May 13, 2010
The Cereus poker network continues to update interested parties on its latest software issue (see previous report), using a question-and-answer blog at blog.ultimatebet.com for the purpose. The company has reported that SSL technology is currently being used for encrypting certain data, such as player login credentials and all financial information. This does not extend to […]
May 13, 2010
Online poker provider Pokerstars has released details of the seventh edition of its popular Europe-facing live poker tournament series, the European Poker Tour. Starting on August 11th in Talinn, Estonia, the tour will make a total of twelve stops and offer multi-million Euro prize pools. In the sixth edition, the EPT generated well over Euro […]
May 12, 2010
The Q1/2010 results from Vienna-listed online gambling giant Bwin this week illustrated the value that the online poker activities of recent acquisition Gioco Digitale brings to the group. If the Gioco contribution is separated from the general poker results, Bwin poker revenues fell 17.3 percent to Euro 25.8 million, compared to quarter one/2009. The decline […]
May 12, 2010
Colorado poker fans have just been dealt a losing hand, reports The Denver Post, noting that the Colorado Supreme Court has declined without comment to review a lower court’s decision that poker is considered gambling under state law. The case dates from 2008 following a probe by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation of a $20 […]
May 12, 2010
With the prospect of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act regulations coming into force on June 1st, the Poker Players Alliance has petitioned the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Board to clarify that the Act’s definition of illegal gambling does not include peer-to-peer games such as poker. The petition is addressed to Treasury Secretary […]
May 12, 2010
Online poker provider Party Poker.com’s marketers have come up with an irresistible poker incentive – a main event World Series of Poker package for life. A company spokesman said this week: “This unbelievable package is every poker player’s dream prize as they don’t have to worry about qualifying for the Main Event ever again – […]
May 12, 2010
The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has sounded a note of caution for players regarding the encryption issues which surfaced late last week at the Cereus Poker Network. In a statement Tuesday, the Commission noted that the mechanism used by Cereus for network transmissions contained the “potential for player gaming data to be improperly accessed under certain […]
May 10, 2010
Poker organisers Diane Alice Dent and Walter Leroy Watkins have to be among the most determined fighters for poker to be recognised as a game where skill is more important than chance; the duo’s case could now be headed for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The couple, who were accused in 2008 of running a poker […]
May 9, 2010
The developer of one of the most popular poker apps on internet social gaming sites, San Francisco-based Zynga, is gearing up to launch its own website in addition to making its games available on major social gaming websites. The usually well-informed publication Techcrunch broke the news as last week came to a close, noting that […]
May 8, 2010
The management at Cereus online poker network owners Tokwiro Enterprises must have groaned in dismay just before the weekend as news broke that a new software flaw had been uncovered at the network, comprised of the Absolute Poker and UltimateBet websites. The two online poker sites have historically been the setting for online poker’s biggest […]