May 13, 2016
This year’s Super High Roller poker tournament, scheduled for the Aria at the end of this month, is sure to attract a wide audience with $15 million in guaranteed prizes and 49 talented high rollers who have anted up $300,000 apiece to compete against each other. Poker Central will be screening the big event, but […]
May 13, 2016
Michigan Senator Mike Kowall remains optimistic that his proposal to legalise intrastate online poker will bear fruit this year following its first successful hearing in the state Senate Regulatory Reform Committee last week (see previous reports). Dave Biswas, an aide on the senator’s staff revealed this week that there will likely be another airing of […]
May 12, 2016
The World Series of Poker organisers have embraced the social networking trend by scheduling a Twitch “town hall” discussion on the next edition of the prestigious tournament, its 47th annual presentation. The Twitch channel will hopefully come alive with information and comment from organisers and viewers alike at 4pm EST on May 19. WSOP Executive […]
May 12, 2016
Robert Soogea took down the World Poker Tour Amsterdam €6,000 High Roller, besting 95 entrants and pocketing a generous share of a Euro 531,084 prize pool after emerging victorious out of heads-up play with Atanas Kavravkov. Final table finishers were: Robert Soogea Euro 150,000 Atanas Kavravkov Euro 104,917 Fatih Aydin Euro 75,815 Juha Helppi Euro […]
May 11, 2016
Social gaming platform developer and operator World Poker Fund Holdings (WPFH) says it expects to generate $143 million in revenues from the first ever in-flight online casino assets and contracts stemming from its 49 percent acquisition of Universal Entertainment Group (UEG). According to a press statement, the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma PokerTribe.com/.gov gaming portal is […]
May 9, 2016
Amaya Inc. will retire the Full Tilt platform on Tuesday, 17 May 2016, migrating players to its PokerStars platform to increase liquidity and achieve cost saving measures with the operation of a combined platform. Players who have both Full Tilt and PokerStars accounts will see their accounts merged with Full Tilt Points converted to Starscoin […]
May 9, 2016
In a fitting end to a successful 2016 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo over the weekend, the Euro 25,750 buy-in High Roller competition was convincingly won by Romanian poker pro Alexandru Papazian, who claimed a main prize pay day of Euro 1.2 million after besting Greek pro Alexandros Kolonias in an exciting […]
May 9, 2016
Forum exchanges over the weekend indicate that around 1,500 Full Tilt petitioners have had their claims rejected by the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering division of the US Department of Justice following review. Players affected report that they received emails notifying them of the disqualification and giving them until May 17 to file appeals. The […]
May 8, 2016
Innovation is always interesting, and Pokerstars used the recently completed European Poker Tour festival in Monte Carlo to assess player reactions to a few new ideas for the game. The company’s ideas chief Christin Maschmann was on hand, poker table and all, to personally talk players, reporters and the just plain curious through a range […]
May 7, 2016
Slovakian poker pro Jan Bendik – the veteran of many a European Poker Tour competition – scored his biggest pay day yet Friday by winning the main event of this year’s European Poker Tour Grand Final main event in Monte Carlo and taking home the Euro 961,800 top prize. Bendik bested a record field of […]