A software update for popular online poker room Absolute Poker recently caused confusion among customers when the security program AVG identified a component of it as a Trojan Horse. Poker News Daily sought explanation from Absolute Poker as well as feedback from a customer who experienced the abnormality.

In a move announced on Tuesday, the Peak Group Malta, the parent company of Sun Poker, announced that its online poker site, along with Omni Casino and CSCasino.com, will be moving to Playtech’s iPoker Network effective in the middle of December.

The tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series wrapped up over the weekend and emerging victorious from the $5,200 buy-in Two-Day tournament was Amit “amak316” Makhija, who took home a healthy $550,000 payday.

The Full Tilt Onlike Poker Series carried on in a big way the past week with a handful of online pros enjoying success on the virtual felt. Dan “imabigkidnow” Kelly took control of the FTOPS X leaderboard by making a pair of final tables and taking down Event #14 ($200 NL Hold ‘em Turbo) for over $104,000.

In a move that has been speculated for the past week, online poker rooms on the Microgaming Network will no longer accept new players from the United States. Poker News Daily has confirmed the report with Microgaming. The move went into effect on Monday across many Microgaming sites, which include Doyle’s Room, Eurolinx, and Poker Host.

Rakeback is one of the fastest-growing parts of the online poker world. Sites typically make money by charging a rake, or juice, in order to play. Money taken out of the pot in a ring game and entry fees paid to play in a tournament are two of the main ways that online poker rooms generate revenue.

Just a week after forbidding its players from using the datamining site SharkScope.com, PokerStars is reconsidering its methods to prevent users from accessing the popular program.

On Monday, online poker rooms Eurolinx and Poker Host announced that they would no longer accept new customers from the United States. As Microgaming Network sites, Eurolinx and Poker Host had previously not allowed players from 13 states in the U.S. where internet gambling is problematic.

The Main Event of the Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker IV (or LEOCOP IV as it’s commonly referred to) begins today, serving as the culmination of one of the most successful tournament series ever held on the online poker room.

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) X started this week and has already helped generate record traffic numbers for the site as well as massive payouts for each of the first five events. The tenth edition of the series has been a huge success thus far by covering each of its guaranteed prize pools by a wide margin.