January 30, 2017
944 entries were recorded for the GBP990 buy-in PokerStars Festival London main event, which played out in Leicester Square’s Hippodrome Casino over the weekend. At the four-handed stage survivors Rehman Kassam, Daniel Harwood, Eric Cech and Yuriy Boyko paused to discuss a chop but were unable to reach agreement, and play resumed. Boyko subsequently busted […]
January 29, 2017
US poker pro Nick Petrangelo continued on his 2017 winning journey this weekend by emerging victorious in the $100,000 buy-in Aussie Millions NLHE Challenge competition, besting a field of 18 to claim the A$882,000 main prize. It was Petrangelo’s third big cash this year, with deep finishes in the PokerStars Championship Bahamas $25,000 high roller […]
January 27, 2017
The PokerStars deployment of sports superstars in its competitive #raiseit social media campaign ends on a high note this week after a successful six-challenge run that attracted an impressive 87 million views. The final challenge, dubbed Aerial Duel, pits Team PokerStars SportStar Cristiano Ronaldo against renowned basketball player Dwyane Wade in a display of outstanding […]
January 27, 2017
The importance of the online medium for international poker has again been illustrated by the release of the latest World Series of Poker schedule, which sees the number of online events boosted to three. The next edition of WSOP starts in May this year (see previous InfoPowa reports) with 74 bracelet events in all, and […]
January 27, 2017
The latest move in the PokerStars strategy to make recreational poker an enjoyable and fair experience was launched this week on PokerStars.es in the form of Seat Me, software designed to shield casual players from being preyed upon by far more experienced and well-equipped professional players…a practice known in the poker community as “bum hunting.” […]
January 27, 2017
The GBP 2,200 buy-in High Roller at the Pokerstars Festival London has concluded, although it took an extra day to do so amid some tough competitive action, and a two-player chop at the finish. 178 players entered the event at the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square, distilling to a final table that took six hours […]
January 26, 2017
Grosvenor Casinos’ GUKPT is returning this year for its 11th consecutive season, kicking off with a first leg at the iconic ‘The Poker Room’, located above Grosvenor Casino Victoria, situated on London’s bustling Edgware Road. The UK’s longest running premier poker tour returns for 2017 with a schedule to whet the appetite of a diversity […]
January 26, 2017
Virginia Senator Louise Lucas, who introduced bill S.1400 earlier this month (see previous report) enjoyed early success this week when the Senate General Laws and Technology Committee progressed her bill, albeit on a thin margin of 8 votes to 7. But, progress is progress; this is just the first hurdle as state law requires that […]
January 25, 2017
The scientifically monitored poker competition between four respected professional poker players and Carnegie Mellon University’s Libratus artificial intelligence computer program continued to illustrate this week how far the technology has progressed over previous man vs. computer contests. Poker pros Jimmy Chou, Dong Kim, Jason Les and Daniel McAulay are struggling to contain the program, which […]
January 24, 2017
Pokerstars has advised that beginning next month it will require players to use a new lobby display in its client, adopting the new “filter” view, which many are already using as a default option. The operator is ringing the changes to more easily add updates to the lobby in the future, a spokesman said this […]