January 10, 2013
Laurent Tapie and Prosper Masquelier captured the poker world’s attention 18 months ago with their ambitious concept of gathering thirty thousand laptop-toting poker players together in a football stadium to compete in an online tournament, then whittling them down to 3,000 survivors battling it out in a live tournament in the arena, with a massive […]
January 10, 2013
Those half-empty-glass railbirds who expected the massive heater Viktor ‘isildur1’ Blom has been enjoying since the start of 2013 to peter out will be surprised to learn that he continues to prosper – most recently by over $1.3 million. The young Swedish poker pro continued to ride the tiger on the high stakes PLO virtual […]
January 10, 2013
The latest failure to achieve federal legalisation of online poker, albeit at the cost of other forms of online gambling, has probably influenced US lobbyists to focus more on a state-by-state solution than a federal one, says Poker Player Alliance executive director John Pappas in an interview this week with Poker News. “I think the […]
January 10, 2013
It’s been an incredible introduction to 2013 for poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, who has earned $4.1 million in just over a week, crushing some of the best players around on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. But at some point there had to be a dip, and that occurred Wednesday when Blom […]
January 9, 2013
In the just over two weeks since the festive season kicked in, traffic at the re-launched Full Tilt Poker has soared, reports the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout. Despite a dip in interest during the first week of the period, the site appears to have regained momentum, re-claiming its second placing behind Pokerstars and eclipsing […]
January 9, 2013
With earnings of $2.4 million in the past week, some railbirds thought that Viktor ‘isildur1’ Blom’s current super-hot heater may be about to cool down, but the young Swedish poker pro proved them wrong Monday, taking another $425,000 home from the virtual high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker after playing mainly 2-7 Triple Draw […]
January 9, 2013
The growing numbers of women poker players has apparently persuaded Pokerstars to introduce a series of special tournaments under the branding Pokerstars Women’s Club. A statement from the company reveals that the new series is to feature sociable low-stakes action with tournament prizes in the form of merchandise and vouchers available in daily and weekly […]
January 9, 2013
The 21st edition of the Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS online poker tournament kicked off this week, offering players a guaranteed prize pool of $3 million over 35 events with low buy-ins. The series will run through January 20, with a $75 buy-in multi-entry Main Event the climax, currently offering a guaranteed $750,000 prize pool. So […]
January 9, 2013
The second entry day for the main event of the 2013 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas attracted a strong registration list, bringing the total number of entrants for Days 1a and b to 987. Railbirds had a hard time keeping up with the number of notable names taking their seats, […]
January 8, 2013
Following up on a preliminary announcement in September last year (see previous reports), online gambling group Betfair has announced arrangements for its move to Playtech’s 6 million player-strong iPoker network. In a statement last year Betfair announced plans to launch a Playtech-powered offering on the iPoker network in the Spanish and Italian markets. On Monday […]