May 16, 2012
Poker player Giancarlo Antonetti plans to entertain fans of the game with an innovative new project – telling interesting and amusing poker anecdotes through the medium of comics under the brand “Shut Up and Fold”. The first of nine illustrated stories of the world of poker and its characters is due to hit the streets […]
May 16, 2012
Pokerstars’ formal real money launch of its speed poker product Zoom Poker this week was preceded by extensive testing in beta format, the company has revealed, disclosing that over 300 million hands were played in the two month public test phase, and millions more whilst the product was in development. The effort has been worthwhile, […]
May 16, 2012
If you were wondering how Laurent Tapie’s attempt to poach key Full Tilt Poker staff for a new French online poker venture went, the online information site Gaming Intelligence had the answer this week, reporting that most of the Dublin-based managers approached have declined the offer. Laurent Tapie, the CEO of Groupe Bernard Tapie, which […]
May 16, 2012
The Betsafe online gambling group has become the latest to licence Relax Gaming’s version of high speed poker, Fast Poker. The notification included an intriguing reference to a new Heads Up addition to the Relax product, although this does not yet appear to be operational. Poker experts point out that fast-fold at heads up would […]
May 15, 2012
Seattle-based IGT subsidiary Double Down Interactive has augmented its major online casino on Facebook with the launch of Texas Hold’em Poker, which joins the company’s previous poker offering, Omaha Poker. “Our launch of Texas Hold’em Poker is a huge step forward for us and the poker community on Facebook,” said Greg Enell, Double Down Interactive […]
May 14, 2012
The big winner over the weekend at Pokerstars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker was 30-year-old UK poker pro Julian “MrCoco” Gardner, who bested a final table that included serious internet aces like Phil Galfond and Jason Mercier to claim the $118,606.67 main prize in the $1,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Max w/ Rebuys event. The event […]
May 13, 2012
After some eighteen months of operations the poker educational website and magazine Nutblocker.com has called it a day, citing “innumerous technical difficulties.” The site was the brainchild of internet players Andreas ?Skjervoy? Torbergsen and Tom ?LearnedfromTV? Chambers, whose goal was to improve players’ knowledge of Pot Limit Omaha and Mixed Games, encouraging interaction and providing […]
May 13, 2012
Several online poker affiliate sites are reporting that they have been advised by Titan Poker that its brands are no longer accepting Spanish new player sign-ups. The news follows last week?s announcement that the Spanish regulator expects to start issuing licenses in June this year, when the moratorium on unlicensed sites will come to an […]
May 13, 2012
Two weeks after going off offline following a hacker attack (see previous report), the popular twoplustwo poker forum was back in business over the weekend. Members seemed generally pleased and relieved to have the site back after it was reportedly moved to new servers and security and IT experts were called in to ensure that […]
May 11, 2012
Along with other internet high stakes poker pros like Gus Hansen, Sam Trickett and Andrew Robl, the audacious Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan has been hitting the felt in Macau recently, and this week pulled off a US$ 3.8 million victory against an unnamed Asian businessman. Poker Portal Asia reports that the match was part of The […]