April 1, 2011
The Cake Poker Network has been dealt another blow with the announcement that UK-based Gutshot Poker is the latest to defect from the network to a new home on the iPoker Network. The Cake Poker Network suffered the loss of Doyle’s Room recently when it moved to the Yatahay Poker Network and Dan Fleyshman, owner […]
March 31, 2011
Winamax.fr, an independent French online poker operator, announced Tuesday evening that its one millionth player had registered, with 330 000 of clients operating real money accounts. Winamax was among the first sites to enter the liberalised French online gambling sector last June, marketing its services aggressively in a campaign that included award-winning television advertisements. The […]
March 31, 2011
Rumours earlier this week that Full Tilt Poker and the Nevada land gambling group Station Casino Inc were in talks regarding a joint enterprise have been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal. The respected US business publication revealed Thursday that a company branded Fertitta Interactive has been set up by Station owners Frank and Lorenzo […]
March 31, 2011
Top poker pro Michael Mizrachi and Full Tilt Poker owners Tiltware LLC are off the hook in a breach of contract case over branding brought by Deliverance Poker last year Judge James Nowlin of the US District Court for West Texas this week dismissed the Delverance claims, albeit without prejudice – a legal condition allowing […]
March 30, 2011
The much anticipated PokerStars 60-Billionth Hand (see previous report) has been dealt and a lucky UK-based player picked up more than $100 000 for very little trouble. Playing along with five other players at a $5/$10 limit hold’em table known as Isa II, with over 200 000 other people actively playing on PokerStars at the […]
March 30, 2011
It may have stalled in the Senate Ways and Means Committee for want of more briefings (see previous reports), but the proposed legalisation of online poker in the state of Iowa has made the legislative deadline of April 1st and remains in play, the committee confirmed Tuesday. Senate File 458, introduced recently by Sen. Jeff […]
March 30, 2011
The business news publication Forbes reports that former World Series of Poker champion Robert Varkonyi and his wife Olga have launched litigation against Chetan Kapur and his hedge fund firm, ThinkStrategy Capital Management, seeking the return of a $1.4 million investment. The suit alleges that the fund had been invested in other hedge funds managed […]
March 30, 2011
The inaugural World Poker Tour Vienna wound up this week with an exciting five-hand heads up that saw Moscow poker ace Dmitry Gromov claim his biggest win yet, taking home the main prize of Euro 447 850. Gromov pretty much dominated the competition, holding the chiplead for most of the action before facing off against […]
March 29, 2011
The major news buzz created by this week’s revelations that Pokerstars and Wynn Resorts are to collaborate in a federal online poker legalisation initiative and subsequent internet enterprise (see previous reports) has been boosted by reports from the knowledgeable site Wicked Chops.com that a similarly industry-changing deal is in the works involving the internet?s second […]
March 29, 2011
Last week’s SuperStar Showdown saw Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom take Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu for $150 000 (see previous report), but this time around it was Negreanu who came out on top, albeit after a tough fight. The two volatile aces clashed again on four virtual tables of $50/$100 NLHE in an exciting rematch over 2 […]