Online poker news
According to several reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has now granted licenses to five prospective online gambling operators in the state. It has been a relatively slow process; at the end of July, the DGE confirmed that 37 applications had been filed and no doubt more have been filed since. The… Read more »
Poker pros Tom Marchese and Randy Dorfman have ended their relationships with Ultimate Poker and are no longer members of the online poker room’s “Team U.” Dorfman had signed on with Nevada’s first legal, regulated intrastate poker site in June of this year, along with Gavin Griffin, Lauren Kling, Dan O’Brien, and 2012 World Series… Read more »
In just about five weeks, the doors will open on only the second operation in the United States that will legalize online gaming and poker. On November 26, New Jersey will crack the seal and open up, for its residents, a variety of casino gaming (any game offered in an Atlantic City casino can be… Read more »
In a study commissioned by the anti-online gaming and poker crusader Sheldon Adelson, a research group has found that, while many people are not opposed to live gaming, they have objections to the online version of the same activity. In a memo dated October 9, The Tarrance Group and its founding partner, Dave Sackett –… Read more »
With online gaming in New Jersey just around the corner, at least one prospective internet operator is getting started on its marketing early. London-based Betfair has launched two sites – LetsPlayNJ.com and BetfairNJ.com – to begin hyping its internet gambling offering in the Garden State. Both websites are exactly the same and both actually display… Read more »
Late last week, Juicy Stakes Poker management sent an e-mail to its customers announcing that it has been acquired by Zagox Management N.V. Zagox, “a serious partner for all types of online gaming,” according to the e-mail, has already taken over the operation of the site. Poker players are hopeful that this will begin a… Read more »
Garden City Group (GCG), the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator authorized by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on its website Friday that former Full Tilt affiliates will be eligible to submit Petitions for Remission. Affiliates were previously excluded from the reimbursement process. In September, a list of ineligible… Read more »
When he started out, the creator (writer, director, producer and narrator) of the poker documentary Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker, Mike Weeks, was a newcomer to the movie making business. “(Drawing Dead) was my first film ever, so the expectations going into it were pretty modest,” Weeks admitted in an interview… Read more »
This past year has been an excellent one for poker documentaries (theatrical releases, not so much, as evidenced by Runner Runner and its slightly more than $7 million take in over 3000 theaters in the United States last weekend). One poker documentary, completed earlier this year, has gone under the radar to the poker community,… Read more »
As the launch date for New Jersey online gaming approaches, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has announced that player-to-player (P2P) money transfers will not be allowed. Customers of the various Garden State internet casinos will need to fund their accounts themselves if they wish to play. The rule has been in place… Read more »
For U. S. online poker players since 2011’s “Black Friday,” the last couple of years have been some tough times. There are few options for players to take part in, although there are a handful of offshore sites that still cater to players. This has led to the rise of “free play” sites (especially on… Read more »
As they stuff their turkeys, make final preparations for the family to come home and ensure there’s enough money in the bank for the upcoming Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa season, New Jersey residents will have something else to be thankful for two days before Thanksgiving. It was announced yesterday that the New Jersey online gaming industry, which has… Read more »
It is still not remotely close to being a “big” online poker site, but Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s WSOP.com finally started picking up steam during its first full week in operation. According to PokerScout.com’s Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, the World Series of Poker-branded poker room has made inroads in Nevada, grabbing market share away from… Read more »
Garden City Group (GCG), the U.S. Department of Justice-appointed claims administrator for the return of Full Tilt Poker funds to American customers, announced yesterday that all e-mail notifications have gone out to eligible players. The e-mails were an integral part of the remission process, as they contained two pieces of information – a Petition Number… Read more »
A representative of 888Poker announced yesterday on the Two Plus Two poker forum that the poker room will start to take a hard-line stance against “table campers,” or those players who frequently sit out for unreasonably long periods of time. The meat of the message from 888 read as follows: Effective immediately, we will actively… Read more »
But how much did you lose? If we were Chris Moorman’s mother, that might be something we would ask him. But we are not Chris Moorman’s mother, so let’s stick to the positives and congratulate Chris “Moorman1” Moorman for becoming the first player in history to eclipse the $10 million mark in lifetime online tournament… Read more »
Since they came online in April, Ultimate Poker has had to do little to garner the attention of Nevada online poker players. As the only game in town, they basically could sit back and wait for the players to find them. Aside from some in-house promotion around its Station Casino properties and Ultimate Fighting Championship… Read more »
According to report by Christopher Palmeri on Bloomberg.com, Caesars Entertainment Corporation will house the gaming servers of competitor Wynn Resorts in one of its Atlantic City casinos when the online gambling industry gets underway in New Jersey later this year. It is an interesting decision by Caesars and not just because Caesars and Wynn are… Read more »
Expectations were high with the launch of Caesar Interactive Entertainment’s WSOP.com Thursday. For the first time since its debut on April 30th, Ultimate Poker no longer had a monopoly in the online poker industry in Nevada. Many thought that WSOP.com would instantly become the dominant player of the two, as despite Ultimate Poker’s first-mover advantage,… Read more »
Wynn Resorts has finally made a move to get into the intrastate online poker game. On Monday, it was announced that Wynn and 888 Holdings have entered into an agreement to develop Wynn’s online poker product. Wynn’s site will be on the All American Poker Network (AAPN), a joint venture between 888 Holdings and Avenue… Read more »
Back during the peak of the poker boom, it was oh, so easy to start an online poker site. Ok, maybe “easy” is a bit of an exaggeration, but for the most part, all someone needed to get up and running was some start-up cash and a willing network. And there were plenty of willing… Read more »
After a great deal of hype this summer during its namesake event, Caesars Entertainment and 888 Holdings rolled out their World Series of Poker branded online poker site on Thursday, becoming only the second regulated online poker site to open its doors to Nevada residents. At 9:19AM on Thursday (September 19, hence the start time),… Read more »
As of 3:00pm ET on Wednesday, September 18th, Garden City Group (GCG), the U.S. Department of Justice-appointed claims administrator for the return of Full Tilt Poker funds to U.S. players, has launched the Full Tilt Poker Claim Filing Site. Former U.S. customers of the poker room can now officially file their petitions to be reimbursed… Read more »
The week that former Full Tilt Poker customers in the United States have been eagerly awaiting has arrived. The remissions process has begun. Beginning today, Garden City Group (GCG), chosen by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to be the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator, has started sending e-mails to… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the largest online gaming company in the industry, bwin.Party, is reportedly entertaining an offer for a takeover of the company to one of the most powerful entities in the internet game. Writer Geoff Foster of the Daily Mail reported that bwin.Party, which has seen its stock price slowly slide downward over… Read more »
