May 9, 2013
Online poker room Poker Heaven, owned by Gaming Media Group, will run two poker rooms under the Poker Heaven brand across two player pools on the Ongame Network while continuing on the IPN/Boss Media Network. Online poker players can choose to play on either poker room through Poker Heaven’s landing page using one account. A […]
May 9, 2013
The almost legendary online exploits of Swedish high stakes poker pro Viktor Blom this week have kept internet railbirds enthralled, but perhaps inevitably his remarkably profitable run came to an abrupt halt Wednesday when he came up against Ben Sulsky in an encounter on the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables that can only be described […]
May 9, 2013
Lock Poker has been in the industry media headlines and a topic for discussion on poker message boards recently for all the wrong reasons. For months there have been allegations of slow-pay tactics and interference with player-to-player money transfers, and growing speculation that the company may be experiencing financial problems, but is still accepting deposits. […]
May 8, 2013
Top International poker pro Phil Ivey and reportedly initiated legal proceedings against the 184-year-old Mayfair-based Crockfords, owned by the Malaysian Genting gambling group. Our readers will recall the exclusive gaming club withholding Ivey’s substantial winnings after he went on a heater playing Punto Banco late last year. At the time, Crockfords admitted to authorities that […]
May 8, 2013
The US state of California, where online poker legalisation drives are currently on-going, could soon see a new and unexpected initiative coming from tribal gaming interests in the state. The Press-Enterprise news agency reports from Sacramento that execs from some of the state’s most powerful and successful tribal casinos have been meeting privately to hammer […]
May 8, 2013
This year’s Pokerstars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monaco is off to an exciting start, with days 1a and 1b attracting a total field of 533, among them many of game’s best players. Seen in the corridors and at the tables were luminaries like Viktor Blom, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, […]
May 7, 2013
Following a week of excitement and mainstream media headlines, the first legalised online poker site to launch in the United States – Ultimate Poker – appears to be settling down and building good business. The site, owned the Fertitta brothers of Station Casinos fame under their online gambling brand Ultimate Gaming, was given a 30-day […]
May 7, 2013
Pressure mounted this week on Lock Poker, a member of the Revolution poker network which has come under fire recently for slow-paying players and halting player-to-player fund transfers and subsequent cash-outs (see previous reports). The influential twoplustwo poker forum stopped the company from pushing its offering due to the volume of player complaints, with forum […]
May 7, 2013
The number of celebrities who have seen Twitter posts made in anger backfire should be a cautionary example for all users of social media communications, yet very public – and permanent – disputes still continue to surface on the site and its emailed content. The latest very public industry spat was reported this weekend by […]
May 7, 2013
Online poker railbirds at the virtual high stakes tables on the Full Tilt Poker site were treated to another series of epic confrontations between Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom this weekend as the two mixed it up once again. Our readers will remember previous high-value PLO heads up games in which amounts in […]