January 9, 2014
Rumours in early December 2013 that GTech was about to shut down its dotcom International Poker Network in order to focus on nationally regulated jurisdictions (see previous reports) have been confirmed this week by GTech. The effective date of the shuttering will likely be sometime in the Northern hemisphere summer this year, perhaps as early […]
January 9, 2014
Isle of Man-based online poker company Pokerstars has released the schedule for its third annual Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP), which will take place from January 23 to February 2 and guarantee $15 million across 50 events. The headline tournament is the $700 buy-in NL Hold’em Main Event on February 2, which features a […]
January 9, 2014
Pokerstars sister site Full Tilt Poker has started offering a selection of real money online casino games to its clients in a bid to offer more variety to the punters. The roll-out will be done on a gradual and controlled basis in order to fully evaluate and test the new initiative, which is an innovative […]
January 9, 2014
The Winning Poker Network has announced that it will accept Bitcoin deposits. The network, which includes major skins like Americas Cardroom, has said it will accept deposits in the virtual currency, which will be converted to dollars at the tables, but that withdrawals will remain in US dollars for now. The online poker network is […]
January 9, 2014
The Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA and the New Jersey Devils of the NHL have become the first major U.S.-based professional teams to sign a sponsorship deal with an online gambling company, according to reports in the US media Wednesday. Party Poker, a subsidiary of the European online gambling group Bwin Party Digital Entertainment, is […]
January 7, 2014
Online high stakes professional players Gus Hansen and an opponent known only by his internet handle as “SallyWoo” have clashed over the former’s online and unsubstantiated allegations that SallyWoo used an Omaha 8 software program to defeat him. Hansen is reportedly one of the biggest monetary losers in recent online poker history; according to the […]
January 7, 2014
Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom may have taken a hammering on the virtual high stakes tables recently but they showed plenty of talent and aggression this week in besting four amateur challengers in Full Tilt Poker’s inaugural Bust a Pro promotion. The two pros faced a German, a Briton and two Russian players in three […]
January 6, 2014
New Jersey online poker players are visiting the newly regulated and licensed websites in growing numbers, reports the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout, noting that the facilities offered by the Borgata-PartyPoker partnership over last weekend topped the 24-hour peak player statistic of 640. To give that number some perspective, it beats the Chico network’s 529 […]
January 5, 2014
Users of the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League website have been advised to change their passwords after a hacker published over 175,000 email addresses and passwords this week. And almost 47,000 of the exposed passwords were of a “default reset” nature. The motive of the hacker, identified only by the Twitter user account name […]
January 4, 2014
The independent high stakes online poker monitor, High Stakes Data Base, reported on the 2013 performance of top high stakes poker professionals on the Full Tilt and Pokerstars sites this week, singling out German ace Niklas “ragen70” Heinecker as the biggest earner throughout the year. Heinecker started the year at a leisurely pace but soon […]