October 31, 2011
A post and its replies on the respected 2+2 poker forum over the weekend indicate that PokerStars is clamping down on customers utilising Virtual Private Network’s (VPN’s) that effectively mask the players? geographical whereabouts by re-routing their connection through foreign servers. The popular poker site is sticking to its side of the bargain and complying […]
October 28, 2011
Fresh from its acquisition of Doyles Room, online poker operator Americas Card Room has launched time-based and hand-based tournaments, offering players with tight personal schedules the opportunity to fast-track their action. The new tournament types are perfect for players who don’t have the patience to sit through hours of hands, or for those on a […]
October 28, 2011
The 22-year-old Russian pro Andrey Pateychuk is the latest Pokerstars Europeam Poker Tour champ, seeing off a star-studded field of 837 competitors in the San Remo, Italy leg of the Tour to claim a reduced main prize due to a chop with the runner up. Pateychuck faced a formidable final table Thursday after a week […]
October 28, 2011
The Kahnwake Gaming Commission, which last week indicated its involvement in getting players paid by licensee Blanca Games has applied more pressure to the operator, urging the company that owns the Cereus poker network, Absolute Poker and UBPoker to complete its discussions with the authorities and pay the players prejudiced by the Black Friday shutdowns. […]
October 28, 2011
Andrey Pateychuk, a 22-year-old Russian student, bested an 831 player field and a talented final table to take the European Poker Tour San Remo Season 8 title along with a Euro 680 000 first prize in an event described as one of the most exciting in live tournament history. Prior to going into the heads-up […]
October 25, 2011
Game Face Gaming Inc., a reality gaming social network that claims to be “the first and only online interactive subscription based gaming site where players can see, hear and talk to each other?, has employed the services of poker veteran Tom McEvoy in the role of pro consultant and instructor to head up the company’s […]
October 25, 2011
The respected twoplustwo poker information portal and forum lit up with a 23-plus page thread Thursday when a recently retrenched employee from the Dublin office of the troubled Full Tilt Poker group offered to answer any questions, denying any underhand motive. The thread can be accessed here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/ftp-employees-answer-questions-1116371/ but is too long to record in […]
October 25, 2011
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission’s dispute management moved this week to assure aggrieved Absolute Poker and UltimateBet players that the jurisdiction is working to achieve a “financially beneficial solution” to their cases, and that a breakthrough may be imminent. Severely impacted by the Black Friday actions in the United States, the two sites on Blanca Gaming?s […]
October 25, 2011
The US Congress Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has released its list of witnesses due to testify before its “Is there a Safe Bet” hearing on internet gaming this afternoon (Tuesday). The witness list includes: Parry Aftab, Board of Advisors ChairmanFairPlayUSAA political action group. Ernest L. Stevens, ChairmanNational Indian Gaming Association Keith Whyte, Executive […]
October 24, 2011
Pocket Kings, a subsidiary of beleaguered Full Tilt Poker, has embarked on a redundancy programme involving 180 Dublin-based employees, according to the Irish Times. Company employees were reportedly offered statutory redundancies towards the end of last week with Pocket Kings citing restructuring as a result of the loss of US and European revenues as reason […]