Online poker news
Late last week, PartyPoker pulled a fast one on its customers, increasing the fee to withdraw via Neteller and Skrill (Moneybookers) without so much as sending players a memo. PartyPoker’s new software client is due to be released soon, so players were eagerly double-clicking on the PartyPoker icon last week to see if an update… Read more »
A week ago, we reported that the Garden City Group (GCG), the organization that was chosen by the U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) to handle the disbursement of Full Tilt Poker funds, expected to be able to give players a firm date on when the claims process would commence by the end of last week. The… Read more »
A new, legal online poker site launched in the United States on Wednesday, though don’t get too excited, it’s not the first competitor to Ultimate Poker in Nevada. The site is called LiveAce.com, a free-to-play poker room for which players also have the option to pay for an upgraded monthly membership. Essentially, LiveAce is a… Read more »
Last month, PokerStars released a tentative schedule for the 2013 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), offering it up for review and accepting suggestions for changes. The world’s largest online poker site recently published the new, official 2013 WCOOP schedule, giving players a month to clear their calendars, rustle up the buy-ins and get ready… Read more »
Halls of Fame are always elite clubs, representing the absolute best of the best of the best in their respective industries. Most readers will know about the Poker Hall of Fame, which is currently accepting nominations for the 2013 class, but most probably do not realize that PokerStars, the largest online poker room in the… Read more »
Poor Intertops Poker. It’s a good apple in a bushel full of rotten ones. For the second time in two weeks, it has had to make a business decision because it is stuck on a terrible network, the Revolution Gaming Network. The lastest: Intertops is segregating its mid-stakes and higher players from the rest of… Read more »
The wait for the reimbursement of lost Full Tilt Poker player funds and the more than two year nightmare that it has become for former U.S. customers looks like it may be nearing an end. There may actually be a light at the end of this long, dark tunnel. According to an e-mail posted on… Read more »
After being hammered over several of the most popular poker forums in the industry, Lock Poker has taken the unique step of opening up its own poker forum and will no longer be discussing issues that plague the beleaguered room in a public format. The new forum has some caveats that will keep ‘lurkers’ from… Read more »
It doesn’t look like it will be happening all that soon, but the top executive one of the leading gaming companies in the United States believes that an interstate online poker compact between Nevada and New Jersey will become a reality next year. Following a second quarter earnings conference call, MGM Resorts International CEO Jim… Read more »
The seven-year old online poker room Cake Poker has re-branded itself slightly, changing its name to Win Cake. The change appears to be not much more than a shift towards marketing the site as an overall internet gambling destination, rather than just a poker room. Upon arriving at the Win Cake home page, visitors are… Read more »
Although the regulations for online poker went into effect over a year ago in Nevada, it took some time for anyone to step up and open shop with their own online poker room. In April, that momentous occasion occurred when Ultimate Poker (owned by Station Casinos) became the first online poker site to open for… Read more »
In late breaking news Thursday night, the claims administrator who is in charge of the disbursement of payments to U. S. customers of the old Full Tilt Poker is now saying that payments are set to begin “shortly,” according to their website. Garden City Group, the organization that was chosen by the U. S. Department… Read more »
Since the site returned to the online world in November of last year, Full Tilt Poker has only had three poker pros as a part of their sponsorship stable. “The Professionals” – Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Gus Hansen – carried the banner for the site as it made its triumphant return to… Read more »
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has had a bit of a down month at the online cash game tables (not likely helped by competing at the World Series of Poker), but the nosebleed stakes king got back in the black Sunday, winning $1.23 million. He continued for a little while after the page of the calendar turned,… Read more »
PokerStars’ MicroMillions 5, the online poker tournament series with most buy-ins under ten dollars, wrapped up this weekend and in the end, Lithuania’s “stygher” made history, winning the Main Event and $160,726, the largest prize in the history of the tournament festival. The previous record was $157,218, won last year by “SoyDelGlobo.” For a while,… Read more »
As expected, Ultimate Poker earned unanimous final approval from the Nevada Gaming Commission for its online poker system on Thursday. Launched April 30th, Ultimate Poker was in its 90-day trial period and is still the lone operator of intrastate online poker in the state of Nevada. “Not only was Ultimate Gaming the first company in… Read more »
On Thursday, Intertops Poker, a poker room on the Revolution Gaming Network, announced that will now be taking the extreme measure of reviewing most player winnings before crediting funds to accounts in order to combat chip dumping at the tables. An Intertops Poker representative posted the following message on the Two Plus Two message board… Read more »
One of the companies that were thought to be a major player for the future of online gaming and poker in the United States has instead decided to pack in their efforts towards that goal. As this occurred, another organization continues to strive forward in one of the state regulated operations. On Thursday, the social… Read more »
Though it sounds like at least one more online poker room is getting close to launch in the state of Nevada, the fact remains that Ultimate Poker is still the only legal, regulated poker site up and running in the Silver State. Amongst the many advantages of being the only player in the market is… Read more »
The Global Poker Index (GPI) announced today that has purchased The Hendon Mob Limited (UK), owner of TheHendonMob.com. The website is best known for its industry-leading live poker tournament database as well as being home to the world’s largest UK online poker community. “We are very excited and extremely proud to count The Hendon Mob… Read more »
Almost a year after receiving its license to operate intrastate online poker games in the state of Nevada, South Point Poker LLC appears to be close to launch. No exact launch date has been announced, but signs are pointing to positive movement in the near future. On August 23rd, 2012, South Point made history when… Read more »
Continuing the effort of online poker rooms to reduce the impact of skilled regulars sapping money from the unsuspecting and, in turn, the poker economy, the iPoker Network will soon be introducing “Heads-Up Hogging Prevention” to all of its dot-com skins. Initially reported by Pokerfuse, this new feature is a system which monitors players sitting… Read more »
Ultimate Poker (UP), the first and still the only regulated online poker site to get up and running in Nevada, revealed a couple tidbits about its upcoming VIP program late last week. The highlight, as posted by Ultimate Poker representative Scott “Scottyy” Yeates on Two Plus Two, is that the site will use the “Winner… Read more »
Even though it has been well over two years since the indictments of “Black Friday” and almost two years since the shutdown of the site, further delays are expected for those players in the United States who have been expecting repayment from Full Tilt Poker. According to Bob Pajich of CardPlayer.com, the Garden City Group… Read more »
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker will be hosting a live poker series in the Montreal area this fall. The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival will feature 17 events over two weeks beginning September 21st. Unlike the company’s signature online series, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), which spreads virtually every game imaginable, the… Read more »
