November 8, 2008
The Swedish online poker network provider Entraction has delivered a positive quarter three report showing net sales up SEK 29.3 million up at SEK 86.2 million, and an operating profit of SEK 13.5 million compared to the same quarter last year when a SEK 100 000 loss was recorded. Poker revenues contributed most of the […]
November 8, 2008
Sunday November 9th sees a resumption of the World Series of Poker spectacular, with the start of final table action delayed since July to extract maximum television impact for ESPN. The nine surviving players from a field of thousands that were gradually whittled away in seven days of hectic poker have arrived in Las Vegas […]
November 7, 2008
World Poker Tour Enterprises and Full Tilt Poker.net have signed an exclusive television sponsorship deal, aligning televised poker entertainment and online poker. The deal, which WPT claims is based on a unique sponsorship model for the sports and entertainment television industry, further boosts WPTE’s sponsorship business. Under the agreement, Full Tilt Poker.net receives title sponsorship […]
November 6, 2008
The expulsion of NextPoker.com from the Ongame poker network looks set to generate more income for the legal profession, with the poker website owners, Abbantina Malta Limited, considering legal action against the network for accusing it of rakeback violations Abbantina issued a statement this week saying that the Ongame allegations that it indulged in repeated […]
November 6, 2008
Full Tilt Poker.com traffic has recently soared to new heights, probably due to the start of the tenth edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, which this time around is offering $15 million in guaranteed prize pools. According to independent poker-tracking statistics the average number of players per 24 hour period reached the 9 […]
November 5, 2008
The Ontario Superior Court ruling earlier this week that Excapsa should contribute to refunds to players prejudiced by its rigged software could mean more breathing space for UltimateBet as it tries to comply with Kahnawake Gaming Commission deadlines. On September 29 this year, following an independent investigation by online gambling regulation expert Frank Catania, the […]
November 5, 2008
World Poker Tour Enterprises released its performance figures for the third quarter ended September 28, 2008 this week, portraying a continued disappointing decline in revenues to $2.8 million, a marked decrease when compared with the same period in 2007, when $4.4 million was achieved. CEO Steve Lipscomb said the decline was primarily the result of […]
November 5, 2008
Posters at several online poker forums are this week discussing the new PokerStars.com ban on player aid SharkScope’s database website and its ancillary Heads Up Display software. The discussion is unlikely to lead to any reconsideration of the policy decision, which consigns Sharkscope to a list of some 42 other programs that the giant online […]
November 4, 2008
In Canada, The National Post reported at length Tuesday on an important Ontario Superior Court judgement in a civil action tied to the UltimateBet “hole card” cheating scandal which saw thousands of online poker players cheated out of millions of dollars whilst using software that was developed by Excapsa. With a former Ontario premier and […]
November 4, 2008
The big online poker tournaments last Sunday once again illustrated the continued keen interest in playing the game on the Internet, with several winning players taking home six figure payments. The regular industry biggie – the PokerStars Sunday Million – soared past its guaranteed prize-pool level of $1.5 million as 7 836 players bought in, […]