February 21, 2016
20-year-old Polish professional player Dzmitry Urbanovich continued his winning roll over the weekend by emerging victorious from a final table full of talent in the European Poker Tour 12 Dublin main event, claiming the main prize of Euro 561,900 and taking his live tournament career earnings over the past year to Euro 3.6 million. The […]
February 21, 2016
Last week’s news that Greg Pierson’s geolocation and verification company Iovation has been awarded a Nevada Gaming Commission licence (see previous report) surprised many in the industry, and prompted investigative journalist Haley Hintze to revisit online poker’s biggest yet cheating scandal on the Flushdraw online poker information site over the weekend. Our readers will perhaps […]
February 20, 2016
Pokerstars has released the schedule for its twelfth European Poker Tour Grand Final, which will take place at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort in Monaco between April 25 and May 6 this year. Pokerstars has allied with the French Poker Series for this major festival, which will feature just under 80 tournaments and […]
February 20, 2016
The twenty-ninth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series is set to launch with 46 events tomorrow (Sunday) and will run through March 13, the company has announced. There is speculation that this may be the last FTOPS, given the announcement earlier this week that Amaya plans to merge the Full Tilt and Pokerstars […]
February 20, 2016
Assemblyman Adam Gray, who has been largely responsible for driving the latest online poker legalisative attempts in California (see previous reports) took many by surprise late Friday when he launched AB2863 in the state’s lower house, apparently approved by at least one tribal group. The tribe – the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians – issued […]
February 19, 2016
Beijing-based Ourgames International, which bought the World Poker Tour brand from Bwin.Party for $35 million in cash last year (see previous reports), has announced that it has plans for increased activity in the eSports field, opening the first of several compact international arenas custom designed for the vertical in Beijing this month. With plans that […]
February 19, 2016
Online poker supporters hoping for a “second time lucky” success for an online poker legalisation bill in Washington State were disappointed this week when the bill failed to gain traction and missed a mid-February legislative deadline, condemning it to failure for another year. HB1114, sponsored by state Representatives Sherry Appleton and Vincent Buys, sought to […]
February 18, 2016
A new vesrion of Texas Hold’em poker will soon be available on iPoker network sites, according to a report on the information site PokerStrategy (bought by Playtech in 2013 for a cool Euro 38.3 million). Titled 6-Plus Hold’em, the new variant has recently been promoted in the Asian market by top players like Tom Dwan […]
February 18, 2016
The French online poker media is rather gleefully reporting what appears to be a monumental screw-up by French operator Winamax which resulted this week in a Euro 1,546,522 payment to the account of one confused but delighted player. The fact that it took a week for the operator to uncover and act on such an […]
February 18, 2016
Online poker media are currently reporting that a company and its management implicated in the $20 million UltimateBet hole card cheating scandal several years ago (see previous reports) may be granted a Nevada gaming supplier licence to provide geo-location services in the state’s strictly controlled online gambling sector. Haley Hintze, a journalist who has extensively […]