March 12, 2014
International Gaming Technology’s social casino DoubleDown Casino released new data from its ongoing U.S. Social Casino Index project which seeks to provide a detailed look at over six million social casino player preferences. Poker has proven to be one of DoubleDown’s most popular, from 40 plus free-to-play, social games. While poker is traditionally a male-dominated […]
March 12, 2014
Online poker operator Pokerstars has released the schedule for a second World Championship of Online Poker Challenge with a guaranteed prize pool of $9 million, which will take place at the end of this (March) month. The World Championship of Online Poker spin-off series is scheduled for the weekend of March 28-30 and consists of […]
March 11, 2014
Top international and British poker professional Sam Trickett has signed up as international brand ambassador for online gambling group Betclic Everest and will work with the Everest Poker team in London, from where he will attend Live events and take part in video updates and blogging efforts covering the world of poker. Despite his youth, […]
March 8, 2014
Online poker ace Dan “Jungleman” Cates cleaned up this week on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker, adding a hefty $486,380 to his account after steamrollering some top quality opposition in 3,600 hands of action. The High Stakes Data Base site reports that Cates was the biggest winner last week, outshining kagome kagome ($419,489) […]
March 8, 2014
British online poker ace Chris Moorman nailed the major live tournament victory that has eluded him for so long this week, taking down the $10,000 buy-in NLHE World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event for $1,015,460. Although he has made the final tables of numerous major live tournaments in his outstanding career, earning around […]
March 7, 2014
The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes in Oklahoma have reportedly abandoned plans to operate an online poker website providing services to players outside the United States, along with litigation launched against US federal government authorities in the Department of the Interior for blocking the plan, albeit with good intentions. Presumably that means that the $9 million […]
March 7, 2014
Nevada online poker provider Ultimate Gaming has clinched a deal with the five-venue Reno, Sparks and Wendover-based Peppermill land casino group to provide online poker services, substantially increasing the potential player pool it provides. Station Casinos-owned Ultimate Gaming will become the online destination for the poker activities of the five Northern Nevada land operations embraced […]
March 6, 2014
Mobile social casino games publisher AbZorba Games has expanded its partnership with messaging and entertainment platform Tango to include a new branded multiplayer poker app. The addition of Poker for Tango means the popular messaging platform now has AbZorba’s full portfolio of multiplayer social casino games on Android and iOS, alongside Roulette Live for Tango, […]
March 6, 2014
25 mainly professional and famous names in the game signed up for this week’s $25,400 buy-in Commerce High Roller competition at the L.A. Poker Classic, fighting for a spot in the final three in order to get a return on the investment. By the second day the field was down to 12, including Chris Moore, […]
March 6, 2014
Unibet’s decision to cut ties with Microgaming for its poker offering in favour of a more recreational and socially oriented stand-alone enterprise (see previous reports) took shape this week when the company completed its transition to real-money action after a two-week beta testing phase and switched the Microgaming software off. The new product is focused […]