June 2, 2016
Amidst the drama surrounding the daily fantasy sports debate in both the New York House and the Senate, an important advance on internet poker legalisation occurred almost unnoticed. The Senate Finance Committee quickly and without fuss approved Sen. John Bonacic’s legalisation bill S5302 on a 9 vs. 0 vote and sent it to the Senate […]
June 2, 2016
The 47th World Series of Poker is now underway at the Rio in Las Vegas, with a strong start from 731 entrants in the first event, a $565 buy-in Casino Employees NLHE competition. When we went to press, play on the first day had ended with just 23 survivors due to return to the tables […]
June 2, 2016
One of international poker’s top players and ambassadors, Daniel KidPoker Negreanu, is the subject of a new full length feature film which is now available via Netflix in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, online poker provider PokerStars has announced. KidPoker, a PokerStars Original Films documentary, chronicles the life and career of […]
June 2, 2016
Players and company representatives on various internet message boards have confirmed that the Merge Gaming network has once again halted the registration of new players resident in the United States. The website shows that the US country option in the drop down registration list has been removed for Carbon Poker, PlayersOnly, Sportsbook.ag and SuperBook, indicating […]
June 1, 2016
Fasten your seat belts and tune in to Las Vegas as the 47th edition of the World Series of Poker kicks off today (Tuesday May 31) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. With 69 events, the festival of poker runs through July 18, with the celebrated Main Event scheduled for a July 9 start […]
May 25, 2016
Talal Shakerchi (53), a hedge fund manager from Britain, is $1,468,001 wealthier today after taking down the 2016 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker $410,000 buy-in NLHE main event, besting a field of 824 entries to do so. The $4 million guarantee on the prize pool was easily doubled by entries and re-entries, making it […]
May 25, 2016
PokerStars’ 2016 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) claims a series of All Time Highs and the world record for richest ever online poker series. Held over the past 17 days, the total prize pool of $90,984,283.44 across 56 events crushed the previous record of $81,222,158.66, set during SCOOP 2014, by nearly $10 million. All […]
May 24, 2016
The marketing department at online poker giant Pokerstars has focused on social media leverage in its latest video campaign to promote its Knockout Poker product, and the outstanding results so far illustrate just how powerful social media opportunities can be. The video, which has gone viral across the internet and Facebook, is titled “Neymar JR’s […]
May 24, 2016
For the last three weeks would-be international online poker operator World Poker Fund Holdings has been riding the crest of a publicity wave that started when US rapper Soulja Boy claimed he had inked a $400 million social gaming deal with the company, potentially ranking him with the top entertainers in the business (see previous […]
May 21, 2016
World Poker Fund Holdings, a US publicly listed company describing itself as an online and event-based social gaming platform, has been drawing attention to its efforts with a steady stream of press releases for the past year or more, but last week scored wide coverage with a statement announcing a five-year $400 million endorsement deal […]