Online poker news
I just wrote one article about Lottery Sit & Go’s, so might as well write another, while the subject is on my mind. Guess today is an all-Lottery day. The news on this page: 888poker has launched its own Lottery Sit & Go version this week, called BLAST Poker. Like any Lottery Sit & Go,… Read more »
The Spin & Go games at PokerStars are generally the first ones we think of when we consider the Lottery Sit & Go, but it was French poker site Winamax that introduced the world to this type of game when it launched Expresso Poker in July 2013. Since then, countless copycats have arisen (well, not… Read more »
After more than five years of travel through the courts in the United States, the final settlements regarding Full Tilt Poker were quietly reached earlier this year, ending the saga of the now-defunct twice over online poker site and putting it into the history books. The issues that Full Tilt faced were directly related to… Read more »
The Global Poker League is in a hiatus at this time, taking a break after finishing the first half of their inaugural season and their “Summer Series” during the run of the World Series of Poker. It’s certainly been an interesting run so far for GPL creator Alex Dreyfus’ pet program and it has seen… Read more »
The poker boom’s origin story begins in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event. ESPN’s television coverage was coming of age, allowing millions of viewers to revel in the victory of an amateur with the glorious poker name. It was also the first time that most people had heard of… Read more »
Now that the World Series of Poker-proper is over and we’re just waiting for All Hallows’ Eve Eve and the start of the Main Event final table, other poker festivals can now start to try to turn the attention of poker players and fans back to them. As such, PokerStars is running a special Spin… Read more »
Late last week, PokerStars pushed through an update to its software and in the process removed a cash game feature that likely was not even something a lot of players were fully aware of: the ability to choose whether or not one wants to show their hole cards when two or more players are all-in.… Read more »
In what would be a game changer for online gaming and poker in the United States, officials from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement and authorities with the United Kingdom’s gaming offices and several major players in the European online gaming industry have opened preliminary discussions on sharing liquidity – or players – between… Read more »
In an e-mail distributed to the media (as well as likely a similar message sent to affected players), PokerStars announced on Friday that it is withdrawing from the Slovenian online gaming market, effective today. The official statement, issued by a PokerStars representative, reads as follows: Our management team regularly review our operations market-by-market to assess… Read more »
PokerStars has halted the offering of real money poker games in Israel, according to both an e-mail that was sent to customers and a pop-up message that was presented to Israeli players upon attempting to login. The ban took effect Monday, June 27th. In a somewhat ironic side note, the founder of PokerStars, Isai Scheinberg,… Read more »
Today when I confirmed to one of my two prized offspring (for clarification, I only have two children – I wasn’t implying that I have more and I only cherish two of them) that I was indeed born in the 1970’s, the other said that that makes me seem “ancient.” Of course, it isn’t just… Read more »
PokerStars (and its sister site, Full Tilt, which is no longer an independent site) has made a number of changes over the past year or so to try to make the online poker environment more recreational player-friendly. Things like an loyalty system overhaul and the conversion of regular heads-up cash game tables to Zoom Poker… Read more »
The Delaware online gaming industry continues to show signs of growth. The country’s first regulated online casino market posted a record win in May. Online poker, table games, slots and poker generated $282,112 in combined revenues in May. It was the third consecutive record month for Delaware’s iGaming Lottery. The May numbers were up 5.3%… Read more »
With the 2016 World Series of Poker in full swing, we sometimes might overlook that there is OTHER poker news that is going on. With that in mind, it is time to take a look around the poker world and check that information out, just “In Case You Missed It.” Michigan Senate Committee Passes Online… Read more »
Merge Gaming has stopped accepting new U.S. players, according to players and two site representatives. The U.S. country option was removed from the new account form last week at Carbon Poker, PlayersOnly, Sportsbook.ag and SuperBook. The decision affects the poker platform, casino games and sports betting products. The policy may not be a permanent one,… Read more »
In February, the iPoker Network launched a new type of poker game, Six-Plus Hold’em, that first gained popularity in Macau’s famous high stakes cash games. The action-packed Hold’em variant has proven quite popular. So popular, in fact, that the network has added two more stakes levels, NL50 and NL100. As often happens when new online… Read more »
The Canadian province of Québec passed its budget bill, Bill 74, two weeks ago, an occurrence that would not normally be of much interest to us to anyone outside of Québec. This time, though, things are a bit different, as included in said budget was an authorization for the province to require internet service providers… Read more »
In the world of poker, one thing that many never have a chance to do is get involved in “staking” a player in a tournament. “Staking” – the act of providing part of the buy in for a player and receiving a percentage of what said player earns from that particular tournament/s – for quite… Read more »
When PokerStars (or its parent company, to be exact) agreed to purchase Full Tilt Poker nearly four years ago as part of its Black Friday settlement with the Department of Justice, it also agreed to make whole all of the players whose funds had been lost or frozen when Full Tilt went down. To date,… Read more »
Once upon a time, the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) was an upstart online poker series, trying to give poker players their big tournament series fix while they waited for the giant World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) to kickoff later in the year. SCOOP is an upstart no more; it is now… Read more »
In March 2013, the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas became one of the first companies to be granted an online poker license in Nevada. Shortly before that, 888 Holdings entered into a joint venture with Avenue Capital Group to create the All American Poker Network (AAPN). The first poker room on the network was… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is dead. Long live Full Tilt. On Tuesday, May 17th, Full Tilt was officially absorbed into PokerStars, ending the second – and likely last – era of the gaming site’s existence. Amaya Inc., the parent company of both sites, announced the merger in February, saying: This platform migration will allow Amaya’s development… Read more »
An interstate online gambling compact between Nevada and New Jersey has never really come close to becoming a reality, but Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval still wants to try to make it happen. Speaking at the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee meeting in Las Vegas on Friday, Sandoval expressed mild frustration that his state hasn’t gotten anything… Read more »
PokerStars announced this week that the live finale of the Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) will be contested at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 23rd through June 27th. In what is likely not a coincidence, it will coincide with the Copa America Centenario, the 100th year of the famed… Read more »
Lottery Sit-and-Go’s are arguably the hottest thing going in online poker. Seemingly every online poker site and network is adding its own version of the game to its lobby. One exception, though, is Unibet. In an interview with PokerIndustryPRO (paywall), Unibets’ Head of Poker, Andrew West, explained that his site has no plans to join… Read more »
