May 7, 2012
The Pokerstars blog reports that Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu, fresh off big money wins in Monaco, was defeated by relatively unknown online player rUaBot on Saturday in the inaugural clash of the Pokerstars’ Limit Hold’em Challenge. The Limit Hold’em Challenge ‘rules of engagement’ were that Negreanu and rUaBot would play 1,250 hands of heads-up, fixed-limit hold’em […]
May 7, 2012
The prestigious twoplustwo poker message board, taken down as a security precaution after a hacker incursion on April 26 (see previous report) is likely to remain offline until at least May 12, according to the latest advisory from the company. The site issued a statement over the weekend that a ?conservative target date for coming […]
May 5, 2012
Massachusetts Representative Daniel Winslow’s attempt to tack an online poker legalisation amendment on to a critical state budgetry bill before the state Legislature has failed. Winslow faced some opposition from lawmakers who did not wish to delay or bog down the bill with what they saw as irrelevant amendments. Bluff Magazine writer Chris Krafcik reported […]
May 5, 2012
The world’s biggest online poker operator, Pokerstars.com, is geared up for a busy weekend as it approaches its eighty billionth hand of poker, expected to be dealt Sunday May 6. The site is running its customary Milestone promos to pull the players in, offering cash bonuses to players who are dealt into any of the […]
May 5, 2012
The recent municipal elections in Russia saw 27-year-old internet poker ace Max Katz elected to the municipal council chambers of Shchukino, a district in Moscow…and it was funded from his online poker winnings, reports the Telegraph newspaper, quoting the Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Katz stood as an independent, inspired by the public demonstrations demanding free and fair […]
May 4, 2012
It’s been on the cards since January this year, when Brit poker organiser Barry Denson used Twitter to warn that he would be mounting an attack on the world record for longest continuous poker playing session later this year. Denson acknowledged that it was a formidable challenge; in 2009, Paul Zimbler set the heads-up poker […]
May 4, 2012
The exciting prospect of major live poker tournaments on the Isle of Man has become a real possibility following the successful second reading of the Casino (Amendment) Bill 2012 at a session of the island government’s Legislative Council this week. Local newspaper IOM Today reports that Eddie Lowey MLC is driving the bill through as […]
May 2, 2012
The poker information site Diamond Flush Poker had the drop on other publications Tuesday with its exclusive story on new internet poker plans by French-owned Groupe Bernard Tapie in the wake of its failure to acquire Full Tilt Poker recently. Citing a leaked email (which just goes to show you can’t trust everyone with confidential […]
May 2, 2012
PokerScout reports a dip in the IGT Poker Network (formerly Entraction) of 8 percent which it attributes to the suspension of Media Corp’s Purple Lounge operation The independent poker monitor reported 800 average cash game players on the network, down from 1200 players monitored in February. Other notable year-over-year changes reported include its top three […]
May 2, 2012
Poker Table Ratings (PTR) has released a player profile management feature in beta phase allowing players, under their poker screen name, to moderate comments made by others on their PTR profile along with avatar personalisation and biography capabilities. PTR intends expanding the current options, currently enabled for the Cake, Merge, OnGame, Party Poker and iPoker […]