April 4, 2013
The producers of the upcoming documentary on poker formerly titled BOOM! (see previous reports) have re-titled the production Bet Raise Fold: The Story of Online Poker, and have launched another trailer on Youtube. The documentary is scheduled for release mid-year 2013 and covers the evolution of online poker through the eyes of three well-known players; […]
April 3, 2013
Merge Poker skin Poker View has closed its virtual doors, offering to transfer its players to a choice of other Merge skins after just two years of operations that started on the troubled Everleaf network before switching to Merge. The company’s website advised players this week: “PokerView has been purchased by a third party. Your […]
April 3, 2013
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has entered into an exclusive, three-year agreement with Zokay Entertaiment, parent company of the Global Poker Index and Fantasy Poker Manager. Under the terms of the deal, Zokay’s Fantasy Poker Manager product has been appointed the official fantasy poker game of the WSOP. Fantasy Poker Manager is a Facebook-based, […]
April 3, 2013
PokAfrica.com is a new online poker room that has gone live on gaming platform IntellogiX. According to a press statement from the company, the poker room was born from an alliance between “Million Poker Paradise Limited (Mauritius) coordinator of the World Poker Tour Mauritius promoted by Sylvain Liotard and the Asian Poker Tour Mauritius, Paradise […]
April 2, 2013
In a move that continues to group its online gambling interests, Amaya Gaming is moving InterPoker to the recently-acquired Ongame Poker network, with implementation scheduled for the end of April. The well-established site is currently part of GTech’s International Poker Network, and the move will involve some player policy changes that include a ban on […]
April 2, 2013
The 22nd edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series main event is in the books after a weaker turnout than that experienced in previous years, with a still-impressive entry field of 3,653 hopefuls generating a prize pool of almost $2.2 million…down around $600,000 on previous years. Nevertheless, winning player ‘Feelfine’ took home $392,000 after […]
April 2, 2013
Ian Simpson from Cramlington near Newcastle in England has won the 2013 Paddy Power Poker.com Irish Open, taking home from Dublin the Euro 265,000 main prize. The English science teacher also won his girlfriend’s hand in marriage when he proposed after winning the NLHE tournament at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin in the early hours of […]
March 31, 2013
World Series of Poker bracelet holder Rocco Palumbo (24) from Genova, Italy has claimed the main prize of Euro 140,000 after besting a field of 172 other players in the Euro 3,300 buy-in World Poker Tour Venice at Casino Di Venezia. Palumbo, who is a seasoned live tournament player with many major events under his […]
March 29, 2013
Last year’s live Ironman Poker Challenge at the Delaware Park land casino was officially acknowledged as a new world record this week. The famous Guinness Book of World Records awarded the accolade “Longest Continuous Poker Tournament” to the event after exhaustive confirmation tests, declaring its 36.5 hour duration as a new benchmark for non-stop poker […]
March 28, 2013
French operator Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) was named an official sponsor of L’European Football Poker Tour (EFPT) earlier this week. PMU Poker will sponsor the inaugural EFPT, a tournament supported by poker, football and horseracing personalities whose main objective is to raise money for charities. The tournament which will be held in Paris at l’Aviation […]