September 24, 2013
Online poker fans attracted to 888 Poker’s Mac client beta-testing earlier this year can now get stuck into the full-on product following its launch Monday. The Mac OS X client supports Hold’Em, Stud and Omaha genres and includes multi-tabling facilities, and full hand histories that can be accessed for analysis. Preferred seating facilities and the […]
September 24, 2013
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s current stats show that the latest online poker site to launch in Nevada’s intrastate legalised market, WSOP.com, has had a rather slow start since it opened its virtual doors last week As Pokerscout points out, with the might of Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s player base and the quality 888 poker […]
September 24, 2013
Our readers who enjoy a good read on major movers and shakers in the online gambling business will find an article in the publication Canadian Business this week absorbing – access it here: http://www.canadianbusiness.com/companies-and-industries/betting-it-all/ It presents a fascinating picture of Pokerstars, its business development and legal history, and some personal insights into the reserved yet […]
September 23, 2013
The respected investigative online poker journalist Haley Hintze, who’s pursuit of the truth in the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet debacles provided her readers with a slew of in-depth information, has been digging again…and this time she has unearthed an interesting by-blow on the series of e-cash processing prosecutions surrounding the Black Friday shut downs of […]
September 23, 2013
The Merge Poker Network’s premier US-friendly skin, Carbon Poker, has followed rival Lock Poker in shutting down its dedicated support forum on the major poker information site twoplustwo. Troubled Lock Poker closed its twoplustwo channel several months ago, referring players to its own heavily moderated and restricted entry forum if they have issues they wish […]
September 23, 2013
Hot on the heels of the launch of WSOP.com for Nevada State residents, the All American Poker Network (AAPN) has clinched a deal with Wynn Interactive. AAPN, the joint venture between 888 Holdings plc and investment company Avenue Capital Group, will develop and deploy Wynn’s online interests in regulated States in the U.S. market. Poker, […]
September 22, 2013
Cranston, Rhode Island pro Anthony Zinno (31) is the new WPT Borgata Poker Open champ, having bested a field of 1,189 to claim the honours and the first prize of $825,099 after a six day poker marathon that ended in a tense heads up with high profile international pro Vanessa Selbst. The weekend saw Zinno […]
September 21, 2013
Sweden’s mercurial high stakes poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom suffered another big overall defeat on the Full Tilt Poker high stakes virtual tables last week. Despite playing 7,283 hands over 176 sessions he finished the week’s biggest loser, dropping another $557,556, according to the High Stakes Data Base. In the week previous, Blom dropped $1.36 […]
September 20, 2013
Dave Schwartz, the director of the University of Las Vegas’s Gaming Research Center, told local publication 8newsnow this week that legalised online poker in Nevada could be good news for land operators. Schwarz said that experience has shown that online players develop a taste for the game that takes them to live environments and poker […]
September 20, 2013
The current World Championship of Online Poker online poker tournament is only halfway through at the ten day mark, yet the organisers report that the generous guaranteed prize pools on the various events have been repeatedly exceeded through the buy-ins of big entry fields, surpassing total guarantees to the tune of $10 million and counting. […]