April 5, 2012
The Isle of Man-based online poker provider Pokerstars saved the day for the islands closure-threatened Family and Mobile Libraries this month, coming forward with a commitment to keep the library viable – and the jobs of its employees safe – for at least another three years. Government austerity cutbacks due to the tough economic situation […]
April 4, 2012
Alert online gambling information sites have noted that Pocket Kings, the parent company of disgraced internet poker operator Full Tilt Poker, appears to be re-hiring, having placed recruitment adverts on a prominent Irish personnel site. The ads are apparently seeking customer service representatives and localisation experts in several languages, and urgently offer short term employment […]
April 4, 2012
The successful French (although blacklisted in Belgium) online poker operator Winamax appears to be positioning itself for a legalised US market, promoting the availability to US players of its free-play tournaments and ring games this week. The company will reportedly be augmenting this with a complementary social poker product on Facebook soon. So far there […]
April 3, 2012
Swedish poker ace Viktor Blom is $500,000 richer this week following his epic win against Isaac Haxton in the $1 Million SuperStar Showdown heads up clash Monday. The two internet high stakes stars each put up $500,000 and joined battle after a series of preliminaries saw them rise to the top of the leaderboard. Blom […]
April 3, 2012
In another dismal week, even Pokerstars lost ground as its new Zoom speed poker initiative eased, although it still generated 25 percent of all cash game action on the giant site. PokerScout points out that traffic is down 11 percent since late February compared to a 5 percent drop over the same pre-Black Friday timespan […]
April 3, 2012
Over the past two months, player posts on several message boards have flagged two classic indicators of a struggling operator – slower payments and bad communications – at Nordica Poker. The company reportedly stopped responding to emails or Twitter and Facebook communication channels, causing growing ripples of alarm to spread. The Merge network skin made […]
April 1, 2012
The unspecified problems at Everleaf Poker Network (see previous reports) are still receiving the attention of Malta regulator the Lotteries and Gaming Authority, according to a singularly uninformative communique issued late Friday. ?Everleaf Gaming Limited has closely collaborated with the LGA and is addressing the identified non-compliances, where the LGA is closely following Everleaf?s operation […]
April 1, 2012
Denmark’s Jannick Wrang clinched the third consecutive European Poker Tour win for his countrymen (and himself) over the weekend, emerging the best of 570 entrants in the inaugural Pokerstars EPT Campione main event after a torrid 13 hour final table session. Wrang is probably better known as an adept internet POL expert under the handle […]
March 30, 2012
Dublin welcomed over 1000 Norwegian poker players over the past weekend arriving in the Irish town for the week-long Norwegian Poker Championships. The Championships previously held in England, Latvia and Sweden, are open exclusively to Norwegian poker players, and held offshore as Norwegian law makes it illegal to host or play poker tournaments in Norway. […]
March 30, 2012
Launching a social networking poker game that can be customised for privacy is not necessarily a contradiction in terms, says Game Face Gaming, Inc., a New York software developer currently punting its Face Up Gaming brand of Facebook poker. The company is now working on a privacy component for the game which will allow players […]