January 15, 2013
Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment subsidiary Party Poker has announced some significant changes to VIP programs commencing April 1st 2013. Palladium Elite, the ultimate tier in the program, is to be dropped, as are all bonuses that generate an effective rake-back of 30 percent or more. The company recommended in its announcement that players cash in points […]
January 15, 2013
Almost all the online poker operators reported noticeable improvements in their traffic last week, with a surge of 6 percent overall flagged by the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout as the start of the busy season. PokerStars, PartyPoker, 888 and Microgaming Poker Network all booked weekly gains of 5 percent or more, with most of […]
January 14, 2013
26-year-old Bulgarian poker pro Dimitar Danchev has survived five tough days of poker and bested a field of 986 other players to take down the tenth anniversary edition Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas. With the respect for winning such a major tourney and the trophy comes a first prize of $1,859,000, but Danchev had […]
January 14, 2013
The weekend ended on a high note at the nosebleed tables on the Full Tilt Poker site as Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom kept riding his almost two-week long wave of success by logging on for another exhilarating 17 hours of online poker, taking on anyone with the confidence and bankroll to challenge him on a spread […]
January 13, 2013
In what is fast becoming one for the all-time online poker record books, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom was back at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables again Friday for a fourth consecutive session of nosebleed action. At first it appeared that Blom had finally come off his unprecedented heater, losing $150,000 to old enemy Ben […]
January 12, 2013
UK poker pro Tom Carpenter lost his world-championship stake money and was subjected to a frightening experience when a gang of masked burglars forced the back door and invaded his home in Tamworth, UK, a court in Stafford heard this week. The Tamworth Herald reports that the poker pro was preparing to fly to Las […]
January 12, 2013
Tournament poker fans will now be able to use their smartphones and tablets to watch the top aces in action on the final tables of major tournaments following the release of Pokerstars.TV’s updated app. Available worldwide, the app allows poker fans to access free streaming video content on Apple and Android devices, starting with tournaments […]
January 11, 2013
Despite a brutal reversal of fortunes at the virtual nosebleed tables on Full Tilt Poker Wednesday, which saw him lose $509,000 in a single session, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom was back in action Thursday, again taking charge and recouping his losses. The High Stakes Data Base reports that the young Swede put on an ‘exhilarating’ display […]
January 11, 2013
Two of the top-tier skins on the iPoker network, bet365 and Paddy Power, have quietly shut down their exclusive and segregated, or ‘premium’ tables, creating greater player liquidity, according to player reports currently appearing in Internet gambling media. The reports are confirmed by the removal of references to the former exclusive tables on the websites […]
January 10, 2013
It’s been an incredible introduction to 2013 for poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, who has earned $4.1 million in just over a week, crushing some of the best players around on the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. But at some point there had to be a dip, and that occurred Wednesday when Blom […]