November 6, 2012
The PokerStars inaugural All Stars Showdown has its first champion. Dan “w00ki3z.” Cates beat Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky in a heads-up final that lasted around eleven hours. Cates won $550 000 and took a hotly contested title from some of the best players in the online poker world who included Ike Haxton, Tobias “KTPOKP” Kuder, Alex […]
November 6, 2012
The Pennsylvanian Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is reported to become the first terrestrial casino in the State to go online with a free-play internet poker offering. Located in Wilkes-Barre, the casino will apparently run the offering utilising Bally Technologies software (see previous report) and is set to launch early 2013. While real-money play is […]
November 6, 2012
Playtech has officially launched and migrated players of Betclic Everest Group’s Betclic and Everest poker products in France and international markets on ipoker.fr and ipoker.com respectively. Everest and Betclic poker in France will continue to share their liquidity pool and have improved their current rake structure to benefit French players. “France remains an important market […]
November 5, 2012
The Canadian publication The National Post carried an interesting feature on the safety of physical vs. internet poker rooms in Toronto over the weekend, observing that poker players relocating to the city from the legally restrictive poker environment in the United States prefer the internet. Much of the article deals with the reputation and problematic […]
November 5, 2012
The online poker information site Quadjacks unearthed an interesting opinion on the intricacies of the chance vs. skill legal debate over the weekend, reporting that Black Friday cash processing defendant Chad Elie had posted a view from former Missouri US Attorney Catherine Hanaway, now apparently employed in the legal private sector. Hanaway rose to prominence […]
November 4, 2012
Clauses in the Reid-Kyl bill seeking to federally legalise online poker whilst banning other forms of online gambling exacerbate the tension between Antigua and the United States and attempt to re-write history, say Antigua government officials. The Antiguans are talking about sections of the bill which not only perpetuate the damage done to the Caribbean […]
November 3, 2012
The people behind the Costa Rica-based online poker enterprise Poker Rebel.com started promoting the site on message boards and social media platforms back in September this year (see previous reports), with a noticeable reticence concerning the software in use and its licensing jurisdiction. This week the Che Guevara-themed site launched for real money action in […]
November 3, 2012
The third edition of the popular Pokerstars MicroMillions online poker tournament series will take place between November 15 and 25, this time carrying a guaranteed prize pool of $5 million. There will be 100 events with buy-ins ranging from eleven cents to $22, culminating in a NLHE main event with a guaranteed $1 million in […]
November 3, 2012
Finnish online poker pro Ilari Sahamies’ success on the high stakes Pokerstars tables throughout the month of October has positioned him at the top of the High Stakes Database leader board with a profit of $1.6 million…and he was not alone in winning serious amounts of money at the tables. The mysterious Canadian player, known […]
November 3, 2012
Everest Poker’s move from its parent Everest-Betclic network to Playtech’s iPoker offering was announced earlier this week (see previous report) although there was uncertainty regarding which of iPoker’s two tiers it would occupy. The confusion has been cleared up by iPoker, which confirmed that the new arrival would join the more recreational player-friendly iPoker 2, […]