March 7, 2018
March 4 turned out to be likely an expensive day for PartyPoker after one of its servers crashed during the finale of the $10 million KO Poker Series. The evening outage was confirmed by Party’s IT people using Twitter as tournaments were paused but problems persisted, eventually forcing the management team to cancel all MTTs […]
March 3, 2018
Mason Malmuth, owner of top poker forum TwoPlusTwo, has advised that he has suspended Winning Poker Network advertising and forum activity pending a response to an email he had sent to WPN chief executive Phil Nagy regarding alleged ethical and fairness issues at the Americas Card Room skin. The email was dispatched February 24, asking […]
March 3, 2018
Following his victory in the $10,000 buy-in Los Angeles Poker Classic WPT Main Event this week, California accountant Dennis Blieden took home a main prize check for a million dollars, along with a $15,000 seat in the WPT Tournament of Champions. It was only his third live tournament career cash. Blieden bested a field of […]
March 3, 2018
The Poker Players Alliance has published the results of its poll on how it’s over a million members feel about a wider and more liberal sports betting regime than is presently the case in the United States, and whether the Alliance should take up advocacy of sports betting along with poker. Perhaps predictably, there was […]
March 2, 2018
Norwegian police in the capital Oslo carried out a major anti-illegal gambling operation this week, simultaneously shuttering five poker rooms and making five arrests in late-evening raids.. Over a hundred uniformed police were involved in the raids, which were reportedly based on suspicions that illegal gambling was being carried out at the clubs. Whilst playing […]
March 1, 2018
US poker pro Alex Foxen enjoyed a dream poker victory this week in the $25,000 buy-in L.A. Poker Classic Rockstar Energy High Roller, sweeping away some deeply talented opposition at the final table and heads up stages to claim the main prize of $424,625. Entering the final day as chip leader, Foxen maintained and enhanced […]
March 1, 2018
PokerStars has announced the completion of the FRESH (France Espania Hold’em) Series, the first joint poker tournament series offered to both French and Spanish players following the launch of the shared player pool between the two previously ring-fenced markets. The FRESH Series beat guarantees and attracted thousands of French and Spanish players to PokerStars’ online […]
February 28, 2018
Kevin Iacofano has won his first live tournament title after a decade of play and certainly made it a notable one, the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, taking home a $259,463 main prize. Despite accumulating over $1 million in live tournament earnings, Iacofano had […]
February 28, 2018
Adam Pliska, the CEO of World Poker Tour, is to continue in the post for a further four years, owners owner Ourgame International Holdings confirmed in a media statement Tuesday. Pliska has been at the helm of WPT for the past nine years, having originally joined the company as general counsel in 2003, and has […]
February 27, 2018
Top French online poker operator Winamax has been extolling the virtues of its operational promotions and offers as it nears approval by the Spanish regulator that will enable it to enter the French-Spanish shared poker player pool. Winamax has launched new website Winamax.ES in the Spanish language to show off its brand and promotions in […]