October 17, 2012
RedBet Poker will migrate from the IGT Network to Amaya Gaming’s newly acquired Ongame by early December, reports online poker information site PokerFuse. Industry observers surmise the migration will prompt sister-site WhiteBet, who already sits on the Ongame Network, to consolidate with Redbet following the move.
October 16, 2012
Coral Poker’s much heralded move from the Ongame network to Playtech’s iPoker Network has been completed, the company announced this week, signalling the completion of an agreement reached with Playtech back in July The ten-year agreement made provision for the online poker, casino and bingo offerings in the Gala Coral group to switch to Playtech […]
October 15, 2012
The publication Korea Joongang Daily explored the pitfalls of online social poker gambling over the weekend, detailing cases where players found themselves in difficulties even with the ‘virtual currency only’ rules. The problem arises with players who want more virtual game ‘points’ than the 300,000 won (around GBP168) a month they are allowed to legally […]
October 15, 2012
The Asian-facing gaming site TLC88.com will augment its online casino and sports betting product with poker courtesy of the Bodog Poker Network. The Chinese language website operates under a Philippines Cagayan licence and sells itself as “the leading creative online gaming website in Asia” running the slogan “Healthy Gaming Starts from Here”. TLC88.com’s chief executive […]
October 15, 2012
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) latest tour addition in South Africa is set to kick-off this week from October, 19 to October, 26. The first tour in the Southern Hemisphere in the WPT’s 11-season history will be held at the up-market Emperors Palace Hotel Casino Entertainment Resort and Hotel in Johannesburg. The tournament features a […]
October 13, 2012
Full Tilt’s poker room manager Shyam Markus took to the twoplustwo forum today to give a preview of, and perhaps gauge the reaction of, what players can expect of some aspects of the Full Tilt Reward Programme at launch in early November. Markus explained that the new reward programme is not a PokerStars initiative but […]
October 13, 2012
Since departing the Pokerstars Pro team Swedish online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom has been relatively low profile, but he had the railbirds twittering again this week with a typically up-and-down session on the Pokerstars high stakes tables. Playing with flair on the Pot Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw tables the youthful Swede ran […]
October 13, 2012
The Nevada television station KTVN interviewed James Costa, CEO of online gambling software and video game developer 3G Friday, who said that legalised online poker could be a fact of life in Nevada as soon as this spring. 3G already has a commercial tie-up with the Eldorado Casino (see previous reports) and has applied for […]
October 12, 2012
Despite the rancour generated last month between Nevada politicians Dean Heller and Harry Reid over the lack of progress of the latter’s online poker legalisation initiative (see previous reports), Heller still appears to view a post-election legalisation drive as possible, and says he is prepared to work with Reid on it. During an interview with […]
October 12, 2012
Online poker players transferred to the Enet Poker Network when Bluff Gaming closed its virtual doors last month (see previous reports) are experiencing further obstacles to their continued poker action this week as Enet tries to unravel a problem with Bluff owners IG and Partners over non-compliance with the original agreement. This week players were […]