February 15, 2017
Online poker provider Pokerstars has set up a select US player group to put its latest new product through its paces in an Alpha test. The new product, branded Power Up, is based on the NLHE game and gives players special powers, creating a game that offers a combination of traditional poker injected with special […]
February 15, 2017
Figures from the US-based social gaming giant Zynga show that the company’s decade-old free-play app Zynga Poker grew 44 percent in 2016. The parent group additionally reported revenue of $190.5 million in the fourth quarter – up 3 percent on the same quarter in 2015, reaching total FY 2016 revenue of $741 million. Zynga CEO […]
February 15, 2017
Quebec poker pro Ema Zajmovic became the the first female player to win an open-field World Poker Tour title this week when she bested a field of 380 to claim the first prize of Cdn$ 261,000 in the Partypoker.net WPT Playground main event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. Her prize includes a seat […]
February 14, 2017
Pokerstars spokesman Sam Woods has advised that Pokerstars.cz will be launching on Thursday February 16 following its pioneering achievement of Czech Republic licensing in January this year (see previous reports). In a press statement, Woods said: “Czech players were last night contacted by email with instructions on how to cashout their existing funds. Czech regulation […]
February 8, 2017
Following discussions between New York Assembly gambling committee chairman Rep. Gary Pretlow and the neighbouring New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement regulator, A05250 was introduced to the Assembly earlier this week. The bill, sponsored by Pretlow, is described the “same as” S03898, a bill re-submitted earlier this month to the legislature by State Senator John […]
February 7, 2017
PokerStars has released a schedule of additional stops pertaining to its 2017 Championship and Festival tours. After debut events in New Jersey, London and the Bahamas, PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival 2017 will also visit Panama and the Czech Republic in March, South Korea, Macau and Monaco in April, Chile in May, Spain in June […]
February 7, 2017
The stars were certainly aligned for Daniel Weinman who won his first World Poker Tour title in the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship on his twenty-ninth birthday. Weinman bested a record breaking field of 1,312 to win the life changing amount of $892,433, his biggest career win to date, pushing him […]
February 7, 2017
Thirty-five of the fifty-four players who registered to play in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino were selected through a lottery process by Aria’s director of poker operations, Monday. The $300,000 buy-in event, which is billed as the richest poker event of 2017, is due to run May 28 […]
February 2, 2017
Online poker player ‘maxv2’, who won the PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) 2017 $215 Main Event for $489,075.72, has topped the largest prize winner of the series list as well as the all time list of biggest TCOOP prizes ever won. The series attracted more than 215,000 entries in total, generating a record […]
February 2, 2017
PartyPoker has announced the appointment of former chief executive officer and founder of the European Poker Tour as president of its new live global poker tour, PartyPoker Live. Duthie started his career as a television director, subsequently founded the EPT and is an avid poker player who has earned around $3.2 million in live tournament […]