March 29, 2016
The 2016 Irish Open poker competition ended over the weekend with a truly Irish finale as Daniel Wilson and Michael Conaty fought it out for the lion’s share of the Euro 801,500 prize pool generated by 802 entrants. The two players dominated the action on the fourth and final day of the competition, with Conaty […]
March 28, 2016
In the United States, PR and content marketing firm, 1-800-PublicRelations, has signed a partnership agreement with World Poker Fund Holdings, Inc. in which media relations, financial communications expertise and marketing will be enhanced. New York-based World Poker Fund Holdings, Inc. claims that 1-800-PublicRelations, Inc. (“1800pr”) is the third most influential social impact media and communications […]
March 28, 2016
Two Belarus-based poker and fantasy fans are currently looking for funding with an impressive presentation of their Lord of Poker concept on Kickstarter. The intriguing and complex proposed role-play fantasy poker game they have designed could create cross-over opportunities between subscription poker tournaments and the booming eSports competition industry, and its developers are focused on […]
March 27, 2016
Robert Kuhn (25), a US professional player from Ohio currently residing in Mexico, has secured his first WSOP Circuit winner’s ring and his largest live tournament pay-check yet after besting 369 other entrants to win the $1,675 buy-in World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s Atlantic City main event. Kuhn, a prolific online player using a […]
March 27, 2016
The independent online monitor Pokerscout has given some insight into the immediate impact made by Pokerstars on its New Jersey debut last week, noting that preliminary numbers show that the industry giant boosted cash game traffic in the ring-fenced New Jersey market by around 20 percent…taking the average cash game numbers from 320 players up […]
March 25, 2016
The poker Cash Game Festival concept pioneered so successfully over the past two years in Estonia has arrived in the UK in the form of a 888Poker-sponsored five-day, 24/7 festival at Aspers Casino in London scheduled to kick off on March 30 2016. Advance publicity on the festival indicates that there will be more than […]
March 23, 2016
Online poker operator Pokerstars has launched its latest online tournament series, an offering branded “Mountain Series” and comprising 10 events. The tournament is scheduled for four days from April 7-10, and features more than $4 million in guaranteed prize money and progressive buy-ins that range from $11 to $2,100. Each of the 10 tournaments is […]
March 22, 2016
What may well prove to be positive news on internet poker legalisation in the state of New York emerged this week when it was revealed that the regulation of online poker envisaged in Senator John Bonacic’s S5302B measure (see previous report) has been included in the state’s $154 billion budget plan – still being negotiated […]
March 22, 2016
PokerStars has reviewed pricing policies and implemented an increase in rake on a number of games in its shared liquidity market effective March 28, 2016 but maintains it still has the “lowest overall pricing of any major online poker operator”. Key pricing changes include: – Rake increase in Spin & Go’s of 1 percent for […]
March 21, 2016
Pokerstars’ Sunday Million 10th Anniversary celebrations’ $10 million guarantee on this past Sunday’s tournament has led to Canada’s ‘a.urli’ pocketing a staggering $970,000 after 15-and-a-half-hours of play and a four-handed final table deal all on a single $215 buy-in. A whopping 22,000 players took their seats at around 2,500 tables on Sunday afternoon with 55,059 […]