August 30, 2018
Forum and social media posts this week appear to indicate that the Winning Poker Network has pulled out of the Australian market, although there is a marked lack of official notification to that effect from the company, leaving the reasons for the move open to speculation. The obvious rationale for the decision is the Australian […]
July 17, 2018
After 13 years of operations on five different networks, online poker operator Poker Host has announced that it is to close its virtual doors at the end of July. The operator’s message to players did not offer any explanation for the closure, merely assuring them that they will be paid and advising: “We regret to […]
March 3, 2018
Mason Malmuth, owner of top poker forum TwoPlusTwo, has advised that he has suspended Winning Poker Network advertising and forum activity pending a response to an email he had sent to WPN chief executive Phil Nagy regarding alleged ethical and fairness issues at the Americas Card Room skin. The email was dispatched February 24, asking […]
October 16, 2017
The business publication Forbes reported over the weekend that Americas Cardroom subsidiary Winning Poker Network is about to expand its current acceptance of Bitcoin to embrace around 60 other cyber currencies. WPN started accepting Bitcoin as a currency in 2014, and a spokesman told Forbes that it has thus far received very positive feedback […]
September 6, 2017
Last week’s Distributed Denial of Service attacks on internet poker provider America’s Card Room (see previous report) may have been at the behest of an as yet unidentified business rival, according to a player report on his contact with the anonymous hacker behind the attacks. Pressed on why he didn’t get a real job, the […]
September 5, 2017
A determined series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks took place late last week on America’s Cardroom and its Winning Poker Network, stretching from Thursday into the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend holiday and disrupting player services and tournaments. It is not known whether there were attempts to extort money from the company, but […]
November 30, 2016
The Winning Poker Network (flagships Americas Cardroom, Black Chip Poker and True Poker) did a little boasting in a press release Tuesday, claiming in a press release that it has outperformed well established and popular rivals like iPoker, PartyPoker and MPN to enter the Top 5 network leaderboard, with a dominant position in the tricky […]
October 6, 2015
Winning Poker Network has confirmed that it was again the subject of a Distributed Denial of Services attack late Sunday – the latest in a series targeting the operator, who has refused to pay ransom to the perpetrators in the past. Early reports suggest that the company’s losses due the the inability of players to […]
January 30, 2015
The US has become a risky place for unregulated operators to do business, but player demand remains high, and for those bold enough to take their chances there are rewards. The latest stats from independent online poker monitor Pokerscout indicate that the Winning Poker Network is surging at present, with traffic soaring 58 percent so […]
May 15, 2014
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) has exited the regulated U.S. States of Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey. Players in those States were sent notice from network skins True Poker, Black Chip Poker and Americas Cardroom advising the network’s exit and citing “regulated options” as the reason for its decision. “Our goal at Americas Cardroom is […]