September 20, 2013
Brian Mattingley, the CEO of 888 Holdings and a key player through business partnerships in the evolving US online gambling market, spoke to Poker News this week on his firm’s experiences with American regulators. Emphasising that the online poker software being deployed in partnership with Caesars Interactive Entertainment on the newly launched WSOP.com website in […]
September 20, 2013
The current World Championship of Online Poker online poker tournament is only halfway through at the ten day mark, yet the organisers report that the generous guaranteed prize pools on the various events have been repeatedly exceeded through the buy-ins of big entry fields, surpassing total guarantees to the tune of $10 million and counting. […]
September 20, 2013
Dave Schwartz, the director of the University of Las Vegas’s Gaming Research Center, told local publication 8newsnow this week that legalised online poker in Nevada could be good news for land operators. Schwarz said that experience has shown that online players develop a taste for the game that takes them to live environments and poker […]
September 19, 2013
The current Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) tournament is producing major win prizes and large entry fields as it unfolds. In the $10,300 buy-in High Roller NLHE competition the prize pool guarantee was exceeded by almost a third to $2,980,000 thanks to 276 player entries and 22 re-buys. German online player “MauriceSch” took […]
September 19, 2013
Barely hours after a Caesars Interactive Entertainment press conference announcing the launch date of its WSOP.com intrastate online poker site in Nevada (see previous report), the site went live Tuesday on a small scale for an estimated 12,000 sign-ups who had registered earlier this year. The early registrants were tipped off by emails which contained […]
September 17, 2013
The alleged room invasions and laptop tampering at the Hotel Arts, where many players in the recent European Poker Tour Barcelona were staying surfaced again this week with reports that more players have come forward with similar complaints. Following the Jens “Jeans” Kyllönen, Ignat “0human0” Liviu, Aku Joentausta and Lauri Pesonen complaints, no further information […]
September 17, 2013
The Isle of Man online gambling software provider Microgaming announced Tuesday that Åland-based operator, Paf, is live with the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) new downloadable Mac OS software. Running in the Adobe Air framework, the new client is compatible with Mac operating systems. It has the same functionality as the MPN’s ‘instant play’ client, allowing […]
September 17, 2013
WSOP.com will open its virtual real-money doors on Thursday September 19, becoming the second operator in the Nevada market, Caesars Interactive Entertainment revealed at a press conference Monday. “This is a historic moment for our company,” said Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) chief executive officer Mitch Garber. “A state-of-the-art poker offering from one of the most […]
September 16, 2013
High stakes online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom hit a bad patch last week, finishing as the biggest loser on Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed virtual tables after a series of disastrous defeats. Over the week, Blom dropped $1,366,606 in 12,031 hands over 210 sessions, far outstripping the next biggest loser, Gus ‘The Great Dane’ Hansen, […]
September 14, 2013
A high powered team of senior Caesars Interactive Entertainment executives headed by CEO Mitch Garber is scheduled to appear at a CIE press conference in Las Vegas Monday at which it is anticipated that the long-awaited launch date for Nevada’s second legal online poker website will be announced. CIE and 888 have partnered on the […]