October 17, 2012
Former marketing affiliates of the ‘old’ Full Tilt Poker group who were left unpaid when the company failed in the wake of Black Friday received bad news Tuesday, when new owner Pokerstars advised that it will not be paying them out, and player accounts linked to former affiliate accounts will not be tracked. Affiliates who […]
October 16, 2012
Coral Poker’s much heralded move from the Ongame network to Playtech’s iPoker Network has been completed, the company announced this week, signalling the completion of an agreement reached with Playtech back in July The ten-year agreement made provision for the online poker, casino and bingo offerings in the Gala Coral group to switch to Playtech […]
October 15, 2012
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) latest tour addition in South Africa is set to kick-off this week from October, 19 to October, 26. The first tour in the Southern Hemisphere in the WPT’s 11-season history will be held at the up-market Emperors Palace Hotel Casino Entertainment Resort and Hotel in Johannesburg. The tournament features a […]
October 15, 2012
The Asian-facing gaming site TLC88.com will augment its online casino and sports betting product with poker courtesy of the Bodog Poker Network. The Chinese language website operates under a Philippines Cagayan licence and sells itself as “the leading creative online gaming website in Asia” running the slogan “Healthy Gaming Starts from Here”. TLC88.com’s chief executive […]
October 15, 2012
The publication Korea Joongang Daily explored the pitfalls of online social poker gambling over the weekend, detailing cases where players found themselves in difficulties even with the ‘virtual currency only’ rules. The problem arises with players who want more virtual game ‘points’ than the 300,000 won (around GBP168) a month they are allowed to legally […]
October 13, 2012
The Nevada television station KTVN interviewed James Costa, CEO of online gambling software and video game developer 3G Friday, who said that legalised online poker could be a fact of life in Nevada as soon as this spring. 3G already has a commercial tie-up with the Eldorado Casino (see previous reports) and has applied for […]
October 13, 2012
Since departing the Pokerstars Pro team Swedish online poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom has been relatively low profile, but he had the railbirds twittering again this week with a typically up-and-down session on the Pokerstars high stakes tables. Playing with flair on the Pot Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw tables the youthful Swede ran […]
October 13, 2012
Full Tilt’s poker room manager Shyam Markus took to the twoplustwo forum today to give a preview of, and perhaps gauge the reaction of, what players can expect of some aspects of the Full Tilt Reward Programme at launch in early November. Markus explained that the new reward programme is not a PokerStars initiative but […]
October 12, 2012
The new Full Tilt Poker, now owned by Pokerstars and the Rational Group, took a moment Thursday to show US players that their welfare is still a concern despite the operator’s present exclusion from a legal US market. There was little that was new in the communication, but perhaps American players will at least have […]
October 12, 2012
French poker pro Ludovic Lacay and his bank manager will be on cordial terms this week after the French ace scored his biggest win yet in taking down the Pokerstars European Poker Tour San Remo main event for a take-home of Euro 744,000 and his first EPT title. Lacay faced a talented final table that […]