May 26, 2014
The weekend saw some hectic weekend action in Macau as the 2014 Pokerstars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour main event and high roller competitions came to a conclusion, distributing millions of Hong Kong dollars in prize money. In the five-day main event Jiajun Liu bested a field of 282 to clinch the title and claim the first […]
May 26, 2014
Last Friday’s reports that Full Flush Poker is withdrawing immediately from the three US states that have regulated and licensed online gambling – Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey – has been followed by news that the Equity Poker Network it uses has followed suit. In a statement over the weekend the network announced that it […]
May 25, 2014
The 23-year-old German poker pro Dominik Nitsche bested a 126-player field to claim the honours and the $352,800 main prize in the buy-in 2014 WSOP National Championship in Atlantic City Saturday. The entry list was made up of made up of the top WSOPC performers over the season plus freeroll qualifiers on WSOP.com, but the […]
May 23, 2014
Independent research company Capitol Matrix has released the results of a survey that could give politicians considering the legalisation of online poker in California a positive outlook on the prospects; the company estimates that a legalised intrastate market could generate $845 million in state tax from overall revenues of $1.91 billion…and has the potential to […]
May 23, 2014
Following extensive reorganisation and the departure of former chief marketing officer Alex Payne, the Isle of Man- based Rational Group has announced the promotion of Morton Tonnesen to group chief marketing officer responsible for group and Pokerstars marketing worldwide. Tonnsen joined Pokerstars in February 2011 and was formerly responsible for the management of the company’s […]
May 23, 2014
Full Flush Poker, a major online poker room on the Equity Poker Network, announced Friday that it has withdrawn its full suite of online real-money gaming options for players residing in the regulated U.S. States of New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware. The decision is effective immediately, and players resident in the three regulated states will […]
May 23, 2014
On the threshold of the 2014 edition of poker’s most prestigious tournament, the organisers of the World Series of Poker have warned would-be players travelling to Las Vegas to join the action that they must produce proof of identity and proof of where they are currently residing in order to comply with tighter money laundering […]
May 23, 2014
Win Cake, the online poker site formerly trading under the Cake Poker brand, looks set to match or surpass Lock Poker for the title of worse paying online poker room, with some players complaining on the forums that they have waited for up to a year for payment. The online poker information site 4Flush reports […]
May 21, 2014
A long list of celebrities turned out for the Tiger Woods Poker Night charity event at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this week, including the international golf star himself, Kunal Nayyar, who plays Raj on The Big Bang Theory TV show; Dallas Mavericks owner and star of ABC’s Shark Tank Mark Cuban; The Bachelor […]
May 20, 2014
Millions of dollars were available in online competitions in the Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) series this week, with the $10,300 buy-in Main Event taken down by young Russian ace Ivan “vandir4rek” Soshnikov, who took home $1,048,000. 657 online players, including many top international professionals, registered for the event which over two days […]