October 11, 2016
PokerStars’ flagship online tournament series, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), has completed another record-breaking year with a guarantee-busting $73,718,745.19 total prize pool across 82 events from 4-27 September. This year PokerStars also launched a complementary series, Mini-WCOOP, offering low stakes entry into the WCOOP experience for the first time. Mini-WCOOP generated a total […]
October 7, 2016
888Poker continued to build powerful commercial alliances this week with the announcement that it has expanded its WSOP relationship by partnering with the World Series of Poker Circuit. The company will run satellites, enabling poker fans to win seats through online satellites; of the sixteen international stops on WSOP Circuit, 888Poker will exclusively offer satellite […]
October 6, 2016
Equity Poker Network management has issued a brief statement concerning its outage over the last few days (see previous report), revealing that it is engaged in switching to another as yet unnamed platform. The statement reads: “We are in the process of updating our gaming solutions to offer a new, more exciting platform to meet […]
October 6, 2016
IGT’s significant overhaul of its legacy Boss Media online poker software is attracting applause from many quarters and is reportedly a major improvement in terms of user-friendliness, data presentation and customisation capabilities. The overhaul improved both desktop and mobile versions of the product, in the latter resolving problems regarding lack of screen space and unwieldy […]
October 4, 2016
Pokerstars is to launch what it claims is the biggest New Jersey online poker tournament yet on October 15, investing $1.2 million in prize pools in a variety of events over the following 17 days. The 43-competition schedule includes a $500 buy-in Main Event, a $500 buy-in PLO High Roller event, and a $1,000 buy-in […]
October 3, 2016
Guy Laliberté’s upcoming water charity poker tournament Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza has attracted thirty-five commitments, organisers said Monday. The Euro 1,000,000 buy-in charity tournament is scheduled to take place at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco from October 14, 2016. Euro 111,111 from each buy-in goes to One Drop and Euro 888,889 goes directly into the […]
October 3, 2016
The PMU.fr World Poker Tour National Marrakech main event played out to both live and Twitch railbirds over the weekend as local pro player Rachid Rami outlasted a field of 396 to claim the $97,586 first prize. On the third and last day of the event, which was held in the stunning Es Saadi Resort, […]
October 3, 2016
Events over the weekend have left both industry observers and players at the Equity Poker Network wondering what’s going on following reports that flagship site Full Flush Poker and another site on the network branded Heritage sports and poker appear to have closed, with support reps explaining that a more than 72-hour shutdown of the […]
October 2, 2016
Reports in the French media indicate that one of the problems hobbling the French online poker industry – a ring-fenced market that prohibits player sharing with other nations – could be resolved in the near future. Our readers will recall that for some time now the French regulator ARJEL has been holding collaborative talks with other […]
September 30, 2016
Alex Dreyfus’s Global Poker League has received a significant boost from the announcement by Dreyfus’s Mediarex Sports and Entertainment company Friday that online poker’s biggest operator, Pokerstars, has signed on as lead and exclusive GPL sponsor. In a statement Friday, Dreyfus said that the deal reinforces Mediarex’s goal of transitioning poker from a player experience […]