Online poker news
Back in the good old days, the days when I could play on the corrupt UltimateBet from the United States, I loved playing off the beaten path games. Crazy Pineapple was my favorite, a game in which you are dealt three hole cards and discard one after the flop. I was pretty darn good at… Read more »
With the Pennsylvania casinos finished with submitting their applications for interactive gaming licenses (most have been approved at this point), operators from outside the state – “qualified gaming entities” – were permitted to file their own applications for the leftover licensing slots from October 15th to October 30th. Unless we hear otherwise, it appears that… Read more »
Online poker has been around in New Jersey since they passed legislation in 2013. But its casino counterpart has constantly been the success story of the Jersey online gaming industry, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars while online poker brings in a pittance. Now there is another player on the block that is threatening… Read more »
On Tuesday, PokerStars announced a new tournament series, specifically for players in Spain, France, and Portugal, dubbed the Southern Europe Championship of Online Poker (SECOOP). It’s another Championship of Online Poker! Another COOP! We’ll just have to make sure we don’t misspell it, lest people think we’re talking about the Spring Championship of Online Poker… Read more »
In July, the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) launched a complete rework of its software client, named Prima. At the time, it was released as a “Minimal Viable Product,” meaning that many features that one might expect were missing in favor of simply having a strong, foundational software package sooner rather than later. Yesterday, MPN began… Read more »
I’ve always been a casual, micro-to-low stakes online poker player. Well, I was when I played online poker; living in Georgia makes things a bit more difficult nowadays. I played for fun, which is why I wish I could have been playing on PokerStars this year. I had no loyalty to the site when I… Read more »
When I was a background extra in a movie a couple years ago (1 – sick brag! 2 – Melissa McCarthy’s Life of the Party – look for me as a groomsman in a wedding scene!), a fellow extra was for some reason fascinated by what I do for a living and was very interested… Read more »
Look, I won’t begin to pretend to know how to properly secure an online poker site. I used to be an IT consultant, but that was ages ago and I was not involved at all in network security. So far be it for me to criticize, but man, these Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks… Read more »
The battle in the online poker world for the wallets of players has been, for the most part, a one-sided battle. The behemoth PokerStars has ruled the roost since the days of “Black Friday” and there have been few challengers. One of the rooms that still caters to U. S. players, America’s Cardroom, has recently… Read more »
While they haven’t had the impact that they thought they might in the state of New Jersey with their poker product, The Stars Group isn’t shying away from their involvement in the state. On Friday, The Stars Group and their casino partner Resorts Casino Hotel announced that BetStars (the online sports betting operations for the… Read more »
Just over a month ago, PokerStars debuted a new cash game called Unfold, saying that it was a permanent addition to the lineup. Not much more than a month later, and PokerStars has reversed course, deciding to ditch the unique game. According to pokerfuse, which routinely breaks the news of new, upcoming PokerStars games, Unfold… Read more »
As they are wont to do, the good folks over at PokerFuse have combed the pre-downloaded graphics for an upcoming PokerStars update and have found that the next – and likely temporary – cash game on the world’s largest online poker site will be Six-Plus Hold’em. PokerFuse previously broke the news of Split Hold’em, Showtime… Read more »
Following last week’s technical difficulties that were the result of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, PokerStars has scheduled a series of freerolls for affected players as a an effort to apologize for the game disruptions. On Twitter, PokerStars said there will be five freerolls beginning tomorrow, August 22nd. Each will present $100,000 in… Read more »
Looking to get their online gaming industry up and running before the end of 2018, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has officially granted approval to three casinos for online gaming operations. Who Will Be First to Open? In July, nine casinos in the 13-casino operation in the state of Pennsylvania applied for licenses for online… Read more »
For the past few years, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become the norm in the poker world. Just last week, partypoker admitted that they had been the target of such attacks that have hindered their operations. Now the #1 online poker site in the industry, PokerStars, admits that they have also been targeted… Read more »
French online poker site Winamax has concluded an investigation into alleged bot play by banning two accounts, seizing the funds of one of them. In an interesting decision, the poker room’s management made the results of their investigation public. The controversy started about two months ago, when players on ClubPoker, a French-language poker message board,… Read more »
PokerStars announced Wednesday that it has become the first online gaming company to feature live dealer games on a social gaming mobile app. The app is PokerStars Play, a free-to-play gambling app (featuring primarily poker) with optional chip purchases for real money. The two new games, War of Bets and Bet on Poker, were developed… Read more »
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have unfortunately become a fact of life in online poker. While they are not a regular occurrence in the industry, they do happen often enough where they are expected. How they affect the poker sites all depends on the intensity of the attack and the effectiveness of the site’s… Read more »
Late last week, professional poker player Phil Galfond posted another update as to the progress of his upcoming real money online poker room, Run It Once. This time, the main topic was table caps, that is, the maximum number of tables a player is allowed to have open and active at once. It seems like… Read more »
You know what’s the worst? Folding trash hole cards pre-flop only to see that you would have had the sneaky best hand and a shot to scoop a huge pot. Well, I suppose the worst is having your Aces cracked or your opponent hit a one-outer on the river, but you catch my drift. Well,… Read more »
On Thursday, the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) introduced a new version of its poker client to several of its skins, hopefully allowing the network to be able to roll out updates and feature additions much more smoothly in the future. The new client is named “Prima,” in reference to the original name of the network,… Read more »
MGM Resorts International announced two big partnerships Monday, setting the stage for it to potentially become a major player in the online gaming arena. In two separate press releases, MGM revealed deals with both GVC Holdings and brick-and-mortar gambling rival, Boyd Gaming. GVC Holdings GVC Holdings, though not exactly a household name in internet gambling… Read more »
In a move that likely came as a disappointment to some, but hopefully a surprise to nobody, PokerStars removed the specialty game Showtime Hold’em from its cash game lobby on Monday. This was a scheduled change and is something that PokerStars has done before. The more interesting thing is that the online poker room has… Read more »
Pennsylvania finally legalized online poker last fall and now the industry is finally, slowly starting to ramp up. The first deadline for casinos to apply for interactive gaming licenses was early last week and though for a while it looked like very few or even none of them would file petitions, in the end, nine… Read more »
Say your goodbyes to your favorite tablemates while you still can, for online poker room PokerHost will be shutting down for good on July 31st. Not shutting down only on its current network as it has done so many times before, but closing once and for all. The announcement was originally made by the poker… Read more »
