June 6, 2013
U.S. TV broadcaster Fox Sports Networks will provide poker fans with another three years of coverage of the World Poker Tour land-based poker tournament in an agreement signed this week. Programming will begin from 29 August 2013 with coverage of World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII kicking off at the Bicycle Casino in California. “Our […]
June 6, 2013
Two more World Series of Poker bracelets – one a first and the other a second for the winners – have been awarded in Las Vegas with the conclusion of the $3,000 buy-in NLHE Shootout and $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold’em events – numbers 9 and 10 respectively on the WSOP schedule. In event 9 the […]
June 6, 2013
The Microgaming Poker Network has launched Heads Up 8 Man Blaze, a new and improved fast-fold poker variant of the popular Heads Up Blaze introduced to the network last year. With Heads Up 8 Man Blaze, up to eight players enter into a liquidity pool to compete. Unlike traditional Heads Up fast-fold tables, players can […]
June 6, 2013
Rational Group’s online poker site Full Tilt Poker has launched a new game in 6-Card Omaha, which will be available soon for tournament, cash game and sit ‘n go action. The addition is the latest in a series of new game launches executed by Full Tilt and its sister online poker site Pokerstars this year. […]
June 6, 2013
Events 6, 7 and 8 of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) have delivered some worthy winners and hard-fought battles. From restaurant manager to millionaire, 32-year-old Canadian amateur poker player Benny Chen took down a huge field of over 6300 entries to win Event 6 – the inaugural “Millionaire Maker” No Limit Hold’em Event […]
June 6, 2013
Polish poker pro Jakub Michalak has won the inaugural International Stadiums Poker Tour Main Event at Wembley Stadium, pocketing Euro 436 000 and the title. Michalak faced Frenchman Xavier El Fassy in heads-up with an almost 8-to-1 chip lead following the elimination of Nick Hicks. A deal struck between the six finalists based on their […]
June 5, 2013
In the three months he has been working as director of social gaming for Pokerstars, US exec Mark Buser has reportedly already made an impact. The widely experienced gaming exec, who lives in San Francisco, joined in April this year after serving as Investor/Advisor at Million Levers.com, a project aimed at improving retention and conversion […]
June 5, 2013
An ownership dispute on Absolute Poker associated with the Black Friday seizure of the site and dating back to early 2012 has been settled, with the US Department of Justice achieving the dismissal with prejudice of the claim by Avoine Servico de Consultadoria e Marketing. Almost a year after the April 2011 Black Friday shutdowns […]
June 4, 2013
The arrival in Las Vegas of thousands of poker fans eager to compete in the 44th World Series of Poker has had a beneficial side effect for the newly launched Nevada-licensed online poker website Ultimate Poker.com, reports the independent internet poker monitor Pokerscout. Last Friday Ultimate hosted a new high of over 550 players, boosting […]
June 4, 2013
After a mere ten months in operation, the online poker room Poker Ace has announced that it is to shut down tomorrow (Wednesday), with players, their account balances and loyalty rewards transferred to iPoker network skin DafaPoker. Based and licensed in the Philippines and targeted on Asian players, Poker Ace launched late 2012 using proprietary […]