September 24, 2013
Online poker fans attracted to 888 Poker’s Mac client beta-testing earlier this year can now get stuck into the full-on product following its launch Monday. The Mac OS X client supports Hold’Em, Stud and Omaha genres and includes multi-tabling facilities, and full hand histories that can be accessed for analysis. Preferred seating facilities and the […]
September 24, 2013
The convenience and availability of internet crowd-funding – raising capital for start-ups through internet users prepared to risk their money on an investment – has seen a social gaming online poker entrepreneur appealing for capital this week. Alex Kim is the founder and chief exec of Sponge Poker.com, and he’s hoping to raise $30,000 that […]
September 24, 2013
GTECH will showcase its new poker platform, along with a Mobile Poker offering for iPad tablets through its Interactive platform this week at the Global Gaming Expo. The completely re-designed scalable and flexible poker platform will include a host of new features which the company says address the changing dynamics of online poker. GTECH’s new […]
September 23, 2013
Hot on the heels of the launch of WSOP.com for Nevada State residents, the All American Poker Network (AAPN) has clinched a deal with Wynn Interactive. AAPN, the joint venture between 888 Holdings plc and investment company Avenue Capital Group, will develop and deploy Wynn’s online interests in regulated States in the U.S. market. Poker, […]
September 23, 2013
The Merge Poker Network’s premier US-friendly skin, Carbon Poker, has followed rival Lock Poker in shutting down its dedicated support forum on the major poker information site twoplustwo. Troubled Lock Poker closed its twoplustwo channel several months ago, referring players to its own heavily moderated and restricted entry forum if they have issues they wish […]
September 23, 2013
The respected investigative online poker journalist Haley Hintze, who’s pursuit of the truth in the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet debacles provided her readers with a slew of in-depth information, has been digging again…and this time she has unearthed an interesting by-blow on the series of e-cash processing prosecutions surrounding the Black Friday shut downs of […]
September 22, 2013
Cranston, Rhode Island pro Anthony Zinno (31) is the new WPT Borgata Poker Open champ, having bested a field of 1,189 to claim the honours and the first prize of $825,099 after a six day poker marathon that ended in a tense heads up with high profile international pro Vanessa Selbst. The weekend saw Zinno […]
September 21, 2013
Sweden’s mercurial high stakes poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom suffered another big overall defeat on the Full Tilt Poker high stakes virtual tables last week. Despite playing 7,283 hands over 176 sessions he finished the week’s biggest loser, dropping another $557,556, according to the High Stakes Data Base. In the week previous, Blom dropped $1.36 […]
September 20, 2013
The latest brand for a fast-fold online poker product comes from 888 and is likely to be dubbed Snap, joining a list of similar products with rapid-fire titles like Blaze, Zoom, Speed, FastForward, Strobe, and the one that started the popular genre several years ago – FTP’s Rush Poker. Poker information sites and player message […]
September 20, 2013
A player on the new WSOP.com online poker site in Nevada has highlighted a potential problem with credit card deposits, perhaps caused by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The controversial federal act, passed attached to an unrelated measure in a late night session of Congress, seeks to disrupt what it defines as […]