June 12, 2013
Online poker fans have to contend with another ‘affiliate-style’ poker network controversy this week as reports mount from players who have not been paid for extended periods of time by the Poker In Venice (PIV) multi-software network, and claim on message boards that the company is unable to meet its financial obligations. The network is […]
June 11, 2013
American professional player Athanasios Polychronopoulos is wealthier today by $518,755, having just taken down event 17 at the World Series of Poker – a $1,500 buy-in no-Limit hold’em competition that also delivered his second WSOP bracelet. Polychronopoulos bested a field of 2,104 entrants in a deja vu kind of victory – his first bracelet came […]
June 11, 2013
US media reports indicate that Brent Beckley (32), one of the founders of Absolute Poker in 2003 and a key financial exec in the company in its heyday, was released from prison last Thursday having served just 10 months of a 14 month prison sentence. Unconfirmed reports are that Beckley’s mother posted a vid of […]
June 11, 2013
It’s been almost a year since Pokerstars’ parent The Rational Group gave the US federal authorities hundreds of millions of dollars to clear the way for its acquisition of Full Tilt Poker, yet US players have still not received back their account balances. Nor are they likely to in the near future, the claims administrator […]
June 10, 2013
Jonathan Taylor (31), a professional poker player from Alabama, is the latest World Series of Poker champion, having taken down Event 14, the $1,500 buy-in NLHE competition to add his first bracelet to a poker jewellery horde that already includes 3 WSOP Circuit winner’s rings. The poker pro has a total of ten Circuit cashes […]
June 9, 2013
A US provider of geolocation and ID verification services, Aristotle International, has an unusual testimonial claim – for more than 25 years, every occupant of the White House – Democrat and Republican – has used its products and services, in addition to many U.S. Senators, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democratic and […]
June 9, 2013
The World Series of Poker consigned two more events in this year’s series to the history books Friday, with a recreational player winning event 12, and a high profile professional player taking down number 13. In event 12 – the $1,500 buy-in Pot Limit Hold’em – Lev Rofman, a 37-year-old recreational player resident in Las […]
June 8, 2013
Senator Harry Reid from Nevada may still be working on yet another federal internet poker legalisation bill (he’s already failed twice to get similar measures through Congress) but he is not optimistic on his chances this time around either…and the submission of the broader King bill may complicate the issue. That’s the conclusion one draws […]
June 7, 2013
German poker pro Niklas Heinecker (28) joined the ranks of Germany’s top earning poker stars Thursday with a convincing win in the GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions that boosted his bank balance by a career-best US$4,464,516 – one of the biggest pay-days in international tournament poker yet seen outside Las Vegas. Heineker took down the US$130,000 […]
June 7, 2013
22-year-old professional player Levi Berger, who hails from Ottawa but lives in LA, became the fourth Canadian to win a WSOP bracelet so far at this year’s tournament in Las Vegas, beating a field of 924 entrants to claim the first prize in event 11: the $2,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max. Berger’s win was made […]