July 31, 2016
The legal publication JDSupra.com reported Friday on an interesting July 21 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court in the United States, which determined that a taxpayer who held online poker accounts with PokerStars and PartyPoker is not required to report those accounts as “foreign bank and financial accounts” to FinCEN, although he or she must […]
July 31, 2016
Online poker provider Pokerstars appears to have come up with a winner in its social media “Raise It” campaign, which has seen a series of good natured competitive stunts by football stars Neymar Jnr. and Ronaldo going viral across a variety of channels, ensuring wide publicity and links for the company. The two celebrities exhibit […]
July 29, 2016
A Russian Twitch poker streamer using the interesting Internet pseudonym Solid Penis freaked out spectacularly when the game he was streaming on his aKTepnopHo Twitch account resulted in his winning a one-in-a-million Pokerstars Spin&Go jackpot of Euro 250,000 on a Euro 25 stake this week. His Twitch stream in Russian has been very professionally re-presented […]
July 24, 2016
Growing numbers of top international players have been confirming their presence at a major poker event next month in the Czech Republic – the Celebrity Cash Kings tournament scheduled for Kings Casino in Rozvadov between August 14 – 17. The tourney is billed as a high stakes cash game festival, and will feature a number […]
July 23, 2016
New numbers from online poker monitor Pokerscout reveal the alarming news that 7-day average cash game traffic at market leader Pokerstars has declined 50 percent since 2011, with the latest figure of 11,500 players continuing the trend. Observers have been speculating on the reasons for the decline, arguing that it could be a lessening of […]
July 23, 2016
In a good example of its continually evolving promotional innovation 888Poker has announced a new online game which will be launched Monday July 25 titled Blast. The game has been designed to generate both time and action pressure on players, and includes big-earning capability of up to 10 times the player buy-in. The format is […]
July 19, 2016
888Poker marketers have developed an ingenious new way of entertaining players whilst at the same time spreading brand and awareness across social media and other channels. Titled Personalized Videos, the initiative builds on the penchant of most players for a little bragging about their poker prowess, usually via social media channels, Skype and poker forums […]
July 19, 2016
Russian online poker operator Pokerdom has launched Connective Games’ newly developed Pineapple OFC Poker mobile app. Connective Games launched the poker variant earlier this year saying it has proven so successful the development of the mobile app along with the launch of OFC free roll tournaments was a logical progression. “As specialist online poker game […]
July 19, 2016
With a guaranteed pay-out of at least a million, the final table of the World Series of Poker is an alluring achievement, and as we went to press Tuesday morning the composition of the final table had just been decided. The 27 players who started Day 7 were led by Czech Republic pro Vojtech Ruzicka […]
July 19, 2016
Tuesday should see the formation of the final table at this year’s World Series of Poker as the 27 survivors from Day 6 reconvene to play down to the last nine, who will then go on a break until November, each with a million dollars. When they return to play to a winner in November, […]