December 10, 2013
Reports carried by some poker information sites for the past week that GTech’s International Poker Network is to make changes confining itself to operations in nationally regulated markets are still being met with uncommunicative responses from the company. The reports quote an unnamed source allegedly close to the management arrangements involved who has claimed that […]
December 7, 2013
The UK online and land gambling group Ladbrokes has announced that it plans to migrate its online poker operations to Playtech’s iPoker network on December 21. The decision on a specific date follows advisories earlier this year that the UK group is to switch to Playtech as its primary software supplier, although it will retain […]
December 6, 2013
US Air Force jet pilot Derrick Rosenbarger from Clovis, New Mexico showed his considerable talent for poker as the week ended, taking down the World Poker Tour Montreal main event for $500,824 and the WPT Montreal championship belt…and it was only his second major live tournament! Besting a field of 861 other hopefuls who signed […]
December 6, 2013
Italian online professional player Domenico Drammis has bested 913 other contestants to take the title and Euro 135,000 at the Season 5 PokerStars Italian Poker Tour Saint Vincent Grand Final. The main event, held at the Casino De La Vallee, generated a Euro 558,546 prize pool and was won by Drammis after a dramatic heads […]
December 6, 2013
The much-hyped challenge match between Norwegian politician Erlend Wiborg and his countryman, poker professional player Ola “Odd_Oddsen” Amundsgård is about to commence December 7, but it will be a long drawn out affair, scheduled to end only in May next year. The objective of the challenge is to demonstrate that poker is a game in […]
December 3, 2013
Estonian based supplier Relax Gaming has developed software exclusively for the Unibet and Maria brands that will see the company move from the MPN (formerly known as Microgaming Poker Network) to a standalone poker product. Unibet’s involvement with Relax Gaming was further expanded by an investment of Euro 1.25 million in Relax Gaming for an […]
December 3, 2013
New Jersey poker players can play their favourite online poker from WSOP.com and 888Poker on mobile devices with the launch of iOS mobile poker clients, now available for download in the iTunes store. The app provides Sit and Go’s, tournament play and cash games and will soon be made available on the Android platform – […]
December 3, 2013
Poker fans will be able to watch poker classics via Youtube following a deal between Full Tilt Poker and the massive video sharing site which gives the online poker company its own sponsored Youtube channel. The channel will feature past major poker shows and programs, live streaming tweets from Full Tilt and promotions and advertising […]
December 3, 2013
The young Scots poker ace David ‘sluggy27’ Vamplew cut a swathe through the 2,328 other hopefuls in an online tournament this week when he won the Full Tilt Online Poker Series NLHE, $320 buy-in event 20, claiming the main prize of $111,768. In the closing stages of the game survivors Vamplew, ‘Mikeler’ and ‘I Follow […]
December 3, 2013
Internet security experts have used various computer and internet publications to issue a public warning that a Russian malware dubbed i2ninja constitutes a danger to internet users and has been targeting poker players. Apparently chitchat on some questionable hacker forums has revealed that the malware is effective on many of the leading online poker software […]