October 9, 2012
Phil Ivey’s dispute with Crockfords over non-payment of his GBP 7.3 million winnings (see previous reports) triggered a follow up report Monday on a golf dispute that goes back to 2007 and involved fellow poker pro Ram Vaswani (42). In reporting on the Crockfords story The Standard newspaper interviewed Vaswami, and during the exchange he […]
October 7, 2012
Top international poker pro Phil Ivey went on a heater playing Punto Banco at London’s exclusive Crockfords gaming club six weeks ago, but is still awaiting payment of GBP 7.3 million in winnings. The 184-year-old Mayfair-based Crockfords, owned by the Malaysian Genting gambling group, has confirmed to the authorities that it is withholding payment, but […]
October 7, 2012
Online poker operators offering fast-fold poker variants, widely acknowledged to have been initially launched by Full Tilt Poker with its Rush Poker product, will be watching industry leader Pokerstars carefully this week following the news that the company is reviewing the patentability of the concept after acquiring FTP. Fast-fold or speed poker, in which a […]
October 6, 2012
The ‘run it twice’ option favoured by many high stakes online poker pros may find application in the wider internet poker market if Pokerstars has its way; the market leader has announced that it is planning to introduce the innovation and is currently carrying out practical testing. Rumours of a wider introduction for the feature […]
October 6, 2012
Annual comparative numbers issued by Italy’s online gambling regulator AAMS Friday have industry analysts concerned at an apparent decline of almost 31 percent between August this year and August 2011. Italian poker cash games were approved in July last year with great expectations, and the latest numbers therefore represent the first year-on-year overall assessment; unfortunately […]
October 5, 2012
An elated Phil Hellmuth said “I played the best poker of my life in this tournament” after emerging the victor of the Sixth World Series of Poker Europe Championship held at Hotel Majestic Barriere in Cannes, France. Hellmuth’s win gives him the accolade of having the most accomplished WSOP career of any player in the […]
October 5, 2012
Win2Day launched by Prima Networks – powered by Microgaming earlier this year has extended its offering to include poker for the Belgian market. Owned by Casinos Austria International, win2day.be will augment its casino and bingo products with poker from Prima Networks that will include the fast-fold variant “Blaze”. Loraine Schoevers, director of Prima Networks, said: […]
October 4, 2012
Hopefully changing attitudes toward legalised online poker in the United States appear to have persuaded the top French operator Winamax to put a toe in the water, launching a free-to-play site branded Winamax Poker.com, powered by the firm’s proprietary software. Winamax has traditionally only offered real money action in regulated markets, and maintains this policy […]
October 4, 2012
European online poker players looked likely to be short another internet destination this week as news surfaced that the UK Bodog brand franchise holder Bodog.co.uk will not include poker when it relaunches its revamped and re-targeted online and live dealer casino operation. Many players had only just settled down after being transferred to the old […]
October 4, 2012
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan showed once again this week that he views the activities of cash processors who assisted Black Friday indicted operators in a dim light, going beyond the prosecution’s sentencing recommendations in punishing Chad Elie (32). Despite a prosecution sentencing recommendation that Elie be sentenced to probation, six months of home […]