March 13, 2012
Just on two weeks ago the Swedish high stakes online poker player Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom scored $577,000 over 3,837 hands against top players on the Pokerstars nosebleed tables, and last weekend he was back to repeat the performance. Blom’s epic SuperStar Showdown online match against Isaac Haxton had to be re-scheduled due to technical problems […]
March 13, 2012
The latest weekly report by the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout shows that the Merge Poker Network continues to forge ahead and is now the largest US-facing internet poker network out there. Merge is up 84 percent year-over-year, and is dominating the American field, sadly depleted with the departure of giants like Pokerstars, Full Tilt […]
March 12, 2012
US player Andrew Kim paid for his trip to Seoul, South Kroea and then some over the weekend with his first prize win in the 2012 PokerStars.net Asian Pacific Poker Tour Seoul main event, worth Korean Won 145,000,000 (GBP 82,235) Played over three days, the competition saw Kim make an international final table that comprised […]
March 12, 2012
Following its inability to timeously detect a $100 000 chip-dump in the Macedo affair last year, you would think that internet poker operator Lock Poker would be on its toes and all too well aware that alert players are formidable detectives when it comes to flaws and screw-ups. Yet this week the operator was accused […]
March 12, 2012
Following the hotly contested changes to PokerStars rake calculations and VIP rewards and the ensuing completion of successful negotiations between the online poker giant and player representatives, PokerStars has kept its promise of hosting a bi-annual meeting during the months of April and November with discussions surrounding players issues on the agenda. The company has […]
March 12, 2012
UK bookmaker and online gambling firm Betfred has upgraded the look of its poker lobby along with the addition of new features that include: – New interface – New games including progressive slot jackpots – A hands played counter, which shows how many lifetime hands a player has played as well as the amount of […]
March 12, 2012
Licenced online operators with approved technical systems could be operating intra-state online poker in Nevada before years end said Mark Lipparelli, the Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, in an interview with iGaming Business this week. ?The process from here will see licence applicants appearing on our public agendas in May/June. For the successful […]
March 11, 2012
Latest entrant in the online poker club subcription business model sector is Face-Up Gaming, which will launch its website during the first week in April, boasting that it is the only such site that offers visual and audio optional live contact to its members during the action. The site will use proprietary software developed over […]
March 11, 2012
The World Series of Poker’s executive director, Ty Stewart revealed the latest developments in his organisation’s bid to flight a million dollar buy-in tournament this week in an interview with Poker News. Stewart said that the target cap for entrants with that sort of cash was 48, but that 33 well-heeled poker players had so […]
March 11, 2012
Marcus Bebb-Jones (48), a British professional poker player well-known on the land tournament circuit, is in a Colorado jail contemplating his future this weekend as he awaits a court decision Thursday on whether his trial for murder is to proceed. Bebb-Jones was arrested in 2009 by British police acting on a US warrant for extradition […]