March 29, 2010
A Pennsylvania couple who hosted poker games in a garage and were charged but acquitted by a local court are back at square one this week after an appeal by the authorities to the state court of appeals was successful. The decision by President Judge Kate Ford Elliott and Senior Judge Robert Freedberg ( Senior […]
March 29, 2010
Tom Horn Enterprises Inc. out of Bratislava and Costa Rica-based Diamond Bay Ltd. have partnered up to provide webcam-based online poker action from a land poker room location. Branded FacePokerLive.com, the operation offers Texas holdem ring games, prize tournaments and a special league connected directly to the Celebrity Poker Tour land tables. FacePokerLive.com poker software […]
March 27, 2010
PartyGaming, a major listed online gaming company, has announced that it has signed a multi-year, exclusive deal to provide an online poker service for the French market to Pari Mutuel Urbaine. Founded in 1891, PMU is France’s pari-mutual horse racing company and is the largest horse race betting organisation in Europe. PMU recently posted its […]
March 27, 2010
Cigital, a major consulting firm specialising in software security and quality, has certified the reliability and security of the random number generator (RNG) that PokerStars uses to shuffle cards on its online poker site, confirming the solution meets or exceeds best practices in generating unpredictable and statistically random values for dealing cards. “Truly random numbers […]
March 25, 2010
Lock Poker.com has announced it is in the process of moving from the Cake Poker network to the Merge Gaming network. The launch of the new Lock Poker site is set to happen during the month of April, manager Jennifer Larson revealed, adding: “Merge is a natural fit for us. They are aggressive, innovative and […]
March 25, 2010
The respected online publication Card Player published an interesting interview exchange between writer Stephen Murphy and the chief executive of the American Gaming Association, Frank Fahrenkopf, this week, and the tone suggests a slight positive shift in the land casino trade body’s traditionally neutral approach to online poker. Fahrenkopf said the trade association has modified […]
March 25, 2010
Nick “Stoxtrader” Grudzien, a founder of the poker coaching company Stox Poker, is leaving the company in the wake of a major row on the twoplustwo forum regarding allegations that he was multi-accounting. His departure amid the new controversy follows accusations leveled against Stox Poker coach Jason Ho earlier this year relating to a fabricated […]
March 23, 2010
Tony Hachem, brother of former WSOP champion Joe, has once again showed that the talent runs in the family by taking down the first run in Perth of the Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour Perth main event. Battling his way through a field of 221 entrants, Hachem took the main prize of A$132 370, […]
March 22, 2010
All four suspects in the EPT Berlin armed robbery two weeks back (see previous reports) have now been arrested, according to a police spokesperson. Berlin police spokeswoman Claudia Schwaiger said Sunday that the last 19-year-old suspect was arrested at Tegel airport on Saturday night after his lawyer told police he was there. The robbery at […]
March 22, 2010
It’s official….poker in now a sport in the Baltic state of Lithuania, which is also making progressive moves toward the regulation of Internet gambling. On March 20, the government’s Department of Physical Education and Sports issued an official decree recognising the Lithuanian Sports Poker Federation as an official sports federation. “This is extremely important step […]