February 8, 2011
A notification from PokerStars.fr has advised its players that the French gaming regulatory authority ARJEL has temporarily suspended its Home Games. Launched in mid-January 2011, Home Games allows users to create private poker parties between members of a poker club or with friends which is fully managed by PokerStars. The French online poker room says […]
February 8, 2011
Creating something of a stir Tuesday, the Bloomberg business news agency reported that the merger between Party Gaming plc and Bwin Interactive (see previous reports) could result in the online poker network and software developer Ongame being sold off. The report was later confirmed by an unnamed Bwin spokesperson, who said that the respected online […]
February 7, 2011
Last year’s Poker Table Ratings vs. UB.com encryption row (see previous reports) resurfaced this week with the release of an independent report giving the online poker site and its parent Cereus Poker Network a clean bill of health in security terms. The audit was carried out at the behest of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission following […]
February 5, 2011
The San Francisco-based social gaming giant Zynga Corporation, which has been attracting growing attention through its poker gaming activities, is intent on tightening its relationships with the real world of poker, judging by its latest convergence initiative. Next week the company is expected to announce its inaugural PokerCon, an event aimed at interacting with the […]
February 4, 2011
Malta-licenced Everest Poker announced the launch of a new European – Monte Carlo poker tournament this week. The tournament Everest Poker ONE has a guaranteed prize pool of Euro 1 million and will be held at the Salle des Palmiers in Monaco from April 21 to 24 2011. In addition to the EUR5,000+300 Everest Poker […]
February 4, 2011
The Australian parliamentary select committee on gambling reform (see previous reports) was told by a casino executive this week that the federal government?s plan to force limits on how much people can bet on poker machines will not reduce problem gambling, and has been unsuccessfully tried elsewhere. Pointing to the technological difficulties experienced in Norway, […]
February 4, 2011
Cake Gaming N.V. – parent company of the Cake Poker Network is the latest target of Dr. Scott W. Lewis and his Nevada-based company 1st Technology. The company has filed a civil action patent infringement case against Cake Gaming N.V. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois this week. The complaint […]
February 2, 2011
More details have emerged in the case against Ashley Mitchell(29) the IT expert who admitted to hacking into an online casino site and stealing 400 billion poker chips The UK publication Daily Mail reports that the Englishman posing as an administrator hacked into American poker company the Zynga Corporation and siphoned off 400 billion chips […]
February 2, 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s Dublin-based subsidiary Pocket King Ltd is on a recruitment drive and has confirmed the creation of a further 100 jobs reports the Irish Times. The company has sustained its accelerated growth and subsequently almost doubled its headcount from April 2009. This growth trend is expected to continue during and beyond 2011, commented […]
February 1, 2011
Frenchman Lucien Cohen, the owner of a pest control company and an amateur poker player of note, proved this week that he is equally adept at busting bugs and poker opponents when he took down the Pokerstars EPT Deauville The 47-year-old Parisian began the final stages of the competition around the middle of the final […]