Online poker news
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 »
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 »
