December 13, 2011
Viktor Blom, the youthful, talented but at times reckless Swedish online poker pro perhaps better known as Isildur1, is off on another roller coast ride of big wins and losses, lighting up the internet poker railbird forums. In just three days over the weekend, Blom piled on the wins, earning $1.4 million after an absence […]
December 12, 2011
It’s been a very profitable weekend for international poker pro Jason Mercier, who took down the $100k World Poker Tour High Roller tourney at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, besting 23 other top quality players. The victory after a tense heads up against David Sands made Mercier $683,767 richer, bringing his career earnings in live […]
December 11, 2011
The anti-domain piracy legal drive by US land gambling giant MGM Resorts (see previous reports) has run into its first real opposition in Texas entrepreneur Adam Majewski, who has filed a motion for dismissal of an MGM attempt to seize his Excalibur Poker.com domain on grounds that it does not infringe any MGM trademark or […]
December 11, 2011
Martin Finger, a 21-year-old business science student from Frankenburger in Germany, and an accomplished Pokerstars internet poker player, has triumphed in the European Poker Tour Prague tournament, earning himself a cool Euro 720 000, and a gold winner’s bracelet worth Euro 10,000. Finger qualified for his seat in the tournament on the internet through a […]
December 10, 2011
UltimateBet.com, the online poker site that hit the headlines last week when confidential player data was published on a website by person or persons unknown (see previous report), has assured its players that personal banking, social security and credit card information has not been compromised, and that an investigation is in progress. Just on a […]
December 10, 2011
Jamie Gold, who won the 2006 World Series of Poker main event for a record $12 million after besting a field of 8,772, has joined the illustrious ranks of poker aces who have land poker rooms named after them. On Friday the Las Vegas gambling company Tropicana announced that it has named its newly renovated […]
December 9, 2011
Social gaming giant Zynga has announced that its popular Zynga Poker product is to make its first direct foray into the smart TV market using the Google TV platform via a new native app. This new version of the game will run on any television using the Google TV platform, and has been specifically optimised […]
December 9, 2011
The concept of fast, turbo-charged poker for people on the move is clearly catching on since it was introduced by Full Tilt with Rush Poker, and more recently by InstaDeal (see previous reports). This week Pokertube launched the latest offering in the genre, titled Speed Poker. Pokertube Speed Poker.com enables mobile users to download Speed […]
December 8, 2011
Wednesday’s hearing by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on intrastate internet poker regulation was attended by a slew of representatives from interested parties like 888.com, Fertitta Entertainment and IGT, with some useful suggestions offered in order to make the draft regulations more practical without detracting from the intent. At the conclusion of the proceedings the […]
December 8, 2011
The news this week that Las Vegas Sands mogul Sheldon Adelson is opposed to the legalisation of internet poker has created major ripples through both industry and mainstream media, and has since been confirmed by a Las Vegas Sands spokesman, Ron Reese. Rees told the Associated Press news agency that the world’s richest casino executive […]