May 22, 2012
With the main event settled and the final registration numbers in, Pokerstars revealed Monday that this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has broken records and can be classed as a major success. The remarkable performance was achieved despite the harsh economic climate everywhere and the decimated US online poker market following Black Friday. […]
May 21, 2012
US online poker pro Shaun Deeb, who reportedly plays from Mexico following the Black Friday debacle in his homeland, has reason to be on top of the world this week after clinching his fourth win in the 2012 Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker. The young American has scored 4 wins on eight final tables […]
May 20, 2012
Still recovering from its abandonment of the Full Tilt Poker acquisition deal (see previous reports), Groupe Bernard Tapie has announced the postponement of its ambitious International Stadium Poker Tour Wembley project until end May next year. Originally planned for the new Wembley stadium near London towards the end of this year (see previous reports) the […]
May 18, 2012
Merge Poker Network flagship site Carbon Poker has announced that it will be launching the new version 6.0 software on June 1st, giving players new and improved facilities. Among the enhancements is a new filter that enables players to manipulate the games list to individual preferences. The first is a quick ‘selector’ style filtering which […]
May 18, 2012
Online gambling software and games developer World Match maintained its ambitious monthly games release program this week by launching two new single hand video poker products: Super Las Vegas and The Saloon. The theme for Super Las Vegas is pretty obviously that gambling city and its bright lights, whilst The Saloon is clearly inspired by […]
May 17, 2012
Following the Stan James plc announcement earlier this week that it is introducing speed poker through a new Microgaming product branded Blaze Poker (see previous report), Microgaming has released more information on the product, which it formally launched Thursday. The innovative features of Blaze Poker will allow poker players to join a ?pool? rather than […]
May 17, 2012
Cura?ao-licenced poker room Gutshot.com has migrated from the iPoker Network to Merge Gaming and Italian-focused network ENet following the news that iPoker had splitting out the larger poker brands from the rest of the skins under consideration, reports poker information site PokerFuse. The company’s recently acquired Dutch-facing poker room pokerhuis.com has also made the network […]
May 16, 2012
The Betsafe online gambling group has become the latest to licence Relax Gaming’s version of high speed poker, Fast Poker. The notification included an intriguing reference to a new Heads Up addition to the Relax product, although this does not yet appear to be operational. Poker experts point out that fast-fold at heads up would […]
May 16, 2012
If you were wondering how Laurent Tapie’s attempt to poach key Full Tilt Poker staff for a new French online poker venture went, the online information site Gaming Intelligence had the answer this week, reporting that most of the Dublin-based managers approached have declined the offer. Laurent Tapie, the CEO of Groupe Bernard Tapie, which […]
May 16, 2012
Pokerstars’ formal real money launch of its speed poker product Zoom Poker this week was preceded by extensive testing in beta format, the company has revealed, disclosing that over 300 million hands were played in the two month public test phase, and millions more whilst the product was in development. The effort has been worthwhile, […]