Online poker news
According to PokerScout’s Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, online poker cash game traffic fell the slightest of amounts last week, declining just one-tenth of one percent. It was still a loss, though, marking the fourth consecutive week that internet poker counts have fallen. On the bright side, though (aside from it being a nearly break-even… Read more »
In November 2014, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) granted conditional approval to an online gaming partnership between Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa (via its parent company, Marina District Development Company LLC) and Pala Interactive LLC. It was a fairly momentous occasion, as it marked the first time a Native American… Read more »
Bitcoin online poker room SealswithClubs.com is no more. SwCPoker.eu has risen in its place. As Seals chairman Bryan Micon promised in February, his poker site was down but not out, re-launching on Friday with its new brand. The SwC saga dates back to the morning of February 11th, when Micon’s Las Vegas home was raided… Read more »
PokerScout.com released its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update on Saturday, reporting yet another difficult seven day stretch for the internet poker industry. Cash game traffic fell two percent last week with seven of the top ten networks and sites experiencing down weeks. There was some slight shifting in the top ten, as Bodog moved up… Read more »
After continuing operations for more than two years despite the fact that they were not paying out players, a former employee for the besieged online poker room Lock Poker says that the website is “on the verge of collapse.” In an interview with Pokerfuse.com’s Michael Gentile, former Lock Poker spokesperson Shane Bridges emerged from the… Read more »
In “real life,” five years is not a particularly long time,* but in the online poker universe, it is an eternity. Therefore, to me, at least, it seems odd that a five-year old topic that affected very few people was recently drudged up, but it was, and here we are. Cole “cts687” South recently appeared… Read more »
The combination of Nevada’s and Delaware’s online poker player pools may be around the corner. Finally. According to Steve Tetreault of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has said that the year-old interstate gaming compact between the two states will finally have its promise met within the next month or two. Despite being… Read more »
Management of leading Bitcoin online poker site SealswithClubs has announced that after more than a week of unscheduled downtime, it has officially shut down the site for good. Adding to the intrigue: a revelation from site chairman Bryan Micon that the site’s closure was precipitated by a law enforcement raid of his home on the… Read more »
Late last month, prospective United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to suffer through the ordeal of a several-hour long confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. These sorts of hearings are usually filled with committee members hurling stupid, politically-motivated questions at the nominee, particularly if those members are not members of the… Read more »
The quarter-year mark is approaching, and with it comes an inevitability: another Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Sure enough, Full Tilt Poker has released the schedule for FTOPS XXVIII (Twenty-eight! And it would have been more had the former executives at the site not been crooks and led to Full Tilt disappearing for a… Read more »
It’s about damn time. After years of fighting against PokerStars’ inclusion in the regulated United States online poker market, Caesars Entertainment finally relented last week and said it will no longer support “bad actor” clauses in internet gaming legislation. This week, the company took things a step further, announcing that it will be teaming up… Read more »
Shares of online gaming firm 888 Holdings PLC soared Tuesday after the company confirmed that it has been approached by fellow gambling company, William Hill PLC, with a possible purchase offer. 888’s stock price closed at 171.50p after opening at 143p, a jump of 20 percent. 888 issued the following press release in response to… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is getting ready to kick it old school on February 15th. Starting this coming Sunday and running through the next, Full Tilt is hosting the Full Tilt Classic. The sixteen event tournament series dispatches with all the multi-entry bullshit that has been increasing in popularity and gets back to the basics: the… Read more »
The Three Stooges are back. The Sheldon Adelson-backed Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) bill has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R – Utah), the same person who introduced it in 2014. Senator Lindsey Graham (R – S.C.) introduced a twin bill in the Senate last year, and while… Read more »
It is shocking when someone in Washington, D.C. admits that gambling might be ok, but when one of most prominent politicians in the United States wants to discuss matters, people just might listen. Last Thursday, Senator John McCain (R – Ariz.) was on ESPN’s Capital Games podcast to talk about the NFL and said that… Read more »
The jackpot for PokerStars’ $1 Million Spin & Go promotion is only supposed to hit three out of every ten million times. Methinks it is ahead of schedule. A couple weeks ago, a trio of lucky players became the first to bink the $1.2 million spin with Russian “sss66666” winning the three-handed single table tournament… Read more »
Online poker players looking to enter some solid tournaments on the cheap this month only have to wait until next week to get their fix (which is handy, considering next week is also the final week of January). Starting Monday, January 26th, the iPoker Network will be hosting its January Sale discounting over a dozen… Read more »
Mark one in the “W” column for Sheldon Adelson against online poker. Before you panic, though, and worry that the Las Vegas Sands CEO is making inroads in the United States in trying to get online poker banned completely, know that this victory has nothing to do with the U.S. Last summer, Adelson and his… Read more »
Sometimes a screen name is just so amazingly appropriate. Last week, Darren Woods, who was known by the screen name “DooshCom” in the poker community, was sentenced to prison for defrauding players on internet poker sites, including 888poker and the iPoker Network. Woods, who hails from Healing, a town about halfway up the east coast… Read more »
Online poker cash game traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com released its weekly update on Friday, reporting that traffic was up one percent last week. Not too exciting, but certainly better than the alternative (unless the alternative is two percent). Of the top ten networks and sites, seven saw increases in their traffic while just three experienced… Read more »
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) has added Bitcoin as both a deposit and withdrawal currency, making it the largest internet poker network to accept the cryptocurrency. WPN, likely not coincidentally, is also a U.S.-facing network, giving American players an option for funds transfers as traditional means are not always viable with current online gaming laws… Read more »
In 2012, Russian poker player Marat ‘maratik’ Sharafutdinov inadvertently created an internet meme while negotiating a final table deal during the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event. As the remaining players discussed how much money each player should get, the chip leader typed the sentence “I wont million” in the chat box,… Read more »
Regulated online poker in the United States is still in its infancy – the legal game did not go live until April 2013 in Nevada – but it has quickly become apparent to the poker sites that it is going to be increasingly difficult for them to go it alone. Competition is a good thing… Read more »
It is not every day that two competing online poker rooms work together to provide their players with the best possible product and this is still not one of those days. Two rooms, however, just happen to be offering a huge slate of tournaments this month in such a way that players will certainly benefit.… Read more »
On Friday, David Rebuck, Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), published a paper summarizing the one-year anniversary achievements of the state’s online gambling industry and providing a look forward to future goals. Intrastate online gaming was legalized on February 26, 2013 and formally went live on November 25, 2013. The paper… Read more »
