May 7, 2016
The Amaya Group’s decision to merge Full Tilt with Pokerstars is apparently well enough advanced for the merger to take place on May 17 this year, with preparations for the big move well in hand. The company has announced that the Full Tilt poker platform will not be offered for sale, and will instead be […]
May 6, 2016
US poker pro Seth Davies (27) is Cdn$226,893 wealthier today after besting 416 other contestants to take down the Cdn$3,500 buy-in PartyPoker World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship – his first WPT title. Davies worked his way methodically through the competitive field in the NLHE event to enter the final table stage second in the […]
May 6, 2016
The patient but persistent lobbying of French regulator Charles Coppolani, chief of ARJEL, paid off this week when the French Senate approved amendments to the Digital Bill which clear the path for negotiations on player pool sharing with neighbouring jurisdictions which have similarly ring-fenced player pools. The amendments also deal with gambling dispute mediation and […]
May 6, 2016
Online poker forums lit up this week with reports from Pokerstars players that they have begun receiving refunds following what appears to be a major bust by Pokerstars security, although the company has not released specific details. The refunds appear to stem from the popular Spin&Go action offered by Pokerstars, with some players claiming they […]
May 4, 2016
this week the Californian newspaper Sacramento Bee published an editorial critical of AB2863, a bill currently at committee stage in the California state legislature which seeks to licence and regulate online poker. Within days that criticism has sparked a response from the Poker Players Alliance. Writing in a special op-ed article in the newspaper, PPA […]
May 3, 2016
Barely a month after it was introduced to the Michigan Senate by Sen. Mike Kowall (see previous report) online poker legalisation measure SB889 is to be the subject of a hearing in the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee tomorrow (Wednesday May 4). The bill has a good chance of making progress, considering that five of the […]
May 3, 2016
Extra time was needed to complete the heads up in this week’s epic Euro 50,000 buy-in ‘single-day’ High Roller at the 2016 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, which saw German high stakes professionals Fabian Quoss and Ole Schemion fight it out in a tough heads up. By 5.30 am Monday morning it […]
May 3, 2016
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest statistics indicate that April was not a good month for ring game traffic for Pokerstars, with the company taking a substantial 14.7 percent decline, attributed by some observers to it’s 4 percent hike in rake towards the end of March. Pokerscout notes that player traffic dropped from 17,000 […]
May 2, 2016
New York-based social gaming developer World Poker Fund Holdings announced Monday that it has signed a deal to acquire a 49 percent stake in online poker software provider Universal Entertainment Group (UEG), a company with online gaming assets that include trademarks, online gaming platforms, source codes, and casino licensing and consulting agreements. UEG has been […]
May 1, 2016
Twenty-three-year-old German professional poker player Ole Schemion is probably celebrating a remarkable achievement this weekend – his fourth seven-figure live tournament win in a sparkling career that has rewarded him with earnings of over $10 million. Schemion’s latest victory came in the Euro 100,000 buy-in Super High Roller at the European Poker Tour Grand Finals […]