May 27, 2018
Earlier this week, Poker Central announced the PokerGO streaming schedule for the 2018 World Series of Poker, through which 16 final table broadcasts and wall-to-wall coverage of the Main Event will be broadcast, but the world’s most prestigious poker tournament series will also be streamed on Twitch. The company has confirmed that its Twitch stream […]
May 25, 2018
Old wounds were reopened this week when former Full Tilt Poker director (under the old pre-PokerStars management) Chris Ferguson offered a belated apology for his part in the Black Friday 2011 debacle which saw the company go bust amid a welter of accusations of fraud and mismanagement and without paying many of its players (see […]
May 25, 2018
Last year the World Series of Poker Circuit series attracted a record 133,892 entries and awarded $66,585,658 in prize money, and the organisers expect the 2018-19 series – the fifteenth edition of the popular competitions – to pull in even more players. The new season will see more benefits for players, including more starting chips […]
May 23, 2018
Poker Players in Portugal are now able to play against French and Spanish players following Portuguese authorities green lighting the country’s participation and PokerStars is first off the mark, offering a shared poker pool between the three countries. “We have worked hard to become the first operator to bring the benefits of shared liquidity to […]
May 20, 2018
It’s been a hectic – and lucrative – few days at the Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, Montenegro, scene of the latest Triton Series of live poker tournaments that has attracted many of the best players in the world, lured by the prospect of multi-million dollar prizes. The biggest event concluded over the weekend […]
May 20, 2018
Renewing hopes for legalised online poker in the populous state of New York this week, the chairman of the state Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, Gary Pretlow, said that there is still a chance to get Assembly bill A 5250 passed before the current legislative session ends. Pro-legalisation lawmakers have been trying to get […]
May 14, 2018
The 49th edition of the prestigious World Series of Poker festival in Las Vegas later this month will include a new innovation designed to capitalise of the booming popularity of eSports. In a deal with UMG Media, WSOP will bring eSports into the action and excitement in a first for the internationally famed tournament, giving […]
May 11, 2018
Last month’s Chinese news that the government intended to clamp down on social poker apps with legislation scheduled for June 1 (see previous InfoPowa Reports) has been followed by Chinese media reports that the investigation into the use and promotion via social media of the apps as illegal gambling vehicles is more widespread than at […]
May 10, 2018
The Stars Group Inc. has lauded the successful results of the Monte Carlo stop on the European Poker Tour (EPT), sponsored by PokerStars, which delivered a total prize pool of $27.2 million, 1,915 unique players from 83 different countries, and a total of 8,170 entries across 42 tournaments. The €5,300 buy-in EPT Main Event attracted a field of 777 […]
May 9, 2018
Amin and Vasim Rozani, the management team at online operator Spartan Poker have been chosen to operate the live poker room at Big Daddy Casino, a Goan land gambling enterprise operated by Golden Globes, reportedly owned by Haryana politician Gopal Kanda. Local media reports are that Spartan has already begun promoting the poker room, offering […]