November 6, 2012
Playtech has officially launched and migrated players of Betclic Everest Group’s Betclic and Everest poker products in France and international markets on ipoker.fr and ipoker.com respectively. Everest and Betclic poker in France will continue to share their liquidity pool and have improved their current rake structure to benefit French players. “France remains an important market […]
November 6, 2012
The Pennsylvanian Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is reported to become the first terrestrial casino in the State to go online with a free-play internet poker offering. Located in Wilkes-Barre, the casino will apparently run the offering utilising Bally Technologies software (see previous report) and is set to launch early 2013. While real-money play is […]
November 6, 2012
The PokerStars inaugural All Stars Showdown has its first champion. Dan “w00ki3z.” Cates beat Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky in a heads-up final that lasted around eleven hours. Cates won $550 000 and took a hotly contested title from some of the best players in the online poker world who included Ike Haxton, Tobias “KTPOKP” Kuder, Alex […]
November 5, 2012
The online poker information site Quadjacks unearthed an interesting opinion on the intricacies of the chance vs. skill legal debate over the weekend, reporting that Black Friday cash processing defendant Chad Elie had posted a view from former Missouri US Attorney Catherine Hanaway, now apparently employed in the legal private sector. Hanaway rose to prominence […]
November 5, 2012
The Canadian publication The National Post carried an interesting feature on the safety of physical vs. internet poker rooms in Toronto over the weekend, observing that poker players relocating to the city from the legally restrictive poker environment in the United States prefer the internet. Much of the article deals with the reputation and problematic […]
November 4, 2012
Clauses in the Reid-Kyl bill seeking to federally legalise online poker whilst banning other forms of online gambling exacerbate the tension between Antigua and the United States and attempt to re-write history, say Antigua government officials. The Antiguans are talking about sections of the bill which not only perpetuate the damage done to the Caribbean […]
November 3, 2012
Full Tilt Poker’s software beta-test has this week allowed players from Estonia, Belgium, Denmark and Spain to access their accounts for the first time in 16 months, participate in play-money poker games (see previous reports) and provides PokerStars account pairing functionality prior to the poker companies official re-launch date of November 6, 2012. French players […]
November 3, 2012
A newcomer to the social poker scene Nuclear Blast has announced the launch of a free-to-play social platform titled Nuclear Blast Poker in conjunction with kuuluu Interactive Entertainment AG. Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The company is widely respected […]
November 3, 2012
Everest Poker’s move from its parent Everest-Betclic network to Playtech’s iPoker offering was announced earlier this week (see previous report) although there was uncertainty regarding which of iPoker’s two tiers it would occupy. The confusion has been cleared up by iPoker, which confirmed that the new arrival would join the more recreational player-friendly iPoker 2, […]
November 3, 2012
Finnish online poker pro Ilari Sahamies’ success on the high stakes Pokerstars tables throughout the month of October has positioned him at the top of the High Stakes Database leader board with a profit of $1.6 million…and he was not alone in winning serious amounts of money at the tables. The mysterious Canadian player, known […]