January 3, 2014
Six years ago the spectacular failure of the online poker Tusk group, leaving players unpaid to the reported tune of several millions of dollars, was the subject of heated recrimination and debate in the industry, and as 2013 drew to a close a sequel in the form of payments to players was being reported. It […]
January 3, 2014
Pokerstars’ end-of-year critical blog commentary on the failure and auction of the Atlantic Club casino has been interpreted as more than just a parting shot at owners who walked away from a deal with the online poker giant, only to drive their own company to ruination. On Thursday the online poker information site Online Poker […]
December 31, 2013
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma want to offer online gaming to international players, but they are currently locked in a legal tussle with federal officials. Online gambling isn’t generally allowed in Oklahoma, but the Cheyenne & Arapaho were in April this year authorised by the state to launch an internationally targeted, real-money online […]
December 31, 2013
Judiciary Police on the gambling island of Macau have warned internet users playing on illegal websites that a scammer is at work, reports the Macau Daily News. The crook’s modus operandi is to log on to internet poker sites and communicate through their systems, or poker forums, with punters, offering to sell poker chips for […]
December 29, 2013
Season 7 of the Pokerstars Latin America Poker Tour will launch in Chile on March 19 2014 and run for five days, the company announced Saturday. Spokesman David Carrions said that the Tour hopes to build on the steadily growing popularity of the event; Season 6 was a major success, with players from 62 countries […]
December 28, 2013
US professional poker player Mauro Velasquez, who has amassed career earnings in excess of a quarter million dollars, is also an entrepreneur with a unique idea of combining the virtual currency Bitcoin with a scavenger hunt for prizes concept. And like all good entrepreneurs, he’s prepared to put his money on the line to translate […]
December 28, 2013
The scrupulously honest Las Vegas cab driver who handed in a brown paper bag containing $300,000 in cash that was left in his taxi has been applauded and rewarded in several different ways….including a $10,000 “thank you” tip from the still unnamed professional poker pro who owns the money. Yellow Checker Star Cab Company CEO […]
December 27, 2013
The controversial online poker operator Lock Poker was under the microscope again this week, once more over long-outstanding payments to players. The online poker information site 4Flush reported on the case of two players who have been awaiting relatively small payments (less than $2,000) by check since December 20 2012…a frustrating way to celebrate an […]
December 26, 2013
Pokerstars, the organisers of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour, has released the schedule for the fourth edition of the popular series, detailing stops in six major cities. The New Year will kick off with the UKIPT Edinburgh main event starting 16 January, and the tour will then visit Dublin, Nottingham, Marbella, and the Isle […]
December 25, 2013
Online and live tournament poker professionals not infrequently have a relaxed approach to large sums of money, perhaps occasioned by the at times surreal experience of watching hundreds of thousands of dollars go across the table on a hand of poker, but this week one pro player showed a remarkable laissez faire attitude by leaving […]