June 7, 2012
Canadian poker pro Ashkan Razavi added to his growing list of career cashes Wednesday with his biggest take-home yet – the impressive $781,398 main prize in event 9 of the 43rd World Series of Poker, a $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Re-entry competition. In claiming the lion’s share of the $4,595,400 prize pool generated by the […]
June 7, 2012
The August element of the Pokerstars Macau Poker Cup: Red Dragon series has been unexpectedly cancelled by organisers Pokerstars, although the June element scheduled for this weekend will be held. Apologising for the cancellation, Pokerstars director of live poker tournaments, Danny McDonagh, could only say that the decision had been prompted by ?events beyond our […]
June 6, 2012
The storm swirling around the Everleaf Poker Network and claims that players remain unpaid months after its February exit from the US market intensified this week when e-cash processor PIC Club exec Chuck Kidd spoke out on the issue. In an interview with the poker information site Pokerfuse, Kidd refuted the troubled network’s claim that […]
June 6, 2012
Investigative journalist Haley Hintze’s blog over the weekend provided interesting reading as she reported on the latest developments in the legal manouevreing around the erstwhile parent company of Absolute Poker, the Norwegian registered Madeira Fjord AS. Our readers will recall the furore that surrounded Madeira Fjord’s bankruptcy and subsequent tax claims from the Norwegian government […]
June 6, 2012
The Merge Poker Network had more than just a buggy software upgrade that saw the network offline for several hours to worry about this week. The nightmare of significant numbers of players reporting suspicious charges on their credit and debit cards faced the poker site, already depleted by the exit of Lock Poker. The twoplustwo […]
June 5, 2012
A small but highly publicised confrontation over the new WSOP rule that players must verbalise their intentions when playing at final and feature tables created a stir at the tournament over the long weekend and resulted in WSOP communications chief Seth Palansky having to offer an apology and surrender responsibility for tweeting on behalf of […]
June 5, 2012
Aubin Cazals (21) travelled all the way from Toulouse in France to Las Vegas to compete in the 43rd World Series of Poker, but it was worth it following his victory this week in Event 6, the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Mixed Max contest. After four days of intense poker, the French pro bested a […]
June 5, 2012
French rap star Bruno “Kool Shen” Lopes showcased another talent over the weekend when he bested a field of 338 players to win the World Poker Tour Cannes main event, earning a cool Euro 100,500 for his time and trouble. The $2,045 buy-in competition took three days to produce a final table on which Lopes […]
June 5, 2012
The Liverpool News reports this week on an under aged gambler who blew GBP 7,000 of his father?s money on internet poker sites, underlining how important it is for operators to maintain a high level of vigilance against the industry threat of minors gambling. 12-year-old Declan Hind?s online misadventures are being used as part of […]
June 4, 2012
The first four months of 2012 have not been entirely happy ones for the online poker business in Italy, which has seen a decline in gross gaming revenues from cash games of almost 26.6 percent, according to the latest numbers from the Italian regulator AAMS. The picture on the tournament side has been a little […]