May 26, 2012
The Isle of Man-based online poker operator Pokerstars has been selected as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces by The Great Place to Work Institute, one of the world’s largest consultancies specialising in workplace assessment and enhancement, reports the business publication Nachtrichten. The Institute annually surveys employees and performs a cultural audit of some 5,500 […]
May 25, 2012
The marketing and advertising publication The Drum reports that PokerStars is targeting consumers with an outdoor advertising campaign to promote its new mobile app, targeting the 5.3 million railway passengers on the UK’s Southern Railway network over a four-week period. With a “Pray for a Delay” strapline, the ads are specifically designed to appeal to […]
May 24, 2012
In a move clearly timed to coincide with the advent of the World Series of Poker next week, 3D online poker operator PKR has launched a new Facebook-friendly app that enables users to select their own fantasy poker team for the industry’s biggest poker championship, and share it with their friends. Players are given a […]
May 24, 2012
Almost eclipsing the ongoing Purple Lounge – Media Corp debacle this week (see previous reports) is the long-running saga of similarly LGA-licensed Everleaf Gaming, a small network comprising a number of mainly anonymous skins that has been accused of slow-pay behaviour generally, and leaving US players in particular in the lurch. It’s now been months […]
May 23, 2012
A million dollar sponsored seat in poker’s most expensive poker tournament, the World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop (see previous reports) has been won by a Montreal player competing with 57 others in the $25,000 Grand Tournoi de Poker Loto-Quebec satellite tournament. The winner, Carlos Nahas, was playing courtesy of a friend, […]
May 23, 2012
Internet high stakes poker ace Dan “Jungleman” Cates (22) is to repeat his generous offer last year of a $10,000 buy-in for the World Series of Poker main event and ancillary expenses such as air travel and hotel accommodation; this year it will go to an individual who organises or performs a good deed. Jungleman […]
May 22, 2012
Just days after announcing its move to the Enet and Merge Networks, Gutshot Poker and its new Dutch acquisition Pokerhuis have announced speed poker operations on Per Hildebrand’s Instadeal network. On April 16, Gutshot chief exec Barry Martin announced that his company had moved from iPoker to the Enet and Merge networks and would consider […]
May 22, 2012
The latest weekly assessment of the online poker global market released by independent monitor Pokerscout shows a 3.4 percent decline in traffic over the week, but a more worrying year-on-year continued slide of around 19 percent across the board. “The market as a whole continues to show signs of contraction,” Pokerscout observes. “Last week’s traffic […]
May 22, 2012
Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley, who has entered a guilty plea on charges under the Black Friday indictments (see previous reports) will have to wait a little longer to hear what his punishment is to be. The presiding judge, Lewis Kaplan, has postponed sentencing from May 21 to June 28, 2012. Media reporters started digging […]
May 22, 2012
Nick Grippo, an online poker pro from Chicago, had to move to Costa Rica in order to keep playing after Black Friday, but the move enabled him to play in the main event of the Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker over the weekend, and on Monday he emerged victorious, taking home the title, an […]