More European player pool sharing licenses awarded

April 7, 2018

French online gambling regulator ARJEL has announced two more shared player pool licensees, authorising B.E.S. SAS and Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) to offer their services to the shared online poker player pool agreed by France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, although the latter two nations have yet to implement the agreement fully (see previous reports). B.E.S. SAS […]

Partypoker tourney hit by server issues

March 7, 2018

March 4 turned out to be likely an expensive day for PartyPoker after one of its servers crashed during the finale of the $10 million KO Poker Series. The evening outage was confirmed by Party’s IT people using Twitter as tournaments were paused but problems persisted, eventually forcing the management team to cancel all MTTs […]

UK player victorious in Partypoker live main event

February 27, 2018

Chris Bryce, a 37-year-old player from Cheltenham in England, is GBP 187,500 wealthier this week after taking down the GBP 1,100 buy-in PartyPoker Live Main Event at the Dusk Til Dawn Cardroom in Nottingham. The event pulled in a field of 1,076 entrants, generating a prize pool in excess of the guarantee at GBP 1,043,720. […]

Major win in Partypoker Live Millions Germany super high roller

February 14, 2018

UK poker pro and mainly cash games player Chi Zhang (22) scored the biggest reward in his career so far this week when he collected the Euro 800,000 main prize in the Euro 50,000 buy-in PartyPoker Live Millions Germany competition after besting a field of 47 entries that generated a prize pool of Euro 2,232,500. […]

Partypoker gearing up for European poker player sharing

February 14, 2018

A forum representative for PartyPoker has revealed that the online poker provider plans to compete with PokerStars in the rapidly developing European shared player pool project and is gearing up with that goal in mind. InfoPowa readers will recall that France, Italy, Spain and Portugal regulators have committed to the project, although thus far only […]

Partypoker’s Barcelona poker festival could be a European record

February 14, 2018

PartyPoker has continued to present a serious challenge to the top poker operators, this week announcing that it is to invest Euro 23 million in prize pool guarantees for its Millions Grand Finale event scheduled for Casino Barcelona in Spain between Aprl 7 and 15. The company claims that the live competition, supported by online […]

Partypoker goes big on its Millions Online project

December 21, 2017

Go big or go home seems to be the motto for PartyPoker’s promotional team judging by the announcement this week that the company is to make an industry record investment of $20 million in its Million Online project next year. The announcement come off the back of a very successful Million Online tournament just two […]

New satellite cyber currency for Partypoker

December 1, 2017

Online poker provider PartyPoker has come up with a clever idea; a proprietary cyber currency titled MY PP LIVE $$$ that will give online satellite winners the wherewithal to enter its live events. Starting in 2018, players will be able to win daily and weekly satellites for the currency, which can then be used for […]

Partypoker removes ‘inactivity’ fees

November 17, 2017

Online poker operator PartyPoker has announced the removal of its “inactivity” fee imposed a decade ago. The small admin fee was a monthly charge and was deducted from any accounts that were inactive for more than six months, and is refunded for any players who reactivate their accounts either by making a deposit, making a […]

Partypoker confirms collusion in mtt tournaments

November 1, 2017

Online poker provider PartyPoker has confirmed that it has acted against a group on players accused of colluding in MTT tournaments by an experienced punter. The punter – nom de plume DukeofSuffolk – has also exposed the scam on the popular 2plus2 poker forum in addition to reporting the issue to the PartyPoker security team. […]