January 2, 2018
Online poker room Tower Torneos has gone live on the MPN network, moving its online poker operation having already experienced working with Microgaming through the Quickfire online casino games platform. In a statement Tuesday Horacio Santoianni, operations director at Tower Torneos, said: “Working with the Microgaming team is a real pleasure, and the success of […]
January 2, 2018
Top international female player Vanessa Selbst (33) has amassed live poker earnings alone of $11,851,384 in a sparkling, 12-year-long poker career, but has decided to call it a day. In a Facebook and Twitter announcement the MIT and Yale law graduate revealed that she is severing her Pokerstars obligations and moving in a fresh direction […]
December 31, 2017
The latest overall poker revenue figures for November 2017 (the state’s statistics do not differentiate live from online poker) show that poker revenues from 62 state cardrooms and the single online poker operator raked a combined $8.9 million last month, a marginal growth of 0.44 percent year on year, and the seventh consecutive month of […]
December 27, 2017
Martin Jacobson, the winner of the 2014 World Series of Poker main event and one of the most respected and successful players in the world, has signed as an ambassador for online poker provider 888Poker following a number of successful collaborations with the company.. He joins other well-known players who have signed with 888Poker, including […]
December 26, 2017
One the earlier Bitcoin-denominated online casino and poker sites, Betcoin, has informed players at short notice that it is to shutter its online poker element, apparently following a change of ownership. It appears that online casino, live dealer and sports betting operations will continue however. The notification advised that the change of ownership (the new […]
December 25, 2017
The Tencent-sponsored inaugural World Series of Poker China main event concluded on December 22 with an amateur player taking the winner’s bracelet and the equivalent of US$367,000 main prize after seven days of tough poker action. Zhou Yun Peng, an amateur player from the Hebei province of China, dominated the closing stages of the final […]
December 23, 2017
The Los Angeles-based online gambling group World Poker Fund Holdings, Inc., which describes itself as “a developer and operator of online and event-based social gaming platforms and brands,” has announced its acquisition of a Spanish online gambling licence. InfoPowa readers may recall that the company (whose share price is currently below 60 cents) has boasted […]
December 21, 2017
Go big or go home seems to be the motto for PartyPoker’s promotional team judging by the announcement this week that the company is to make an industry record investment of $20 million in its Million Online project next year. The announcement come off the back of a very successful Million Online tournament just two […]
December 19, 2017
UK players in the 18 to 24 age group believe they are the best at playing poker – that’s just one of the findings coming out of a survey of more than 2,000 players conducted by Grosvenor Casinos. The organisers believe the study is the biggest of its type in the last decade, covering gaming […]
December 19, 2017
French recreational player Kalidou Sow showed remarkable discipline, control and skill in Prague this week, and was rewarded with a win in the Euro 5,300 buy-in Pokerstars Championships Prague main event following a chop at the heads up stage. Shrugging off the trash talk thrown at him by his heads up opponent, Jason Wheeler, Sow […]