March 27, 2011
A 22-year-old Russian internet poker player who has been building a reputation for himself on the PKR.com site, Vladimir Geshkenbein, beat all comers to take the main prize of Euro 390 000 in this week’s Pokerstars European Poker Tour Snowfest competition, showing that he is equally at home playing online or in live tourneys. Playing […]
March 26, 2011
In what is believed may be the second network move in its relatively short life, Victory Poker.com, an online poker enterprise whose high profile owner Dan Fleyshman is primarily in the energy drink business, is rumoured to be about to switch from the Cake Network to Blanca Gaming’s Cereus Network. Whilst Fleyshman has not revealed […]
March 26, 2011
One of the stand-out numbers quoted in recent wide coverage on the online poker legalisation initiatives in Nevada was a reported $20 billion annual revenue number attributed to PokerStars, and the online giant has been quick to correct what it described as a PR flub in a company statement on the issue The correction reads: […]
March 26, 2011
A young poker from Los Altos, California scored his biggest live tournament career win yet this week, clinching the winner’s title and a prize of $318 738 after a tense heads up with online poker phenom Annette Obrestad. No stranger to the online environment himself ? Tim West plays under the pseudonym Tmay and has […]
March 25, 2011
The rumours earlier this week that Pokerlistings had acquired the Cake Poker Network were given some credibility Thursday as the online poker network issued a statement….but described the relationship as a partnership rather than an acquisition. The statement emphasises the complimentary resources of the two companies: PokerListings.com being a comprehensive poker news and poker strategy […]
March 25, 2011
Respected poker site, PokerScout.com reports that even with the opening of the French market, the total worldwide poker market continues to stagnate. PokerScout’s ACES indicator shows that online poker traffic is essentially static with an annual rate of decline of 0.1 percent. Those networks worth mentioning in respect of year-over-year changes include: Notable gainers: – […]
March 25, 2011
On the same day that the Nevada Assembly Judicial Committee completed a discussion on the intrastate legalisation of online gambling, one of the biggest land operators in the state made a dramatic announcement that it had signed a partnership agreement with the global online poker giant Pokerstars. The announcement was all the more surprising due […]
March 24, 2011
Mustapha Kanit, a 20-year-old Italian online player better known to his internet opponents as ?mustacchione? has proved that he has what it takes to win live tournaments as well, following up a Euro 53 500 win in the Malta Poker Dream last year by sweeping all before him in the Pokerstars Italian Poker Tour Nova […]
March 24, 2011
In the Hawaiian legislature, a new bill designed to legalise online poker (see previous report) has enjoyed a remarkably fast and positive progress, passing a joint hearing of the Economic Revitalization and Business Committee and the Labor and Public Employment Committee Wednesday afternoon. Bill SB755 is now on its way to the state House Finance […]
March 23, 2011
Supporters of the current attempt to legalise intrastate Nevada online poker will be heartened by this week’s outspoken support for the idea from 68-year-old Michael Gaughan, owner of the South Point hotel and casino in Las Vegas. Gaughan told Associated Press Tuesday that he thinks the Silver State should be the first in the country […]