February 27, 2018
Chris Bryce, a 37-year-old player from Cheltenham in England, is GBP 187,500 wealthier this week after taking down the GBP 1,100 buy-in PartyPoker Live Main Event at the Dusk Til Dawn Cardroom in Nottingham. The event pulled in a field of 1,076 entrants, generating a prize pool in excess of the guarantee at GBP 1,043,720. […]
February 22, 2018
An advisory from PokerStars reminds customers of the now defunct PKR poker room to submit their claims by the 28 February 2018 offer expiry deadline. InfoPowa readers will recall PokerStars stepping in when PKR went under last year with an offer to reimburse account credits as a goodwill gesture (see previous InfoPowa reports). PokerStars offered to reimburse customer’s ‘dollar-for-dollar’ with […]
February 22, 2018
Poker players burned by the recently reported closure of Jao Poker, an early stage, US-facing start-up online poker operator fronted by an energetic promoter and poker player named Tam Nguyen, can hardly say they were not warned. Forums and online poker media publications have been flagging the potential dangers of using the operator for months, […]
February 22, 2018
German poker pro Dominik Nitschke wopund up his PartyPoker Millions adventure at Kings Casino Rozvadov this week with a resounding Euro 300,000 win in the last of the high roller events – a Euro 10,300 buy-in competition that attracted 120 entries and created a prize pool of Euro 1.14 million. Many top names, as well […]
February 21, 2018
PokerStars has hailed results from its first joint tournament series, FRESH, following the launch of the shared player pool of French and Spanish players. The series, which ran from January 28 to February 11, attracted over 30,000 unique entries and a total prize pool of Euro 6,149,751 across 50 scheduled events, exceeding the Euro 5 […]
February 20, 2018
Kammar Andries, a physical therapist from Orlando, has outplayed a field of 827 entries to win the WSOP Circuit Seminole Coconut Creek main event. His third cash of the series, which included two final table appearances, Andries defeated Mike Linster for the $241,898 first prize and his first WSOP Circuit ring. Final Table Results: 1 […]
February 20, 2018
Portuguese online poker fans could soon be joining those of France and Spain in a shared player project that has been in development for years following an agreement to share players by France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. France and Spain has already implemented their side of the agreement, with PokerStars the first operator into the […]
February 20, 2018
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom provided railbirds with another spectacular finale this week, emerging as the victor in the Euro 5,300 buy-in PartyPoker Live Millions Germany main event after a calling his last opponent’s bluff in a ballsy decision that made mainstream press headlines and earned him Euro 850,000. The event, held at Kings Casino in Rozvadoiv, […]
February 18, 2018
One of the first problems faced by the Poker Players Alliance action group’s new president, Rich Muny, is a pressing need for more financial donations to keep this lobbying and poker legalisation advocate operating. Muny has wasted no time in putting out a plea for donations this week, attributing the financial problem to a decline […]
February 16, 2018
Researchers at the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC) have completed a problem gambling study in which they claim that poker players are most vulnerable to problem gambling issues. The study, based on data collected through the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics (HILDA) Survey overseen by the Melbourne Institute on behalf of the Department of Social […]