October 22, 2014
Online poker operator Winamax’s rights infringement action against Playtech’s Twister product have been dismissed by le tribunal de commerce de Paris. Winamax brought the action against Playtech saying it believed that Playtech’s Twister jackpot sit ‘n go (SNG) product infringed the rights of its own Expresso product. The court dismissed Winamax’s claim saying there is […]
October 22, 2014
Full Tilt Poker announced Tuesday that it will not be renewing the sponsorship contracts for high profile poker aces Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen. The severance appears to be amicable, with a company spokesman wishing the duo well in their future projects. “This follows a year-long review of the Full Tilt brand and a decision […]
October 22, 2014
The Grand Final of the Pokerstars Latin American Poker Tour concluded this week with Chilean pro Oscar Alache claiming the top spot after a three-way chop at the tough 8 hour final table. Alache was one of 692 players in the $1,700 buy-in main event, which generated a prize pool of $ 1,040,420, enabling 103 […]
October 22, 2014
In order to secure a regular presence on French-language television in Canada, online poker giant Pokerstars has inked a deal with sports television broadcaster RDS. The TV company is popular with French Canadian sports fans, delivering quality content across a variety of platforms, including RDS, RDS2, RDS Info channels, RDS.ca, RDS Mobile, the RDS GO […]
October 22, 2014
Ray Coburn won this past weekend’s DraftKings “Millionaire Maker” for one million dollars, another poker professional who hit the winning combination in the fantasy sports tournament. Our readers will recall a report on poker professional Matt Smith who took the million dollar prize in the DraftKings tournament just last week (see previous report). Smith and […]
October 21, 2014
That perennial source of useful player information, the twoplustwo forum, has again seen aggrieved players focusing the spotlight on troubled online poker operator Lock Poker. Players at the site have been awaiting pay-outs for over a year in many cases, prompting some to sell their account balances at discounted rates just to get something out […]
October 20, 2014
Europoker players at last have some concrete information after a period in which the operator’s descent into bankruptcy caused more than a few sleepless nights. The former Ongame skin officially shut down late September in a poorly managed closure that left players uninformed on the next step and unable to access their accounts, creating concerns […]
October 19, 2014
It’s been a busy weekend as several major poker tournament competitions drew to a close, with millions in prizes claimed by an international roster of final table players. In London, the European Poker Tour main event was concluded at the Grand Connaught Rooms, with German student Sebastian Pauli dominating the final two days of the […]
October 18, 2014
Canadian Mike Leah (40) has scored his second largest career win and his first gold bracelet victory by taking down the A$25,000 World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific High Roller competition in Australia. When the final table formed this week Leah was the chip leader, and he rarely relinquished control of the game despite a talented […]
October 17, 2014
Pokerstars’ innovative lottery-style Spin and Go online poker tournaments appear to be taking the recreational player segment by storm, although there are concerns that this is at the expense of cash game traffic. Statistics released by the company show that the 3-max, hyper-turbo tournaments racked up 7.3 million games in the first 10 days from […]