April 10, 2017
888Poker has developed a high profile magnet to get online poker fans into its satellite qualifiers for the next World Series of Poker…the company has put up the difference between the main event top prize and $10 million dollars as an add-on booster if it is won by a 888Poker satellite qualifier. 888 has dubbed […]
April 7, 2017
888poker has guaranteed a $10 million payout to the 888poker qualifier that wins the 2017 WSOP Main Event as part of its “Supersize ME” promotion. 888Poker will top up the regular WSOP winning payout to $10 million if the winner qualified through 888poker’s steps satellites for $0.01 or buy in directly to one of the […]
April 4, 2017
With players across the globe showing an appetite for online poker tournament action, 888Poker has joined Pokerstars, PartyPoker and Winamaxin offering increasingly larger guarantees on multi-event championships. 888 has revealed the schedule for XL Inferno, the latest in its Super XL Series, promising $7.5 million in guaranteed prizes across almost 200 events over two weeks, […]
February 16, 2017
888Poker has extended its partnership with the World Series of Poker for a further two years as exclusive online provider of WSOP qualifier satellites and promotions. “WSOP is delighted to have renewed our agreement with 888poker for the third year running,” Ty Stewart, WSOP Executive Director, commented. “We’ve seen 888poker really up the stakes in […]
January 13, 2017
Australian online punters will see another quality online gambling operator leave their shores on January 16 when 888Poker executes its decision to withdraw from the market due to federal legislative amendments to the Interactive Gaming Act and the threat of stiff enforcement action with harsh penalties for unlicensed operators. Players have been informed that they […]
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 7, 2016
888Poker is forging closer links with the booming eSports sector and the hundreds of millions of younger demographic fans that the activity attracts. In its latest move the company has inked a partnership deal with Flow Esports, a major Hearthstone online streamer that can boast 10,000 weekly viewers. A statement from 888 said it was […]
November 28, 2016
888Poker has invested $800,000 in a Christmas-focused promo that offers almost freeroll online poker competitions with expensive gifts rather than prize money as the reward. The “Gift Showers” promo provides players with the opportunity to win these gifts if they present tickets to enter the competition; the tickets are not hard to generate – players […]
October 24, 2016
A relatively unknown Hong Kong poker player, Ka Him Li (21), claimed victory after a two-way chop in the main event at the inaugural 888poker “Make It Big” live poker festival at the Aspers Casino in London over the weekend, earning the top prize of GBP 45,300. The event attracted 288 entries that included professionals […]
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 […]