Pokerfest Championship Edition starts this sunday

October 17, 2014

The Pokerfest Championship Edition, a 15-day online poker series at Party Poker kicks off this Sunday (October 19) and will present three levels of buy-ins for each of its 76 events, backed by a guaranteed $2 million prize pool. The company is already running satellite events online with buy-ins as low as a dollar. In […]

Major software improvements for New Jersey Party Poker

September 3, 2014

In preparation for the inaugural Garden State Super Series at New Jersey-regulated online poker site nj.partypoker.com, Bwin.Party has delivered a product release that makes significant improvements to the user experience and focuses on cage transfers, mobile geolocation, rebuys and add-ons, lobby and tournament tickets. The GSSS, which takes place September 7-21 alongside the televised WPT […]

New Jersey operator to launch three tier online poker tourney

August 18, 2014

PartyPoker’s New Jersey operation has published the schedule for its much-anticipated Garden State Super Series, promising a guaranteed prize pool of at least a million dollars, spread over sixty events in three tier buy-ins that will run from September 7 to September 21. With buy-ins designed to attract low, medium and bigger spenders, the tournament […]

French poker fans move to improved Party Poker software

May 31, 2014

Party Poker’s now not-so-new improved poker software – it was launched to .com sites nine months back – has at last been made available to French players using the three brands in the ring-fenced French market, PMU.fr, PartyPoker.fr and ACFPoker.fr. It should prove a popular development, giving French players access to the company’s acclaimed fast-fold […]

French and Italian Bwin poker rooms to switch networks

April 4, 2014

According to a report on the poker information site Pokerfuse Thursday, a source at Bwin.Party has confirmed plans to move the Bwin poker sites in the French and Italian markets from the Ongame network to its own Party Poker.fr and .it networks sometime this year. Bwin sold off Ongame to Amaya Gaming in 2012 (see […]

Comtois takes PartyPoker WPT Canada

April 3, 2014

Quebec local Jason Comtois has taken the PartyPoker.net WPT National Canadian Spring Championship title at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. Comtois packed the WPT crystal trophy, the Playground Poker Champion’s belt and a cool CAN$160 999, while an enthusiastic rail cheered him on. “I’m happy to keep the WPT title in Quebec,” said 27-year-old […]

Sharp marketing at Party Poker NJ

February 20, 2014

PartyPokerNJ.com marketers in New Jersey were quick off the mark this week as news broke that up to $82 million in Full Tilt Poker reimbursements is about to reach 30,000 US poker fans. The site is to offer special bonuses on deposits made from FTP remissions. The poker information site Pokerfuse reported that players who […]

Bwin.party companies laying down serious poker money

February 19, 2014

Bwin.Party subsidiaries PartyPoker and World Poker Tour, along with their online partners, are laying out big money to create exciting live poker tournament prize pools that will appeal to a wide range of players. PartyPoker’s Pokerfest has seen an investment of a million dollars in guaranteeing a tasty prize pool in the 67 event fest, […]

Million dollar New Jersey online poker tournament well supported

January 31, 2014

Rising interest in legalised New Jersey online poker has seen tens of thousands of New Jersey poker fans attracted to a millionaire online tournament organised by Party Poker.com and Borgata Poker.com and set to climax in a live eight-player final table at the Borgata this week, according to press material from the organisers. The eight […]

Party Poker wastes no time in leveraging U.S. sports sponsorship deals

January 10, 2014

PartyPoker has wasted no time in gearing up promotions associated with its new sponsorship partnership with the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center, almost immediately launching its Dream Seat offer. The Dream Seat Series offers players the chance to win regular, courtside and VIP box seats to every New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia […]