January 11, 2017
Pokerstars has invested $15 million in prize pool guarantees over 65 tourneys in its fifth annual iteration of the Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP). In past years the principal events in this popular series have attracted fields in excess of 4,000 entrants, tempted by prizes up to six-figures in value. Last year Dinesh “NastyMinder” […]
January 11, 2017
High profile and respected poker pro Mike “Timex” McDonald has revealed details of his new PokerShares online enterprise, where users can buy stakes in any poker player, in any tournament along with a range of other betting services that includes creating prop bets, betting on friends or other players, and in short gamble on anything […]
January 10, 2017
American poker pro Bryn Kenney has won the PokerStars Championship Bahamas $50K Single Day High Roller for $969,075 following closely after his final table seventh finish in the $100K High Roller a couple of days ago in which he pocketed $275,000. Kenney practically mirrored his performance in the last PCA Bahamas this time last year, […]
January 10, 2017
Look up Paul “MalACEsia’ Phua on Google and you will find reams of reports on his 11 month fight against a questionable FBI online sports betting sting operation in Las Vegas several years ago (see previous reports) which ended in the prosecution withdrawing the charges after an expensive investigation that crossed the line on enforcement […]
January 10, 2017
Online poker provider PartyPoker is maintaining its promotional push, launching PartyPoker LIVE Monday, a new live tour series titled PartyPoker Million, with each event on the schedule carrying a $5,000 buy-in and guaranteed multi-million dollar prize pools. The launch follows the announcement of the PartyPoker $11 million boxing-themed Pokerfest last week and the GBP 6 […]
January 9, 2017
Poker agency, Poker Players International (PPI) will launch a new real-money poker destination, in partnership with Tain, to non-U.S. residents in legal jurisdictions. The marketing services and player representation company believes its history ensures it will be able deliver exactly what poker players want. “We couldn’t be more excited about the team we’ve assembled and […]
January 9, 2017
US poker pro Jason Koon (31) continued his winning High Roller competition ways this weekend by taking home his biggest win yet, the $1,650,300 main prize in the $100,000 buy-in PokerStars Championship Bahamas Super High Roller at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas. Koon, since 2009 a regular competitor in the PokerStars Caribbean […]
January 6, 2017
The festive season – and especially the milestone hand promotion, enabled Pokerstars NJ (New Jersey) to achieve its highest cash game levels yet, according to the publication Online Poker Report. Pokerstars NJ launched in March last year and produced results initially thought by many as disappointing in the New Jersey regulated online poker market. However, […]
January 5, 2017
Scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University have renewed their challenge to poker pros, this time Jason Les, Dong Kim, Daniel McAulay and Jimmy Chou, to tangle with their latest AI poker robot Libratus with a prize of $200,000 for the winner. our readers will recall that in a 2015 competition between human professional players and […]
December 28, 2016
The operations of Celebrity Poker, an Indian-facing online poker site launched amid considerable hype in September 2016 by Brit businessman Raj Kundra and his wife, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty Kundra, appear to have been discontinued, with the site no longer accessible. Media reports indicate that Kundra, who has not yet issued a statement on the […]