September 6, 2013
Poker players staying at the Hotel Arts in Barcelona for the Pokerstars European Poker Tour stop in the Spanish city were concerned that their laptops may have been contaminated by criminal activity this week. Pokerstars confirmed on the twoplustwo forum that police are investigating at least two cases in which unauthorised entry into hotel rooms […]
September 5, 2013
Harrison, New York-based investment group MGT Capital Investments, Inc. has announced that its majority owned subsidiary MGT Interactive, LLC has acquired online poker assets from Gioia Systems LLC, the inventor and owner of a proprietary method of card shuffling for the online poker market. Trademarked under the name Real Deal Poker, the technology uses patented […]
September 5, 2013
Due to legal constraints, Full Tilt Poker – now part of the Rational Group of companies and a sister to Pokerstars – has been experiencing problems in finding an acceptable way to pay Italian players outstanding balances from the Black Friday debacle (see previous reports. In its deal with the US Department of Justice, Rational […]
September 5, 2013
The heady days of online poker experienced in the second half of 2010 – first quarter of 2011 appear to be behind us, according to latest numbers from the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout, and current player traffic stats indicate that this metric has reached its lowest point in the last six years. Despite new […]
September 4, 2013
Making almost as many headlines as the Syrian civil war itself Tuesday, U.S. Senator John McCain sought a little relief from the boredom of a three-and-a-half hour discussion by hauling out his iPhone and enjoying a little covert, play-for-fun online poker. But an eagle-eyed Washington Post reporter spotted the McCain move during the Senate Foreign […]
September 3, 2013
Pokerlistings has assembled an unusual cast of celeb players for its second annual Battle of Malta poker tournament on Sept. 26 -29, 2013 at the Portomaso Casino in St. Julian’s, Malta. Among those pitching up for the event will be porn star Puma Swede and the zany Jackass-style stunt group The Dudesons. In a press […]
September 2, 2013
Russian poker pro Vitaly Lunkin is celebrating his weekend victory in the Euro 50,000 buy-in European Poker Tour Super High Roller, in which he took home Euro 771,300 in prize money in a great start to the tenth edition of the popular Pokerstars series. 51 top players entered for the Super High Roller, which provided […]
September 2, 2013
Party Poker’s much-discussed software revamp is slightly behind schedule but is ready to go and will be implemented later this (September) month, according to company sources. Opinions based on the testing phase vary on how dramatic the changes are likely to be, with some experts opining that the new offering will be more an incremental […]
August 31, 2013
The past week has provided another example of the high risk – big betting predilections of poker’s top nosebleed players, with the High Stakes Data Base reporting the action at Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars high stakes virtual tables. HSDB reports that Niklas ‘ragen70’ Heinecker was high on the big money list, earning $351,652 on […]
August 30, 2013
Rob Yong, owner of the UK land and online poker operator Dusk Til Dawn, is a man of his word, implementing recommendations to improve the recreational poker environment he made on his blog recently (see previous report) in a new DTD initiative. Yong has launched Online Club Cash Games, where the tables are open only […]