $1.6 million to his bank account after a relative quiet (for him) spell in recent weeks. The High Stakes Data Base reports that the PLO, 8-Game and 2-7 games at Full Tilt Poker were more […]