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Earlier this month, false reports came out about Caesars Entertainment launching its real money, World Series of Poker-branded, Nevada online poker site before the start of the 44th Annual World Series of Poker. It was wishful thinking and did make some sense: what better time to launch a WSOP intra [...]
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WSOP.com Real Money U.S. Online Poker Room Rumored to Launch in July
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Daniel Negreanu Wins First Major Online Tournament
Though just 38-years old, Daniel Negreanu has been on the poker scene a long time. Once one of the “new school” group of up-and-comers, he may now be considered “old school,” or at the very least “gently-aged school.” Regardless, he has won scores of live tournaments in his poker career, [...]
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Viktor “Isildur1” Blom Wins PokerStars SCOOP Main Event
What hasn’t been said about Viktor “Isildur1” Blom that still needs to be said? The guy is a sicko. On Monday night, the nosebleed stakes cash game king showed that he’s not a one trick pony, winning the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $10,000 Main Event, adding over $ [...]
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Full Tilt Poker Announces Inaugural MTOPS
Never one to miss out on the opportunity to start a new poker series, Full Tilt Poker has announced MTOPS, the Micro Turbo Online Poker Series. The action is set to kick off this coming Sunday, June 9th, and will run for two weeks through June 23rd. MTOPS is a chance for those who want [...] [...]
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Minted Poker to Move to Plutos Poker Network
Minted Poker customers who have given up on ever seeing their deposits again may be able to recoup their losses. It’s not a great chance, but it’s a chance. The beleaguered online poker room announced yesterday that it is moving from the Everleaf Gaming Network to the really-never-heard-of-befor [...]
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PokerScout: Online Poker Traffic Up for Second Straight Week
It’s not a meteoric rise in traffic, but it’s something. Online poker monitoring site PokerScout.com reported yesterday that for the second week in a row, online poker cash game traffic increased. Like the previous week, last week’s increase was small – just 0.2 percent – but that’s bett [...]
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Nevada Gaming Control Board Investigating Ultimate Poker, iovation Link
According to a report by Howard Stutz of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) is looking into the relationship between Ultimate Poker and iovation, the company that provided Ultimate Poker with identity verification services until last Thursday. Ultimate Poker became t [...]
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Phil Hellmuth: “I made a horrible read”
One day the UltimateBet cheating scandal will die and, aside from never forgetting what happened, we won’t have to talk about it again. But until then, the tremors continue to rumble. On Friday, UltimateBet insider and Russ Hamilton’s computer expert, Travis Makar, published, among other things, [...]
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Ultimate Poker Cuts Ties with Iovation
Ultimate Poker (UP), the first licensed online poker room to launch in Nevada, announced this weekend that as of late Thursday, May 9th, it has “discontinued the use of all services from Iovation.” Iovation was used to verify the identities of new UP customers. The connection to Iovation became [...]
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Chris Moorman, Paul Volpe Out As Lock Poker Pros
The beleaguered Lock Poker has had quite a bit of trouble over the past few months as it continues to offer online poker to U. S. residents. Now it has to bid adieu to two of its more prominent professional players from its Lock Poker Pros team. According to the PokerNews UK’s Matthew Pitt, online [...]
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PokerStars Previews 100 Billionth Hand Celebration
We all knew it was coming. And now it’s almost here. At the European Poker Tour Grand Final, PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones announced that the world’s largest online poker room will soon be launching its Road to 100 Billion celebration. That’s one hundred billion cash game h [...]
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PokerScout: Online Poker Traffic Increases for First Time in Two Months
Online poker cash game traffic monitoring website PokerScout.com released its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, revealing the first weekly increase in the number of players sitting down to ring games in two months. Before everyone starts jumping for joy, it was only a half a percent increas [...]
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Full Tilt Poker Offering Qualifiers for PokerStars Land-Based Tournaments
Back in the “good old days” of online poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were fierce rivals. Numbers one and two in the traffic rankings, they were in the business of trying to one-up each other. PokerStars had the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP); Full Tilt launched the Full Tilt O [...]
