August 22, 2013
California Senator Lou Correa’s SB 678 online poker legalisation measure is doomed for this year, according to a tweet from the Poker Players Alliance Wednesday. The news comes just days after the bill, introduced in March this year, was upgraded to “urgent” status with just three weeks remaining of the current Californian legislative season (see […]
August 21, 2013
The publication High Stakes Data Base reports that Swedish online high stakes poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom took a serious spanking on the Full Tilt Poker site over the weekend, losing $273,000 in just ten minutes. Playing heads up against Alex ‘IReadYrSoul’ Millar, on a $400/$800 NLHE table Blom was crushed in 40 rapid-fire hands, […]
August 21, 2013
With just three weeks to go before the end of the California legislative session, State Senator Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana has amended SB 678 and reclassified it as urgent. The bill which has seen little movement since March 2013 (see previous reports) was amended to legalise online poker in California but limits licence awards to […]
August 21, 2013
Jason “strassa2” Strasser, a former full-time poker pro turned investment banker, bested a field of 591and took the World Series of Poker Circuit Foxwoods Main Event title along with a $186 600 pay cheque. Strasser played full time professional poker for two years around 2005 to 2007 before pursuing a career in investment banking. “Everyone […]
August 20, 2013
InsuredPlay.com, an all-in poker equity insurance enterprise specialising in the coverage of online cash games, is to fold in an orderly fashion after just 16 months in business. The company has assured players that their balances remain safe and segregated, and that all balances will be paid out in full following claims that must be […]
August 20, 2013
The main event of the 23rd edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) generated plenty of excitement and a three way chop as it ended another successful tourney this week, with German player “Itahaschi” besting a field of 3,326 competitors in the $635 buy-in event…but not taking home the most money. “Itahaschi” banked […]
August 19, 2013
Englishman Tom Alner has taken the PokerStars Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon Main Event title from a 600-strong field dominated by local players. Alner emerged victorious besting Jason Chong in heads-up. “I’ve always wanted to win this. The reason I’ve come to Macau was to win the Red Dragon,” said Alner. The main event final […]
August 18, 2013
The ability to harness online information with pub poker tourney finals has made pub poker league provider Redtooth Poker.com a winning proposition for players, operators and marketers, all anxious to connect with an active playing pool of 158,802 players taking part in pub leagues throughout the UK. And the Daily Star Sunday newspaper reports that […]
August 18, 2013
It’s taken an inordinately long time for the US Justice Department to appoint a refund administrator for the long-suffering US-resident Full Tilt Poker players, but it looks as if the wheels are at last starting to grind forward. The appointed administrators, Garden City Group, posted the following advisory on the Full Tilt Claims website late […]
August 16, 2013
Online gambling operator 888Poker.com has launched a new facility that permits players to see their online opponents during the action, using videocam technology. Using now well-proven video streaming technology players will be able to test their skills at reading their opponents’ ‘tells’ – something that has been lacking in most online poker confrontations. The facility […]