October 11, 2015
German restaurant owner and enthusiastic poker fan Makarios Avramidis is Euro 105,000 richer today (Sunday) following his weekend victory in the first event of this year’s Berlin-hosted World Series of Poker Europe, the Euro 2,200 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em competition. 197 players registered for the event. Although a regular at European Poker Tour contests, this […]
October 10, 2015
Swedish high stakes poker ace Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was riding high on the virtual high stakes poker tables at Pokerstars this week, prospering by $673,881 in almost 14,500 hands over 109 sessions after taking a loss of almost a quarter million dollars in the preceding week. Blom remains the most successful player this year on […]
October 9, 2015
Italian market statistics for September 2015 from regulator AAMS make depressing reading from an online poker perspective, reporting that online tournament entries fell 19 percent to Euro 58.7 million, and net revenues declined by 17 percent y-o-y to Euro 5.3 million. Ring game results were also down a depressing 27 percent y-o-y in wagering at […]
October 6, 2015
The World Series of Poker has announced that this year’s streaming and live reportage on WSOP Europe has been contracted to Twitch and the German online publication Pokerfirma respectively. Whilst Twitch can now boast a well-proven record in online poker streaming, some reservations have been expressed regarding the appointment of Pokerfirma in preference to the […]
October 6, 2015
Winning Poker Network has confirmed that it was again the subject of a Distributed Denial of Services attack late Sunday – the latest in a series targeting the operator, who has refused to pay ransom to the perpetrators in the past. Early reports suggest that the company’s losses due the the inability of players to […]
October 4, 2015
Another tranche of Full Tilt reimbursements could be on the way within weeks, according to Poker Players Alliance executive director John Pappas, who posted Friday that his contacts at the Department of Justice had given him a heads up on the latest pay-out developments. “This next wave includes roughly 2,000 petitioners totalling $5.7 million in […]
October 2, 2015
Pokerstars’ land casino partner in New Jersey, Resorts Casino Hotel, issued a statement Thursday on the internet poker giant’s long-awaited success in obtaining an online gambling transactional waiver from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, saying that its subsidiary Resorts Digital looked forward to jointly developing a stronger online presence in the Garden State. […]
October 1, 2015
The news late Wednesday that Amaya Inc. has at last been given the green light to operate in the New Jersey online gambling market by the Division of Gaming Enforcement has observers speculating on how soon the company’s Pokerstars and Full Tilt brands, partnered by local Atlantic City land operator Resorts Casino Hotel, will be […]
September 30, 2015
In January this year poker pro Aaron Mermelstein won the World Poker Tour Winter Poker Open at the Borgata, and this week he made it two WPT titles in the same year by taking down the $3,500 buy-in WPT Maryland Live! for $250,222 and a seat at the WPT Championship later this year. The event […]
September 30, 2015
Belgian online poker player Coenaldinho7 took the safer but less lucrative option of a chop on his way to winning this year’s Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker main event, but still took home an impressive $1.3 million instead of the projected $1.7 million for a win. The $5,200 buy-in Main Event generated a prize […]