Pokerstars unveils European Poker Tour Grand Final plan

February 4, 2014

Online poker provider Pokerstars has announced that its European Poker Tour Grand Final will again be part of the successful  Monaco Festival at the famous Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. A total of 48 events are planned over the eleven days of the festival, and the organisers have included more $500 or less buy-in tournaments […]

BetSoft Gaming launches Bitcoin support

February 3, 2014

Online gambling software developer BetSoft Gaming has launched new Bitcoin support for licensees of BTC Poker Network. “Implementing this support for Bitcoin transactions gives players yet another choice of currency to use when playing our 3D games at any of the rooms on the BTC Poker Network platform,” said Anthony Locke, BetSoft’s head of product […]

Tatts and Tabcorp sue Victoria government over pokie machine changes

February 3, 2014

A major civil case is currently being argued in the Victorian Supreme Court as Australian gambling giants Tabcorp and Tatts pursue a claim of over A$1.2 billion against the Victorian government for changes to poker machine licenses. The West Australian newspaper reports that the companies say they are entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars […]

New Yorker triumphant in multi-million dollar Borgata poker event

February 2, 2014

New York poker pro Anthony Merulla is probably still celebrating his massive win this weekend in the 2014 $3 Million Guaranteed World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open main event after an impressive performance that saw him best 1228 other runners to claim the $842,379 main prize. When the final table was reached Merulla was […]

Another big win for Polish poker ace

February 2, 2014

22-year-old Dominik Panka from Brześć Kujawski in Poland continued his winning streak at the weekend, using some of his $1.4 million in spoils from his victory last month at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure  to finance a Euro 10,000 buy-in for the High Roller event at EPT Deauville – and again emerging the winner. In the […]

First Greek champ in European Poker Tour

February 2, 2014

Greek amateur player Sotirios Koutoupas (31) not only boosted his bank balance by Euro 614,000 and a $5,000 Swiss watch over the weekend, but also became the first Greek European Poker Tour champion at the EPT Deauville, besting 671 entrants from 48 nations on the way – 178 of them Pokerstars online satellite qualifiers. Koutoupas […]

Full Tilt Poker claims about to reach affiliates?

February 2, 2014

Garden City Group, the administrator contracted by the US Department of Justice to assess and manage claims against Full Tilt Poker following its shutdown by the authorities in 2011, has now turned its attention to the thousands of affiliate marketer claims after dealing with the first tranche of player submissions. On Friday GCG disclosed that […]

Online poker room rings the changes in its latest tourney

February 1, 2014

The UK-based 3D online poker room PKR.com plans to ring the changes in its ninth tournament in the biannual PKR Live series, announcing that the new $500 buy-in PKR Live Mixed Max will take place at Aspers Stratford Supercasino from 28-30 March. A company spokesman said the NLHE move was inspired by a format popular […]

Million dollar New Jersey online poker tournament well supported

January 31, 2014

Rising interest in legalised New Jersey online poker has seen tens of thousands of New Jersey poker fans attracted to a millionaire online tournament organised by Party Poker.com and Borgata Poker.com and set to climax in a live eight-player final table at the Borgata this week, according to press material from the organisers. The eight […]

Betfair hires senior poker ops manager

January 30, 2014

Betfair has appointed Ian Wylie to the position of senior poker operations manager. Wylie joins Betfair from Gala Interactive where he served in a similar capacity for two years, prior to which he headed poker operations at BetClic, Expekt and Mansion Gibraltar. Wylie will be responsible for the management of all Betfair poker brands including […]