October 17, 2015
The World Series of Poker Europe has continued to build momentum toward this weekend’s main event, with another winner’s bracelet awarded in event six, a Euro 3,250 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em competition that concluded on Friday in a victory for Greek player Pavlos Xanthopoulos. Aside from the prestigious bracelet, Xanthopoulos claimed the first prize of Euro […]
October 16, 2015
PartyPoker’s announced intention to make changes in order to ensure a level field for all players continued to progress this week with the completion of the first phase of the plan it has titled Poker for the People. The release of a software update on Thursday heralding the completion, and included restrictions on third party […]
October 16, 2015
A 25-year-old Uruguayan outsider, Alex Komaromi, took on a star-loaded final table and bested them all at the World Series of Poker Europe Thursday, earning Euro 65,740 and his first WSOP winner’s bracelet. Komaromi, a former LAPT main event winner, was one of 113 entrants in the Euro 2,200 8-Game Mixed event, and emerged as […]
October 15, 2015
The 2015 World Series of Poker Europe’s fourth event, the “Monster Stack” No-Limit Hold’em competition went into the history books this week, recording that New York financial adviser Ryan Hefter bested a field of 580 to claim his first winner’s bracelet and the main prize of Euro 176,205. Hefter travelled from his current assignment with […]
October 15, 2015
The French regulator ARJEL will have been disappointed this week to see that the draft of the new and much-hyped Digital Republic law did not include permission for the sharing of player pools with other like-minded jurisdictions. High taxation and restricted player liquidity have continued to constrain the development of French online and mobile poker, […]
October 14, 2015
PokerStars has announced the rollout of a range of new game offerings across Europe and the United Kingdom. PokerStars.com, .EU and .UK have rolled out video poker games offering several game variations and different stakes which are now accessible via the ‘Casino Tab’ in the PokerStars lobby. Games include Deuces Wild, Double Bonus, Double Double […]
October 14, 2015
Congratulations to UK poker pro and Omaha specialist Richard Gryko who has triumphed in the third bracelet event of this year’s World Series of Poker Europe, the Euro 3,250 Eight-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha, besting an entry field of 160 other hopefuls in Berlin. Gryko’s reward was his first WSOP winner’s bracelet and Euro 126,345 after beating […]
October 13, 2015
The second event in this year’s World Sries of Poker Europe – the Euro 550 buy-in “Oktoberfest” No-Limit Hold’em competition – attracted an entry field of 2,144 and saw German pro Dietrich Fast emerge as the winner of the Euro 157,749 main prize…and his first WSOP bracelet. Fast, who started playing a decade ago and […]
October 11, 2015
The growing fame of online gaming distribution channel Steam has clearly caught the eye of Amaya’s Full Tilt online gambling subsidiary, which has applied through Steam’s crowd-approval Greenlight facility for exposure of the free-play Full Tilt.net software. Owned by a company titled Valve, Steam is an increasingly popular online distribution service where growing numbers of […]