November 1, 2013
19-year-old Spanish professional player Adrian Mateos may be too young to play in Vegas, but this week he has shown he has the ability to tangle with the best by emerging victorious – and a million Euros wealthier – in the Euro 10,450 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe main event. It was the young […]
November 1, 2013
Third quarter numbers from the French regulator ARJEL show a worrying further plunge in online poker revenues, which dropped 21 percent year-on-year after a 16 percent decline in the preceding quarter. That translates to a loss quantum of over a billion Euros compared with 2011 FY stats. ARJEL president Jean-François Vilotte has acknowledged that high […]
November 1, 2013
Viewers of the BloombergTV program Poker Night on Wall Street were not disappointed by the performance turned in by six top Wall Street financiers this week in the $50,000 buy-in charity event. Steve Kuhn of Pine River Capital took the honours after some tough competition from Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn; Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates; […]
November 1, 2013
The high profile online and live tournament poker pro Daniel Negreanu had plenty of cause for celebration this week; in a historic announcement he was declared WSOP Player of the Year for a second time, and he won his sixth World Series of Poker bracelet in taking down the Euro 25,000 buy-in World Series of […]
November 1, 2013
Routine mobile communications maintenance by AT&T illustrated this month how vulnerable geolocation facilities on internet gambling websites can be. Nevada’s first two legal online poker sites, Ultimate Poker.com and WSOP.com, suffered tournament and other interruptions on two days in October as a result of geolocation and communication outages occasioned by AT&T scheduled maintenance. The mobile […]
November 1, 2013
News that the Nevada Gaming Commission is to discuss amendments to its online poker regulations at next week’s meeting in Las Vegas may have caused some optimistic speculation that expansive changes may be on the horizon, but the Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the regulators will mainly be discussing relatively mundane technical and legislative […]
November 1, 2013
With the recent launch of Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s WSOP.com turning up the competitive heat in Nevada’s newly legalised online poker market, first mover Ultimate Poker.com started offering real-money Pot Limit Omaha games Wednesday. The pioneering site is offering six-handed tables of $1-$2 PLO and $0.10-$0.25 PLO, and a wider variety are likely to follow as […]
November 1, 2013
The Rational Group, parent company for Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker, appears to be experiencing problems in registering patents for FTP’s pioneering fast-fold poker product Rush Poker, judging by recent posts on the twoplustwo poker forum. Apparently FTP did not fully secure exclusive rights to the concept when it was conceived some years ago, and […]
November 1, 2013
A new online poker site – IntegerPoker.com – soft-launched on the recently introduced Equity Poker Network this week, powered by download and instant play software from the Norwegian company PlaySafeAB. Owned by anonymous individuals who merely disclose that they are “online poker industry veterans”, the site is licensed in Curacao, has full player services and […]
October 23, 2013
After just over a month of beta testing to a restricted audience, 888’s fast-fold online poker variant Snap Poker has emerged successfully and is being made available more widely with a larger games choice. Answering questions on the twoplustwo forum this week a 888Poker spokesman revealed that Pot Limit Omaha and higher stakes are being […]