May 26, 2012
The latest face-to-face player engagement exercise by Pokerstars involved Spanish punters, and this week a number of information sites published accounts of the exchanges, which took place in Barcelona over a two day period. With the first Spanish licenses due to be issued within the next week or so, interest in the Pokerstars position is […]
May 25, 2012
The marketing and advertising publication The Drum reports that PokerStars is targeting consumers with an outdoor advertising campaign to promote its new mobile app, targeting the 5.3 million railway passengers on the UK’s Southern Railway network over a four-week period. With a “Pray for a Delay” strapline, the ads are specifically designed to appeal to […]
May 24, 2012
Almost eclipsing the ongoing Purple Lounge – Media Corp debacle this week (see previous reports) is the long-running saga of similarly LGA-licensed Everleaf Gaming, a small network comprising a number of mainly anonymous skins that has been accused of slow-pay behaviour generally, and leaving US players in particular in the lurch. It’s now been months […]
May 24, 2012
In a move clearly timed to coincide with the advent of the World Series of Poker next week, 3D online poker operator PKR has launched a new Facebook-friendly app that enables users to select their own fantasy poker team for the industry’s biggest poker championship, and share it with their friends. Players are given a […]
May 23, 2012
Internet high stakes poker ace Dan “Jungleman” Cates (22) is to repeat his generous offer last year of a $10,000 buy-in for the World Series of Poker main event and ancillary expenses such as air travel and hotel accommodation; this year it will go to an individual who organises or performs a good deed. Jungleman […]
May 23, 2012
A million dollar sponsored seat in poker’s most expensive poker tournament, the World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop (see previous reports) has been won by a Montreal player competing with 57 others in the $25,000 Grand Tournoi de Poker Loto-Quebec satellite tournament. The winner, Carlos Nahas, was playing courtesy of a friend, […]
May 22, 2012
With the main event settled and the final registration numbers in, Pokerstars revealed Monday that this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has broken records and can be classed as a major success. The remarkable performance was achieved despite the harsh economic climate everywhere and the decimated US online poker market following Black Friday. […]
May 22, 2012
Nick Grippo, an online poker pro from Chicago, had to move to Costa Rica in order to keep playing after Black Friday, but the move enabled him to play in the main event of the Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker over the weekend, and on Monday he emerged victorious, taking home the title, an […]
May 22, 2012
Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley, who has entered a guilty plea on charges under the Black Friday indictments (see previous reports) will have to wait a little longer to hear what his punishment is to be. The presiding judge, Lewis Kaplan, has postponed sentencing from May 21 to June 28, 2012. Media reporters started digging […]
May 22, 2012
The latest weekly assessment of the online poker global market released by independent monitor Pokerscout shows a 3.4 percent decline in traffic over the week, but a more worrying year-on-year continued slide of around 19 percent across the board. “The market as a whole continues to show signs of contraction,” Pokerscout observes. “Last week’s traffic […]