December 27, 2016
Following licensing and regulatory developments in the Indian provinces of Sikkim and Nagaland (see previous reports) it appears that the game of poker is gathering momentum in India, and this week saw the announcement of a new poker league featuring 12 teams of nine players each. Titled Poker Sports League, the venture is scheduled for […]
December 25, 2016
Several players owed winnings from the PPC Aruba World Championships played in November have engaged legal representation to demand payment by end December of their still outstanding winnings. The players all finished in the top six positions of the competition, winning substantial sums of money but to date have been paid only $10,000 each, with […]
December 24, 2016
Pokerstars online player ‘Korpieworm’ collected an early Yuletide present this week when he picked up a $1 million in the fourth million dollar Spin & Go jackpot awarded in 2016. Two other players at his $100 table, ‘carlmurr’ and ‘korrupt911’, collected $100,000 each. The game lasted just 48 hands and took just over ten minutes […]
December 23, 2016
Pokerstars has launched a new mini game that it claims offers poker players chances to win big for a small price. Titled The Deal, the game was pioneered on sister site Full Tilt, and proved popular. It is a quick-fire poker mini game where spending as little as 7 StarsCoin gives players the chance to […]
December 22, 2016
According to Multichannel News, Poker Central will not renew its Pay TV contracts due to close at the end of this month. The TV channel’s “linear programming stream” is reportedly shutting down while its app content live streaming from the existing network will also end, the report details. A playlist of Poker Central programmes will […]
December 22, 2016
888Poker is investing a million dollars in prize pool guarantees in a special edition of its popular fast-moving BLAST Sit and Go competitions starting on December 26, offering players an opportunity to win considerably more than the 10,000 x their stakes usually on offer. BLAST is played on four-handed tables and the prize pool is […]
December 21, 2016
Football superstar and PokerStars brand ambassador Cristiano Ronaldo stars in the latest advertising campaign from the company to hit TV screens across his home nation of Portugal recently. The campaign, called ‘The Game’, features Ronaldo commanding the poker table with a group of friends and marks the launch of PokerStars as a licensed operator into […]
December 20, 2016
Notorious Brit poker motor mouth William Kassouf has finally managed a solid live tournament High Roller win, but due to a chop he took home less than his second placed rival. Kassouth reportedly secured a seat in the Euro 10,300 European Poker Tour Prague High Roller competition through a Euro 1,600 satellite, according to his […]
December 20, 2016
The organisers of the world’s top poker festival – the World Series of Poker – have published the preliminary details for next year’s edition, the 48th year of the tournament. The 2017 competition starts on Tuesday May 30 at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and will again include gold bracelet events, satellites, […]
December 20, 2016
With its absorption into the new “poker festival” structure of tournaments at Pokerstars, this year’s European Poker Tour Prague was the last under that brand, and 29-year-old Dutch pro Jasper Meijer van Putten made the event his own in the Czech capital this week. He survived a record field of 1,192 entrants in the Euro […]