December 5, 2014
The Brazilian Series of Poker main event is being lauded for an entry field that at 2,749 is the second-largest poker event ever away from Las Vegas. It is second only to the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour Goliath event, which pulled in 3,394 players earlier this year – big even by WSOP Las Vegas […]
December 5, 2014
It hasn’t taken long for the powerful coalition of Pokerstars, two Californian tribal groups and three major card rooms to react to AB9, an online poker legalisation bill launched this week by Californian Assemblyman Mike Gatto…and the response is negative. In a brief statement the coalition of Amaya-Pokerstars, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, the […]
December 3, 2014
A statement earlier this year by the National Fraternal Order of Police, urging membes of Congress to oppose any federal ban on internet gambling (see previous report) was given fresh legs this week when it was endorsed by the Poker Players Alliance. John Pappas, executive director of the Alliance, referred in a statement to the […]
December 3, 2014
The debate on internet poker legalisation is once again in the California headlines as the state embarks on its fourth year of deliberations on the controversial topic, which involves tribal, racing, online and card room interests. The move Tuesday came from Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a respected state politician who had a bill ready to go […]
November 28, 2014
Three separate major live tournament poker tours – the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour and Ongame’s Grand Series of Poker – are scheduled to provide nearly three weeks of action through December in the beautiful and historic Czech capital of Prague, providing a host of poker fans with around 70 competitions. The World […]
November 27, 2014
The last World Poker Tour live tournament for this year will be held in partnership with French gambling giant PMU at the Cercle Clichy Montmarte starting November 29 (this Saturday). Running through December 8, the PMU.fr WPT National Paris offers players a dozen competitions culminating in a Euro 1,200 buy-in main event. Other key events […]
November 27, 2014
The next edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series – the twenty-seventh outing for the popular online tournament – is scheduled to kick off on Sunday November 30 and will run through December 14. There will be 30 events and a total guaranteed prize pool of more than $4 million, with the keystone event […]
November 27, 2014
Jonathan Jaffe, a 27-year-old internet professional player from Vermont, has triumphed in the C$3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Montreal tournament, claiming a main event prize worth C$463,432 after defeating Ratharam Sivagnanam in a fiercely fought heads up. The event attracted 732 entries, which over several days distilled to a final table on which Jaffe and […]
November 27, 2014
The latest in a series of informative vids on how Pokerstars goes about its business is now available and focuses on the sophisticated anti-fraud and anti-collusion measures deployed at the company’s headquarters on the Isle of Man. A significant proportion of the online poker operator’s staff is employed on this important aspect, led by Steve […]
November 27, 2014
Top UK poker ace and Pokerstars professional player, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, has announced on her blog that she and Pokerstars have agreed an amicable parting of the ways following the announcement by the online poker provider that it is to introduce casino games to its offering. Coren revealed that she terminated her 7-year relationship with the […]