August 22, 2012
In a move described by a company spokesman as designed to provide healthier poker room ecology, the Merge online poker network is to do away with bad beat tables and rewards once the current $300,000 jackpot has been won. Merge’s flagship skin – Carbon Poker – announced the move on its website, noting: “Effective Immediately: […]
August 22, 2012
The latest Malta-licensed online poker room to hit the skids is Bluff Gaming on the Enet poker network, which emailed players this week giving them the news and advising that they would be transferred to the network’s own poker room, but hardly under advantageous conditions. The writing has been on the wall for some weeks […]
August 22, 2012
Poker advocates received a powerful boost for their legal argument that poker is a game predominantly of skill rather than chance Tuesday when a federal judge in New York handed down a decision supporting their contention. The difference between skill and chance is significant and has been debated in courts around the world because it […]
August 22, 2012
The World Series of Poker 2012, again scheduled for Cannes in France and sponsored by Barrière Poker.fr, will sport a new Euro 50,000 buy-in Re-Entry NLHE High Roller event that is certain to draw in top international players. The organisers also announced this week that there will be seven bracelet events in a poker extravaganza […]
August 22, 2012
The Spectacular Swede – Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom – is in the high stakes headlines again this week after falling off a heater at the nosebleed tables on Pokerstars that has seen him win significant amounts in recent days. Blom’s nemesis, according to the High Stakes Database, was Ben ‘sauce123’ Sulsky, who took the volatile Swede […]
August 22, 2012
Titan Poker, the biggest skin on Playtech’s iPoker network is busy absorbing players from two failed online poker operators, probably as a result of the introduction of the network’s two-tier membership structure. Reports coming in at present are that CelebPoker and Dracula Poker are both shutting down, with players being directed to Titan. Dracula Poker […]
August 21, 2012
Pokerstars communication chief Eric Hollreiser gave an exclusive interview to the online publication Yogonet over the weekend, reviewing the momentous events leading to the acquisition of Full Tilt Poker and his company’s future plans for the site and its possible entry to the US market. In the interview Hollreiser details the company’s “no wrongdoing” settlement […]
August 21, 2012
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout reports that last week’s traffic showed a welcome upward trend of 6.5 percent, albeit mainly from the buzz around the imminent event of Pokerstars’ 85 billionth hand. Half of the top ten sites showed traffic gains, and on Pokerstars player numbers grew 17 percent as the milestone hand excitement […]
August 21, 2012
Pokerstars management has revealed that it is testing and actively considering the introduction of a “run it twice” feature, an innovation first implemented by the Merge network four years ago and dubbed “deal it twice”, which was subsequently followed by a Full Tilt Poker variant. The reprise feature has proved popular in high stakes games […]
August 21, 2012
Academics at the School of Economics of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland have furnished poker proponents with a powerful argument that skill is an essential element in the game, and that it is not purely up to chance when experienced players go into action. Associate Professor of Finance Martijn J. van den Assem and […]