October 3, 2011
Poker pro Niall Smyth gave new meaning to the phrase “luck of the Irish” in April this year when he turned a Euro 10 bet on Grand National winner Ballabriggs into Euro 650,000 when he won one of Europe’s most prestigious poker tournaments, the Paddy Power Poker.com Irish Open (see previous report), and he was […]
October 3, 2011
Surebet Poker, a new online poker site debuted this week offering “a lower rake than most major poker sites”. Full players services, professional design and a 100 percent initial deposit bonus maxed at $600 are on offer. The download poker room is managed by chief executive officer Jason Sallman, reportedly utilises proprietary software and is […]
October 1, 2011
Hard on the heels of the announcement that France’s Groupe Bernard Tapie has conditionally agreed to buy Full Tilt Poker (see previous report), Laurent Tapie, md of the company and son of the owner, was interviewed by the publication iGaming France Friday. Although he generally adhered to the formal public statement announcing the deal, Tapie […]
October 1, 2011
Providing interesting reading this weekend is an article in the respected business publication Forbes, which examined the growing momentum for legalised online poker in the United States and the attitude of the American Gaming Association…and how it changed. Titled “How The Las Vegas Casino Companies Became The Champions Of Online Poker In America”, the article […]
September 30, 2011
The rumours rampant over a week ago (see previous reports) were right ? the French business turnaround specialist Groupe Bernard Tapie is the mystery buyer with whom Full Tilt Poker management has been negotiating. In a press release to the Pokerstrategy.com information site Friday the company advised: “Laurent Tapie, Managing Director of ?Groupe Bernard Tapie? […]
September 29, 2011
Last week’s concern that a presidential petition for the legalisation of online poker in the USA would not reach minimum threshold numbers (see previous report) has faded as fans of the game around the United States add their support to the initiative. The petition is in response to a White House initiative in which Americans […]
September 29, 2011
Pokerstars has released the full statistics on its recently completed World Championship of Online Poker, showcasing still impressive numbers despite declines compared with the event?s last outing. Given the economic and US legal turmoil that has impacted the industry since then, some decline was perhaps inevitable. Some 119,832 entries were recorded across the 62 events […]
September 29, 2011
After days of silence and what appeared to be an extended in-camera hearing, the Alderney Gaming Control Commission has revoked the licensing on which Full Tilt Poker operated, leaving the beleaguered online poker operator with a secondary Kahnawake licence and a problem for a prospective investor, who was on record as saying that retention of […]
September 28, 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s communication tactics, which seem to rely heavily on one-off tips by lawyers and “sources close to the negotiations” rather than formal and widely distributed media statements, took a new turn Tuesday with Twitter disclosures by an online poker broadcaster. The disclosures concern investment or acquisition negotiations involving a French investor that have […]
September 28, 2011
Taylor Caby and Andrew Wiggins, the founders of the poker coaching website CardRunners, have announced a move into the fantasy sports sector with the launch of Draft Day.com, a daily fantasy sports website offering cash games, strategy blogs and a forum for daily fantasy sports enthusiasts. The launch starts with the DraftDay Perfect Lineup competition, […]