September 24, 2015
It appears that Golden Nugget has been unable to get its New Jersey free-play online poker site properly established as a precursor to a possible real-money operation (see previous reports). The company informed its players this week that it intends to shutter the site at the end of this (September) month. Golden Nugget’s original intention […]
September 23, 2015
David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division for Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE), responding in an interview with GGB News’ Roger Gros, said the NJDGE’s continued review into Amaya focuses more on the company’s purchase of Rational Group rather than on the company itself. Rebuck revealed that the division had conducted 80 sworn interviews in connection […]
September 23, 2015
PartyPoker’s Pokerfest Online series is set to kick off again next week (September 27) with 80 events, several poker game styles and $2.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. Buy-ins range from $5 to $2,100 (for the NLHE Super High Roller Freezeout), and the operator is offering a range of satellites for players to win entries […]
September 22, 2015
Mike “Timex” McDonald will be a disappointed man after starting the final table of the $51,000 buy-in WCOOP Super High Roller as chip leader this week, only to find himself upstaged by fellow Canadian and internet high stakes ace Ben “Ben86” Tollerene who seized the victory. McDonald busted out at fifth after a bad run. […]
September 19, 2015
Swedish high stakes online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom was in action at Pokerstars again this week, recovering from a loss the week before by earning profits of $900,000 in just four days, according to the publication High Stakes Data Base. Despite starting the year on a low note, the famously aggressive player and risk-taker […]
September 18, 2015
Pokerstars is attracting attention to its recent sportsbook initiative, and at the same time is cross-marketing to its poker interests in what appears to be a savvy move associated with the company’s Super High Roller event at the current World Championship of Online Poker. With a buy-in of $51,000 the event was always going to […]
September 17, 2015
US and European mainstream media are carrying reports on a malware scam that appears to target the largest online poker sites Pokerstars and Full Tilt. The scam was spotted by San Diego-based security company Eset, where specialists advise that it impacts players with accounts at the two major poker providers. The spyware has been dubbed […]
September 17, 2015
Prize money worthy of major live tournaments is now being achieved by players in online tournaments, as this week’s $645,000 win by German online player “tobi123456” has illustrated. Playing in the $10,300 buy-in NLHE (8-Max, Optional Re-Entry, High-Roller) event, the German player found himself at a 3 to 1 chip disadvantage in the heads up […]
September 14, 2015
The Americas Cardroom online poker operator was hit by a “pretty large” series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks by persons unknown Sunday, with the hackers demanding an undisclosed ransom in Bitcoins to stop swamping the servers with data. Although the attacks disrupted the company’s Million Dollar Sunday afternoon tournament, causing a loss estimated by […]
September 13, 2015
Online poker provider Pokerstars has come up with an imaginative new way for Mexican poker fans to fund their accounts, announcing that it has inked an agreement with Oxxo, one of the nation’s largest and most widespread convenience store chains with over 13,000 outlets. One of the hurdles facing operators in Mexico is a restrictive […]