August 2, 2014
It hasn’t taken long – just three years since joining the company in 2011 – for marketing and operations specialist Hermance Blum to rise to the senior echelons of management at World Poker Tour, where she has just been appointed General Manager for Europe. Blum (31) entered the poker industry on the PR side when […]
July 31, 2014
Forget WSOP Europe and the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour Goliath…the record for the biggest entry field for a live poker tournament held outside the United States now belongs to The Pokerstars Beijing Millions, which last week registered 2,732 entrants in its first outing. That compares favourably with the 2,570 contestants who played in the […]
July 30, 2014
The Latin Poker Series has launched its extensively reworked new website, which includes two new LPS leaderboards to keep track of player performance, including one that awards an LPS Tour Pass to the top point earner. “We’re seeing a lot of repeat players who have really embraced the LPS format,” Diego Chan of LPS said […]
July 30, 2014
French online poker operator Winamax’s launch this week of its fast-fold poker version GO FAST Poker was short lived as the operator pulled the game due to “user-related issues”. GO FAST Poker is the latest of many fast-fold speed poker variants, this one billed as “Poker in top gear”, an ultra quick cash game that […]
July 30, 2014
Netherlands-based multiplayer social games developer GamePoint has expanded its social casino games range with the launch of GamePoint Poker. The web-based game was launched to GamePoint’s portfolio on Facebook and at GamePoint.com augmenting a suite that includes its GamePoint Bingo and Royaldice titles. “We’re proud of this latest addition to our suite of social casino […]
July 29, 2014
Casting its entertainment net ever wider, the World Poker Tour has announced a new promotional deal with Twistory Entertainment Studios which will see that company’s video game Belle’s War featured in future episodes of the WPT tournaments carried on Fox Sports Network. The Belle’s War theme gels nicely with the traditional idea of the early […]
July 29, 2014
An initiative launched last month to gain regulatory approval for shared player pools between Nevada online poker operators (see previous report) has received the final imprimatur of the Nevada Gaming Commission following a recommendation from the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The application was made by WSOP.com operator Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) and Treasure Island, which […]
July 24, 2014
Brandon Casten, the new owner of Bitcoin online poker site Satoshi Poker, has shut the brand down and migrated players to a new site currently pending launch and titled BurnTurn.eu. His decision ends the Satoshi saga less than a year after it was launched by Bart Von Oort, who claims that Casten has not held […]
July 24, 2014
French online poker continues to struggle, according to the Q2-2014 and half-year numbers from regulator ARJEL showing a continued 17 percent quarterly decline in cash games, and an 18 percent drop in cash game revenues over the first six months of 2014 when compared with last year. Over the second quarter, revenues totalled Euro 1,048 […]