Online poker news
PokerStars released the tentative schedule for the 2013 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Wednesday, revealing a 65-event slate that begins on Sunday, September 8th and concludes Sunday, September 29th. This is the tournament series for those with larger bankrolls, as buy-ins start at $215 and go all the way up to $15,400 for the… Read more »
Yesterday, OnlinePokerReport.com reported that “sources close to the process” have said that Full Tilt Poker plans to expand its portfolio and add casino gambling to its offerings. That information has been confirmed this morning, as Rational Group, parent company of Full Tilt, has issued an official statement to media outlets. “The Rational Group intends to… Read more »
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will return next month to give poker players their 23rd chance at big money and custom avatars. FTOPS XXIII is still essentially the same as FTOPS past, though compared to the March running of the poker festival, there have been several changes. FTOPS XXIII will have one more… Read more »
Social gaming titan Zynga revealed its real-money gambling Facebook apps today at an event in Barcelona. According to VentureBeat.com, the company will initially launch the games in the United Kingdom, though the launch date is yet unknown. Zynga already dipped its toe into the real-money gaming water in April, when it launched ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlus… Read more »
In news broken by Pokerfuse.com Tuesday, the man most people consider the greatest living poker player, Phil Ivey, will be the face of a new online gaming company in California. The company, Pala Interactive, is a joint venture between the Pala Band of Mission Indians and former online gaming executive Jim Ryan. PokerFuse reports that… Read more »
PokerStars announced the launch of a new, optional security measure Monday which will allow players to be aware of what’s going on with their accounts even when not logged in. In a post on Two Plus Two, PokerStars’ Head of Public Relations Michael Josem let the poker community know of the availability of SMS Validation,… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, only debuted the Micro Millions tournament series last March, but in just over a year, it has become one of the most popular poker festivals on the internet. This month will mark the fifth iteration of Micro Millions, which begins July 18th and runs through July 28th. Micro… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker announced Monday the re-launch of its Black Card loyalty program, the program for the poker site’s elite, high volume players. Shyam Markus, Full Tilt’s Poker Room Manager, provided details to the poker community on Two Plus Two. Make no mistake, Black Card is not for the recreational, low-volume player. It is for… Read more »
Yesterday, we reported on the Trump Taj Mahal and Ultimate Poker forging a partnership to bring online gambling to the state of New Jersey. Today, two more deals between Atlantic City casinos and online gaming providers have been made public. The other Trump property in Atlantic City, Trump Plaza, has reportedly partnered with online gaming… Read more »
Ultimate Poker, the first legal, licensed online poker room to go live in Nevada, is making a push to become the first to go live in New Jersey. The Stations Casinos-owned site announced Monday that it has inked a deal with Trump Taj Mahal Associates LLC to offer real money online poker in the Garden… Read more »
Popular online tournament tracking and player results site SharkScope.com stopped displaying statistics from 888Poker tournaments this week upon the request of 888, calling the development “extremely disappointing.” SharkScope management released a statement Wednesday explaining that 888 would not go for alternate solutions such as requiring players to “opt-in” to have their results tracked by the… Read more »
Online poker room BetOnline.com is offering players a unique opportunity to buy-in to a $15,000 guaranteed prize pool multi-table tournament on the cheap this weekend. Now, normally when we think about being able to get a seat in a tourney for below face value, we’re talking about winning a satellite. Not this time. BetOnline is… Read more »
Earlier this month, false reports came out about Caesars Entertainment launching its real money, World Series of Poker-branded, Nevada online poker site before the start of the 44th Annual World Series of Poker. It was wishful thinking and did make some sense: what better time to launch a WSOP intrastate poker site than when thousands… Read more »
Though just 38-years old, Daniel Negreanu has been on the poker scene a long time. Once one of the “new school” group of up-and-comers, he may now be considered “old school,” or at the very least “gently-aged school.” Regardless, he has won scores of live tournaments in his poker career, but has never captured a… Read more »
What hasn’t been said about Viktor “Isildur1” Blom that still needs to be said? The guy is a sicko. On Monday night, the nosebleed stakes cash game king showed that he’s not a one trick pony, winning the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) $10,000 Main Event, adding over $1 million to his already… Read more »
Never one to miss out on the opportunity to start a new poker series, Full Tilt Poker has announced MTOPS, the Micro Turbo Online Poker Series. The action is set to kick off this coming Sunday, June 9th, and will run for two weeks through June 23rd. MTOPS is a chance for those who want… Read more »
Minted Poker customers who have given up on ever seeing their deposits again may be able to recoup their losses. It’s not a great chance, but it’s a chance. The beleaguered online poker room announced yesterday that it is moving from the Everleaf Gaming Network to the really-never-heard-of-before Plutos Poker Network. The Everleaf saga has… Read more »
It’s not a meteoric rise in traffic, but it’s something. Online poker monitoring site PokerScout.com reported yesterday that for the second week in a row, online poker cash game traffic increased. Like the previous week, last week’s increase was small – just 0.2 percent – but that’s better than the alternative. Six of the top… Read more »
According to a report by Howard Stutz of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) is looking into the relationship between Ultimate Poker and iovation, the company that provided Ultimate Poker with identity verification services until last Thursday. Ultimate Poker became the first legal and regulated online poker room to go live… Read more »
One day the UltimateBet cheating scandal will die and, aside from never forgetting what happened, we won’t have to talk about it again. But until then, the tremors continue to rumble. On Friday, UltimateBet insider and Russ Hamilton’s computer expert, Travis Makar, published, among other things, an audio recording of a meeting between Hamilton, UB… Read more »
Ultimate Poker (UP), the first licensed online poker room to launch in Nevada, announced this weekend that as of late Thursday, May 9th, it has “discontinued the use of all services from Iovation.” Iovation was used to verify the identities of new UP customers. The connection to Iovation became publicly known the very first day… Read more »
The beleaguered Lock Poker has had quite a bit of trouble over the past few months as it continues to offer online poker to U. S. residents. Now it has to bid adieu to two of its more prominent professional players from its Lock Poker Pros team. According to the PokerNews UK’s Matthew Pitt, online… Read more »
We all knew it was coming. And now it’s almost here. At the European Poker Tour Grand Final, PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones announced that the world’s largest online poker room will soon be launching its Road to 100 Billion celebration. That’s one hundred billion cash game hands over the history of PokerStars.… Read more »
Online poker cash game traffic monitoring website PokerScout.com released its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, revealing the first weekly increase in the number of players sitting down to ring games in two months. Before everyone starts jumping for joy, it was only a half a percent increase, but still, that is better than the… Read more »
Back in the “good old days” of online poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were fierce rivals. Numbers one and two in the traffic rankings, they were in the business of trying to one-up each other. PokerStars had the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP); Full Tilt launched the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS).… Read more »
