Betfred moves up at iPoker Network

March 6, 2014

Betfred Poker has been promoted to the top tier of the iPoker Network, ensuring that its players benefit from a larger player pool of mainly recreational players. Moving to the top tier means that Betfred joins some powerful companies already there, such as Titan Poker, Paddy Power and William Hill.

Action Poker taken over by Equity Network

March 5, 2014

The relatively new Costa Rica-based online poker company Equity Poker Network has announced its acquisition of the long established but languishing Action Poker enterprise, which will be immediately moved on to the EPN. The Equity statement reveals that it intends to refresh and re-position Action as the European sister brand to the recreational poker site […]

British Poker awardees appear puzzled

March 5, 2014

The British Poker Awards this week at the Hippodrome Casino in London were notable for the informal attire of many of those attending, and the apparent bewilderment of the awardees, reports the poker information site F5 Poker. The obvious surprise of top names like Sam Trickett, Neil Channing, Liv Boeree, Vicky Coren and Sam Grafton […]

Winamax reaches its one billionth hand of online poker

March 5, 2014

The French-facing online poker site Winamax joined the billionaire hand club Sunday, giving players $100,000 in promotional cash to mark the run-up to the milestone. In fact, the company went further than the milestone to ensure every cent of its promotional budget went to the players, continuing the promo with an additional 10 milestone hands […]

Infiniti Poker boss speaks at last on shutdown

March 5, 2014

It’s taken two weeks, in which damaging speculation has been running riot, but the chief exec of the currently shuttered Infiniti Poker site, Michael Hajduk, has at last started communicating. After various false starts and banking hassles Infiniti soft-launched late last year, accepting conventional and virtual currency, only to mysteriously go offline in February, leaving […]

Million dollar guarantee for LSOP live tourney in Panama

March 5, 2014

The Latin Series of Poker is hoping that two exhibition baseball games between the Florida Marlins and the New York Yankees in Panama this weekend will boost registrations for its $850 buy-in live poker tournament at the Majestic Casino on March 7. The company has put up a $1 million guarantee on the prize pool  […]

U.S. Full Tilt customers in the money

March 5, 2014

Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator Garden City Group has posted an update at fulltiltpokerclaims.com saying it had made more than 27 500 payments totaling around $76 million on February 28, 2014. Petitioners who had confirmed their FTP Account Balances were in the money almost three years after the Black Friday indictments. A second round of […]

Million Sterling guaranteed poker tournament for Britain

March 4, 2014

Dusk Til Dawn Nottingham poker chief Rob Yong has confirmed that the main event of the UKIPT live poker tournament stop in Nottingham will carry a GBP 1 million guaranteed prize pool, ensuring hefty pay-outs for players who make the final table. With a buy-in of GBP 1,100, the tournament will kick off May 7 […]

Million dollar win for German online poker player

March 4, 2014

German online poker player DrUPSWING is a million dollars richer this week after besting a field of 46,586 players in the $215 buy-in NLHE Pokerstars eighth anniversary Sunday Million, which carried an $8 million guarantee. The German was at the top of the list of almost 6,000 players who cashed in the event, which drew […]

American victory at Aussie poker tourney

March 3, 2014

US poker pro Patrick Mahoney is $120,000 wealthier this morning after taking down the first stop of the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour in Perth, Australia in his first major tournament win. Surviving an entry field of 255 other players, Mahoney ended up on a final table that featured one other American and seven […]