December 12, 2016
German poker pro Jan-Eric Schwippert has claimed the Five Diamond World Poker Classic $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller title after agreeing a chop with Tom Marchese during heads up play. The deal saw Schwippert ultimately best a total field of 38 to win a career high of $1,439,274. It tops off a lucrative week for […]
December 12, 2016
On the back of concluding its opening Season in Las Vegas, The Global Poker League, through parent company Mediarex Sport and Entertainment, will expand into China during 2017. The inaugural GPL China season one will launch with eight teams representing cities across China: Beijing Great Dragons, Shanghai Golden Tigers, Guanghzou Pioneers, Shenzhen Eagles, Hangzhou Legends, […]
December 12, 2016
Online and live tournament player, author and poker pro Andrew ‘luckychewy’ Lichtenberger (30) has branched out into the operator world, launching Luckychewy Poker.com on an as yet unidentified platform. The operation is currently in play-money and beta format, but has licensing from the UK Gambling Commission and software certified by iTech Labs that offers players […]
December 11, 2016
Pokerstars parent group Amaya will be pleased with the enthusiastic response to its entry into the Portuguese market at the beginning of this month (see previous reports). Figures from the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout show that cash game traffic rose 10 percent as the international giant settled in, quickly overtaking 888Poker. Pokerscout numbers show […]
December 11, 2016
791 entries, generating a prize pool of $7,672,700; a top prize of $1,938,118; six-figure pay days for all final table players; a roster of notable poker names at the tables; and cashes right down to the seventy second finisher are all reasons why this year’s $10,400 buy-in World Poker Tour Five Diamond Poker Classic main […]
December 10, 2016
With six-figure pay-days from high roller competitions at the Aria ($514,000 and $273,000), and the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Florida ($ 1million) this year, online poker ace Jason Kroon is proving that he is just as formidable in live tourneys as he is online….and he illustrated that again this weekend in taking down […]
December 8, 2016
The Heypoker website, along with player emails, conveyed bad news this week…the operation is to close on December 14. A website notice gave no reasons for the closure but advised: “Be advised that Heypoker will close down on the 14th of December 2016. “Please log into your Heypoker account and withdraw any existing funds before […]
December 8, 2016
It’s not just civic associations that are warning against the introduction of a federal ban on online gambling in a denial of states’ rights (see previous reports). The Poker Players Alliance action group has begun mustering its over a million US members in a campaign as well. In the past, helping players to contact their […]
December 7, 2016
Pokerstars has announced the schedule for the 2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP), which includes some changes following player feedback. Pokerstars says that it is investing $15 million in guarantees across the five events in the series, which kicks off January 18 next year. The main change is to Event 04 – from a […]
December 7, 2016
888Poker is forging closer links with the booming eSports sector and the hundreds of millions of younger demographic fans that the activity attracts. In its latest move the company has inked a partnership deal with Flow Esports, a major Hearthstone online streamer that can boast 10,000 weekly viewers. A statement from 888 said it was […]