May 21, 2016
Rush Street Productions’ new poker television show The Final Table is reportedly ready to screen after more than eight months of production and visits to major games at top US gambling venues. Scheduled to air this summer, the show features carefully selected footage from the most exciting final tables, with the last five players standing […]
May 20, 2016
Howard “The Professor” Lederer offered his general apologies this week to former Full Tilt Poker players…five years on from the debacle that saw the company fold and the news broke that player accounts had not been segregated and protected (see previous reports). Lederer, a former director of the company before it was rescued and players […]
May 19, 2016
Kevin Martin, from Calgary, Canada, is the latest poker player to join the online poker players at Team PokerStars Pro Online. The former radio host on stations Rock 106 & 107.7 The River and contestant on Season 3 of the “Canadian Big Brother” TV show, is reportedly a big fan of the game…and a competent […]
May 19, 2016
The major US land gambling group Treasure Island has announced that a new subscription-based online poker site is in its plans for the coming northern hemisphere summer, with tempting prizes and cash awards for winning players. The new platform will be provided by Strategic Entertainment, and the intention is to offer daily tournaments run every […]
May 19, 2016
Microgaming Poker Network chief Alex Scott revealed some interesting information on his company’s forthcoming venture into lottery sit ‘n go action this week whilst being interviewed by player and podcast presenter Joe ‘ChicagoJoey’ Ingram. Scott revealed that MPN’s variable prize pool SNG due to launch around July 12 will have a virtually unlimited progressive jackpot […]
May 19, 2016
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has wasted no time in exploiting a US District Court’s green light for its online poker plans (see previous reports), launching the free-to-play Pokertribe.com site this week from servers on tribal land and powered by Universal Entertainment Group. The free-play site is just the first phase of a plan to […]
May 18, 2016
Italian poker pro (now believed resident in Slovakia) Dario “Secret_M0d3” Sammartino enjoyed the biggest pay-day in a sparkling online tournament career this week when he took down the $21,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max High Roller event of the 2016 PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP). 143 entries were recorded for the event, generating a […]
May 18, 2016
The World Poker Tour (WPT) has released details of the full WPT Main Tour schedule for Season XV. This season introduces the partypoker WPT Passport, partypoker WPT Caribbean in Punta Cana, and the WPT Festival Championship. World Poker Tour and partypoker have joined forces to launch the WPT Passport in Season XV, allowing online qualifiers […]
May 15, 2016
It may be just coincidence, but only a day after New Jersey regulators reported another rising performance for the state’s nascent online gambling sector (it included a more than 30 percent increase in rake from intrastate online poker), Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval put the message out that he would be interested in discussing a combined […]
May 15, 2016
AB 2863, a California intrastate online poker legalisation bill that was recently approved by the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee on an 18 vs, 0 vote (see previous reports) will again be the centre of attraction on May 18, when the Assembly Appropriations Committee will hear testimony and consider the measure for further progress. The issue […]