September 28, 2013
International live and online poker ace Phil Ivey has had a bumper week on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables, ending a busy run with an overall profit of $900,000, reports the publication High Stakes Data Base. Playing under the pseudonym “Polarizing”, Ivey has in recent weeks taken a hammering that has put him in […]
September 27, 2013
Yet another documentary on internet poker is set for launch next (October) month, when the producers of “Drawing Dead – The Highs And Lows Of Online Poker” release the film on satellite channel DirecTV in the United States. The pre-release blurb claims that the doccie examined two sides of the popular pastime; the excitement of […]
September 27, 2013
Online poker security is very much front-of-mind with players following the recent laptop tampering scandal during EPT Barcelona tournament (see previous reports), and that perhaps presents a good opportunity to launch a player-focused protection product. The online poker information site Pokerfuse is about to seize that opportunity, collaborating with software engineering and network security consulting […]
September 27, 2013
Eagle-eyed John Mehaffey of the online poker information site US Poker.com, reports that social gaming giant Zynga appears to have abandoned, for now anyway, its ambitions for a Nevada intrastate online poker licence. Mehaffey spotted the withdrawal of the Zynga application on the September Nevada Gaming Control Board preliminary agenda, where it is listed as […]
September 25, 2013
Giant dinosaurs, blue avatar characters and soul trees, and showgirls made up like zombies were just part of the glitz and entertainment as the US gambling industry showcased its wares at the G2E Expo in Las Vegas Tuesday, but underlying the hype was the hard talk of business and politics as an estimated 25,000 delegates […]
September 25, 2013
Infiniti Poker.com – already almost twelve months late on its originally projected launch date – continued to edge toward a proper launch this week, enticing players to take part in a beta test phase of the proprietary software. The site appears to be focused on the social end of the market, judging by earlier comments […]
September 25, 2013
Party Poker has announced the dates and the first two sign-ups for its prestigious (and expensive) Premier League VII $125,000 WPT special event, which will feature 12 all-star poker names, competing at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal from the 20th – 26th November 2013. The special event takes place ahead of the $3,500 + […]
September 25, 2013
Next year’s Pokerstars Caribbean Poker Adventure tourney’s $10,300 buy-in main event will have a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million, the online poker giant has announced. The event kicks off on January 7 at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, with the organisers confident that last year’s entry field of 987 players will be beaten. […]
September 24, 2013
GTECH will showcase its new poker platform, along with a Mobile Poker offering for iPad tablets through its Interactive platform this week at the Global Gaming Expo. The completely re-designed scalable and flexible poker platform will include a host of new features which the company says address the changing dynamics of online poker. GTECH’s new […]
September 24, 2013
The convenience and availability of internet crowd-funding – raising capital for start-ups through internet users prepared to risk their money on an investment – has seen a social gaming online poker entrepreneur appealing for capital this week. Alex Kim is the founder and chief exec of Sponge Poker.com, and he’s hoping to raise $30,000 that […]