December 17, 2015
US online and live poker pro Kenny Smaron (31) has bested a field of 315 to win the lion’s share of a Euro 3,150,000 prize pool in the Euro 10,300 buy-in European Poker Tour High Roller competition in Prague. Smaron’s victory brought him a pay day worth Euro 595,500 – his biggest live career win […]
December 17, 2015
The legendary high stakes online poker ace Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been enjoying – and profiting from – a change of scenery just lately, stirring up the action on Microgaming’s MPN network in a break from his usual Full Tilt and Pokerstars stamping grounds. The independent nosebleed games monitor High Stakes Data Base reports that […]
December 17, 2015
A county level case in Kentucky that had its genesis in a failed 2008 attempt to seize the international domains of online gambling companies (see previous reports) is back in the headlines this week with the news that Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate recently awarded a $290 million judgment against defendants Pokerstars and its […]
December 16, 2015
The 888poker network has advised that the Lucky Ace Poker skin is to close this month, shutting down all operations by December 28. Launched in January 28 and initially targeted on the German internet poker market, Lucky Ace developed a wider popularity and now serves Italian, German, Spanish and English poker fans. The first notifications […]
December 15, 2015
The thirteenth Pokerstars Spin & Go instant millionaire has been created, with Aussie online poker player Anthony “GrindHeaps” Ashton the latest to score after playing just 33 hands in a $100 buy-in game to become wealthy in under ten minutes. Two runners up from Ireland and England were awarded $100,000 each. 33 hands of action […]
December 14, 2015
Despite the apparent failure of a recent boycott of Pokerstars mounted by high stakes players angered by changes to the company’s VIP program (see previous reports), it appears that there are some for whom the issue is still very much alive. Reports from EPT Prague indicate that a small number of the players turned up […]
December 13, 2015
Eighty hopefuls paid Euro 25,000 apiece this weekend to play in the European Poker Tour Prague Single Day High Roller competition, generating a prize pool big enough to provide a healthy range of cashes, six-figure pay days for six members of the final table, and an impressive Euro 539,000 for the eventual winner. That man […]
December 13, 2015
The latest movie centred on a poker theme, Cold Deck, has an action-packed storyline that includes the heist of a high stakes poker game, an enterprise that misfires somewhat when one of the players turns out to be a psychopathic killer with a penchant for battle-axes. Written by Stéfano Gallo and Jason Lapeyre and directed […]
December 12, 2015
Spanish poker pro Javier Rojas has triumphed in the 2015 Eureka Poker Tour Prague main event after besting WSOP 2011 main event runner up Martin Staszk in an exciting heads up to claim the main prize of Euro 311,000. The event set new entrance records for EPT Prague when 1,893 players ponied up the Euro […]
December 12, 2015
Domain registry operator Afilias, and RightOfTheDot, an internet domain auction specialist, have teamed up to organise the auction in Las Vegas of several super-domain internet addresses on January 11 next year. Internet Domains to be auctioned include: • TexasHoldem.Poker • Stud.poker • Strip.poker • Video.poker The .poker top level domain launched in 2015 to cater […]