July 25, 2012
The possibility of Tony Guouga’s Poker News being acquired by Pokerstars was explored in an extraordinary op-ed article published Tuesday by Vancouver-based Poker Listings.com writer Matthew Showell. His rather harsh assertions are unlikely to go down well at the Poker News offices, and have already come in for criticism in comments from readers responding to […]
July 25, 2012
Tomorrow’s Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on “the regulation of tribal gaming, focusing on brick and mortar to the internet” has revitalised speculation that tribal operators may be planning their own federal online poker legalisation bill. Approached for comment Tuesday by Poker News, John Pappas, the executive director of the Poker Players Association action group […]
July 25, 2012
High profile poker tournament professional Michael Mizrachi confirmed on Twitter this week that he has signed up to help promote the French-driven International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) project, set to debut at Wembley Stadium in the UK next May. “I just want to announce I will be @ispt_poker official ambassador. Will be one of the […]
July 25, 2012
The latest weekly report by independent online poker monitor Pokerscout notes that the recent removal of high stakes cash game tables from Pokerstars has had a minimal impact on the poker operator, attracting a mere 0.6 percent of total players and having little effect on traffic to the site. It appeared to be a relatively […]
July 24, 2012
The erstwhile finance man at Absolute Poker and Black Friday indictee, 32-year-old Brent Beckley, has been sentenced after some delay to 14 months in prison by Judge Lewis Kaplan. Earlier this year Beckley pleaded guilty to conspiring to break U.S. laws against gambling on the Internet conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud. The […]
July 24, 2012
The culminating events of the second edition of Pokerstar’s MicroMillions online poker tournament series over the weekend maintained the high player counts and big money that have characterised this year’s offering, with the $22 buy-in main event alone pulling in 65,063 players, 8,505 of whom cashed from the massive prize pool. The big main event […]
July 24, 2012
Despite a puzzling lack of official confirmation from the companies concerned, rumours are currently sweeping across the internet that online gambling software providers GTechG2 and Playtech plc have secured the inside track on potential contracts that will enable the US social gaming giant Zynga to enter the online poker field with real money action. Both […]
July 24, 2012
Michael Gaughan, the owner of the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is reputed to have made some harsh comments about Zen Gaming software recently that may suggest to that company that its future is uncertain. Gaughan is known to be keenly interested in a US legal online poker business, so much so […]
July 24, 2012
The days of easy entry into the online poker affiliate marketing sector – at least as far as Nevada is concerned – may be coming to an end. The Nevada regulations and licensing requirements laid down with the advent of legalised intrastate online poker in prospect include provisions dealing with marketing affiliates under the “Interactive […]
July 24, 2012
The decision to achieve third party testing status from the Nevada Gaming Control Board has clearly worked well for Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), which reports that it has received nearly 200 submissions for testing in the first three weeks since the company was named a “Registered Independent Testing Laboratory” by the Board. The submissions include […]