August 28, 2014
Belarus poker pro Ihar Soika topped all of his previous live tournament winnings combined this week when he claimed the Euro 747,200 first prize in the Euro 10,300 buy-in European Poker Tour Barcelona despite starting the final day fourth in chips out of the final 21 players. 393 hopefuls bought in for the event, which […]
August 26, 2014
Pokerstars and Rational Group head of corporate giving, Sue Hammett, has announced a new charity initiative by the online poker giant, adding a new section to its VIP Store entirely dedicated to charity. “We want you to be able to give back when you want, not just when we ask you to help,” Hammett advised […]
August 26, 2014
888 Holdings chief executive Brian Mattingley has again spoken out on the possible arrival of Pokerstars in the US online poker market, commenting that whilst his company and its partners are more than ready to compete with the world’s biggest internet and mobile poker provider, there are questions around its advantage of several years in […]
August 25, 2014
The current world trend to draw attention to ALS through celebrity challenge ice-bucket deluges has seen several industry stalwarts undergoing a freezing shower, but nomination for best and most amusing yet goes to World Poker Tour president Adam Pliska. See his amusing take-off of US president Barak Obama here:
August 23, 2014
Two major US purveyors of player-oriented third party poker software have announced a merger under a new company titled Max Value Software LLC. Hold’em Manager and Poker Tracker say that their rationale for joining forces is to effectively combine talent, technology and assets in the poker tracking and statistics field in order to benefit from […]
August 23, 2014
In his latest interesting and relevant blog observations, Microgaming’s head of poker, Alex Scott, explains his company’s policies and precautions on an issue of serious concern to the player community – the safety and separation of player funds by operators on his company’s MPN network.. Scott explains the operator-network interface, noting that the operator is […]
August 22, 2014
Barely a week after withdrawing his bid to seek the intrastate legalisation of online poker in California (see previous reports), California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer has issued a statement explaining his decision and outlining his plans for the future. Some cliff notes from the statement: * Jones-Sawyer will be back in the next session with a […]
August 21, 2014
The monumental task of disbursing payments to owed Full Tilt players in the United States appears to be drawing to a close, with third party administrator Garden City posting a notice Wednesday advising that the final deadline for petitions will be September 3. The notice on Full Tilt Poker Claims.com advises: “Please note that the […]