January 24, 2013
Cake Poker.eu is about to launch Cake Dice, its latest addition to a varied games portfolio that embraces both poker and casino games. The first games in the new offering will be Cee-lo and 1-4-24, played against a virtual backdrop of a back-alley in which players can win and lose real money on the roll […]
January 24, 2013
German poker ace Marvin Rettenmaier was the star of the evening at the inaugural European Poker Awards Tuesday night, held at the Aviation Club de Paris and sponsored by Global Poker Index. Top woman player and commentator Kara Scott MC’d the event in which a variety of accolades were handed out, including a Lifetime Achievement […]
January 24, 2013
The French regulator ARJEL has given its imprimatur for Pokerstars to launch its Zoom fast-fold poker variant into the French online poker market, and the company has been quick to move on the approval, launching real-money Zoom action on its dedicated French website. The new virtual tables went live Thursday evening, offering only no-limit microstakes […]
January 23, 2013
The Washington DC-based political publication Politico has published an interesting assessment of why Nevada Senator Harry Reid failed to achieve federal legalisation for online poker last year despite strong support from major land casino groups and the American Gaming Association Our readers will recall that Reid collaborated with the Republican Senator and arch online gambling […]
January 22, 2013
The 2013 Aussie Millions poker tournament is off to an cracking start with English poker pro Rupert Elder claiming the main prize in the A$1,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event against a field of 1,337 entrants at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Elder earned himself a bank-account boosting prize of A$250,000 after emerging victorious from a […]
January 22, 2013
It was a Brazilian celebration in Edinburgh this week when Nicolau Villa-Lobos triumphed in the main event of the Pokerstars UK and Ireland Poker Tour, besting a field of 611 to claim the top prize of GBP 101,000. The GBP770 buy-in did little to deter a large entry field that included top pros like Vladislav […]
January 22, 2013
Our readers will recall Betfair’s confirmation earlier this month that it was to switch in a controlled, planned manner from the Ongame poker network to that of Playtech’s iPoker. Internet reports indicate that the process is now in motion, with new players able to sign up only for the iPoker version of the company’s online […]
January 21, 2013
Online poker giant PokerStars has reportedly become an official partner of Olympique Lyonnais (OL), a French association football club based in Lyon that currently tops the French Ligue 1 division. Various promotional and branding opportunities will stem from the agreement including prominent PokerStars branding at the Stade de Gerland, website promotions, special tournaments, TV broadcasts, […]
January 18, 2013
Online gambling provider Fertitta Entertainment has moved a step closer to online poker following a deal between its new Ultimate Gaming online brand and Los Angeles-based Central Account Management System (CAMS) that will help it maintain regulatory compliance and accept payments online. CAMS is to provide Ultimate Gaming’s new Ultimate Poker online poker enterprise with […]
January 18, 2013
The 2013 edition of the Pokerstars Turbo Championship of Online Poker is now well underway and will run until January 27, featuring $15 million in guaranteed prize pools (up from last year’s $10 million) across 50 competitions. The organisers expect a repeat or better of last year’s performance, where actual prize pools reached $19 million […]