January 8, 2013
Despite having to abandon his intrastate online poker legalisation attempt in the California Legislature last year (see previous reports), California Senator Rod Wright remains optimistic about the measure’s chances in 2013 following its recent reintroduction. The publication Online Poker Report managed to get an exclusive interview with the Senator at the recent National Conference of […]
January 8, 2013
Only a week into 2013, Swedish online poker phenom Viktor ‘isildur1’ Blom has earned over $2.4 million on the nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker to become the site’s biggest earner since relaunch. On Sunday he took another $344,000 off several top players, boosting his total profit for the week to $2,443,311 in 7,903 hands, […]
January 8, 2013
Live and online poker pro Scott Seiver (27) may have taken a beating from Viktor Blom on the virtual nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker earlier this week, but he has recouped his losses and then some by winning the NLHE $100,000 buy-in Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure High Roller at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. […]
January 6, 2013
Proposed changes to Nevada’s online poker legislation are being interpreted as a smart move by the state to remove the obstacle of prior federal approval following the failure of yet another Congressional attempt at legalisation by Sen. Harry Reid. Importantly, the amendments move legalisation beyond a mere intrastate approach to one which makes provision for […]
January 5, 2013
Swedish online poker pro Viktor ‘isildur1’ Blom’s major online poker heater continued this week, with the young ace pulling in another $700,000 from seasoned nosebleed players on the Full Tilt Poker virtual high stakes tables. Only five days into the New Year, Blom is already up $1.2 million to the excitement and delight of his […]
January 5, 2013
Britain’s Dusk Till Dawn poker club is set to debut an interesting new multi-level prize pool concept on January 10. The brainchild of poker pro Roberto Romanello, the idea has been developed in collaboration with Rob Yong and Simon Trumper at DTD and consists of a format that offers three buy-in levels and three separate […]
January 4, 2013
Twenty-four-year-old poker pro Greg Merson from Laurel, Maryland has been honoured as the 2012 Player of the Year by the influential Card Player Media group. Merson successfully kicked a serious drug habit just over one year ago before going on to win two World Series of Poker bracelets in the summer – the $10,000 buy […]
January 3, 2013
The mercurial young Swedish poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom embarked on one of his heaters this week, tearing up the opposition to emerge from one 1,536-hand session and take home almost $565,000. Playing PLO and 2-7 Triple Draw at bets as high as $1,500/$3,000 on the Full Tilt Poker virtual tables, Blom demolished some quality […]
January 3, 2013
2012 has been a marvellous year for Martin Rettenmaier of Germany, who has already been selected as Player of the Year by the influential sites Card Player and Bluff, and is top of the nomination lists for the upcoming 2013 European Poker Awards. He has also been honoured as the 2012 European Global Poker Index […]
January 3, 2013
Pokerstars is expanding the scope of its Zoom fast-fold poker variant by introducing it to tournament play, initially in beta-test mode. Launched on the first day of the new year, the tournament version is reportedly already attracting plenty of action, encouraging the online poker giant to offer 12 or more real-money Zoom Poker tournaments on […]