July 30, 2015
The Russian-facing online poker site Pokerdom has expanded its existing games offering with the addition of the newly launched Connective Gaming product Pineapple Open Face Chinese Poker. Pineapple OFC is a new and trending poker variant that is starting to gain traction in online poker rooms after creating a significant impact in the live environment. […]
July 29, 2015
Figures from Pokerstars on the just-completed 10-day MicroMillions online tournament show that much of the action came from Russian players. Registration stats show that 161,939 players from Russia entered, cashing 23,843 times, with 15 of them winning events and prizes worth $777,209 sent home to Russia. The Germans lived up to their formidable reputation in […]
July 29, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfmX48fR_Ds#t=36 Full Tilt m.d. Dominic Mansour has followed up on his pledge to make his online poker division more recreational player-friendly (see previous reports) with a series of important changes to Full Tilt policy. The changes involve heads-up cash, nosebleed stakes and Mixed Games, all of which have been removed, and new measures to prevent […]
July 28, 2015
Spanish online and land-based operator Casino Gran Madrid (CGM) will shutter its online poker offer effective July 31, 2015 but doesn’t discount the product being reinstated in future. In a player communication, CGM said: “Friday July 31 will be the last day of activity of Casino Gran Madrid’s online poker room. Or rather, it will […]
July 28, 2015
Poker orientated entertainment company and co-owner of the World Poker Channel, World Poker Fund Holdings, Inc. (WPFH) said Tuesday it had acquired the tournament and show rights for the now defunct International Poker League (IPL) (formerly known as the National Poker League) and the IPL Vegas Open. The IPL Vegas Open includes 20 episodes of […]
July 28, 2015
Pokerstars, an Amaya Inc. brand, and UK men’s health charity Prostate Cancer announced Monday that the organisations are to join forces for a special one-night event in a bid to raise money to fight prostate cancer. Titled “Lads Night In”, the first event will take place on September 25, 2015, with the objective of encouraging […]
July 28, 2015
Full Tilt, a Rational Group subsidiary and sister site to Pokerstars, has reportedly suffered a 44 percent decline in players since the beginning of this year – from an average of 1,800 seats filled in cash games to just 1,000. That has clearly caught the attention of management as more than just a seasonal phenomenon, […]
July 26, 2015
Hundreds of Wall Street financial execs and poker fans enjoyed an entertaining evening at the Gotham Hall in Manhattan last week to railbird or play in a “Take ‘Em To School” poker tournament convened to raise funds for the Education Reform Now charity. Sponsors of the tournament were mainly Wall Street firms, although Amaya Gaming […]
July 24, 2015
In a sequel to the accusation by the Borgata casino that he had cheated to win large amounts of money in 2012 (see previous reports), poker ace Phil Ivey has launched a $10 million counter-suit. In a filing with a New Jersey court Wednesday, Ivey claimed that Borgata destroyed the cards that were used during […]
July 23, 2015
Two online poker websites will be no more by the end of this month following announcements from Playboy Poker and the online poker division of Casino Gran Madrid. Just two years after it was relaunched (see previous report, Playboy Poker will close its virtual doors on July 27 without giving any other reason but that […]