March 4, 2012
Smappsoft, the games developer that brought the popular 13 Card Chinese Poker app to the screens of many poker players, both pro and amateur, has announced its latest release, which it describes as ‘Pokertini – video poker with a twist.’ The Wicked Chops poker information site did some digging on the bankruptcy filing of Federated […]
March 4, 2012
Just a week after picking up GBP29,132 in the European Poker Tour competition in Copenhagen, US pro Steve O’Dwyer has taken down the World Poker Tour Vejle at the Casino Munkebjerg Vejle in Denmark. 289 entrants ponied up $2,175 apiece to play in the event, raising a prize pool of around $572,220, but after three […]
March 4, 2012
Full Tilt Poker started it with the Rush Poker concept, and Pokerstars has recently made moves into this popular style of poker with Zoom Poker…now it appears that other major brands are considering offering their own variations. The basic concept is for a player to immediately be whisked off to a fresh table when he […]
March 3, 2012
The Poker Pack network, launched by B3W last August with flagship site Yachting Poker, reports that it has added another three operators to its tally. Black Stack Poker, B4 Poker and The Poker Barrel are the new arrivals on the network, which supports Texas Hold?em, Omaha and Stud games, with hi/lo variants, at cash tables […]
March 3, 2012
He’s back with a vengeance…the mercurial Swedish internet poker ace Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom has had an on-and-off sort of year online so far – down overall around $600,000 – but he was back in the big money on the Pokerstars high stakes virtual tables Thursday, crushing the opposition and ending his session up $577,000. Playing […]
March 3, 2012
Major US gambling corporates favouring a federal solution to the legalisation of online poker will be disappointed with the position taken this week by the National Conference of State Legislatures, which has suggested to Congress that the decision to legalise – or not – falls under states’ rights. Widespread reportage on the issue originated with […]
March 2, 2012
Online poker publisher Bluff Magazine has unveiled its latest Power 20 list of the most influential people in the poker business internationally, as assessed by 51 poker industry insiders ranging from online operators, casino executives, media, players, agents and other opinion makers. This year’s list at http://news.bluffmagazine.com/the-2012-bluff-power-20-pokers-most-influential-people-26246/ notes the impact of Black Friday, and the […]
March 2, 2012
The case of the London-based terrorism supporter Tariq Al-Dour was recalled this week at the RSA conference in San Francisco, a gathering of top cybersecurity experts exchanging views on how to track and catch hackers, card thieves, money launderers and other Internet evil-doers. Our readers will recall that Al-Dour was nailed some years back for […]
March 1, 2012
Writing on his Chiliblog Thursday, Chili Gaming founder and chief Alexandre Dreyfus announced that his Playtech-iPoker-powered site ChiliPoker.com is closing following a merger with fellow iPoker site Poker770. The abrupt announcement, aimed primarily at affiliate marketers, advised that the change was being made immediately: “Dear Affiliate,” the announcement commenced. “Following the exciting news about Chiligaming […]
March 1, 2012
Still in the middle of its inaugural season of operations and barely a year after launch, the Epic Poker League announced Wednesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The League’s owner, Los Angeles-based Federated Sports + Gaming, issued a statement confirming the filing, with executive chairman Jeffrey Pollack advising: “There is no easy […]