May 16, 2015
New York state Senator John Bonacic is taking another run at intrastate legalised online poker with the introduction this week of bill S5302, a measure that is almost identical to the Senator’s proposal last year but with one critically important difference….it does not include a “bad actor” clause. Instead, the bill makes the New York […]
May 15, 2015
Online poker operator PKR is to lose its second senior executive this year when CEO Malcolm Graham departs to take up a vice president appointment with mobile platform developer GameTech…in February PKR’s chief operating officer, Leon Walters, left the company (see previous report). Like Walters, Graham was one of the earliest employees of PKR, which […]
May 15, 2015
138.com, operated by Xela Holdings, has chosen Microgaming to launch its online poker offering, and the operator is now live on the MPN. 138 is a successful online casino and sportsbook, with licences in the United Kingdom, Philippines, and Isle of Man, where its corporate headquarters are located. Popular in Asia, where it has operated […]
May 15, 2015
Chad Holloway, the managing editor of the popular information publication and website Poker News, has come up with a unique attention-grabber for fans at this year’s World Series of Poker, which starts later this month – a fully illustrated comic featuring poker’s biggest festival. The World Series of Zombies combines the current fascination with back-from-the-dead […]
May 15, 2015
The latest Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is only four days old and already online poker aces Jason Mercier and Sorel Mizzi are well ahead, winning substantial prizes. Mizzi has scored the biggest pay day thus far in this year’s edition, winning $354,960 in event 3, a $2,100 buy-in NL Hold’em contest with […]
May 14, 2015
Amaya Gaming Group’s Full Tilt business has been licensed to operate in the Danish market, joining sister-group PokerStars with the launch of online poker and casino games. The company holds licensing in the United Kingdom, Malta, Isle of Man and Denmark following its relaunch in 2012.
May 13, 2015
33-Year-old Memphis resident Damjan Radanov took down the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event held at Harrah’s in New Orleans for a payday of $174,514, besting a field of 554 players that included the likes of four-time ring winner David Nicholson. Radanov met Nicholson heads-up, denying him a fifth ring but a consolation prize […]
May 12, 2015
US online and live poker pro Jason “jdpc27” Wheeler, a former financial consultant, cleaned up this week at the World Poker Tour Amsterdam, taking down the Euro 6,000 buy-in High Roller event against a total of 76 entries (52 players and 24 re-entries). Following a lively heads up against Jack Salter, Wheeler claimed a main […]
May 12, 2015
Six more millionaire winners have been created in the past week by playing online at PokerStars.com, the company blog has revealed. On Sunday, two players, including a small-stakes player from Bulgaria, earned $1 million each after besting competitors in free-to-enter online tournaments. They won their way to the ‘Millionaire Finals’ for free through challenges and […]
May 12, 2015
Retiring Nevada Democratic Party Senator Harry Reid continued to display an ambivalent attitude toward federally legalised online poker this week in an interview reported by the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. In the interview Reid reprised a view he expressed in a KNPR television interview some weeks ago – that he had worked for a federal […]