July 30, 2011
Finnish professional internet poker players have declined from several thousand to around a thousand and internet poker is steadily losing popularity in the country reports Finnish news service yle.fi Rising standards in play are making it more difficult for professional players to make easy gains while Federal action in the U.S., having removed a large […]
July 29, 2011
The latest arrival on the US-friendly online poker scene is part of the BLS International group and can be found on the company’s Betonline.com website. The company’s affiliate manager, Simon Eaton, has not identified the no-download software, instead claiming that his company has bought the product outright for use in the new venture. Betonline is […]
July 28, 2011
Epic Poker League, a new professional poker players’ organisation headed by former World Series of Poker chief Jeffrey Pollack and top international poker pro Annie Duke, has announced a successful deal for an undisclosed consideration with the television network CBS. The deal will include 20 hours of programming from five poker tournaments, including a $1 […]
July 27, 2011
Internet poker site Poker Heaven.com has claimed a new world record for online poker bad beats, announcing that a jackpot for Euro 1,265,583 has been hit on the site. The jackpot winner, Finnish online poker player OmgoMgomGo, had quad Kings beaten by Quad Aces, with the decisive card coming on the river. In total there […]
July 26, 2011
Christopher Small, a New Zealander from Christchurch, became the first internet player to be rewarded for being dealt a 65 billionth hand on the Pokerstars website Sunday. The Pokerstars Mega Milestone promotion has been building towards the epic achievement by the online poker operator for several weeks, boosting traffic (see previous reports) and on Sunday […]
July 26, 2011
The keenly anticipated Alderney Gaming Control Commission hearing into the suspension of the Full Tilt Poker licence started half-an-hour late in London Tuesday morning, and after some drama turned out to be something of a damp squib. The venue was packed with journalists and other interested parties when lawyers from the UK firm Jeffrey Green […]
July 24, 2011
The second tournament in the tenth and current edition of the World Poker Tour – a Euro 3 000 main event in Slovenia – is over, with local professional Miha Travnik (20) taking the honours after a robust heads up with second placed Vincenzo Natale of Italy. Travnik’s payday was a Euro 84,500 ($144,400) check, […]
July 23, 2011
Joe Barton’s H.R.2366, the Online Poker Act of 2011, has attracted another six co-sponsors, one Republican and five Democrats. The latest co-sponsors to sign up for the bill introduced by the Texan Republican in June are: Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Steve Israel (D-NY) and Joe Heck (R-NV) […]
July 23, 2011
Relations seem to have soured in a partnership between Canadian State-company Loto-Qu?bec and the Quebec Poker Tournament League (LTPQ). A promotion agreement between Loto-Qu?bec’s online interest espacejeux.com and LTPQ has resulted in the poker league being forced to suspend its activities pending the outcome of legal action brought before a Canadian Superior Court. Industry observers […]
July 22, 2011
Internet poker players disadvantaged by the recent closures and failures of online poker operators have another site where they can post the details of their losses, this one under the unflattering title of FullTiltScrewed.me. The domain extension .me is the Internet country code top-level domain for Montenegro. The launch of the new site follows that […]