Online poker site reports ddos attack

August 13, 2018

Recent posts on Twitter have indicated that Americas Cardroom was not the only online poker site attacked by DDoS hackers this week (see previous report). Very little detail is currently available but it appears that: On August 9 PartyPoker advised players: “Apologies for the technical difficulties, we are working to rectify, the site has been […]

Partypoker to benefit from European shared poker player pool

June 1, 2018

The French gambling group Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU) which operates on the PartyPoker network, has announced that it will launch into the joint liquidity pool of France, Spain and Portugal next Monday. “Starting Monday, June 4th, the table sharing with Spain will be effective on PMU Poker. As good news never comes alone, we take […]

Canadian victory in Partypoker Super High Roller event

April 25, 2018

Canadian online poker pro Christopher Kruk bested a stellar field of professional players Tuesday to claim the Cdn$ 375,000 main prize in the Cdn$ 25,500 buy-in  PartyPoker Millions North America Super High Roller. It was Kruk’s second biggest pay day in a live tourney, eclipsed only by his $836,350 victory in a PCA event earlier […]

Good news for poker fans as Partypoker lowers fees

April 15, 2018

PartyPoker m.d. Tom Waters announced over the weekend that PartyPoker is to lower fees in selected real money online poker tourneys, specifically removing rake on the bounty element from all Knockout events starting Sunday, May 6th. The move represents a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction for bounty MTTs, the company claims. Poker fans will […]

Partypoker Barcelona Main Event prize pool soars past guarantee

April 14, 2018

PartyPoker will be pleased with the popularity of its Euro 10,300 buy-in Live Millions Grand Final Main Event in Barcelona this weekend; as the starting flights ended it became clear that at 1,175 entries, the prize pool has soared to Euro 11,397,500, comfortably past the Euro 10 million PP put up as a guarantee. At […]

Schindler wins Partypoker Live Millions Super High Roller

April 13, 2018

US poker pro Jake Schindler (28) has joined the ranks of highly successful international poker players with a Euro 1.75 million first prize in the Euro 101,000 PartyPoker Live Millions Super High Roller in Barcelona. The prize is eclipsed only by the young pro’s $3.6 million second placing in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl […]

UK poker pro wins Partypoker Live Millions grand final open

April 12, 2018

Scots online and live tournament poker pro Ludovic Geilich scored one of his biggest pay days yet this week in taking down the PartyPoker Live Millions Grand Final Open in Barcelona, besting a field of 1,716 to claim the main prize of Euro 250,000. The Euro 1,100 buy-in competition attracted a number of notable names, […]

Partypoker to host high roller poker event in the Bahamas

April 11, 2018

The increasingly aggressive and competitive PartyPoker has announced that it is to invest $10 million in a prize pool for a $25,000 buy-in World Millions High Roller event during the popular Caribbean Poker Party (CPP), scheduled for November this year in the Bahamas. The event will be held in the same broad timeframe as the […]

Pokerstars and Partypoker compete in May

April 10, 2018

Up-and-coming PartyPoker and market leader PokerStars go head to head next month, offering competing tournaments with total guarantees of $100 million. Rivals PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and PartyPoker Powerfest products are both scheduled for the 6 – 20 May time slot, with the former offering guarantees up $10 million over last year […]

German ace wins euro 700,000 on Partypoker Super High Roller

April 10, 2018

German poker ace Andreas Eiler is Euro 700,000 richer this week after taking down the Euro 25,000 buy-in PartyPoker Live Millions Super High Roller in Barcelona. In an all-German heads up Eiler clashed with countryman Rainier Kempe, using a significant chip lead to dismiss Kempe within a half hour of intense action and sending the […]