July 23, 2015
The latest weekly report on global online poker activity from the independent monitor Poker Scout show continued decline in the sector. Based on a seven-day moving average from July 12 to 19, there were 34,736 ring game players, a 3 percent decrease over the week. But on a year-on-year comparison with the same period last […]
July 23, 2015
Bwin.Party will lose one of its most experienced online poker specialists at the end of July when senior executive and group director for poker Jeffrey Haas departs for pastures at present unknown. Haas terminates his second term with the Bwin group; between 2005 and 2006 he was director of product management at the since sold-off […]
July 23, 2015
A new study has confirmed what other surveys have found in polling Californians – there is widespread support for properly regulated online poker in the state. The National Research Institute and Survata Inc were commissioned by All In Media to conduct the latest survey, which polled a sample of 1,500 Californians of legal gambling age. […]
July 22, 2015
Media reports from California suggest that the Pokerstars strategy of sending high profile poker aces to state cardrooms to spread the word that regulation is good for everybody is working. The visits thus far have produced packed audiences keen to interact and discuss the issues with the star players or just plain take selfies and […]
July 22, 2015
The High Stakes Data Base’s latest report on internet nosebleed stakes poker action records that young gun Cort “thecortster” Kibler-Melby has enjoyed a profitable week, emerging from the online high stakes poker melee up $619,000 – much of it taken off Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, with $100,000 won in one memorable 40 minute clash. The Cortster’s […]
July 22, 2015
Respected US online gambling law expert Martin D. Owens Jr, has joined the World Poker Fund (WPF) Online and Interactive Gaming Committee as its chief advisor. Owens has specialised in online and interactive gaming law since 1998 and is the co-author of Internet Gaming Law, an associate editor of Gaming Law Review and Economics, and […]
July 21, 2015
A legalised Russian online poker industry could have benefits for other national sports including chess, reports the Global Poker Index, quoting Russian business mogul Vasily Anisimov, who leads an association of Russian state lotteries. Anisimov says that substantial amounts of money could be generated which could in part be used to fund other Russian sports […]
July 21, 2015
The past weekend saw a memorable World Poker Tour achievement for French poker pro Laurent Polito, who won his fourth WPT main event in the last two years – and Euro 56,500 – playing at the Grand Casino Brussels in the Euro 700 buy-in WPTN main event, bringing his live tourney career earnings to $1.3 […]
July 19, 2015
It appears that assessments earlier this month that California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s online poker legalisation bill was dead may have been premature. The assumptions that the bill, titled “Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015”, had been shelved following its withdrawal from the agenda of a July 8 committee hearing have turned out to be […]
July 17, 2015
The next running of PartyPoker’s Pokerfest tournament will run online and live between August 29 and September 6 this year, according to details released by the company. This edition of the poker festival includes 90 events and $3 million in guaranteed prize pools, with the first ten events taking place live at Dawn Till Dusk […]