March 12, 2013
Legislative action on the New York state budget debate Monday provided an interesting bi-partisan proposal from two influential senators suggesting that the legalisation and taxation of online poker may go some way to resolving the state’s need for cash. The publication Newsday reports that the Legislature and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will debate the budget […]
March 12, 2013
Rumours of a renewed federal attempt to legalise online poker through the US Congress have been abroad for the past two weeks or more, and on Monday the Las Vegas Sun newspaper reported that Nevada Senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller have held discussions on the possibilities. They may be a little late, bearing in […]
March 12, 2013
The Swedish high stakes online poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom never fails to entertain, whether he’s enduring losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars in one of his famous coolers, or blasting the opposition away in equally famous heaters. This week it was the latter, with the High Stakes Data Base reporting he made a […]
March 12, 2013
Not content with a great performance in the European Poker Tour Prague, and a $365,000 top spot in the World Poker Tour National in Barcelona, 24-year-old Spaniard Sergio Aido added the UKIPT Grand Final to his list of victories this week, boosting his bankroll by a further GBP 144,555. Starting the final table on the […]
March 12, 2013
French online poker players now have access to the dedicated iPoker.fr network following Unibet’s switch from Ongame. The launch marks an extension of the existing relationship with Playtech beyond Unibet’s current games offering and further strengthens the ties between the two groups, a company spokesman said Tuesday. Playtech boasts that the iPoker network is the […]
March 11, 2013
Following two weeks of very public rivalry on Twitter and in the online media, a team of three Pokerstars pros skippered by Daniel Negreanu bested the pros from sister site Full Tilt Poker in a heads up battleship-format poker competition on Sunday. They did it convincingly, too – Negreanu, Bertrand Grospellier and Isaac Haxton won […]
March 10, 2013
Bay-area poker player Weikai ‘Kai’ Chang survived a record field of 642 other players to win the $7,500 buy-in Season XI World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star NLHE main event in San Jose, California over the weekend, claiming the trophy and a $1,138,350 pay-day that includes a $25,500 entry into the WPT World Championship. […]
March 9, 2013
Texas legislators could soon be debating online poker as other US states move toward the implementation of intrastate laws passed recently. A lively discussion on new Texas moves broke out on the twoplustwo poker forum this week on the news that fresh legislative developments were shaping up in the state notorious for its conservative attitude […]
March 9, 2013
A Californian tribal casino operator trade association, the California Tribal Business Alliance, has come out in support of the American Gaming Association’s attack on the proposed acquisition of the Atlantic Club land casino in New Jersey by Pokerstars’ parent The Rational Group. A spokesman for the Alliance, and for the Pala tribe, made the unsubstantiated […]
March 8, 2013
Internet poker players who used the Overbet and Iron Duke skins on the Merge poker network were disappointed to learn this week that both have closed. Players on various message boards reported receiving notifications which advised that Overbet had been purchased by an unidentified party, but that their account balances were safe. They were urged […]