August 18, 2010
The San Francisco-based internet social gaming developer Zynga has made its Zynga Texas Poker offering available in China as well as on Facebook in Hong Kong and Taiwan this week, with a localised version playable in traditional Chinese or English – part of a continuing drive into the Asian market, reports Techcrunch. The gaming giant […]
August 18, 2010
Federal prosecutors continue to go after financial processors in their attempts to stifle online poker, reports Forbes Business, revealing that the authorities reached a settlement worth $13.3 million Tuesday with Ahmad Khawaja, together with his firms, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems. The settlement brings to a close a year-long issue that began when the FBI […]
August 18, 2010
PKR.com, the UK-based 3D online poker website, has come a long way since its historic launch on August 17, 2006 with advanced graphics and innovative proprietary software. In the past four years the online poker company has accumulated some impressive statistics that include more than 3,750,000 registered players on the site, a total of 15,850 […]
August 17, 2010
The seventeenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series came to an exciting close this week after 12 days, as an original field of 4 805 players was refined to a heads up between TyboVegas and DQnk that ended with a win for the former but a better finish for the second placed DQnk, […]
August 17, 2010
The Pokerstars European Poker Tournament’s Estonia stop was concluded in Tallinn this week with the surprise defeat of respected French pro Arnaud Mattern, who had entered the final table with a substantial chip lead, but managed only a third placing. The first event of the EPT’s seventh season, EPT Tallinn drew a record 420 entrants, […]
August 16, 2010
Intriguing our staff over the weekend was a report which appeared in online media announcing a big win for what it described as a “South Australian pub league poker player” on the 888poker.com website. Player Anh-Tuan “…hit 888poker’s largest Royal Jackpot in history at over $190 000 playing on a $1/$2 No-Limit Hold’em table, [where] […]
August 15, 2010
The UK and Alderney licensed 3D online poker site PKR.com has undergone a number of software upgrades since it launched in 2006, but the biggest re-development to date has just been completed with the launch of the company?s v. 2.0. PKR was among the forerunners in interactive 3D graphics and fully customisable avatars, and the […]
August 12, 2010
The draconian bans on Russian gambling have done little to discourage participation in the Pokerstars Russian Poker Series, although it did force the competition into neighbouring Latvia this week. The Euro 1 850 + Euro 150 event attracted a total of 183 players, well over a third of them qualifiers in Pokerstars’ internet satellite tourneys. […]
August 12, 2010
The hole card cheating scandals at Absolute Poker and Ultimatebet resurfaced in the online media again this week, illustrating the abiding interest of the poker community in this massive fraud, and those who perpetrated it. The scandals (see previous reports) cost Tokwiro Enterprises, which bought the online poker sites not knowing that the software enabled […]
August 10, 2010
A 19-year-old Klagenfurt, Austria internet poker player who qualified in an online satellite took home the $247 441 main prize in the Pokerstars Latin American Poker Tour Brazil this week, achieving the lead in the first day’s action and managing to hold it through to the end of the tourney three days later. Held at […]