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Ultimate Poker Continues To Garner Support In Early Days Of Action
Although it is extremely early to gain a read on how successful it will be, the early days of action on Ultimate Poker are showing that the site is steadily garnering support from Nevadans who can actually play on it. Opening up on Tuesday, Ultimate Poker became the first regulated online poker room [...]
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Online Poker Rebirth: Ultimate Poker Becomes First Legal Poker Room Launched in U.S.
In a few minutes, a new era of poker will begin in the United States. Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiary of Station Casinos LLC, will see its Ultimate Poker deal its first hand at 9:00am PST (noon ET), becoming the first legal, regulated online poker room in the United States. Initially, Ultimate Poker w [...]
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888 Revenues Up in First Quarter; Nevada Poker Room Coming in Summer
Online gaming firm 888 Holdings Plc reported its quarterly financials Tuesday, showing improvements from last year across the board. On the whole, the company brought in $103 million in the first quarter of 2013, a new record for 888. That represented an increase of 9 percent over the same quarter l [...]
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PartyPoker Cancels First Five Pokerfest III Events
PartyPoker is not winning many fans these days. The latest in a series of missteps: the cancellation of several tournaments in its Pokerfest III tournament series. Players were excited to get the festivities underway yesterday as six tournament were set to launch in the span of an hour and a half. B [...]
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NYX Gaming Group Purchases ZEN Entertainment
The NYX Gaming Group has purchased ZEN Entertainment, hopefully saving ZEN’s creditors after the company filed for bankruptcy in January. ZEN Entertainment, which has billed itself as a “massive multiplayer online gaming (MMOG) tournament network,” has origins stemming back to 2006. It was tha [...]
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PokerStars Releases Official 2013 SCOOP Schedule
Last month, PokerStars released the first draft of the schedule for its popular Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Now the official schedule has been published. It is very similar to the original draft, with just one event, Triple Stud, dropped from the series. More tournaments have been a [...]
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Full Tilt Introduces “New to the Game” Tables
Full Tilt Poker launched an update to its software Tuesday, introducing three new features. The most significant addition is Full Tilt’s take on player segregation, but done in a much gentler manner that at competing poker sites. Player segregation has been a disappointing trend in the online poke [...]
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iPoker Network Rolls Out Anonymous Tables
After a short test on Titan Poker late last week, the iPoker Network has rolled out anonymous tables to the rest of the poker rooms on the network. The tables, which remove players’ identifying information from the tables, are currently available for No-Limit Hold’em games with $2 through $100 b [...]
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Ex-Full Tilt CEO Ray Bitar to Plead Guilty Under “Unique Circumstances”
Former Full Tilt Poker chief executive Ray Bitar will plead guilty to felony charges stemming from his 2011 “Black Friday” indictment, according to several media sources, including the Wall Street Journal and Diamond Flush Poker. This news in and of itself should not really come as a shock, cons [...]
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Ultimate Poker Signs Antonio Esfandiari
Ultimate Poker, one of the online poker companies that has received a license to operate interactive online gaming in Nevada, announced Tuesday that is has signed Antonio Esfandiari as its Brand Ambassador. Esfandiari becomes the first poker pro to represent an internet poker room licensed in the Un [...]
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Zynga Launches Real Money Poker
On Wednesday, social gaming giant Zynga will launch its first real money gambling games, starting with a limited release in the United Kingdom. ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino will run on the bwin.party software platform and will be available to players 18-years of age and older. The launch was a [...]
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InterPoker Moving to Ongame Network
Another day, another hit for Boss Media’s International Poker Network (IPN). One of the network’s oldest poker rooms, InterPoker, has officially announced that it will be moving over to the Ongame Network by the end of April. The news began to be communicated to both players and affiliates via e [...]
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