June 1, 2017
PokerStars has opened its second office in Quay West, Douglas on the Isle of Man which will accommodate up to 41 members of staff to support its continued expansion in online casino and sports betting. The new office, which already houses twenty employees, was opened by the Isle of Man’s Chief Minister Howard Quayle MHK, […]
June 1, 2017
The Microgaming Poker Network’s (MPN) Festival of Speed is set to kick off June 8, 2017 combining fast-paced action across a multitude of poker variants. The promotion, running until June 25, 2017 offers a series of Super Turbo tournaments, Turbo and Super Turbo Sit & Gos, and the return of its Blazing Cannon mini-game within […]
June 1, 2017
30-year-old Russian local, Pavel Shirshikov, has outplayed a field of 387 to win the inaugural PokerStars Championship Sochi Main Event title and RUB 29.1 million (approx. $515,000), the single largest score of his career. Shirshikov dominated the final table, emerging victorious from heads up play with Vladimir Troyanovsky. “My friends were believing in me more […]
May 31, 2017
888poker has made its turbo-BLAST even faster with the launch of Fast BLAST SNGs. Time is up after just two-minutes of play with buy-ins ranging from 10 cents to $30. A special $100 buy-in BLAST tournament offers punters the same max prize-pool multiplier as the lower buy-ins effectively putting a $1 million jackpot prize within […]
May 30, 2017
The 2017 48th World Series of Poker will get underway later today (Tuesday) and run for the next forty-nine days at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Nearly 500 poker tables have been set up across more than 100,000 square-feet of ballroom space to accommodate players from around the world who […]
May 29, 2017
partypoker have launched Diamond Club, the top VIP level of its new Cashback Loyalty Programme, which will reward members with at least 50 percent rake back and other VIP bonuses. Membership is conditional on players’ commitment to earning 100,000 points ($100,000) over a 12 month period across any poker game type including MTTs, Ring Games, […]
May 28, 2017
French gaming regulator, ARJEL, in its latest quarterly sector report, revealed an online poker liquidity sharing agreement is imminent among select European Union regulatory bodies including Spain, Portugal and Italy. ARJEL expects agreements to be inked in June 2017, however, implementation would only begin with software technical standards testing submissions, at the earliest, in September […]
May 25, 2017
Amaya Inc.’s PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) has reached a series of all-time-high’s with the total prize pool of $93.8 million surpassing its original $55 million series guarantee. Interesting take aways as the 2017 series winds down include: Total prize pool of $93.8 million exceeded last year’s $91 million prize pool. The Main […]
May 24, 2017
Mike Shanahan has taken down the 2017 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event which attracted a record field of 1,066 entries, the largest in Michigan poker tournament history. The prize pool tripled its guarantee of $300,000 to reach $1,032,520. Shanahan, an attorney from Indiana, said he was elated at the win after […]
May 24, 2017
UK poker pro Charlie “Epiphany77” Carrel has walked away with a $1,200,899.97 prize having won the Spring Championship of Online Poker(SCOOP) – $10,300 NLHE Main Event. Defeating a field of 574 entries and 119 re-entries that generated a prize pool of $6,930,000, Carrel entered the main event final the lowest in chips but emerged victorious […]