April 22, 2015
The Dublin-based international registry services provider Afilias announced Tuesday that the new “dot poker” or .poker top level domain is now open for public registration on a first-come-first-served basis. “The short, memorable .poker web address is poker-specific and brings an instant branding boost to all kinds of online poker activities including tournaments, products, news, tips…and […]
April 21, 2015
Michelle Chin has made World Series of Poker (WSOP) history at Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa by becoming the first-ever female champion of a World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event. Chin, a Taiwan native and resident of Wichita, Kansas, who classifies herself as a recreational poker player bested a totally male dominated final […]
April 20, 2015
independent online poker monitor Pokerscout reports that last week was not the best for online poker, with traffic tumbling 5 percent, most of the top 10 sites seeing numbers decline, and total cash game liquidity down 10 percent year-on-year. The monitor draws particular attention to suspected Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have impacted Pokerstars, […]
April 20, 2015
Posts on player message boards and reports in online poker media over the weekend suggest that the troubled Lock Poker operation and its related online casino may have ceased operations after many months of complaints regarding slow, and more recently no payments to players (see previous reports). The publication US Poker reports that Lock has […]
April 18, 2015
There was drama at the Wutaishan Sports Centre in Nanjing Friday when local police stopped players entering to participate in the 2015 Asia Pacific Poker Tour Nanjing Millions, issuing a notice which shut down the tournament and claimed the organisers were suspected of illegal gambling. Offices used by the organisers were also locked down. It […]
April 17, 2015
Further information is now available on the planned joint informational hearings on the legalisation of online poker by California’s Senate and Assembly Government Organization committees (see previous reports). The first hearing is titled “Overview of Gambling in California; Legality, Authorization and Regulation” and will take place on May 20 at 1:30pm PST. The second hearing […]
April 16, 2015
International professional player and poker celebrity Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu took to Twitter this week to express his delight at the first successful screening of his new Twitch livestream channel, a project on which he received technical assistance from pioneer poker Twitcher Jason Somerville (see previous reports). The Kid had plenty to be pleased about […]
April 16, 2015
It looks like another very active California legislative season for online poker legalisation as politicians warm up for yet another year of trying to reach consensus and pass a workable online poker legalisation measure. Our readers will recall that there are currently four bills on the table. Two of these, introduced by Senator Isadore Hall […]
April 15, 2015
The BurnTurn Bitcoin Poker room is expected to launch April 17th in Beta format offering what it terms a “full array of poker games”. Readers will recall Open Source Industries Ltd (BurnTurn) in Antigua acquired Satoshi Poker from Dutch owner Bart van Oort in June 2014 via an auction held on the BitcoinTalk forum. The […]
April 14, 2015
The unidentified e-cash processor handling online poker operator Americas Cardroom business is probably a target following an incident this week in which a customer service rep allegedly told a customer to mislead his bank by declaring that a deposit was not for gambling, but for “sporting goods from China.” US-facing ACR was quick to deny […]