January 30, 2014
A new poker training website launched by poker pro Phil Ivey and Ivey Poker has gone live. The website dubbed Ivey League features video strategy and poker skill training sessions from top poker professionals including Ivey himself. Ivey League stemmed from Ivey’s acquisition of poker training website Leggo Poker early last year which has subsequently […]
January 29, 2014
California state Senator Rod Wright, a tenacious and tireless political campaigner for legalised online poker in his state culd face ejection from the state Legislature following his conviction in a Los Angeles court this week on eight felony counts. Sentencing has yet to be imposed, but could include imprisonment for up to eight years. The […]
January 29, 2014
John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Association, has suggested an amendment to Bill SB101 in Massachusetts, urging his 22,000 PPA members in the state to press for the inclusion of online poker legalisation in the state. State Senatior Jennifer Flanagan is driving SB101, supported by state Treasurer Steven Grossman, Michael F. Rush […]
January 28, 2014
Italian poker pro Mustapha Kanit showed the Aussies how it’s done this week when he took down the first event in this year’s Aussie Millions – the A$1,000 buy-in NLHE tournament – in Melbourne. The event attracted a huge entry list of 1,302 players, among them many top aces, and was eventually whittled down to […]
January 27, 2014
The reasons have not been fully explained, and the motivation is not yet clear, but according to a growing number of player posts on leading poker forums like twoplustwo, it appears that the Merge poker network is excluding both new sign ups and existing players who come from the states of New Jersey and Delaware. […]
January 25, 2014
The discovery of faux chips at the Borgata Winter poker festival live tourney in Atlantic City last week caused the cancellation of an event on the schedule, and this week led to the arrest of 42-year-old poker pro Christian Lusardi after some unusual evidence pointed his way. That evidence came in the form of a […]
January 25, 2014
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom may have had a slow start to 2014, dropping over half a million dollars, but he’s now making up for lost time and enjoying a great run on Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes virtual tables. The High Stakes Data Base reports that Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene is at the head of the current […]
January 25, 2014
A criminal case that has been in the Dutch judicial system for over seven years was finally brought to a conclusion this week with a finding that poker is predominantly a game of skill, rather than chance. The ruling presents international lawyers with another precedent in the on-going fight to position poker as a game […]
January 25, 2014
The Poker Players Alliance advisory earlier this week that owed Full Tilt Poker players will soon be hearing from administrator Garden City Group was followed Friday with a statement from the administrator advising players: “GCG has been informed that the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section has approved the first round of […]
January 23, 2014
Microgaming’s MPN online poker network has launched Poker Heaven live. Established in 2005, Poker Heaven has become one of the top brands in European online poker and one of the poker community’s favourite destinations, thanks in part to its TV tournaments, in which players can compete in a televised event for as little as Euro […]