October 9, 2013
Full Tilt Poker plans to attract and entertain a significant audience in the Commonwealth of Independent States – a regional organisation of former Soviet Republics – and the Baltic states, through the launch of a reality television show that enables poker fans to play against top names in the game. With a working title of […]
October 9, 2013
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout reports that last week was a good one for online poker operators, with traffic increasing by five percent – the best performance since June this year. The top nine poker room and network sites all experienced improved traffic to cash game tables, with French leader Winamax advancing to eighth […]
October 8, 2013
Twenty-one-year-old Scots online poker player Robbie Bull’s tweet after taking down the UKIPT main event Monday for GBP 113,405 says it all: “Sweet Jesus. Dream final table. Everything went my way.” The fourth edition of the Pokerstars United Kingdom Ireland Poker Tour stop in London this week saw 747 hopefuls enter for the main event, […]
October 8, 2013
Lithuanian-born Antanas Guoga, better know in the poker world as the trash-talking Tony G, will be heading off to the EU Parliament in Brussels as a candidate for Lithuania’s Liberal Party. Guoga announced the news on his website saying: “Making the list leaves me well positioned for next year. The Liberal Party has set a […]
October 7, 2013
Two years of testing and development could be coming to an end with the imminent launch of Infinity Poker.com, an enterprise that CEO Michael Hajduk claims will offer an innovative element enabling players to see one another in a more expansive manner, and make deposits and withdrawals in the Bitcoin virtual currency if they wish. […]
October 7, 2013
German players have again dominated a major live poker tournament, with Martin Finger (23) taking down the GBP 50,000 buy-in European Poker Tour London Super High Roller event after a 2 hour tussle with countryman Tobias Reinkemier. The stress and endurance test were worth it; Finger took home GBP 821,000 in first prize cash, bringing […]
October 7, 2013
In a trading statement released Monday, The Weather Lottery Plc (TWL) reported a 10 percent decline in sales for the year to July 31 2013 despite a positive contribution for all its subsidiaries, with the exception of Devil Fish Poker Limited. The group revealed it is in the process of overhauling its lottery division’s systems […]
October 5, 2013
When you’re the biggest in the business, providing online poker services to hundreds of thousands of players around the clock, it’s perhaps inevitable that you will have to confront cheating issues from time to time, and that has apparently been the case at Pokerstars this week, with reports that players are receiving refunds in respect […]
October 5, 2013
Speculation around the identity of PlayinWasted – the WCOOP main event winner of $1,493,499 last week (see previous report) – has settled on a 22-year-old recreational player who is an economics grad currently studying psychology in Cologne, Germany named David Kaufman. Using information from poker message boards and an interview with the winner on the […]
October 4, 2013
The California legislature has adjourned for the third consecutive year without legalising online gambling despite the introduction of the Wright and Correa online poker bills and a tribal initiative, but that has not deterred proponents, who are setting up further runs at legalisation in the 2014 session. Mondaq News reported Thursday that current estimates are […]