Online poker news
After using the lure of a windfall from online gaming revenue taxation to gain its passage, the state of New Jersey is quickly realizing that there won’t be bounteous amounts of money flowing into the state’s coffers, at least for its first year. Noted New Jersey gaming writer John Brennan of NorthJersey.com took a look… Read more »
In this week’s Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, PokerScout.com reported that online poker traffic (cash games only) increased a scant one percent last week, though that did snap a three-week losing streak, so that’s something. Overall, though, traffic is down sharply from the same time last year: 13 percent. Since the launch of its online… Read more »
Ultimate Poker, the first completely legal and regulated online poker site in the U.S. (rapidly approaching its first birthday, if you can believe it) really, really wants to get people to play in its tournaments. At risk of qualifying for government assistance, the poker room has launched the unique NO-verlay promotion a deal in which… Read more »
Online poker room Ultimate Poker introduced a new poker variant Monday, attempting to bring yet another game to the poker world that requires less skill and more luck. The game, Two Street Hold’em, saw the light of day for the first time in a live test game at the Ultimate Gaming Headquarters in Las Vegas.… Read more »
Just days after online poker got a new enemy, allies of the game have a new weapon to fight back. MGM International and what politico.com calls “other Washington powerhouses” launched the Coalition for Consumer and Online Protection (CCOP) Wednesday, a group stands in opposition to a ban on internet gambling. Though Nevada, New Jersey, and… Read more »
Poker players who are trying to make a living grinding it out at the online tables in New Jersey can rejoice. PokerTracker 4 (PT4) is now available in the Garden State. According to a press release issued yesterday, today’s new version of PokerTracker, PokerTracker 4.10.8, includes “official support for the USA Regulated Market in New… Read more »
Well, that was a quick turnaround. After complaints about how affiliates were being handled in regards to the reimbursement process for former U.S. Full Tilt Poker players, the Full Tilt Claims Administrator has made adjustments that will benefit the players. Last year, the Garden City Group (GCG), the company that is handling all the claims… Read more »
As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. According to Jon Ralston on his website RalstonReports.com, Steve Wynn is now opposed to the legalization and regulation of online gambling. This would be news in and of itself, but adding to the interest is that he was swayed to his new point of… Read more »
On Friday, the Garden City Group (GCG), the company authorized by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to be the Claims Administrator for the long-frozen Full Tilt Poker funds, posted a couple important updates on the remissions process on its website. The first concerned former U.S. customers of Full… Read more »
A poker player has written a letter to New Jersey gaming officials to warn them that online gaming, in particular poker, is extremely vulnerable to money laundering and collusion. That player in question has offered to show the state’s gaming officials how it is done as long as he receives immunity from prosecution. In a… Read more »
Scores of Neteller customers received an e-mail this weekend warning them that their accounts would be closed if they did not provide some pertinent account information before the end of the month. That e-mail was a fake. It is what is known as a phishing scam, an attempt to acquire customers’ personally sensitive information and… Read more »
The Merge Gaming Network is continuing its descent into irrelevance, though this latest step down is probably a wise move. Late last week, Merge, one of the few networks still accessible to most poker players in the United States, began barring customers from the states of New Jersey and Delaware from its member rooms. With… Read more »
Sheldon Adelson really, really hates online gambling. I mean, it is getting to the point where I can’t help but admire his total commitment to the hate. Most people who are opposed to something are at least willing to let the other side speak, to at least consider for even the briefest of moments, the… Read more »
Nearly three years after their monies were frozen in one of the biggest scandals in online poker’s brief history, players from the United States should start seeing their funds from Full Tilt Poker before the scheduled date. In a statement on the Two Plus Two forum dedicated to the ongoing Full Tilt debacle, Poker Players… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s new Adrenaline Rush Poker has only been active for two weeks and already the site has launched a special promotion around the lightning-fast game. Called Adrenaline Rush Knockout, it is a two-week long contest to see who can take the most opponents down to the felt. To review, Adrenaline Rush Poker is… Read more »
If you haven’t been perusing all of the poker-related sites on the internet and reading them very carefully, you might have missed it. We certainly did. But better late than never, right? Buried at the end of a post on its website last Thursday, IveyPoker.com announced that it will be launching its new poker training… Read more »
On Saturday, Marco “AgentMarco” Valerio, one of the preeminent reporters in the poker industry, posted on his site the draft of an anti-online gaming bill that is supposedly strongly backed by Las Vegas Sands CEO and staunch opponent of online poker, Sheldon Adelson. The bill, designed to be introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives,… Read more »
If you look at any of the professional football teams (soccer to those in the United States) in Europe, you will see several online gaming companies as sponsors on their jerseys. Those companies, such as bwin, 888, Bet365 and Paddy Power (among others) have recognized the advertising potential by being associated with a professional sports… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is determined to get your rake as quickly as possible. In an update released Wednesday, PokerStars’ little brother introduced a new variation on its popular Rush Poker fast-fold poker game, dubbed “Adrenaline Rush Poker.” Adrenaline Rush is for those people who don’t have the time to wait through the flop, turn, and… Read more »
Last week, I penned an article titled “There’s Nothing Going on in Poker Right Now” because there wasn’t. The Christmas/New Year week was barren of tournaments and, for the most part, any particularly interesting news. And though people spent much of their time away from work and away from the live poker tables, they didn’t… Read more »
Late last week, Full Tilt Poker announced the crowning of its first batch of sponsored Black Card Team Professionals, determined by a competition that spanned the second half of 2013. The dozen poker players will now have their names lit up in red for the next four months. The Black Card sponsorship program was launched… Read more »
PokerStars is not pleased that it was shut out of New Jersey’s regulated online gambling industry and it wants to tell you about it. In a post on the PokerStars corporate blog, Eric Hollreiser, Head of Corporate Communications for the world’s largest online poker room, criticized the Atlantic Club casino’s ownership for the death of… Read more »
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released the latest figures for the state’s infant internet gambling industry on Sunday and so far, so good. According to the report, 126,231 online gaming accounts have been registered at the various Atlantic City-based sites, an increase of about 15 percent over the previous week. New Jersey’s… Read more »
Though it appears nowhere close to actually doing so, a Wisconsin Native American tribe has said that it would like to jump into the online poker business. According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa tribe wants to expand its online businesses into the online gambling sector in order to… Read more »
Last Thursday, Bitcoin-only online poker site SealsWithClubs.com announced that the database used to store user information had been accessed by an unauthorized user and that sensitive information was very likely acquired. As such, the site is requiring that all customers change their passwords upon their next login. Below is the entire message from SealsWithClubs management,… Read more »
