January 8, 2012
The $100 000 buy-in High Roller event at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure tournament generated plenty of excitement in the Bahamas over the weekend, with thirty big-money players entered and the mercurial internet ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom emerging triumphant. It was Blom’s biggest live victory yet, eclipsing his World Series of Poker Europe cash in 2010 […]
January 8, 2012
One of the industry’s most familiar and controversial titles – GoldenPalace – has become the latest internet gambling operator to launch under a .be domain and Belgian licensing. Offering online poker on the Ongame network under the domain GPWin.be, the poker room claims it is not associated with the GoldenPalace.com brand, which operates an international […]
January 8, 2012
The French independent online poker operator Winamax.fr has surged to the head of the French internet poker market for cash games, according to the latest statistics from the independent online poker monitor site Pokerscout. Winamax overtook Pokerstars.fr for the first time this week on the basis of a rolling 7-day average of cash game players. […]
January 8, 2012
California Governor Jerry Brown played down the likely contribution of legalised online poker tax revenues to the state’s depleted coffers this week, saying that such revenues might assist, but that they could not solve the state’s $9 billion budget deficit problem. Proponents of legalisation in California estimate that up to $1.4 billion in tax revenues […]
January 8, 2012
Following the row at Pokerstars over proposed changes to rake calculation, it is perhaps understandable that online poker network operators prefer to play their cards close to their chests on this sensitive issue, but this week strong rumours surfaced that the iPoker Network is to change to a ‘weighted contribution’ formula in March this year. […]
January 7, 2012
Probably spurred by the widespread mainstream media coverage generated by the recent US Department of Justice policy switch on the Wire Act and online gambling the Reuters news agency this week surveyed the activities of major US groups showing an interest in online gambling. It pointed to developments such as those introduced by Shufflemaster’s new […]
January 7, 2012
After early interest in the various big-money internet poker challenges proposed by Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, the fascination has faded for many readers due to the protracted nature and erratic scheduling of such events. In the latest event – against Dan ‘jungleman’ Cates – that frustration surfaced in an interview with Black Belt Poker this week […]
January 5, 2012
The Belgian Gambling Authority has granted approval to three independent real-money online poker firms to offer their services to Belgium residents. Casino 777, Partouche and PokerStars are reported to have received licences to operate in Belgium under the following domains: partouche.be, casino770.be and pokerstars.be. Other online gambling domains listed in the authorities? white list include […]
January 5, 2012
Rumours that surfaced towards the end of last month concerning the relaunch of one of the pioneer online poker brands Poker Room.com have been confirmed. Following an absence of three years, the Bwin brand has opened its virtual doors again, its resurrection apparently initiated as a side project by bwin.party Stockholm employees reports PokerFuse. Poker […]
January 4, 2012
Gus ‘the Great Dane’ Hansen has finished off the year in fine style as top of the respected High Stakes Database.com list of high earning online poker players. Hansen completed the year $3,941,703 up, well ahead of nine other internet experts and much of it on Full Tilt before disaster overtook that company. He was […]