March 26, 2012
The 2012 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Chile concluded over the weekend after 4 hard and action-packed days as 651 entrants went after the honours, but it was local player Aliro Diaz who emerged triumphant from the five hour final table to claim the $76,560 main prize – diluted by a six-way chop earlier in […]
March 26, 2012
Scots poker ace Gordon Huntly took A$ 226,812 in first prize cash back to his homeland after a weekend in which he took down the 2012 PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour main event in Sydney. The canny and disciplined Scot bested 461 entrants in the event, which started final table action Sunday evening with […]
March 23, 2012
A 41-year-old headmaster has been jailed for 16 months by the Mold Crown Court in Chester for stealing GBP 53,000 of school funds which he lost in early morning online poker games. That was not all he blew – his family?s GBP 90,000 savings, then GBP 70,000 he raised by re-mortgaging the family home without […]
March 23, 2012
Would be online gambling operators in the US Northeast megalopolis region will be studying a new survey on internet gambling demographics with interest this week, following its release by the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism at Richard Stockton College. The Northeast megalopolis or Boston?Washington complex is the heavily urbanised area of […]
March 23, 2012
It’s taken eleven drafts and extended collaboration and debate, but the requirements and regulations for online poker testing companies in Nevada were signed off by the Nevada Gaming Commission Thursday, taking Nevada a step closer to legalised intrastate online poker, although officials remain cagey about the start date. Card Player reports that a system for […]
March 23, 2012
Almost a year on, the Black Friday civil proceedings continued to reverberate around the industry as yet another extension was granted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York this week to Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, Howard Lederer, Ray Bitar, Rafe Furst and payment processor Chad Elie who failed to […]
March 22, 2012
Per Hildebrand’s InstaDeal speed poker network (see previous reports) has been granted a licence by the Alderney Gaming Control Commission, positioning it favourably in the burgeoning speed poker segment. Introduced by Full Tilt Poker under the brand Rush Poker, the concept of switching tables on folding or completing a hand, thus speeding up the games, […]
March 20, 2012
A growing number of international poker aces are signing up for an interesting new venture that will combine interactive poker action and live betting. Branded iSeries LIVE, the Dublin-based initiative is being supported by stars of the calibre of Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, with a planned launch date of April 5 2012. The iSeries […]
March 20, 2012
Hopes recently faded that influential US senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl may be putting their weight behind a fresh federal internet poker legalisation attempt, but the trade association Poker Players Alliance appears to believe that the project is still alive. Membership director Bryan Spadaro wrote in a recent email to members that the PPA […]
March 20, 2012
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout.com reports that overall traffic last week declined 3.5 percent – the sixth straight weekly drop – with six of the top ten websites feeling the pain of 5 percent or more drops in traffic, and considerably more sites showing traffic declines than those boasting gains. US-friendly Merge Gaming Network, […]