January 19, 2012
Sky Poker TV Channel has overhauled its programming and brought in new poker professionals to analyse play in a re-vamp of the channel due for relaunch in February 2012. British poker professional Stuart Rutter is the latest to join Team Sky Poker along with Ryan Spittles and Julian Thew as analysts on the TV channel […]
January 18, 2012
Courthouse News reports that eight US, Canadian and Peru poker players have filed a federal RICO complaint flowing from the UltimateBet.com hole card scandal (see previous reports), citing the online poker site and ten ‘John Does’ and claiming that some $20 million was stolen from players, with prejudice to themselves of $2 million. The players, […]
January 18, 2012
The recently formed Microgaming Poker Network Management Board (see previous reports) has announced the appointment of a chairman to head the collective of operators and Microgaming representatives that shape the development roadmap and operational rules of the network. Dominic Harrison, the former CEO of the Gala Coral Group has been chosen for the post. Fresh […]
January 18, 2012
Ira Rubin, who was accused of helping process payments for online gambling businesses indicted on Black Friday, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a Manhattan federal court Tuesday, reports the Bloomberg news service. Rubin, has been imprisoned since April and appeared before the court in prison garb to enter his plea with U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel […]
January 18, 2012
Following the negotiation of a compromise with French players last week (see previous reports), the management at Pokerstars’ Isle of Man headquarters is preparing to receive another player delegation, this time with wider interests and elected by members of the popular poker information site and forum twoplustwo. Members of twoplustwo have reportedly been careful to […]
January 18, 2012
State Senator Jeff Danielson, who chairs the Senate State Government Committee in Iowa, had some interesting thoughts on inter-state collaboration in legalised online poker when he was interviewed by the local Des Moines Register newspaper this week. Iowa has been one of the more active states in studying the possibilities of legalised intrastate poker and […]
January 17, 2012
Black Friday threw up another guilty plea Monday when Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Buckley (31) pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, admitting that he knew he was breaking the law when he arranged for U.S. banks to process internet gambling financial transactions. Appearing in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Buckley said he knew it was […]
January 17, 2012
The professionals networking site LinkedIn had industry observers scratching their heads Monday over the profile of Gabi Campos, the erstwhile head of 888 Holdings’ Dragonfish who in October 2010 became chief executive at Pokerstars. The current version of the profile shows no involvement with Pokerstars, declaring Campos as md of Dragonfish. Whether the peripatetic Campos […]
January 17, 2012
The annual Joe Hachem and Shane Warne Charity Poker Tournament has been raising funds for the Shane Warne Foundation charity for the past five years, with the 2011 event that concluded this week another success. Poker pro and former WSOP champ Hachem and ace cricketer and celebrity poker player Warne clearly make a good Aussie […]
January 17, 2012
Jamie Kenber, a 25-year-old member of Britain’s Olympic fencing team, has revealed that he’s as sharp at the felt as he is in the arena, and supplements his income by coaching math and taking part in Internet poker cash games. The Oxford graduate told the BBC this week: “If I can’t get enough students then […]