March 17, 2013
After six days of international-quality poker the GBP 10,000 buy-in Pokerstars European Poker Tour London tournament produced a winner over the weekend, with 24-year-old Dutch pro Ruben Visser emerging triumphant to claim the GBP 595,000 main prize after a two hour heads up against Mantas Visockis from Lithuania. The international field of 647 players was […]
March 16, 2013
Full Tilt Poker is now firmly back in the game under its new Rational Group ownership and this Sunday (March 17) launches the twenty second edition of its popular Full Tilt Online Poker Series, with 38 tournament events scheduled, culminating in the main event on March 31st. This time around the company has guaranteed a […]
March 16, 2013
The Cyprus Mail reports that advanced new poker technology will be deployed in the forthcoming Nations Cup live poker tournament in mid-April…and for the first time in an event of this nature, there will be no dealers and no cards. Fourteen teams of six players each will take part in the tournament, with the top […]
March 16, 2013
The Supreme Court in Italy has confirmed its finding that tournament poker is a game of skill, effectively removing the game from the internationally accepted definition of gambling under certain circumstances. The poker information site Pokerfuse reports that the Supreme Court ruling has its roots in charges brought against the Double Up Club in Sicily […]
March 16, 2013
The International Stadium Poker Tournament initiative of French founders Laurent Tapie and Prosper Masquelier-Partouche was given another significant boost in credibility this week with the revelation that the UK land and online gambling group Genting has given its support to the inaugural ISPT tournament at Wembley later this year. The news was first posted on […]
March 15, 2013
Bankruptcy proceedings opened against Full Tilt Poker.fr’s REKOP Ltd on January 18, 2013 with the appointment of PriceWaterhouseCoopers was followed by a request from the liquidator on behalf of the company for the repeal of its ARJEL licence which has been granted by the French gambling authority. The public advisory said the decision to repeal […]
March 14, 2013
The hundreds of millions of dollars from the Pokerstars settlement that the US Department of Justice has been holding for payment to Full Tilt Poker players (see previous reports) may soon – finally – be disbursed following the news Wednesday that the feds have appointed a third party, independent Claims Administrator to handle the project. […]
March 14, 2013
Keen-eyed industry observers spotted an intriguing US Treasury notification this week advising the public auction of some expensive watches and jewellery that included a 2007 World Series of Poker main event winner’s bracelet – the year Jerry Yang emerged as the champion. According to the notice at http://www.treasury.gov/auctions/irs/saca_anti_6678.htm the auction is taking place under the […]
March 14, 2013
The American Gaming Association’s attempt to derail the acquisition of the Atlantic Club land casino by Pokerstars parent The Rational Group appears – at least for now -to have been put on the back burner for more careful consideration by the New Jersey regulators. In an unprecedented move earlier this month the AGA launched a […]
March 13, 2013
Promotional blurb says the new Costa-Rica based Equity Poker Network (EPN) is a cooperative non-profit poker network where “operators can now sign up to a fairer future where profit and cross cage is balanced ensuring that mostly losing players will be winners.” “We’re rewriting the rules to provide small and medium size businesses with an […]