December 5, 2015
Danish sports betting fans will soon be able to enjoy safe and fair online betting on sports in Denmark on PokerStars, an Amaya Inc. brand. The Spillemyndigheden (Danish Gambling Authority) has awarded PokerStars a temporary one-year sports betting licence, and the company plans to apply for a full five-year permit. PokerStars, which entered the sports […]
December 2, 2015
Manuela Bandeira, director of the Portuguese gambling authority, Regulação Inspeção de Jogos – Turismo de Portugal, indicated during a presentation at the Gambling Compliance conference in Lisbon that cross-border liquidity is not guaranteed once Portugual’s online poker market goes live. “It’s not a simple issue,” Bandeira said. “We have had meetings with regulators in other […]
December 2, 2015
888Poker appears to be capitalising on troubles at PokerStars over changes aimed at encouraging a more recreational style of player. Over 2,500 professional and high stakes players started a three-day boycott of PokerStars this week in protest at the changes to the poker giant’s VIP program, with quieter cash game activity an almost immediate result. […]
December 2, 2015
Amaya Inc.’s PokerStars brand have launched a free-to-play poker game titled “Jackpot Poker” across Facebook, iOS and Android platforms. The game features three-handed, “winner-takes-all” poker tournaments in a new format that is made specifically for mobile devices and aimed at casual gamers, the company said. Jackpot Poker features PokerStars’ Spin & Go tournaments with a […]
December 1, 2015
This year’s Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final, held in Sao Paulo Brazil, attracted a field of 426 punters prepared to lay down $2,572 each to compete in the eighth annual edition of the event. In a close-run heads up Brazilian Yuri Martens faced Afonso Henrique, with the two professionals pausing to negotiate a chop […]
November 30, 2015
The Season 9 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) final event, which played out at the Grosvenor Casino Victoria, broke records with an entry field of 321 and a prize pool of GBP 642,000, far exceeding the GBP 400,000 expectation. Kent resident Ben Winsor emerged victorious defeating Alex Zervos in heads-up play. Winsor also joins GUKPT’s […]
November 30, 2015
Norway’s more practical approach to poker following years of prohibition that has forced national competitions to be held offshore has resulted in the first – and very successful – locally held championships, which concluded in Oslo this week. Over 2,000 players took part in the competitions, which culminated in a main event won by professional […]
November 29, 2015
Russian online poker player and twoplustwo forum member Dani Stern aka “I from Russian” is taking on online poker giant PokerStars saying “a site that was once clearly for the players, has completely lost sight of that”. Stern is attempting to mobilise a 72 hour boycott of PokerStars from December 1 to 3 in protest […]
November 27, 2015
Brooklyn poker pro Mike Dentale emerged victorious from a field of 557 hopefuls after three days of play in the 2015 Borgata Fall Poker Open Championship. Dentale’s win of $336,331 is his largest career cash to date pushing his lifetime earnings to over $1,000,000. Final table results were: 1 Mike Dentale $336,331 2 Jason Paster […]
November 26, 2015
Live casino provider Evolution Gaming has launched an exclusive online version of Caribbean Stud Poker created in partnership with Games Marketing. Live Caribbean Stud Poker allows a virtually unlimited number of players to take part in any single game and includes an optional 5+1 bonus side bet giving players more opportunity to win payouts of […]