January 3, 2015
Pokerstars is gearing up for its first big online tournament of 2015 – the Turbo Championship of Online Poker, which kicks off on January 22 and runs through February 2. This year’s edition features 50 events covering a variety of poker genres and different levels of buy-in, and will be supported by satellites as usual. […]
January 2, 2015
A risk-taking poker player illustrated once again the dangers of playing Bull, or Cowboy, Poker when he was taken to hospital with serious leg and hip injuries on New Year’s Eve. This dangerous form of poker involves players seated at a poker table in the middle of a bull fighting ring, and the person who […]
January 1, 2015
Undeterred by the failure of his Jawfish Games, which closed earlier this year after a planned $20 million acquisition by an unnamed company fell through (see previous report), poker ace Phil Gordon has embarked on another enterprise titled Tetrapod Software. The title was chosen because it is a “natural evolutionary step one up from Jawfish.” […]
December 30, 2014
The latest Bitcoin-friendly online poker room, BitnPlay.eu, is set to go live early in February 2015, offering players the reassurance of depositing through Bitcoin wallets rather than via the gambling site itself…and receiving winnings in the same direct manner. The operator is also touting an opportunity for Bitcoin-savvy investors to participate in the site’s success […]
December 30, 2014
Chinese poker pro Yang Zhang is $100,000 wealthier this week after taking the honours in the 2014 Asia Pacific Poker Tour Beijing in a noteworthy follow up to his July 2014 victory in the Beijing Millions, where he survived a field of 2,732 to win a similar amount (see previous report). 346 hopefuls, mainly from […]
December 30, 2014
Danish poker pro Gus Hansen, reportedly down around $20 million in online high stakes poker games, managed to leverage a little relief over last weekend by scoring an overall profit of $636,000. Sunday, when he made a profit of $528,000 on fixed limit Omaha Eight or Better games, was the better of the two days, […]
December 30, 2014
The Spanish real money online casino offering from Pokerstars has been withdrawn from the market after just two months of operations. The company claims that the withdrawal is necessary for technical tweaks in order to comply with local regulatory requirements on the availability of hand histories. However, industry observers report that the the new enterprise […]
December 29, 2014
Des Duffy, m.d. and founding member of the Amateur Poker Association and Tour has announced details of the seventh annual World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP). This flagship tournament in APAT’s annual schedule will take place at Aspers Casino in Stratford over a ten day period between March 28th and April 6th, 2015, featuring twenty […]
December 23, 2014
The 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) will run from May 27 to July 14 at Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in 2015. The jammed schedule includes gold bracelet events, satellites, cash games and thrice daily deep stack tournaments running for 49 consecutive days, with the WSOP Main Event reaching its final nine […]
December 23, 2014
Previous attempts to get regulatory and licensing laws for online poker through the New York State Legislature may have failed, but reports from the state indicate that another attempt will be made in 2015. Legalisation by the Empire State could be a major breakthrough in the USA; New York has a population more than twice […]