February 22, 2012
Tuesday was a bad day for the world’s largest and most successful online poker enterprise PokerStars, where the servers crashed, allegedly whilst over 70 000 players around the planet were active on the site. It is understood that the drop in service, which caught many players in mid-game, occurred early evening GMT, temporarily shutting them […]
February 21, 2012
Iowa state Senator Jeff Danielson managed to fast track his online poker legalisation bill SSB3164 through a key senate sub-committee Monday despite some stiff opposition from conservative anti-gambling groups. Fears that the President’s Day holiday would delay the process (see previous reports) did not materialise, and the three member Senate panel forwarded the bill through […]
February 21, 2012
698 hopefuls signed up for the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour in Galway this week, the first outing of the 2012 season, held at the Radisson Blu Hotel. After 4 action-packed days the final table emerged, comprising Emmett Mullin, Ronan Gilligan, Joe Roberts, Craig Burke, Aleksandras Rusinovas, John Willoughby, Nick Abou Risk, Richard Haile […]
February 21, 2012
It appears that not everyone involved with payment processing companies and online poker prosecutions in the United States ended up in the headlines – this week a shadowy Utah figure was named by a court appointed receiver as hiding $51.4 million allegedly earned processing online poker payments by moving funds through a variety of shell […]
February 21, 2012
Cake Poker network (Cake Pokeroker.eu) has released what it calls a ‘significant’ upgrade to its 2.0 poker client, with improvements in speed, stability, navigation and graphics. The move has resulted in faster load times on launching the client and opening new tables. Multi-tabling up to 12 tables is faster, more stable and less draining on […]
February 21, 2012
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout notes in its latest weekly report that online poker traffic slipped a further 3 percent last week, the second consecutive loss for operators. Player counts for nine of the top 10 sites and networks all declined, with Everleaf Gaming Network traffic dropping off 16 percent in the wake of […]
February 20, 2012
Iowa state Senator Jeff Danielson, a Democratic Party politician who has consistently pushed for legalised online poker in Iowa, could be about to make a move this week to introduce legislation for intrastate legalisation and licensing. Local media report that Danielson will try and fast-track his proposal through a Senate sub-committee, in part using the […]
February 18, 2012
Despite persistent, and as it turns out inaccurate, rumours that US politicians were about to take another run at attaching a poker legalisation bill to important federal financial proposals (see previous reports), it is unlikely that Americans will see legalised online poker before 2013. Such is the assessment of Macquarie Securities analyst Chad Beynon in […]
February 18, 2012
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has confirmed that a fourteenth company has applied for a Nevada online poker licence as an operator/service provider. The latest addition to a growing list is American Casino Entertainment Properties, a land casino company that owns and operates Stratosphere Hotel Casino and Tower, Arizona Charlie?s Decatur and Arizona Charlie?s Boulder, […]
February 18, 2012
World Series of Poker champ Jonathan Duhamel’s winner’s bracelet appears to have done some travelling since it was stolen from him in a robbery in Montreal earlier this year. The French poker information site Prince Poker reported on the jewellery’s latest location – back with its owner – this week. According to the report, it […]