Online poker news
Eleven years after it was basically shut down in the States of America, regulated online poker has scrambled back to be a force. States that have an adequate size AKA player pool, such as Pennsylvania and Michigan, are seeing very decent numbers for their online poker products (and their online casino operations overall). Those states… Read more »
Pay once and just play poker In one of the more upfront and anticipatory names for an online poker tournament we have ever seen, GGPoker announced on Monday the GGMasters Overlay Edition tourney, set for Sunday, March 20. The $150 event comes with a stunning $5 million guaranteed prize pool. And therein lies the reason… Read more »
Faded a bunch of outs Tony G went from professional poker play to politician, but now he’s back to poker and methinks he is not regretting it one bit. On Friday, Antanas “Tony G” Guoga won the largest pot in online poker history: $7.75 million. He accomplished the feat on CoinPoker, a site for which… Read more »
Trying to keep it clean If you are reading this from Russia or Moldova, and thank you if you are, since not even my family reads anything I write, and you have been frequenting partypoker for your online poker fulfillment, it is time to find a new poker room. Last week, the site sent e-mails… Read more »
A first for online poker You know it was going to happen. Online poker and cryptocurrency intersected years ago and now non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are coming to the industry. On Monday, partypoker announced that it is working with Theta Labs on what it calls the “first-ever integrated NFT platform in poker.” The NFTs will depict… Read more »
Not totally privatized, actually The long road to legal, privatized online gambling in Ontario is about to end. On Friday, iGaming Ontario (iGO) announced the launch date for operators to start offering games is April 4. There was hope that this would have already happened near the end of 2021, but this is government and… Read more »
Now he just needs the earnings title If you register for a high stakes poker tournament and see Michael Addamo there, I highly advise you to turn around and go home or turn off your computer. He is going to win it. On Tuesday, he continued his insane run, winning the $10,300 GGPoker Super MILLION$… Read more »
There may be many who complain about the States of America and its “overbearing regulations” but, when it comes to regulators in the area of gaming and poker, the United Kingdom might just take the cake as one of the harshest arbiters in the industry. Recently, however, the organization responsible to ensure compliance with advertising… Read more »
From busto to robusto? Run It Once Poker, the online poker room founded by former poker pro Phil Galfond, has packed in its global operations. As of 2:00am CET on Monday, January 3, games in progress could no longer be joined. Eight hours later, all games were shut down. That’s the bad news. The good… Read more »
If you’re been around the online poker world for any length of time, you have probably heard of the myriad of ways that people believe cheating is done (rightfully or wrongly). The last person you would think would make accusations of malfeasance would be one of the top pros in the game who cut his… Read more »
Six high stakes tables Well, it looks like this is PokerStars week here at PND. It’s unintentional, but hey, poker news tends to be slow around the holidays, so we’ll take what we can get. In today’s edition, we’re not going to talk about Stars tournaments, but rather the site’s cash games. Specifically, high stakes… Read more »
Familiar structure The PokerStars Winter Series is back this month, offering $50 million in guaranteed prize pools across 291 tournaments. Cue the “unwrapping presents” cutesy phrase, as the festivities get going on Christmas Day, December 25, and run through January 12. As is the case for many PokerStars tournament series, the Winter Series has a… Read more »
Very limited for now PokerStars is testing the use of webcams at its virtual poker tables. First reported by Poker Industry PRO, “video chat” is currently only available on a limited basis in some “dot com” and “dot eu” markets and solely in Stars’ Home Games offering. It is also only integrated into the online… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Winter Online Circuit returns this weekend on GGPoker, with 18 ring events up for grabs. Those dozen and a half ring events come with over $26 million in guaranteed prize pools. The headline number, though, is $100 million. That’s the amount of guaranteed prize money across all of the… Read more »
Table facelift On Monday, partypoker unveiled its new-look poker tables. They aren’t a drastic change from the previous iteration, but there are clear improvements that the online poker room believes will make players quite happy. The most obvious changes are the visuals. Again, it still looks like partypoker – it’s not unrecognizable or anything –… Read more »
Turkey Day poker in the US PokerStars is the king of tournament series, so now is as good a time as ever for the site to introduce a new tournament series. On Wednesday, Stars revealed Fall Fest in the United States, with separate tournaments in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan running November 20-29. It’s all… Read more »
Over $10 million in guarantees To celebrate its 20th anniversary, PokerStars has announced a special tournament series, The Big 20 Rewind. Running November 14 through December 4, the Big 20 Rewind features – you guessed it – 20 tournaments. Each event represents an “iconic moment” in the online poker room’s history. PokerStars is guaranteeing $5.5… Read more »
Parties need more time Today was the deadline for sports betting and daily fantasy sports leader DraftKings to officially make an offer to buy partypoker owner Entain, but an offer never materialized. That does not mean that the deal is dead, however, as Entain has extended what it calls the “put up or shut up”… Read more »
I cannot begin to tell you how jealous I am of those of you living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (and Nevada and Delaware, but those aren’t totally relevant for our purposes right now). I used to play online poker every day. I wasn’t that good – probably break even at micro-low stakes before… Read more »
Just a little red tape Online gambling in Connecticut – including the highly anticipated online sports betting – has been delayed beyond the originally scheduled October 7 start date. The reason: an unforeseen hiccup with federal procedures. Because Connecticut gambling expansion required the compacts between the state and both the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and… Read more »
As the calendar page turned to October, PokerStars launched its new (“and improved”!) PokerStars Rewards loyalty program. Available on most Stars sites around the world, the update comes after three months of testing with about a fifth of the company’s player base. “Listening to community feedback, we know our players want more rewards, more ways… Read more »
Need a license to get in the game The Netherlands is cleaning its online gambling house, ready to start fresh in October. After Dutch lawmakers passed the Remote Gambling Act in April, internet gambling became legal, but operators must be licensed to offer their games. As such, Dutch regulator De Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has set a… Read more »
Apparently that wasn’t DraftKings’ best offer Late Tuesday, after partypoker’s parent company Entain confirmed that DraftKings had put forth an offer to buy the UK-based gambling company, Entain pulled back the curtain further, revealing that it was already considering a second offer from DraftKings. The original offer, according to CNBC, was for $20 billion. Entain… Read more »
Stars had already paid $100 million Flutter Entertainment, parent company of online poker giant PokerStars, has settled its legal battle with the state of Kentucky, agreeing to pay $300 million in fines. It is a healthy chunk of change, but a far cry from the $1.3 billion Flutter was starting at in case that dates… Read more »
That’s a serious offer The financial markets were abuzz on Tuesday with the news that daily fantasy sports and sports betting giant DraftKings has made a $20 billion offer to acquire UK-based gambling company Entain. According to CNBC, the offer is in both stock and cash, but mainly the former. The Entain name in and… Read more »
