May 29, 2012
Following Sunday’s WSOP kick-off event for casino employees (see previous report) the first of the open events, a $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em competition, started Monday with internationally famous ace and eight-time winner bracelet recipient Phil Ivey among the more than 2,000 entrants – his first appearance at WSOP since 2010 following the Full Tilt […]
May 28, 2012
A Boylepoker World Series of Poker (WSOP) Fantasy League Facebook App has timeously debuted on social network Facebook. The app allows players to pick five of the 180 competing poker pros in the 2012 WSOP tournament which kicked off yesterday, with the winner of the fantasy league in line to win prizes. Head of poker, […]
May 28, 2012
A recent PokerStars client update that saw the launch of a new table groupings lobby feature towards the end of last month on PokerStars.com, has been re-worked and extended to the company’s Estonian and free-play websites on a trial basis. The innovative lobby feature, which reduces lobby lists and makes it easier to join games […]
May 28, 2012
The online poker information site Rake Tracker reports that a Merge Gaming poker network spokesman has confirmed that the network is to allow its skins to offer rakeback to new players again effective June 1. “The announcement comes almost one year to the day [since] the top U.S. facing poker network halted rakeback for new […]
May 28, 2012
The 2012 World Series of Poker will probably dominate poker news for the next few weeks following the start Sunday of the Casino Employees event. The 43rd edition of poker’s biggest spectacular saw Tournament Director Jack Effel and veteran poker dealer Richard Turnbull give the traditional ‘shuffle up and deal’ call to launch the $500 […]
May 28, 2012
Marcelo Ramos Da Fonseca, a regular tournament player from Brazil, is the latest PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour Punta del Este champ, beating tough opponent Angel Guillen in the heads up to take home $144,240 in prize money and the honours over the weekend. Chip leader when the final table formed on the third day […]
May 27, 2012
With the Zoom Poker juggernaut continuing to gather momentum, generating massive business for Pokerstars, the company has upped the range of games available by increasing the stakes level on PLO to $1/$2. All the Zoom PLO tables are 6 max, and as yet do not have antes or deep stack options. The new limit is […]
May 27, 2012
Marvin Rettenmaier of Germany is having a great year at the tables in 2012, this week moving on from his April $156,186 first placing in the EPT Grand Final in Monaco to a $1.2 million victory in the $25,000 main event of the World Poker Tour World Championship. The epic eight-hour long final table competition […]
May 27, 2012
New Jersey professional poker player Tom Marchese lived up to his online nickname ‘kingofcards’ over the weekend when he defeated a formidable final table in the 2012 WPT $100,000 buy-in High Roller competition to win his biggest payday yet – a whopping $1.3 million. The win takes Marchese’s career earnings in online and live tournaments […]
May 26, 2012
The latest face-to-face player engagement exercise by Pokerstars involved Spanish punters, and this week a number of information sites published accounts of the exchanges, which took place in Barcelona over a two day period. With the first Spanish licenses due to be issued within the next week or so, interest in the Pokerstars position is […]