March 21, 2013
The shocking news that former 2007 World Series of Poker champ Jerry Yang’s winner’s bracelet and other valuables were up for auction by the IRS to secure unpaid taxes (see previous reports) shocked many in the industry who knew the poker ace well. This week he confirmed that he had been involved in an unpaid […]
March 21, 2013
Pokerstars has confirmed rumours that it is to launch 4 new Omaha poker variants this week, naming the new offerings as Courchevel, Courchevel Hi/Lo, 5 Card Omaha Hi/Lo and 5 Card Omaha. Players have pointed out that the launches are the first new variants to be made available by Pokerstars since its Badugi offering back […]
March 21, 2013
South Korean prosecutors issued court summons on one of the country’s top celebrities and comedians Wednesday, citing Kim Yong-man (45) for gambling at illegal sports Internet betting sites for years. The publication Korea Joongang Daily reports that prosecutors will allege that he gambled around a billion won ($895,000) starting 2008. Kim has apparently entered a […]
March 20, 2013
The announcement last week by industry veteran Clive Archer that he is helming a new operator-guided online poker network branded Equity Poker Network (see previous report) triggered interest in the poker media as observers discussed what differentiates the new operation from the many other networks currently on the Web. One information site – Calvin Ayre […]
March 20, 2013
The latest poker-oriented television series due across American screens soon is titled simply ‘Bullets’ and has been funded from investments by a large number of grinders, judging from its production website at http://bulletstv.com/about-the-show/. Bullets is about Hugo and Mark, two integrity-challenged bank employees who hatch a plan to steal half a million dollars from a […]
March 20, 2013
It’s always encouraging to see a regulator seeking wider opinion and comment on internet gambling issues, and such was the case this week when the Nevada Gaming Commission published a “Request for Comment” on the potentially thorny subject of the Silver State widening the internet poker offering of its licensees through interstate compacts with other […]
March 19, 2013
Readers may have done a double-take on the news that Ultimate Poker will be online operating under a Nevada licence in the near future, but the enterprise is not the once-notorious sister of Absolute Poker, but a new brand owned by the Fertitta brothers of Station Casinos fame. The influential poker information site Pocket Fives […]
March 19, 2013
The latest weekly stats from the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout show that Full Tilt Poker has slipped to fourth place on the cash game leaderboard, trailing sister-site Pokerstars, and PartyPoker and iPoker. Pokerstars is still way ahead of the pack, the monitor reports, leaving Party, FTP and iPoker to the weekly tussle for second […]
March 19, 2013
Argentina’s Pablo Alexander Tavitian has taken down the $1,000 buy-in 2013 PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour Chile main event, besting a record field of 765 entrants with 259 re-entries that generated a prize pool of $993,000. By Day 4 the field was down to a final table of Tavitian and Sebastian Marcel Miranda, Alejandro Chokakis, […]
March 19, 2013
The Isle of Man-based internet gambling software developer and provider Microgaming celebrates a landmark in its business activities this week – a decade of online poker operations. Originally branded Prima Poker, then more recently the Microgaming Poker Network, the network (MPN) has been a top destination for online poker players since its launch in March […]