June 3, 2010
Online poker and skill gaming operations have proved to be a winner for the giant Italian online gambling company Microgame, accounting for 60 percent of the firm’s Euro 1 billion turnover in 2009. Releasing its numbers this week, the company reported a 151 percent year-on-year increase in full-year net profit to Euro 11.8 million, well […]
June 2, 2010
The 41st World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas is now well into its stride, with several events running at the same time. Probably the largest of these is the $50 000 buy-in Player’s Championship, which over the past four days has seen an original field of 116 playing down to just […]
June 2, 2010
The media noise level from the first days of the World Series of Poker championships unfolding in Las Vegas have almost obliterated coverage of another important tournament currently winding down in Melbourne, Australia. The Crown Casino in Melbourne has been hosting the Melbourne Championship, which this week saw 590 players pony up the A$1 100 […]
June 2, 2010
The bad news from Geneva, Switzerland this week is that the country’s highest court has ruled that poker is a game where chance, rather than skill, predominates. The ruling affects poker tournaments, will can now only be legally held in licensed Swiss casinos, reports Associated Press. The popularity of tourneys has been growing in the […]
June 1, 2010
One of the biggest events in this year’s World Series of Poker – the $50 000 buy-in Player’s Championship – has reached a table of nine after four days of action involving 116 of the game’s best players. Just before midnight Monday Vegas time the departure of Alexander Kostritsyn in tenth place after a clash […]
June 1, 2010
Microgaming associate Spiral Solutions Limited, better known for its activities as a provider of mobile gambling technology, has teamed with the Santa-Maria group, which distributes Bally games and systems to the French land casino industry, to form Spiral Solutions France. The new joint venture will operate from a dedicated office in Paris, offering a personal […]
June 1, 2010
Online gambling software provider Microgaming, which recently unveiled its partnership with 888.com in a joint French online poker network, has made further French market-related announcements. The new poker network sees the resurrection of an older Microgaming internet poker brand in Prima Networks Limited, which has been formed to operate the French network, and is the […]
May 31, 2010
The first 2010 World Series of Poker bracelet has been handed to San Diego dealer Hoai Pham, who won the $500 buy-in Casino Employees event over the weekend. Pham bested an entry field of 721 players (see previous report) to take the honours. By Day 2 the field had been whittled down to 52, and […]
May 31, 2010
Senator Rod Wright’s recent promises to introduce a Californian bill legalising and regulating online poker (see previous report) were met this week when he launched an amended version of bill SB 1485 late on Friday. Wright leads a California Senate Committee responsible for gambling matters, and the bill seeks to introduce an intrastate solution to […]
May 31, 2010
We’re close to the final table of the $50 000 buy-in Player’s Championship tourney at the 41st World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with the 21 survivors of an original 116-strong field bagged up at the end of Day 3. Average stack as play closed was around $828 572 with Michael Mizrachi making an […]