April 19, 2013
Station Casinos and Secure Trading are the latest companies to be awarded Nevada online poker licensing by the Nevada Gaming Commission, the Las Vegas Sun newspaper reported Thursday. Secure Trading is an industry services supplier involved in payment processing, customer identification and geolocation services, and is a subsidiary of the well-known and pro-online gambling UK […]
April 19, 2013
Online gambling group Playtech plc, which owns the iPoker Network, announced Thursday that the coming weeks will see a significant upgrade in its poker software. The improvements will involve the introduction of iOS and HTML5 apps, a new multi-tiered VIP system, re-designed mobile clients and fresh tournament structures. The VIP changes will see up to […]
April 18, 2013
The Ongame Network’s Grand Series of Poker live will be rebranded as The Grand live at the start of its fourth season in September said Ongame parent company Amaya Gaming Group this week. Season 4 of the live tour and its destinations will be announced within a few weeks on TheGRANDLive.com, while information on the […]
April 18, 2013
The 2013 edition of the popular Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) schedule has been released by the Isle of Man internet poker company, showcasing 44 events x3 to offer 132 low, medium and high stakes buy-in competitions. The buy-ins for SCOOP 2013 range from $5.50 to a high-rolling $21,000. The festival starts May […]
April 18, 2013
Multi-million instant win jackpot games supplier Topjack Games has added network operator Cake Poker to its growing list of partners in its first major network deal. Topjack has provided the network with its suite of mega jackpot games for release to network skins in the coming weeks. Cake Poker players can either use the multi-currency […]
April 17, 2013
Full Tilt Poker has moved to provide a more attractive and perhaps safer playing option for new online poker players, introducing “New to the Game” virtual tables this week. The strictly controlled tables are designed to ease newbies more gently into the game, giving them more time to make playing decisions and shielding them from […]
April 16, 2013
Former Full Tilt Poker chief executive Ray Bitar was all over the US mainstream media again Monday, having formalised his guilty plea flowing from the Black Friday shutdown of the company two years ago Last week Bitar’s legal representatives revealed that he would plead guilty and accept the forfeiture of some $40 million in cash […]
April 16, 2013
Last week, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed into state law a bill designed to kill off internet cafe sweepstakes gambling in the state following the multi-million dollar Allied Veterans of the World scandal around the pastime This week the wider repercussions of the bill have been highlighted by an apparent WPT Club ban on Florida […]
April 16, 2013
Poker players on the Cyprus team in the European Nations Cup heats held on the Mediterranean island this week did well, emerging as the one of six winners and qualifying to play in the World Nations Cup Final in November, reports the Cyprus Mail. The qualifying tournament, sponsored by the International Federation of Poker and […]
April 15, 2013
Sam Trickett’s Team Europe, comprising Marvin Rettenmaier, Phil Gruissem, Dominik Nitsche, Sam Holden, with Trickett as captain, emerged victorious after a poker competition over the weekend against teams from two other continents The competition was part of a feast of poker taking place under the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific and 2013 Caesars Cup […]