December 25, 2013
US newspapers, especially those on the East Coast, have been reporting legislative moves to expand New York state land gambling facilities for some months, and on Monday the issue jumped into the headlines again with a speculative report that the parent group of the online poker giant Pokerstars – the Isle of Man-based Rational Group […]
December 23, 2013
Just days after Julian Track triumphed in the main event of the European Poker Tour Prague, fellow countryman Julian Thomas has bested a field of 305 to take the honours in themain event of the World Poker Tour Prague, winning the first prize of $283,827. Entering the six-man final table stage, Thomas was one of […]
December 22, 2013
Players and marketing affiliates alike are scratching their heads over the reasons for a decision by Interpoker owners WagerLogic to withdraw gambling services from Canada. Advising affiliates of its decision by email this week, the company failed to explain the justification for the move, simply advising that it would accept no new signups from Canada…and […]
December 22, 2013
After just short of four months online the subscription poker site LiveAce has called it a day, citing the most fundamental of business reasons…an inability to generate sufficient revenue to cover operational costs. Although the subscription business model is not uncommon among US online poker sites trying to ensure they are operating legally under sweepstake […]
December 21, 2013
SealsWithClubs, an online poker website that deals in the virtual currency Bitcoin has been hacked, according to technical media reports emanating from the United States. The reports claim that the credentials of 42,000 users have been obtained by the attackers. In a statement posted on its website, SealsWithClubs revealed that the data centre it used […]
December 21, 2013
Topping the weekly leaderboard on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables this week was player “samrostan’, who earned a remarkable $912,134 win over 7,543 hands in 27 sessions. The big week followed a previous tally of $358,238 the player earned in the preceding week, the High Stakes Data Base reports. Samrostan’s nearest rivals were way […]
December 20, 2013
The organisers of the World Series of Poker have announced that the 45th in the series will take place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas between May 27 and July 14, 2014. Next year’s prestigious event will again feature the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker and the $1 million buy-in Big One for […]
December 20, 2013
Regulators from France, Spain and Italy have been discussing the practical need to increase player liquidity in their ring-fenced regulatory regimes by pooling their poker players for months, but on Wednesday the concept – recommended to France’s lawmakers by regulator ARJEL – was shot down…and without much debate. The politicians chose isolation rather than permitting […]
December 19, 2013
Ivan Soshnikov, a young poker pro from Russia, triumphed in a fast and furious European Poker Tour High Roller live tournament in Prague this week in which 176 talented players each ponied up $10,000 to enter. Soshnikov’s chances of victory didn’t look that good when the final table was reached; he was the low-stack man […]
December 19, 2013
German poker ace Julian Track is Euro 725,000 wealthier this week after emerging victorious from a 1,007-entry field in the European Poker Tour Prague main event. After 6 days of intense action the final table in the event still took a full day to produce a winner from eight accomplished players in Julian Track and […]