April 27, 2012
A person or persons presently unknown apparently hacked the forums at the informed and popular poker message board twoplustwo this week, causing management to shut forum operations down temporarily. Management informed members: “On April 26th at approximately 11:20 AM pacific time, the Two Plus Two Forums were closed as a result of a hacker who […]
April 27, 2012
Being a front man for major companies is not all it’s cracked up to be on occasions, as former Aussie cricket star Shane Warne discovered this week when a 888Poker.com advertisement backfired. The Sunday Telegraph reports that Warne is embroiled in controversy after advertisements for 888 online poker – for which he is a celebrity […]
April 26, 2012
Rep Joe Barton’s H.R.2366 Bill on Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2011 has gained another three co-sponsors. Rep Mark Amodei (R-NV), Rep Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) and Rep Adam Smith (D-WA) are the latest to add their names to the bill currently before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland […]
April 26, 2012
The European Poker Tour will be slimmed down in season 9, with the current 13 stops cut to just 8, according to a Pokerstars notification this week. However, there will be no shortage of action, thanks to partnerships with the Estrellas Poker and the UK and Ireland Poker Tours. The new season, which starts in […]
April 26, 2012
The frequently controversial but now hopefully settled internet and live tourney poker pro Justin Bonomo (26) proved he has what it takes Wednesday, taking home the main prize in the Pokerstars and Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Super High Roller tourney against formidable opposition, and boosting his already impressive career earnings by a further Euro […]
April 26, 2012
Under the threat of legal action last week data-mining company Poker Table Ratings dropped stats from the giant operator Pokerstars (see previous report) and this week a similar site, Poker-Edge, has followed suit. The companies have in the past made a business of selling data from poker operators to players looking for an advantage. On […]
April 26, 2012
Rumours of a federal online poker legalisation bill emerging from an unlikely Democrat – Republican partnership between Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada and Jon Kyl of Arizona have been circulating for at least a year or more, but this week again surfaced. According to sources who claim to have been briefed on the collaborative effort, […]
April 25, 2012
The application for a Class 2 Alderney Gaming Control Commission licence submitted recently by Full Tilt Poker subsidiary Orinic Limited (see previous reports) was taken by many in the industry as an indicator that FTP was about to be resurrected by Groupe Bernard Tapie, but that has all changed this week with Tapie’s withdrawal from […]
April 25, 2012
With rumours of a Full Tilt Poker takeover by Pokerstars still reverberating around the online poker industry late Tuesday evening, a Pokerstars spokesman stepped up to give an official company comment on the twoplustwo message board and the firm’s blog. Eric Hollreiser, head of corporate communications for PokerStars, said in the brief statement: “We’ve had […]
April 25, 2012
Groupe Bernard Tapie regrets to announce that, after seven months of intensive work, our efforts to obtain final approval of the United States Department of Justice of the agreement to acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker have ended without success. Ultimately, the deal failed due to two major issues. * The parties could not […]