February 12, 2016
Microgaming’s Poker Network has unveiled planned improvements to its Sit ‘n Go offering, inviting public comment on the project to ensure that a favourable product emerges when the changes are implemented end February. Head of poker Alex Scott revealed the upcoming changes in his blog this week, commenting that the aim is to standardise and […]
February 11, 2016
Kudos to Dutch online poker pro Freerk Post, whose running fight with the Dutch tax authority Belastingdienst has ended in success, with the taxman withdrawing an appeal against an earlier positive finding for the player. Post filed against the tax authority last year, challenging an attempt by Belastingdienst to levy tax on player winnings achieved […]
February 11, 2016
Possibly due to a more player-friendly approach by new owner GVC Holdings, Party Poker announced Wednesday that a decision to charge players for e-wallet withdrawals has been rescinded with immediate effect. The policy change applies to withdrawals from Neteller, Skrill and Webmoney, where all cash-outs from PartyPoker are now free of charge. Professional players will […]
February 10, 2016
On March 20 this year Pokerstars intends to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its popular $215 Sunday Million online poker tournament in a big way…it has allocated a massive $10 million to the guaranteed prize pool, ensuring that the winner will walk away withat least $1 million. In a press release this week the company […]
February 10, 2016
Online poker giant Pokerstars continued to implement its overall strategy of creating a more recreational player-friendly environment this week, announcing that regular heads up cash games are to be replaced by heads up Zoom products in order to reduce the impact of “predatory” behaviour by professionals. Regular heads up players were told in email communications […]
February 9, 2016
The French political and regulatory establishment certainly knows how to keep the overtaxed online poker sector on tenterhooks, especially when it comes to the oft-debated question of player pool sharing. Just weeks after it was reported that the shared player pools so essential for success in the sector have again been denied by French legislators […]
February 9, 2016
A 25-year-old Russian professional poker player with an interest in economics (and that’s all he’s prepared to reveal about himself) scored two notable firsts on Pokerstars this week – the first Spin&Go big win of 2016, and the fastest million dollar win so far, according to the Pokerstars blog. Using the handle Rainman751 the pro […]
February 6, 2016
Online poker operator PKR is making significant changes under the leadership of Chris Welch, the first of which will see PKR move to the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) later this month and debut a revamped poker loyalty scheme renamed the PKR Poker VIP Club. Players will be able to choose a poker alias which can […]
February 6, 2016
American Chris Leong outlasted a field of 1,171 to take the Party Poker WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open title scoring a huge payday of $816,246. Leong sat down at the final table together with Joe McKeenhen, reigning WSOP main event champion, and Yevgeny Timoshenko, WPT 2009 Championship winner but it was Rafael Yaraliyev who he […]
February 4, 2016
Full Tilt Poker has launched a free-to-play version on Valve Corporation’s digital gaming distribution platform Steam after completing its passage through Steam’s green light process. Steam’s version offers in-game purchases starting at $1,99 for 200,000 chips and customers accessing game guide’s, promo’s, account and tournament history through the Steam platform are redirected to Full Tilt […]