Online poker news
What was trumpeted as the latest and best attempt to persuade a state legislature towards passing online gaming and/or poker regulations took place in Albany, NY, yesterday. The hearing by the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee in the state capitol wasn’t widely attended, however, by neither the constituents nor the legislators that the hearing… Read more »
Back in June, we reported that MPN (Microgaming Poker Network) was going to implement a feature to help its casual players, the ability to change one’s screen name. The feature was supposed to be added in July, but because of some technical issues, it was delayed. It wasn’t forgotten, though, as according to Pokerfuse, alias… Read more »
If you live in these United States of America at the present moment, you probably don’t care, but if you live in, say, Canada, Mexico, numerous European nations, or any of a multitude of other locales, you may be interested to know that the 14th annual PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway.… Read more »
It’s not quite the interstate gaming arrangement we were looking for, but it’s a start. On Thursday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced that it has approved deal in which Scientific Games will operate an online gambling product from Atlantic City, but for Delaware players only. The New Jersey DGE issued the following… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is known for hosting one of the most popular poker tournament series on the internet, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Many an online pro has made their mark winning FTOPS events and the rewards have been lucrative. Starting in September, Full Tilt is changing things up a bit, introducing a… Read more »
The battle for bwin.party, parent company of partypoker, continues. On Tuesday, bwin.party confirmed that it has received another acquisition proposal from 888 Holdings, though it has not revealed any of the proposal’s details. The brief announcement is as follows: Further to its announcement on 27 August regarding a proposal from GVC Holdings PLC (‘GVC’), the… Read more »
Europe’s ring-fenced online poker markets continue to be the test labs for PokerStars. This time, it is PokerStars.fr that gets to be the guinea pig, as PokerStars introduced a new type of multi-table tournament that draws inspiration from Spin & Go’s. Spin & Go’s, as you may well know, are three-handed, hyper-turbo, single-table tournaments in… Read more »
Coming up on its second anniversary, the New Jersey online gaming market has been able to slowly build some speed. Along with Delaware in being the only operations that offer intrastate online casino gaming (Nevada only offers online poker), the Garden State earned well over $100 million from its online casino gaming industry in 2014,… Read more »
Full Tilt completed phase two in its turn toward being an online poker room for recreational players last week, launching its new Players Club loyalty program. The system is geared completely towards those who like to play poker, but don’t make it their life’s ambition, yet still want to be rewarded for their play. In… Read more »
All the attention in the Rational Group family has been focused on Full Tilt Poker recently and its efforts to make its online poker room more recreational player-friendly, but sister site (big sister site, to be exact) PokerStars is making one small move to make its casual players smile. The world’s largest internet poker entity… Read more »
In an interview with CardPlayer, New Jersey State Senator Ray Lesniak said that he believes PokerStars will be granted a license to operate in his state and that it should happen relatively soon. Of course, we have heard this wishful thinking before, but Lesniak is still confident that it will get done. PokerStars has been… Read more »
Step one for Full Tilt Poker in transitioning its site to a recreational player model was completely overhauling its cash game offerings. Step two was previewed last Thursday, as Full Tilt Managing Director Dominic Mansour revealed a revamped loyalty program. Some of parts of it, while changed, will look familiar, while some aspects are completely… Read more »
It is certainly too soon to issue last rights to Full Tilt Poker (for the second time), but the numbers do not paint a pretty picture since the site completely overhauled its cash game offerings. Full Tilt has lost an enormous number of cash game players, which was not unexpected, but it is ugly, nonetheless.… Read more »
Poker’s most popular streamer will be returning to the interweb in just a few days. On Thursday, Jason Somerville announced via Twitter that he has signed a new two-year partnership with Twitch to broadcast his daily Run It UP! show. Somerville has been on hiatus since this spring, but he sounds like he is itching… Read more »
Poker players who inexplicably stayed with one of the iPoker Network’s “Tier 2” poker rooms after the network split into two parts in September 2012 have reason to celebrate, as PokerStrategy.com reports that the network will fuse its tiers tomorrow, creating a single network once again. Online poker rooms and networks have come up with… Read more »
GVC Holdings, one of the two suitors for online gaming company bwin.party, confirmed Friday that it in talks with bwin.party to try to convince its board to move forward with a proposal which would have GVC acquire the parent company of partypoker. In a press release issued Friday, GVC stated: GVC is working closely with… Read more »
Since the flurry of activity in 2013 that saw three states – Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey – create the first state-regulated online gaming and/or poker sites in the United States, there has been a lull in the action. While several states have mulled over legislation in their individual legislative bodies, nothing else has been… Read more »
Online payment processor Optimal Payments announced Monday that it has received approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to acquire competitor the Skrill Group in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. Both companies are major players in the online gaming industry, offering popular, easy-to-use e-wallets with which players can transfer funds to and from… Read more »
You’ve got to give the Winning Poker Network (WPN) credit. The guys who run the show over there are persistent. Less than a year after having its aggressive million dollar guaranteed tournament scuttled by Distributing Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, the network is set to make that very same type of tourney a regular thing,… Read more »
Amaya Gaming, the parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has sold Amaya, Inc. (formerly and best known as Chartwell Technology, Inc.) and Cryptologic Limited to NYX Gaming Group Limited for CAD $150 million. Both of Chartwell and Cryptologic are similar, as both deal in business-to-business (B2B) online casino game and platform development. They… Read more »
Slightly more than a year after the ownership change that rocked the online poker industry in particular and the gaming world in general, the two entities owned by Amaya Gaming – PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker – continue to make changes that, while good for the companies, might not be particularly friendly to the customers.… Read more »
Casino Gran Madrid has announced that it will be shuttering its online poker room effective the end of this month. The site let its customers know via e-mail, citing too many obstacles to allow it to put forth a quality poker offering. The casino’s internet poker off-shoot, CasinoGranMadrid.es, is part of iPoker Network Spain, the… Read more »
A couple weeks ago, Full Tilt Poker announced that it would soon be making big changes in an attempt to better the poker experience for its players and improve the site’s poker economy. We’re not sure anybody expected anything this severe. Full Tilt revealed significant changes to its cash games this morning, arguably the most… Read more »
The tug-of-war over internet gambling firm bwin.party continues as GVC Holdings refuses to let go of the rope just yet. GVC confirmed Monday that it has made another proposal to buy bwin.party, sweetening its previous offer and ditching its former partner. Bwin.party, the parent company of partypoker, has been on the block for at least… Read more »
As we reported late last week, the poker world was shocked Friday morning when 888 Holdings and bwin.party agreed to a $1.4 billion deal that would have 888 acquire its fellow online gambling firm. The surprise wasn’t because bwin.party was sold – that has been a possibility for years – but rather that 888 was… Read more »
