September 20, 2013
Brian Mattingley, the CEO of 888 Holdings and a key player through business partnerships in the evolving US online gambling market, spoke to Poker News this week on his firm’s experiences with American regulators. Emphasising that the online poker software being deployed in partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment on the newly launched WSOP.com website in […]
September 20, 2013
A player on the new WSOP.com online poker site in Nevada has highlighted a potential problem with credit card deposits, perhaps caused by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The controversial federal act, passed attached to an unrelated measure in a late night session of Congress, seeks to disrupt what it defines as […]
September 20, 2013
The latest brand for a fast-fold online poker product comes from 888 and is likely to be dubbed Snap, joining a list of similar products with rapid-fire titles like Blaze, Zoom, Speed, FastForward, Strobe, and the one that started the popular genre several years ago – FTP’s Rush Poker. Poker information sites and player message […]
September 19, 2013
Barely hours after a Caesars Interactive Entertainment press conference announcing the launch date of its WSOP.com intrastate online poker site in Nevada (see previous report), the site went live Tuesday on a small scale for an estimated 12,000 sign-ups who had registered earlier this year. The early registrants were tipped off by emails which contained […]
September 19, 2013
The current Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) tournament is producing major win prizes and large entry fields as it unfolds. In the $10,300 buy-in High Roller NLHE competition the prize pool guarantee was exceeded by almost a third to $2,980,000 thanks to 276 player entries and 22 re-buys. German online player “MauriceSch” took […]
September 17, 2013
WSOP.com will open its virtual real-money doors on Thursday September 19, becoming the second operator in the Nevada market, Caesars Interactive Entertainment revealed at a press conference Monday. “This is a historic moment for our company,” said Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) chief executive officer Mitch Garber. “A state-of-the-art poker offering from one of the most […]
September 17, 2013
The Isle of Man online gambling software provider Microgaming announced Tuesday that Åland-based operator, Paf, is live with the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) new downloadable Mac OS software. Running in the Adobe Air framework, the new client is compatible with Mac operating systems. It has the same functionality as the MPN’s ‘instant play’ client, allowing […]
September 17, 2013
The alleged room invasions and laptop tampering at the Hotel Arts, where many players in the recent European Poker Tour Barcelona were staying surfaced again this week with reports that more players have come forward with similar complaints. Following the Jens “Jeans” Kyllönen, Ignat “0human0” Liviu, Aku Joentausta and Lauri Pesonen complaints, no further information […]
September 16, 2013
High stakes online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom hit a bad patch last week, finishing as the biggest loser on Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed virtual tables after a series of disastrous defeats. Over the week, Blom dropped $1,366,606 in 12,031 hands over 210 sessions, far outstripping the next biggest loser, Gus ‘The Great Dane’ Hansen, […]
September 14, 2013
At the end of September the online poker players in France’s ring-fenced market will lose another internet poker room, following an announcement Friday by the respected Barriere group that it is to shut down its online poker operation. The company cited weak economic conditions and a declining local poker market as the reasons for its […]