October 16, 2017
Ourgame International Holdings, the Hong Kong-based corporate that acquired World Poker Tour two years ago from Bwin for $35 million, has announced plans for a share subscription scheme to raise HK$416,000 (GBP 40.2 million). The proceeds will be used to expand WPT operations along with those of eSports subsidiary Allied Esports International in the region, […]
October 16, 2017
The business publication Forbes reported over the weekend that Americas Cardroom subsidiary Winning Poker Network is about to expand its current acceptance of Bitcoin to embrace around 60 other cyber currencies. WPN started accepting Bitcoin as a currency in 2014, and a spokesman told Forbes that it has thus far received very positive feedback […]
October 14, 2017
Big news from the United States Friday is that New Jersey has joined the Delaware and Nevada online player sharing pact originally signed by the latter two states in 2014 (see previous reports). Players in all three states will now be able to compete against each other as part of the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement […]
October 11, 2017
Online poker provider PokerStars is reportedly recruiting artificial intelligence (AI) specialists in an effort to create a “fully flexible” AI agent. Personnel ads flighted by the company indicate that it is planning to create a number of different programs using artificial intelligence “which will learn how to play” poker and possibly other games, and could […]
October 9, 2017
The second edition of Poker Night in America’s King of the Hill knockout tournament completed over the weekend with US poker pro Oliver Busquet taking home $200,000 after besting Parker “TonkaaaaP” Talbot after just two rounds of a scheduled best-of-three contest. The finals took place at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with Talbot and Busquet […]
October 5, 2017
Just a month ago US poker pro Art Papazyan bested Phil Hellmuth heads-up to win the sixteenth WPT Legends event for $669,000, and this week he was back in the news with another WPT victory, this one worth $389,405 in the WPT Maryland Live! main event. The field of 561 generated a prize pool around […]
October 3, 2017
The Euro 1,100 buy-in PokerStars Festival Dublin main event has been won by 29-year-old local pro Gary McGinty, who held the chip lead for the final two days of the competition but played it safe with a 4-way chop anyway. The event attracted a field of 544 players, creating a prize pool of Euro 681,720, […]
September 30, 2017
World Poker Tour and the European division of Allied Esports, ELC Gaming have announced a partnership that will integrate poker and eSports in a competition scheduled for Holland Casino in the Netherlands during the WPTDeepStacks series running between October 9-15 in Valkenburg this year. The schedule includes several integrated poker and eSports events supported by […]
September 30, 2017
Oklahoma governor Eddie Hamilton has filed litigation on behalf of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, alleging that Florida businessman Fred “Prince Fred” Khalilian and his business partners at Universal Entertainment Group cheated the tribes out of $9.45 million for the Pokertribe.com gaming website, which was never fully functional. “The transactions were marked by deceit, greed […]
September 29, 2017
Another chapter in the long-running Indian online poker industry dispute between Quadrific Media Pvt. Ltd. and online entrepreneur and former Quadrific director Rajat Agarwal closed this week when the World Intellectual Property Organisation rejected Quadrific’s bid to stop Agarwal from using the Spartan Poker brand. Earlier this year Agarwal filed litigation against Quadrific and four […]