May 9, 2013
Online poker maven Viktor Blom seems to be increasingly featured in online gambling media, thanks to his ability to create massive wins and losses on a regular basis, and on Tuesday he was at the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed tables create mayhem again, reports the publication High Stakes Database. After walking away from a thousand-hand […]
May 9, 2013
Pokerstars is anticipating reaching its “100 billionth hands dealt” landmark next month and has promised special promotions to celebrate the event. Celebrations start early June with PokerStars’ richest-ever ring game promotion , a special edition of the Road to 100 Billion where the poker giant expects to award $ 2 million in cash, including a […]
May 9, 2013
Ultimate Poker’s launch of the first legal online poker website in Nevada last week came as the American Gaming Association published its State of the States annual report on land gambling, which carries within it the news that the Association has been quietly studying the implications of legalised online poker for some time. The outgoing […]
May 8, 2013
This year’s Pokerstars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monaco is off to an exciting start, with days 1a and 1b attracting a total field of 533, among them many of game’s best players. Seen in the corridors and at the tables were luminaries like Viktor Blom, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, […]
May 8, 2013
The US state of California, where online poker legalisation drives are currently on-going, could soon see a new and unexpected initiative coming from tribal gaming interests in the state. The Press-Enterprise news agency reports from Sacramento that execs from some of the state’s most powerful and successful tribal casinos have been meeting privately to hammer […]
May 8, 2013
Top International poker pro Phil Ivey and reportedly initiated legal proceedings against the 184-year-old Mayfair-based Crockfords, owned by the Malaysian Genting gambling group. Our readers will recall the exclusive gaming club withholding Ivey’s substantial winnings after he went on a heater playing Punto Banco late last year. At the time, Crockfords admitted to authorities that […]
May 7, 2013
Montreal-based online gambling group Amaya Gaming has signed a deal to supply Italian betting and gaming provider Cogetech SpA with the poker platform from its Ongame Network Limited subsidiary. The deal follows a similar agreement with Aristocrat Technologies recently (see previous report). Cogetech, itself a subsidiary of the SNAI group, will use the Ongame platform […]
May 7, 2013
Online poker railbirds at the virtual high stakes tables on the Full Tilt Poker site were treated to another series of epic confrontations between Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom this weekend as the two mixed it up once again. Our readers will remember previous high-value PLO heads up games in which amounts in […]
May 7, 2013
The number of celebrities who have seen Twitter posts made in anger backfire should be a cautionary example for all users of social media communications, yet very public – and permanent – disputes still continue to surface on the site and its emailed content. The latest very public industry spat was reported this weekend by […]
May 7, 2013
Pressure mounted this week on Lock Poker, a member of the Revolution poker network which has come under fire recently for slow-paying players and halting player-to-player fund transfers and subsequent cash-outs (see previous reports). The influential twoplustwo poker forum stopped the company from pushing its offering due to the volume of player complaints, with forum […]