September 17, 2014
Nader Wahdan, a Colorado deli owner, took the Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates title defeating a field of 686 entrants for a payday of $226,891. For the seventh consecutive time, Heartland Poker Tour surpassed the $1 million mark with its Main Event prize pool at Golden Gates Casino & Poker Parlour. “I love this place,” […]
September 17, 2014
Costa Rica-based Nitrogen Sports, an online Bitcoin sportsbook launched in 2012, will add online poker to its offer from Thursday, September 18, 2014. The new poker client, developed by Cubeia, will be fully integrated with Nitrogen Sports’ sportsbook allowing bettors to seamlessly wager on upcoming matches and/or play poker for bitcoin or play money. “This […]
September 12, 2014
Speculation that the new Amaya Group ownership of online poker giant Pokerstars is paving the way for a return to the New Jersey online poker market has become increasingly heated over the past month, and the momentum for such an event appears to be growing. Following positive comments earlier in the week by New Jersey […]
September 12, 2014
Further information has come to light substantiating reports last week that an unidentified Russian organisation is making headway in persuading the Russian government to legalise and regulate online poker (see previous reports). According to the online poker information site Poker News Report the initiative has been underway since June this year, when Kakha Kakhiani, president […]
September 11, 2014
Dubai-based trader Iraj Parvizi has alleged collusion in a London casino poker game where he lost GBP 185,000 in one session. Parvizi claim is included in a GBP 10 million lawsuit he has launched against Les Ambassadeurs casino in London as he asks for damages and losses sustained at a series of high-stakes poker games […]
September 11, 2014
A total of 404 hopefuls registered for the World Poker Tour Merit Classic tournament in Cyprus this week, generating a prize pool of $1,471,320, with the lion’s share going to Russian pro Alexander Lakhov, playing in his second WPT event (he was runner up in the 2012 WPT Prague tourney.) The final table was led […]
September 10, 2014
Industry journalist Steve Ruddock, writing for the online poker information site Online Poker Report this week, takes readers on an interesting trip behind the scenes of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement Technical Services Bureau via an interview with bureau technical chief Eric Weiss. Ruddock observes that the process through which regulated online poker […]
September 10, 2014
Setting industry tongues a wag Tuesday was an unsourced report on the Poker777 site claiming that an unidentified Russian “league of poker amateurs” has grabbed the government bull by the horns and suggested a deal through which online poker would be legalised in return for paying handsome taxes to Putin’s coffers. The news comes on […]
September 10, 2014
PokerStars reached out to its former PokerStars VIP poker players residing in New Jersey earlier this week, inviting them to attend two PokerStars hosted “Open House” discussions. Two unnamed members of PokerStars management were to be in attendance, inviting feedback on any topics or concerns former VIP players might have presumably in anticipation of PokerStars’ […]
September 9, 2014
Social game developer Zynga has launched a new, free-to-play Zynga Poker for iOS and Android mobile device users. Features of the app, which was developed for mobile “from the ground up”, include a complete graphic and audio-rich redesign, intuitive controls that allow players to easily change their stakes and buy-ins at any time and personalised […]