May 22, 2013
Reports earlier this month that the French Partouche Group plans to shutter its online poker site in the restricted and highly taxed French market (see previous reports) were confirmed by owner Patrik Partouche this week on both his Facebook page and on the Partouche.fr website. Partouche cited lack of profitability as the reason for the […]
May 21, 2013
According to player complaints on various industry forums, Massive Group N.V.-owned Moore Games.com has gone offline without any communication to players. Our readers will recall a financial dispute between the online poker room and Playtech’s iPoker Network in the middle of August 2012 where players claimed they were not being paid and the subsequent resumption […]
May 21, 2013
The 2013 World Series of Poker Europe’s (WSOPE) newly released schedule includes the first High Roller bracelet event in the tournaments history. The WSOPE, presented by BarreirePoker.fr, will kick off on October 12 and run through to October 25 at the Casino Barrière d’Enghien-les-Bains, a 100-year-old lakeside casino situated in the Parisian suburb of Enghien-les-Bains […]
May 21, 2013
Poker pro Annie Duke has posted a statement on Facebook regarding the latest developments in the Ultimatebet hole card cheating scandal. The publication of a tape said to be a recording of a discussion between lawyers and Ultimatebet executives mentions Annie Duke as regularly using “[God-mode software] on a 15 minute delay” – a statement […]
May 21, 2013
Five years ago the internet was buzzing with outrage as the Tusk online poker and casino group folded and went into liquidation, leaving many players unpaid after software provider Microgaming pulled its licence (see previous reports). It is widely believed that millions of dollars were involved, and the scandal reverberated throughout the industry and into […]
May 19, 2013
Playtech’s iPoker network has been making industry news pages recently with its player-to-player transfer bans and more recently a demand that operators conduct immediate KYC (Know Your Customer) checks on their players The latter initiative has triggered lively assertions and speculation on leading poker message boards like twoplustwo and pokeraffiliatelistings, where a consensus appears to […]
May 18, 2013
Mere days ago, Swedish online high stakes poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom was on a monumental downswing, dropping $627,533 in a single 2,138 hand session Typically, on Thursday night he was back, firing on all cylinders and taking a series of skilled opponents for almost a million dollars over 3,435 hands. Playing on the high […]
May 18, 2013
Nevada’s energetic governor Brian Sandoval has wasted no time in investigating interstate online poker compact possibilities with like-minded fellow governors following the approval of Nevada legislators for such activity recently Howard Stutz reports in the well-informed GameWire that Sandoval has already held discussions with several state governors, although the specific states concerned have not been […]
May 16, 2013
German online high-stakes cash game player Max “altiFC” Altergott (22) showed Wednesday that he carries his online talent well into the live tournament field, winning the Euro 100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event at the Pokerstars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final for a massive Euro 1,746,400 – in his first major live tournament. In […]
May 15, 2013
Although there has been no official statement from the operator, reliable reports indicate that the PlayersOnly and SportsBook poker rooms on the Merge poker network have segregated their players from the main Merge pool, presumably in an attempt to improve the “poker ecology” by encouraging more recreational player action and less “shark” activity. Initial reports […]