May 6, 2015
Serial land and online poker entrepreneur Alex Dreyfus has unveiled his latest project, a daily Global Poker Index TV show hosted by former PokerStars.tv presenter Laura Cornelius and due for screening later this year. Dreyfus revealed this week that his company premises in Malta is being expanded by the addition of a video studio designed […]
May 6, 2015
The surge of enthusiasm at the news that an online poker legalisation bill has at last managed to make it through a legislative committee in California (see previous reports) has given way to a pragmatic assessment of AB431 – the bill in question. Proposer Assemblyman Adam Gray (who is also chair of the Assembly Governmental […]
May 5, 2015
Isle of Man and Philippines-licensed online gaming operator SBOBET has gone live with a new poker vertical on the MPN (formerly the Microgaming Poker Network), becoming Microgaming’s seventh mobile poker brand on the network. SBOBET launched its poker offer on download, instant play and mobile poker clients. “SBOBET are a huge operator in the online […]
May 5, 2015
Online poker once again failed to impress during the first quarter of 2015, the French regulatory authority ARJEL revealed in its first quarterly report of 2015. The French regulated market yielded a total gross gaming revenue of Euro 190 million, largely attributed to a rise in sports betting as horse race betting remained flat and […]
May 5, 2015
Pokerstars has announced six stops for the forthcoming 12th season of its European Poker Tour – kicking off with the EPT’s popular poker festival in Barcelona in August. Six destinations have been confirmed so far, with a seventh to be determined for March. All those confirmed will run in conjunction with Pokerstars’ national and regional […]
May 4, 2015
Online and land poker pro Mustapha Kanit boosted his career earnings over the weekend by claiming the first prize of Euro 936,500 – his biggest win yet – in the Euro 50,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. To do so he had […]
May 3, 2015
Top international professional poker player Erik Seidel (he has won 8 WSOP bracelets in a brilliant career) has triumphed in the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final Super High Roller, a Euro 100,000 buy-in event that saw 71 globally respected players register. The win boosts Seidel’s already impressive career earnings of $22 million […]
May 3, 2015
The latest Man vs. AI Computer heads up poker challenge is now just over halfway through and it looks as if the humans are in the lead. Our readers will recall that the Brains vs. AI Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em poker challenge at Three Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh pits four poker professional players against Claudico, a […]
May 2, 2015
Affiliate marketers who send players to online poker operator Pokerstars in return for payment could soon see the current “for the lifetime of the player” arrangements in their contracts abrogated in favour of a 2 year cap. The intended new policy was unveiled in an email from Pokerstars Friday which advised that effective June 1 […]
May 1, 2015
The High Stakes Data Base reports that Swedish poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom hit the high spots on the virtual nosebleed tables Thursday, cleaning up to the tune of a million dollars in just a day’s action on the $1,000-$2,000 limit Omaha eight-or-better online tables. It was a stunning upward surge after a week in […]