Irish social mobile poker provider links with Yoozoo on Indian poker product

January 26, 2018

Irish social mobile poker operator KamaGames announced today (Friday) a successful collaboration with the release of Yoozoo Games’ new social poker title, Poker Champions, into the Indian market. Poker Champions is available through the App Store and Google Play and is the first project launched since KamaGames and Yoozoo’s partnership was announced in October last […]

Florida poker ace captures his first WPT title

January 26, 2018

Florida poker pro Darryll Fish scored his first World Poker Tour title on his home turf this week, taking down the $3,500 buy-in WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. Fish bested a field of 911 to claim the main prize of $511,604, his biggest yet individual score in […]

Pokerstars releases details on costs for shared French-Spanish player pools

January 25, 2018

With France and Spain now fully committed to shared player pools, and PokerStars leading the operator charge into this new dispensation, The Stars Group’s director of poker operations, Severin Rasset explained the objectives and issues the company faces – chiefly as regards Southern European pricing. The detailed rationale behind the pricing structure is explained in […]

Lucky Pokerstars player gets a 10,000x ROI

January 25, 2018

A $100 Spin & Go session awarded 10,000 times its worth when it hit a $1 million grand prize at PokerStars this week, the poker provider reports. Player ‘24HourATM’ cashed the seven-figure prize after just four minutes of play, defeating ‘adam cayer’ and ‘5dioresta’, who earned $100,000 each. Spin & Go’s are three-max Hyper Turbo […]

Partypoker’s big game scheduled for February

January 25, 2018

PartyPoker’s Euro 12.5 million guaranteed Millions Germany series this year (it actually takes place at Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic thanks to Germany’s confused gambling status) will include the company’s popular Euro 20,000 buy-in Big Game, which this year will for the first time have a Pot Limit Omaha format. The eight-handed game will […]

International action planned in 888Poker’s Live Tour 2018

January 25, 2018

Online poker players will have plenty of satellite opportunities to win generous packages to foreign locations in the 2018 888Poker Live series this year, the company has announced. The 2018 schedule covers eight international stops, including a start in the UK (London) Feruary 8 – 11, followed by Romania (Bucharest); back to the UK and […]

2018 iteration of online poker legalisation bill moves in New York

January 24, 2018

For the third year running an online poker legalisation bill has passed the first hurdle – the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, which advanced the measure to the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday on a 10 vs. 1 vote. In previous years, and particularly last year, similar legislation made it all the way through the […]

Austrian poker ace wins Aussie Millions opening event

January 23, 2018

The first event in this year’s Aussie Millions is in the record books as a A$315,295 win for Austrian poker pro Benedikt Eberle, who bested a field of 1,538 to claim victory in the A$1,150 buy in Opening Event, which generated a  A$1,576,450 prize pool. Australia’s Benjamin Jee held the chip lead at the start […]

The mother of all badbeats

January 19, 2018

Motor City Detroit claimed a new US badbeat jackpot record this week at a six-handed table. The badbeat jackpot was at $1,068,590.80 million when the event took place following a hand in which two players held quads. A player identified as Scott of Oxford, MI had the losing hand and took home the biggest share […]

Online ace returns to score again in WSOP Choctaw main event

January 18, 2018

Jason ‘strasser2’ Strasser was a force to be reckoned with in the early days of online poker before he started a new career in the hedge fund sector, but this week he proved that he still has what it takes by winning the World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw main event to take home $332,539 […]