September 21, 2016
The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) delivered more excitement and records this week when the NLHE 8-Max High Roller was decided after a tough head up battle featuring Phillip “Grindation” McAllister and Doug “WCG|Rider” Polk after the duo survived a starting field of 356 (278 entries, 78 re-entries) that created a massive prize pool […]
September 20, 2016
Dan ‘djk123’ Kelly has set a new online poker record by winning his fifth Pokerstars World Championships of Online Poker title this week for $88,102. His fifth and record making victory came in the inaugural $700 buy-in Mix Max competition, in which he bested 700 entrants and claimed the honours after a tough heads up […]
September 19, 2016
Pokerstars has announced that it is to repeat its charity for cancer Lads Night In again to support the men’s health charity, Prostate Cancer U.K. The annual one-night poker event bringing friends together at home to help fight prostate cancer, is scheduled for Friday, 21 October. Lads Night In is calling on men and women […]
September 17, 2016
Next month will see the kick-off of the fifth annual Garden State Super Series of Poker, and this year the PartyPoker-Borgata online partnership has invested a million dollars in guarantees across its 75 events starting October 9. Satellite qualifiers for the series are already running on PartyPoker.nj, with a games roster that includes Texas Hold’em, […]
September 15, 2016
World Poker Tour tournaments in Cambodia and France are likely to flow from two recent agreements signed by the poker provider with Education Investment and Barrière Group respectively. The Education Investment deal involves two new WPT National Series tournaments to be held at the Holiday Palace Casino & Resort in Poipet, Cambodia and at the […]
September 15, 2016
Land casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson predictably ruffled a few feathers in the poker community last week when he claimed in a Yahoo interview that poker was not a game decided by skill and is therefore clearly gambling and exploitive (but not including his own land casino activities, apparently). US poker pro Brian Rast was among […]
September 13, 2016
Tel Aviv-based social gaming start-up developer Playtrex is hoping to breathe new life into the social poker market with “Wild Poker”, a new freemium poker game with an exclusive strategic twist, first released on 25th August this year as an open-beta. The product is based on the Texas Hold’em variant of poker but has an […]
September 13, 2016
Amid the usual for-and-against exchanges on who should or should not be on it, the international Poker Hall of Fame short list was published this week following a period of intense public voting and a stringent vetting on nominations by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. Two thirds of the 2016 list is made […]
September 13, 2016
KPMG’s seventh annual Isle of Man Online Gambling Summit conference included a demonstration of the burgeoning augmented reality (AR) technology for the 280 management delegates, with Derivco specialists Errol Larson, Mike Guelpa and Geoff Walton delivering a fascinating perspective on the possibilities for the industry. The Derivco team had virtual reality headpieces for the audience […]
September 13, 2016
The $102,000 buy-in online Super High Roller competition that has had everyone agog over the past few days has been decided in dramatic fashion, with player “bencb789” emerging victorious and taking home $1, 1772, 461 after a two-way chop with German poker prodigy Fedor Holz, who delivered yet another impressive performance at the table. Holz’s […]