September 17, 2012
The International Stadiums Poker Tour continued to ratchet up its publicity activity this week with the release of another slick video, this one introducing the Tour’s five poker ambassadors, David Benyamine, Sam Trickett, Michael Mizrachi, Patrik Antonius and Liz Lieu. Check out the video here: http://vimeo.com/49166394# The ISPT is the brainchild of Laurent Tapie and […]
September 17, 2012
The political relationship between Nevada Senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller (Democrat and Republican party members respectively) worsened over the weekend when Heller claimed in an interview that Reid was more interested in supporting fellow Democrat, Rep. Shelley Berkley in her bid for Heller’s senatorial position than he was in passing the online poker legalisation […]
September 17, 2012
Our readers will recall a report on software company Cardroom International (CI) who towards the end of last year laid legal claim to $30 million of the contents in the five bank accounts related to the Black Friday indictments. At the time CI felt the company was blocked from licensing its software to major media […]
September 17, 2012
Bernard Tapie’s 2013 International Stadiums Poker Tour’s (ISPT), now scheduled for 31 May to 6 June 2013, must register 15 000 players to go ahead and is able to accommodate 30 000 players in total. According to an interview with Poker Strategy, head of marketing Georges Djen clarified how the ambitious tournament is envisaged to […]
September 16, 2012
The scaling back of the IGT Poker network this week (see previous reports) has again brought into focus International Game Technology’s online gambling plans, and it appears that these centre on leveraging its DoubleDown Casino social gaming acquisition to prepare for real money online gambling. In a revealing interview with the publication Inside Social Games, […]
September 16, 2012
The weekend saw the conclusion of the World Poker Tour Season XI Grand Prix de Paris at the Aviation Club in Paris, with television producer Matt Salsberg, who held the chip lead at the start of the final day, emerging as the victor. Salsberg certainly did not have an easy ride, however, with the Danish […]
September 15, 2012
The World Poker Tour literally pushed the boat out in entertaining its WPT champions in Paris for the WPT Grand Prix de Paris at the Aviation Club this week. On Thursday a lunchtime cruise was organised, gliding along the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower and past Paris’ many historical and modern landmarks, including Notre […]
September 14, 2012
The release of details on a new federal proposal for the exclusive legalisation of online poker (see previous repoirts) has triggered a blistering response from New Jersey state senator Ray Lesniak, a high profile proponent of legalised online gambling where individual states wish to allow it. “I think it’s outrageous that these U.S. senators are […]
September 14, 2012
The Poker Players Alliance, which claims a membership across the United States of over 1.2 million poker fans, claims that an increasing number of Congressmen and women are leaning toward the legalisation of online poker, but says that his members need to continue urging their political representatives to support the concept. Pappas cites the Alliance’s […]
September 14, 2012
Around fifty operators on International Game Technologies (IGT) IGT Poker Network (formerly Entraction) have until December 11th to find an alternative, confirming widespread industry speculation circulating this week The poker network will reportedly be shuttered come year end with the company confirming it will narrow its focus on the more lucrative sectors involving its online […]