May 31, 2013
Online poker operator Pokerstars, which commands half the global internet poker market, is preparing for the dealing of its 100 billionth hand, a landmark event which will likely occur this (June) month. The Isle of Man-based company has set aside over $5 million for special promotions designed to celebrate the achievement on the run-up to […]
May 31, 2013
Gibraltar-based 888 Holdings plc and CIE, the interactive subsidiary the US land gambling group Caesars Entertainment, have entered a sponsorship agreement between 888poker and Caesars’ the World Series of Poker for live internet streaming to all non-USA residents, of almost all WSOP final tables. The live streaming kicked off Thursday at http://www.wsop.com/2013/live-video/, with the final […]
May 31, 2013
The first event of this year’s World Series of Poker – the $500 buy-in employees event – has been won by poker journalist Chad Holloway and is in the record books. Holloway is the senior news editor for PokerNews.com, and as such he qualified as a WSOP contractor for entry. Holloway survived a hungry and […]
May 30, 2013
Caesars Entertainment used Wednesday’s start of the World Series of Poker 2013 to launch a play-for-fun online poker site…but an unintended technical glitch that temporarily allowed a few players to deposit and play for real raised false hopes that the Real McCoy was now online and competing with Ultimate Poker.com. The soft launch illustrated that […]
May 30, 2013
The Alands online gambling operator PAF (Penningautomatförening) has announced the opening of its third online poker room, this one on the Microgaming Poker Network. Branded “Heart” the new offering joins “Diamond” on the International Poker Network and “Spade” on Amaya Gaming’s Ongame Network.
May 30, 2013
Wednesday saw the launch in Las Vegas of world pokers most prestigious and big-money spectacular – the 44th World Series of Poker tournament at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, running until July 15. Past tradition was followed with the first event being a $500 buy-in Casino Employees event, and this was followed by an […]
May 29, 2013
Gambling author Ben Mezrich will be pleased at the amount of UK mainstream press publicity his new book “Straight Flush” on the founders of Absolute Poker achieved following its launch this week. Several mainstream newspapers and magazines reviewed the book in detail, publishing pictures of Absolute Poker founders Brent Beckley, his step-brother Scott Tom, Garin […]
May 29, 2013
The Everleaf Poker Network’s withdrawal from the US market, its hassles with regulator the LGA and criticism for not paying its players are still reverberating around the industry and this week fresh information surfaced suggesting that the new Pluto Poker Network may have closer ties to Everleaf than was previously known. In an expose by […]
May 28, 2013
Swedish online poker ace Viktor Blom (23) left his customary hunting ground on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt this week to have a go at the $10,000 buy-in Pokerstars SCOOP main event online tournament, and the move paid off handsomely. The young pro scored $1.1 million in besting 579 other entrant, who generated […]
May 28, 2013
In what appears to be a major PR coup, the Isle of Man-based Pokerstars online poker operator has presented its case in a long Wall Street Journal story authored by respected gambling journalist Alexandra Berzon. Although the founder of the company, Isai Scheinberg, continues to keep a low profile following his indictment by US authorities, […]