December 10, 2012
Any hopes that Nevada Senator Harry Reid may have had for attaching his federal online poker legalisation bill to urgent ‘fiscal cliff’ legislation in the quickly expiring ‘lame duck session’ of the current Congress, were dashed at the weekend when the Republican Congressman for Oklahoma, Tom Cole, addressed the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA). Cole […]
December 10, 2012
It was celebration time this weekend as Polish swimming coach turned poker pro Marcin Wydrowksi triumphed in the World Poker Tour Prague tournament in the Czech Republic. Wydrowksi’s win gives Poland its first WPT title, and rewarded him with the $423,957 (Euro 325,000) main prize, along with a seat at the WPT World Championships worth […]
December 7, 2012
Full Tilt Poker.com, which was acquired earlier this year by online poker industry leader Pokerstars, has some exciting high stakes poker in store for internet railbirds, setting the scene for a clash between arguably two of internet poker’s most audacious and mercurial professionals – Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom. On Sunday December 9 at 15h00 […]
December 7, 2012
The venerable business publication The Wall Street Journal set the news wires afire late Thursday with a report that the Isle of Man-based online poker giant Pokerstars is discussing the acquisition of an Atlantic City land casino – the Atlantic Club – with owners Colony Capital LLC. The major wire services pounced on the story, […]
December 6, 2012
It’s been a good week for an Iranian fast food worker living in Cork, Ireland and using the ‘handle’ “puwer111”, who won the Paddy Power iPops main event, beating 2,190 opponents in the $200 + $15 buy NLHE event to take down the main prize of $101,200. The no-limit hold’em game culminated a final table […]
December 6, 2012
With time running out in the lame duck session prior to the adjournment of the current US Congressional season, Sen. Harry Reid still has options in trying to push his Reid-Kyl online poker federal legalisation proposals through, the Heritage Foundation suggests. Brian Darling, senior fellow for government studies at the Foundation, said the wily senator […]
December 6, 2012
Rational FT Services, owner of Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, is reportedly on a recruitment drive for its Dublin-based Full Tilt service hub. The company’s initial 175 staff complement has been expanded to 200 in the past few weeks and the business is continuing to recruit for other positions in the IT, content management, data […]
December 5, 2012
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, the online arm of Caesars Entertainment Corp., was recommend by the Nevada State Gaming Control Board (GCB) for the award of an online poker licence today (Wednesday). A licence could be awarded before year-end following approval by the Nevada Gaming Commission who, in the next step of the process, is scheduled to […]
December 5, 2012
A new social poker initiative dubbed Final Table Poker by KibiApps is looking for investors to develop its product further. The game, developed primarily for Facebook, is a poker game based on real-life No Limit Texas Hold’em poker hands played by poker professionals in major tournaments and televised high stakes cash games. Players sit at […]
December 4, 2012
Microgaming, the online gambling software developer and network provider, announced the re-branding of its online poker network Tuesday, along with the launch of a supporting new website at www.thempn.eu. Now branded MPN, the poker network was formerly titled Microgaming Poker Network and has undergone a significant transformation over the past two years, with sweeping changes […]