December 17, 2012
After some confusing information on its website, and on poker message boards this week which left players speculating, the management at RPM, an online poker skin on the Merge Poker Network, has confirmed that the site is closing. The reason for the closure is an acquisition agreement with an unnamed third party, who apparently intends […]
December 16, 2012
Internet poker industry leader Pokerstars has signed what is probably its fifth partnership agreement with a land casino, this time with the Spanish bricks-and-mortar venue Casino Gran Madrid. Earlier this month as yet unconfirmed news reports suggested that the Isle of Man-based online poker group was bidding for the $50 million Atlantic Club Casino in […]
December 16, 2012
The Euro 10,000 buy-in Pokerstars European Poker Tour Prague High Roller contest was won by German ace Marvin Rettenmaier over the weekend, giving him a useful Euro 365,300 take-home after a tough, two hour heads up against fellow German Fabian Quoss. The event, which drew 113 entrants and created a prize pool of Euro 1,107,400 […]
December 16, 2012
Sweden’s Ramzi Jelassi bested 863 fellow entrants over the weekend in the Euro 5,300 buy-in main event of the 2012 Pokerstars European Poker Tour Prague after six gruelling days and a 14 hour final table bedevilled by extended negotiations on a three way chop. Jelassi played masterfully throughout, to head by a million chips a […]
December 15, 2012
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada conceded Friday that his proposal for the federal legalisation of online poker, co-authored with Sen. Jon Kyl, will not make it through the current session of Congress. A disappointed Reid admitted his initiative had run out of time in the ‘lame duck’ session of Congress, but said that he would […]
December 12, 2012
American Gaming Association chief Frank Fahrenkopf widened the Association’s media campaign Monday with an op-ed article in the Washington DC publication Politico, warning that unless the Kyl-Reid bill is supported, the USA will see the largest expansion of legal gambling in history – presumably a reference to individual states passing their own online gambling legislation. […]
December 12, 2012
Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid, co-author of the Reid-Kyl online poker federal legalisation bill, showed a flash of exasperation during a Capitol Hill press briefing on fiscal cliff issues Monday when questioned about the lack of progress of his poker measure as the current session of Congress winds down. A reporter told Reid that his co-author […]
December 11, 2012
Despite repeated setbacks in his attempts to get an intrastate online poker legalisation bill through the California Legislature, Senator Rod Wright has revealed that he plans to embark on another run at the issue in January 2013. At the centre of his initiative will be an unamended version of his original SB 1463, the subject […]
December 11, 2012
The much-publicised heads up clash between Tom ‘durrr’ Dwan and Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom took place on the Full Tilt Poker site this week, leaving Blom a convincing winner. The contest started out as a $100,000 buy-in for each player, with the action across four virtual tables in a winner-takes-all match. But, typical of the two […]
December 11, 2012
Ravi Raghaven, a 26-year-old poker pro from Chicago, became an instant millionaire this week when he took down the 2012 WPT Five Diamond tournament at the Bellagio after a hard-fought heads up against Canadian pro Shaun Buchanan (30). Raghaven took home the first prize of $1,268,571, leaving Buchanan with a still-impressive runner up pay check […]