March 11, 2015
Chilean poker pro Oscar Alache, whom our readers will recall triumphed in the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final Peru last year, has done it again, taking down the LAPT in his home nation this week and claiming the main prize of $132,962. 409 other players – 55 of whom would subsequently cash – entered […]
March 10, 2015
International online poker provider Pokerstars has released details for the tenth edition of its popular Micromillions, which will be held online between March 19 – 29 this year and consist of 100 events carrying $5 million dollars in guaranteed prize pools. Buy-ins for the events range from $0.11 to $22 for the No Limit Hold’em […]
March 8, 2015
New technology is always interesting, especially when it claims to challenge conventional behaviour or knowledge, and an American company has developed new software that it claims can read human emotions through facial expression analysis. Launched by US firm ooVoo at a Barcelona mobile expo this week, the camera and computer based technology has been initially […]
March 7, 2015
PokerStars.eu is continuing to help support the growth of poker in China with the sponsorship of the 2015 Nanjing Millions. The CN¥1 million ($159,000) guaranteed Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) China poker tournament, which has been sanctioned by the Jiangsu Provincial Chess Sports Association, will run April 14-19, 2015 at the Jiangsu Wutaishan Sports Centre. […]
March 6, 2015
Bwin subsidiary PartyPoker has previewed its next outing for the Pokerfest series, advising that starting March 29 and running through to April 12 it will be offering a total of 77 online tournament events and over $2.4 million in guaranteed prize pools. The new edition will again feature three buy-in levels, with the lowest at […]
March 4, 2015
A record 1,826 people with an aggregate net worth of $7.05 trillion have made the Forbes 2015 Billionaires list. Mark Scheinberg, co-founder of PokerStars, was listed 10th in Canada’s top 10 richest people 2015 list with a net worth of $4.1 Billion and 405th in the global Forbes 2015 Billionaires List Scheinberg joins heavy hitters […]
March 4, 2015
Nebraskan Senator Paul Schumaker’s bill LR10CA proposing the dismantling of a ban on gambling in Nebraska was quickly dealt with this week in Nebraska’s State Legislature. Senators seated before the General Affairs Committee voted 27-16 to indefinitely postpone the measure after less than an hour’s debate.
March 4, 2015
Following its recent acquisition of the Ongame Poker Network (Ongame), NYX Gaming Group has announced the launch of real time poker rewards for Italian customers. Instant Rewards is an integrated achievements system where rewards are triggered by the action at the table. Players will be able to track their progress directly in their poker client […]
March 4, 2015
Keeping the political pot boiling in Pennsylvania this week, Representative Nick Miccarelli has re-introduced his online poker legalisation bill, which failed to make it in 2014. Now titled HB695, the bill reportedly has the same content as the original, although that has yet to be confirmed by full publication. If that is the case, then […]
March 3, 2015
This week’s GBP 1,100 buy-in Sky Poker UK Poker Championship at the Dusk Til Dawn facility in Nottingham will go into the books as a success with 813 entrants, many probably attracted by DTD owner Rob Yong’s generous million pound guarantee boost to the prize pool. Brit pro Fraser Bellamy from Sheffield ultimately took the […]