March 3, 2015
The news earlier this week that Pokerstars is interested in using the Twitch live streaming broadcast technology for at least some of its tournaments, and has hired expert user and poker pro Jason Somerville to advise on the medium, is being widely regarded as an indication that Twitch is about to become a major element […]
March 2, 2015
Adjarabet has created a unique poker client in collaboration with Georgian development house Singular utilising Microgaming’s BabelFish API, the first operator to do so. Adjarabet is able to offer players additional network liquidity with the flip of a switch through its relationship with Microgaming and its software running on the MPN system. The client is […]
March 2, 2015
Congratulations to Austrian poker pro Raphael Wimmer flowed over the weekend as he triumphed in the Euro 1,100 buy-in Eureka Rozvadov Main Event to take home a rather diluted first prize of Euro 99,685 following a five-way chop at the final table. The event attracted a field of 664 hopefuls, who generated a prize pool […]
March 2, 2015
With the unblushing boastful verve the industry has come to associate with him, and plenty of marketing hype, Bryan Micon launched SwCPoker.eu over the weekend, his promised successor to the now defunct Seals With Clubs.com Bitcoin denominated online poker site. Our readers will recall that Micon went his own way after a series of events […]
February 28, 2015
Top international poker pro Phil “Polarizing” Ivey has had a nightmarish two weeks at the virtual high stakes tables on Full Tilt and Pokerstars, emerging as the biggest loser over both the last fortnight and this year to date. The High Stakes Data Base reports that two weeks ago Ivey lost $614,348, and over the […]
February 27, 2015
Full details on Representative John Payne’s HB649 proposal to legalise online gambling within Pennsylvania’s borders have now become available (see previous report), and the disappointing news is that the measure covers only the legalisation of online poker. The full text of the Payne proposal can be accessed here: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2015&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=649&pn=0748 Confining the scope of the bill […]
February 25, 2015
Gaussian Networks-owned Indian online poker website Adda52 launched its sponsored professional poker team in New Delhi this week. Team of Spades, India’s first professional poker team, currently comprises Amit Jain, Kunal Patni, Aditya Sushant and Muskan Sethi. The four-member team will represent Adda52 locally and internationally at both terrestrial and online poker tourneys.
February 25, 2015
Open Face Chinese Poker (OFCP) operator TonyBet launched a new OFCP variant Progressive Pineapple this week. The main attraction in this variant is the award of more Fantasyland cards, which potentially allow more opportunity to collect extra points. Fantasyland is a special bonus awarded to players that make a hand that has a pair of […]
February 25, 2015
New York poker pro Jose Montes (29) is enjoying a great start to 2015, following his $352,669 triumph last month in the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Choctaw Durant, where he bested a field of 1,363, with another significant win this week. In his latest victory the New Yorker beat 761 entrants […]
February 23, 2015
Respected independent online poker news portal PokerFuse has published an interview with Shane Bridges, Lock Poker’s former director of social media and affiliate marketing which talks about an imminent collapse of the business along with the loss of player funds estimated to be in the tens of millions. According to Bridges, although he has never […]