July 15, 2012
Online gamblers, and especially poker players, have been left holding the baby in a number of recent operator failures at companies like Full Tilt Poker, Everleaf, Purple Lounge and 5050Poker, severely denting player trust in apparently powerless or out-of-touch regulators as well as online gambling operators. Over the weekend the poker information portal Pokerfuse took […]
July 15, 2012
There is clearly something wrong with the financial systems in use at Lock Poker and possibly the Revolution Poker Network, and it’s frustrating and angering players who are reporting on a variety of internet message boards that their deposits are leaving their online accounts but are not being reflected in their poker credit balances. This […]
July 15, 2012
With the unremitting pressure and stress of a week of top level, poker-filled days starting to show on the faces of many of the remaining players in the 43rd World Series of Poker main event, 282 survivors from an original field of 6,598 took their seats at 32 tables in the Amazon Room at the […]
July 13, 2012
Timothy Louis (39), a dealer from New Orleans who was involved in the Big One for One Drop epic, was honoured as Dealer of the Year when Day 3 of the 2012 World Series of Poker main event started Thursday in Las Vegas when a field of 1,698 players – survivors of the first five […]
July 11, 2012
Yesterday’s report that Howard Lederer and Rafe Furst had submitted motions for the dismissal of Black Friday civil claims against them initiated by the Department of Justice has been followed by reports that Full Tilt shareholder Christopher ‘Jesus” Ferguson and online poker operator Pokerstars have launched similar motions. Telamonian Ajax Trust, a bank account in […]
July 11, 2012
The 2,044 combined survivors of the World Series of Poker main event Days 1 A and B reassembled Tuesday to continue the fight to remain in the competition, with William John holding the chip lead on 266,700. Unfortunately it was not to be his day, and he was eliminated by Mark Demirdjan as play progressed. […]
July 10, 2012
3,418 hopefuls registered for Day 1C – the last of the entry days at the 43rd World Series of Poker main event in Las Vegas Monday, with many of the top players in the game leaving it to the last minute to show up; including the legendary Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson, who had earlier tweeted […]
July 10, 2012
Full Tilt Poker chief executive Ray Bitar was on his way to his home in California Monday after being released on extended bail conditions imposed by federal judge Paul Engelmayer. Detained on a slew of serious charges (see previous reports), 40-year-old Bitar had spent the weekend in jail, but raised the $2.5 million bond after […]
July 10, 2012
Caesars Entertainment, the organisers of the World Series of Poker, has released official numbers for the 43rd edition of the series currently taking place at the Rio in Las Vegas. This year’s main event attracted an entry list of 6,598 players – the fifth largest turnout in WSOP history, but 3.8 percent down from 2011. […]
July 10, 2012
Dominik Nitsche, a 21-year-old internet poker pro from Minden in Germany, may still be in the early stages of his career but he has already amassed impressive career earnings of over $3.5 million in internet and live tournament competitions. Early Monday morning he secured his biggest win yet, taking down World Series of Poker event […]