March 21, 2016
Amaya Inc. subsidiary PokerStars, in partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel, is now officially live with online poker and casino offers in New Jersey following a soft launch last week (see previous reports). “We could not be more proud to bring PokerStars to New Jersey,” commented David Baazov, chairman and chief executive officer of Amaya. “Working […]
March 21, 2016
US poker pro Harrison Gimbel (25) is just one step away from joining the elite Triple Crown winners club after clinching his first World Poker Tour main event title this week in the $3,500 buy-in WPT Rolling Thunder main event, which he has added to a Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure win six years ago….all he needs […]
March 19, 2016
The successful Dusk Til Dawn and PartyPoker partnership on the popular Grand Prix Poker Tour, has persuaded the team to build on the concept by launching a new live poker series titled the Grand Prix Poker Tour Mini. The new tour has 20 confirmed dates at venues across the UK between March 23 and Dec. […]
March 19, 2016
Russian poker pro and online high stakes player Alex “joiso” Kostritsyn will be popular with his bank manager this week after boosting his account balance by $710,000 in nosebleed games against some of the most formidable high stakes players on the internet. The High Stakes Data Base reports that Kostritsyn played the highest number of […]
March 19, 2016
Judging by comments on player message boards and in the online industry media, it looks as if Pokerstars’ soft launch in New Jersey Wednesday has attracted a great deal of positive attention and is going well. There have inevitably been some complaints – that’s what the soft launch is designed to refine and eliminate – […]
March 18, 2016
In Oklahoma, there has been a surprise breakthrough in the bid by the Iowa tribe to set up an international online poker site outside the USA, using Universal Entertainment Group’s branding PokerTribe.com. Our readers may recall that late last year the state’s opposition to the Iowa tribe’s intentions ended up in an independent arbitration action. […]
March 16, 2016
PokerStars has launched its Jackpot Poker product on the Playphone game store with a marketing emphasis on Taiwan, a development that forms part of its global initiative to introduce poker to new audiences. The app will allow new players to join the existing Jackpot Poker by PokerStars player pool from the Apple App Store, Google […]
March 16, 2016
Three months ahead of the shuffle up and deal call, the $300,000 buy-in Poker Central and Aria Resorts Super High Roller Bowl poker competition has already reached its cap of 49 players, with an entry list that includes almost every big name in the game. Try these as an example: Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio […]
March 13, 2016
Young German poker pro Stefan Schillhabel scored his biggest prize yet over the weekend when he emerged winner in the $7,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star main event, taking home almost $1.3 million in prize money, a Hublot King Power Unico watch, a pair of gold Monster 24K headphones, and a free […]
March 11, 2016
Hard on the heels of renewed speculation that the Russian government may soon legalise online poker as a skill game (see previous reports) comes the news that 888Poker has formed a strategic partnership with the Russian Poker Tour (RPT). The RPT hosts live poker tournaments in Eastern European cities in the absence of a welcoming […]