October 6, 2011
After six long, gruelling days the Pokerstars European Poker Tournament London main event reached a final table Wednesday with Brit player Martins Adeniya holding the chip lead on 4.73 million, over a million ahead of nearest rival Mattias Bergstrom of Sweden. Other final survivors of the 691-player entry field are Benny Spindler and Andre Klebanov […]
October 5, 2011
The chief exec of the influential American Gaming Association, Frank Fahrenkopf Jnr, delivered his customary address at G2E in Las Vegas Tuesday, reiterating corporate gambling operators’ support for properly regulated and legalised poker in the USA, but rejecting legislation already proposed to Congress by Texas Representative Joe Barton and Massachusetts veteran politician Barney Frank. Instead, […]
October 5, 2011
In years past, this was the seasonal time when online poker traffic traditionally started picking up – by anything from 3 to 10 percent, according to the industry’s independent monitor Pokerscout. But not this year, where instead Pokerscout has recorded a 7 percent overall decline, possibly due to the drastic enforcement actions against major online […]
October 4, 2011
The Alderney Gaming Control Commission has followed its statement revoking Full Tilt Poker’s licence (see previous reports) with a further announcement that gives scant comfort to players still awaiting payment from the wayward online poker operator. On Monday, the Commission addressed players hoping for assistance in their hassles with Full Tilt, telling them that due […]
October 4, 2011
A company that is becoming increasingly familiar to online poker players, Groupe Bernard Tapie (that’s right – the putative buyers of Full Tilt Poker) is seemingly involved in a proposed new poker tournament scheduled for Wembley Stadium near London with a guaranteed prize pool of $30 million. News of the tournament and its organiser, ISPT.com, […]
October 4, 2011
The White House “We the People” initiative, which invites petitions on US residents’ concerns (see previous reports) has attracted almost 8 000 signatories asking that online poker be legalised in the United States – well over the minimum 5 000 within 30 days required by officialdom. However, this week the Administration shifted the goal posts, […]
October 4, 2011
Laurent Tapie, md of Groupe Bernard Tapie and the prospective buyer of Full Tilt Poker (see previous reports) showed a few more of his cards in an interview with respected online gambling writer Matt Richtel of the New York Times this week. He revealed that two million Americans played on the Full Tilt Poker site […]
October 3, 2011
The important G2E gambling expo in Las Vegas will be pulling industry people in this week, with special sessions on internet gambling (see previous reports) and several mainly land-gambling-focused companies clearly thinking ahead in exhibiting internet-ready versions of their products. Among them will be Shufflemaster, whose new interactive division is preparing a key position for […]
October 3, 2011
Representative Dan Winslow’s amendment adding intrastate legalised online poker to a Massachusetts land gambling bill made it through the House earlier this month on a 123-32 vote (see previous reports) but now faces a sterner test in the state Senate when debate continues this week. The Senate has spent two days wading through the bill’s […]
October 3, 2011
More Black Friday-related litigation has been filed in the US courts as opposition to the federal enforcement actions against e-processors, banks and operators continues to mount. Forbes business magazine reports that a banker and an e-cash processor involved in the indictments have filed “strongly-worded” legal papers to fight the government?s charges, arguing that online poker […]