January 15, 2009
Cryptologic’s loss is Ongame Network’s gain was the story in the poker news this week as Bwin’s online poker subsidiary signed up the Betsafe sportsbook. Betsafe’s poker offering was previously powered by Cryptologic. Betsafe is one of the leading suppliers of online gaming products worldwide, with over 150 000 customers in over 100 different countries. […]
January 15, 2009
The Swedish-Maltese online poker network Entraction was in boastful mood this week with a press release claiming that it is the fastest growing network in the industry. It could be no idle boast; looking at the numbers shows a 108 percent growth curve this year, ranking the network 4th largest of the open poker networks. […]
January 14, 2009
PayNoRake.com has launched a competition designed to incentivise marketing affiliates to send it more players. The vehicle for the initiative is “The Race to $10 000” – a prize pool offered by PayNoRake to reward its most successful affiliate partners. To qualify for a share of the $10 000 prize pool, affiliates will need to […]
January 14, 2009
Some of the brightest ‘young gun’ Internet and land poker pros combined under Phil (Jman and OMGClayAiken) Galfond to launch a new poker training website branded Blue Fire Poker.com last month. Galfond is the lead pro in an all star poker educational team that includes Niman (Samoleus) Kenkre, Jason (PBJaxx) Senti, Martin (Giggy) Giguere, Ryan […]
January 14, 2009
One of the most respected editors in online poker media, John Caldwell has announced his resignation from Poker News after five years in the hot seat. “I just felt it was time,” said Caldwell. “I’m looking to change focus, and now felt right.” Caldwell joined the nascent Poker News and has overseen its development into […]
January 13, 2009
The world’s second largest online poker website, Full Tilt Poker.com, achieved a new milestone in player liquidity over the weekend when it attracted an average of 10 186 poker players to its cash games on Sunday – a new traffic record for the site, according to independent information site MarketPulse. Full Tilt’s previous record of […]
January 13, 2009
The considerable digital media weight of Players Network will be deployed to further a new revenue sharing partnership between the company and the subscription based National League of Poker, through which a Players Network branded US-legal online poker site will be created. A press release from the company this week claims that the deal will […]
January 13, 2009
PurePlay, the largest legal U.S. play-for-cash online poker destination, announced this week that it has achieved record growth through 2008, doubling its player base to 1.7 million, which it claims is an order of magnitude larger than its nearest competitor. “Our membership base remains unmatched among legal U.S. play-for-cash poker sites,” said PurePlay CEO Jason […]
January 12, 2009
“It hasn’t sunk in yet. It feels unbelievable, surreal. I can’t believe it’s happening,” was the reaction from 22-year-old Canadian poker pro Poorya Nazari over the weekend, immediately after winning the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main prize of $3 million after coming out tops on a roster of globally respected poker aces. Nazari’s win includes a […]
January 12, 2009
The addition of a pot limit Omaha tournament looks set to make the upcoming Manila leg of the Asian Poker Tour starting end-January more interesting. Taking place at the Dusit Thani Manila resort in Makati, Philippines, the PLO event will be one of six preliminary events on the schedule. NLHE dominates the other events, although […]