April 25, 2012
With rumours of a Full Tilt Poker takeover by Pokerstars still reverberating around the online poker industry late Tuesday evening, a Pokerstars spokesman stepped up to give an official company comment on the twoplustwo message board and the firm’s blog. Eric Hollreiser, head of corporate communications for PokerStars, said in the brief statement: “We’ve had […]
April 25, 2012
The application for a Class 2 Alderney Gaming Control Commission licence submitted recently by Full Tilt Poker subsidiary Orinic Limited (see previous reports) was taken by many in the industry as an indicator that FTP was about to be resurrected by Groupe Bernard Tapie, but that has all changed this week with Tapie’s withdrawal from […]
April 24, 2012
The Washington DC publication Politico reports that federal enforcement action last year against three major online poker sites and individuals associated with them – better known as Black Friday – has impacted the pro-legalised online poker activities of the Poker Players Alliance. ?A Justice Department crackdown on several Internet gambling websites is dealing a heavy […]
April 24, 2012
Last week saw player traffic to online poker websites decline by 2.7 percent, reports the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout in its latest weekly review of the sector. Eight of the ten top sites reported declines in traffic in a period that Pokerscout characterises as one of “seasonal weakness.” With the passing of the first […]
April 24, 2012
A legal representative for Everest Poker’s US subsidiary Cambridge Interactive Development Corp. voiced some ambitious hopes for the company in an exclusive interview with the online gambling information portal Gambling 911 this week, perhaps positioning his company for the future as much as reporting real progress in its endeavours to obtain licensing in the state […]
April 24, 2012
Online and live tournament poker ace Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier again displayed his talent as a gifted player this week when he took down his third European Poker Tour High Roller event to claim the Euro 231,000 main prize at EPT Berlin. 57 players forked out Euro 10,000 apiece to compete in the event, among them […]
April 24, 2012
Just when it appeared that the French firm Groupe Bernard Tapie was about to re-launch the moribund Full Tilt Poker after almost a year of negotiating and manouevreing (see previous reports), everything changed Tuesday with the news that the world’s biggest online poker operator, Isle of Man-based Pokerstars, is to acquire FTP. Tuesday morning saw […]
April 23, 2012
Data mining company PokerTableRatings’ (PTR) recent legal run-in with PokerStars has “forced the company to re-evaluate its place in the market” and has prompted the company to prioritise what it details as an Opt-In service it says has been in development for some time. A statement released by the company on its corporate blog outlines […]
April 22, 2012
The new European Poker Tour Berlin champ is 32-year-old Davidi Kitai of Belgium, who collected the Euro 712,000 main prize – his biggest career win yet – along with the trophy, a seat at the season-ending Euro 100,000 free-roll Champions of Champions Event, and a Shamballa bracelet worth more than Euro 10,000. The big win […]
April 22, 2012
21 pilots gathered at the Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Airport in Columbia Saturday for a navigation exercise with a difference – they were to spend the day flying around the state, landing at set points to pick up the components of a model aircraft before returning, assembling the models and then finishing off with a game […]