November 20, 2013
Jared Jaffee, a two times WPT final tabler, bested a field of 358 players to take the WPT Bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble for $252 749. Going into heads-up play Jaffee and Blake Purvis were on even ground on chip count but Jaffee emerged victorious following 41 hands of play. Final table finished up: 1 […]
November 20, 2013
Crown Melbourne and Pokerstars have announced that the 2014 Aussie Millions poker tournament main event will become part of the PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour next year. The sixteenth annual edition of the Aussie Millions commences on January 23 and includes a A$10,600 buy-in main event starting February 2, along with A$25,000 buy-in Challenge; A$100,000 buy-in […]
November 20, 2013
Rational Group, the parent company for Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker, has reportedly been denied a New Jersey online gambling licence in its partnership with Atlantic City casino and hotel Resorts. Breaking the news late Tuesday after speculation earlier this week that a licence would not be forthcoming, the information site Poker News quoted “…a […]
November 19, 2013
The full line-up has been confirmed for Partypoker’s Premier League 7 at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. The week-long event is a 12 runner $125,000 buy-in WPT special that takes place ahead of the $3,850 buy-in Partypoker.net WPT Montreal scheduled for 29th – 5th December 2013. Due to the fluid nature of high stakes […]
November 18, 2013
For the third time this year German professional poker player Philipp Gruissem has finished first in a major live tournament, winning the $100,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Alpha8 High Roller in St. Kitts. During 2013 alone, this prolific player has made it to seven top six-figure event final tables. His latest triumph comes just weeks […]
November 17, 2013
Impatient Full Tilt Poker players have been waiting for their funds since Black Friday in April, 2011 but they may have to resign themselves to another four months before payments are made by the Garden City Group, the third party administrator commissioned by the US Justice Department. The company is tasked with the evaluation and […]
November 16, 2013
Kudos to online poker company Pokerstars, which reacted remarkably quickly in setting up fund-raising efforts for the victims of the massively destructive Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. In just 48 hours the company’s Helping Hands program facilitated the donation from players of $100,000, which Pokerstars will match as promised. The Rational Group, which owns Pokerstars […]
November 16, 2013
Poker Strategy, the online poker information site recently acquired by Playtech plc (see previous reports) appears to have the inside track on new developments at Playtech’s iPoker Network, reporting this week on a number of changes at the network. * The network is to phase out the use of the US dollar in cash games […]
November 16, 2013
With less than a week to go before the soft launch of New Jersey online gambling, the Pokerstars-Resorts partnership has still not appeared on the latest list of participants thus far approved by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, heightening speculation that there may be a problem with the partnership’s application. The latest list of […]
November 16, 2013
The second Isle of Man get-together of the Pokerstars European Player Council, formed late last year to improve regular and formalised player-provider interaction, has produced some mutually beneficial outcomes. In October six players travelled to the Isle of Man headquarters of the online poker provider for a series of meetings with heads of departments covering […]