October 1, 2012
Cardbet.com and its four white label skins Suomi Vegas.com, Mets Poker.com, M8 Poker.com and Pro-Factory.com will migrate to the Tain platform following IGT’s notice of closure of its poker network. Cardbet will utilise Tain services that include the Tain vendor independent platform TCP, Tain Thorium fully managed Sportsbook, Tain Thorium Casino and Revolution Poker which […]
September 30, 2012
Portuguese player Francisco Da Costa Santos (36) won his country’s first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2012 WSOPE over the weekend, besting Spanish player Ana Marquez in the heads up to win the Euro 83,275 main prize in the Euro 1,650 buy-in Six-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha event. Santos and Marquez were the survivors of […]
September 30, 2012
The first of two Day 1 entry flights at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe kicked off over the weekend with an entry list of 215 players that included formidable players like Michael Mizrachi, Tobias Reinkemeier, Phil Ivey, Dan Shak, Matt Stout, JC Alvarado, Jennifer Tilly, Steve O’Dwyer, Victor Ramdin, Vanessa Selbst, Chris Moorman, […]
September 30, 2012
Online poker operator Juicy Stakes.com has been much in the news this week as a number of Revolution Gaming skins (Cake Poker among them) started transferring their US players to the site (see previous reports). Over the weekend the next stage of what appears to be a carefully planned strategy unfolded with the news that […]
September 30, 2012
Former Full Tilt Poker president Howard Lederer has continued to attract comment this week by following his widely publicised video interviews with Poker News (see previous reports) with a series of interviews on industry podcasts and other open media channels. The tenor and content of these appears to be much of the same, with some […]
September 29, 2012
Newly developed social gaming publisher PLAOR will launch its first Facebook game on October 8, 2012. The free-to-play offering titled “Hollywood Poker” features Texas Hold’Em Poker playing celebrities from the film, television, sports and music industries with poker player, actor and comedian Kevin Pollak recruited as an ambassador. Reportedly 160 celebrities have committed to playing […]
September 29, 2012
Just a month after sibling Bluff Gaming shut down, Bluff Room on the Merge Gaming Network is reportedly about to close. Although regulated by the largely ineffective LGA regulator in Malta, it is understood that Bluff Room player funds are out of the operator’s hands and are administered by the Merge cashier, giving players a […]
September 29, 2012
Giovanni Rosadoni (52), a French businessman who hails from Nice picked up a useful winner’s prize of Euro 107,614 this week in the Euro 3,250 buy-in No-limit hold ’em Shootout at the World Series of Poker Europe to become the third French WSOP champ for 2012. Twenty players benefited from the Euro 406,080 prize pool, […]
September 29, 2012
The Pokerstars blog lauded Russian player Marat “Maratik” Sharafutdinov this week, noting that the previously unknown grinder had achieved a remarkable return on investment in winning the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) main event. You can see why; the Russian used forty loyalty points to enter, and then leveraged that into a pay […]
September 27, 2012
French live poker pro Roger Hairabedian (60) won the third 2012 World Series of Poker Europe event, becoming the first French-born player to have won an event in the WSOPE’s six-year history and taking home his first WSOP gold bracelet. Topping a strong field of 97 that included the likes of Michael Mizrachi, Joe Hachem […]