August 30, 2013
Nevada Senator Harry Reid was in the news again this week, still hinting that he may have a federal online poker legalisation bill up his sleeve and intimating that such a bill would answer the growing operator clamour for interstate compacts between New Jersey and Nevada as a means to improve player liquidity. Reporting on […]
August 30, 2013
The High Stakes Database reports that Wednesday witnessed a mid-week massacre of some high profile poker professionals playing the virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker. Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Gus ‘The Great Dane’ Hansen were among the biggest losers, dropping hundreds of thousands of dollars during the session in clashes with […]
August 29, 2013
Kansas City, Missouri professional player Blair Hinkle (27) is $1,745,245 million richer after winning the $10 million guaranteed Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Wednesday following an intense 160-hand heads up against internet and tournament ace Justin Bonomo. Billed as the richest live poker tournament ever held in the state of Florida, the $5,300 buy-in Seminole […]
August 29, 2013
Rob Yong, the respected owner of land and online poker room Dusk Til Dawn, opined on his blog this week that for a variety of reasons the popularity boom in poker is probably behind us now, and the time has come for the industry to settle down and grow steadily. Yong shares the view of […]
August 28, 2013
Although Party Poker is still in the throes of swatting technical bugs in a private beta testing phase on its much-hyped new poker software, some information was leaked over the weekend, prompting experts who studied the scanty snippets to comment that the big event may not necessarily be as revolutionary as has been suggested in […]
August 28, 2013
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout has published an interesting study on poker playing frequency over the year, confirming the empirical knowledge assembled by many operators that the northern hemisphere summer months of June, July, and August are the quietest as poker fans spend less time hunched over PCs and mobile devices and more enjoying […]
August 28, 2013
Poker pro Steven Silverman’s bank account is bulging this week following his $891,660 victory in the inaugural $100,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Alpha8 tourney…just three months after he took home Euro 775,400 after winning the 2013 Pokerstars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo (see previous reports). The buy-in for Alpha8, held at the […]
August 27, 2013
With pay-outs to players of almost half a billion Euros over the past nine years, Pokerstars can be allowed a little boasting about the success of its European Poker Tour, and this week the Isle of Man-based company recalled its history as a highly successful international tournament enterprise. On the threshold of its tenth season, […]
August 27, 2013
A 888Poker spokesman announced on the twoplustwo message board Sunday that the company is removing heads up cash games from its online poker client in a bid to create a more recreational playing environment in which poker fans can compete in a fairer setting. “In keeping with our strategy to make our poker room competitive […]
August 27, 2013
Barely days after the launch of an upgraded version of the Ultimate Poker software last Saturday, posts are appearing on the twoplustwo forum detailing software crashes and other fundamental failures such as pay-out technical glitches. Several frustrated players claim they reported the flaws, only to be told that their complaints had been escalated to management, […]