Online poker news
Starting on Monday, June 28th, PartyPoker is dishing out 1.8 million cards as part of its brand new Card Rush XL promotion. The opportunity to win is open until July 31st or when the nearly two million cards are given away, whichever comes first. Amass 15 Party Points on the virtual felts of one of… Read more »
Over the next two weekends, the online poker site UB.com and the free training site UB.net will be giving the opportunity for poker players to earn their way to the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), with one participant earning their seat without spending a dime. Currently running right now up until… Read more »
MyPokerCard is offering its customers a prepaid credit card that has little to no connections to a person’s bank account. The Gold MasterCard offered by the company – which the site states grants “instant approval” to applicants – allows the player to load up to £500 daily (and a maximum of a £5,000 balance), thus… Read more »
Through the UB.com Pro Social Freerolls, the online poker site has offered the chance for its players to skydive with Joe Sebok and head out on a date with Tiffany Michelle. Now, it will give players the chance to hang with sponsored pro Scott Ian as his band Anthrax performs at one of the premier… Read more »
Fresh off the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Brandon Cantu has re-signed with the online poker site UB.com for one year. The Las Vegas resident owns more than $3.6 million in lifetime tournament earnings. Cantu had originally signed with UB.com in May 2009 and appeared at the site’s party at Studio… Read more »
There’s more than just money and bracelets on the line this year at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Four online poker players will be competing over the next six weeks for a spot in the prestigious DoylesRoom Brunson 10, a group of pros handpicked by 10-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Each of the… Read more »
On Sunday, June 6th, the virtual felts of the CEREUS Network site UB.com will come alive with a special 25-Seat Guarantee to send players to the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The tournament begins promptly at 4:00pm ET and comes with a price tag of $530. The cost to get into the… Read more »
First Cole South, now Brian Townsend. On his blog posted on Wednesday, Townsend revealed that he’d be stepping down as the lead instructor of the popular poker training site CardRunners. Instead, he outlined his new role: “I will still be around in the capacity that I was before I joined CardRunners as a lead instructor.… Read more »
UB.com’s Joe Sebok and Full Tilt Poker’s Gavin Smith are famous not just for being poker players and poker personalities, but also for their prop bets over the years. Smith has Sebok’s initials tattooed on his shoulder after losing a bet, Sebok had to wear several embarrassing costumes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP)… Read more »
Plagued by encryption issues and major tournament series on other online poker sites, the CEREUS Network dropped from the sixth largest worldwide to ninth according to PokerScout.com. Two weeks later, the network, which consists of UB.com and Absolute Poker, has reclaimed its spot at number six. The PokerScout.com Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update revealed that… Read more »
The Cake Poker Network partnered with European-based online casino software provider CTXM last week in a plan to market their services jointly to gaming sites worldwide. The Cake Poker Network and CTXM and will now share online poker sites PowerPoker.com, the newly launched AdamEvePoker.com, and the soon-to-be-launched Comeon.com. Said CTXM CEO Udy Yosha, “Since Cake… Read more »
Facebook and Zynga Game Network came to a five-year agreement this week to keep Zynga’s games on the world’s largest social network. Zynga, a game developer whose browser-based list of games includes Farmville, YoVille, Mafia Wars, and Texas Hold’em Poker, has more than 230 million active users monthly, of which 65 million play every day.… Read more »
Although Sundays are known primarily as tournament days in the online poker world, CEREUS Network partners UB.com and Absolute Poker are giving players a solid alternative this weekend. For a full 24 hours on Sunday, May 23, the two sites will award all their customers twice the number of UltimatePoints and AbsolutePoints for their play.… Read more »
If you’re playing online poker for real money, then you should be taking advantage of rakeback. Our family of Play Poker Network sites, which includes ThisIsTheNuts.com and PocketFives.com, offers 33% rakeback on Cake Poker. In April, one player made mincemeat of the site’s competition, Prescott “Ingenol” Murphy. The Pennsylvania poker player piled up a five-figure… Read more »
On Sunday, programmers for the popular CEREUS Network fixed a security issue after implementing OpenSSL for client-server communication. The custom-based XOR encryption appears to be no more. PokerTableRatings.com, which first reported that players’ hole cards could potentially be hacked via a wireless network, posted in an update on Sunday, “We can confirm that SSL is… Read more »
In the all-new Cake Shop, introduced in recent days on Cake Poker, players can redeem their hard-earned Gold Chips for Cake Poker gear, tournament tokens, bonus cash, the newest electronics, a Ducati Super Bike, and even… cake! Long recognized for its industry-leading VIP program, Cake Poker rewards players of all levels. The site’s loyalty program,… Read more »
On Friday, CEREUS Network developers rolled out OpenSSL encryption for Absolute Poker and UB.com. Tokwiro Chief Operating Officer Paul Leggett announced on UB.com’s blog, “We have done thorough testing on the release and everything is working as it was designed. We are now engaging several third parties to test the new Client-Server encryption.” Shortly thereafter,… Read more »
In his blog on PokerRoad.com Tuesday, Team UB pro Joe Sebok addressed the recent security problems involving CEREUS Network sites UB.com and Absolute Poker. Players waited anxiously to hear from anyone associated with the two sites and Sebok responded with his take on the reports that outraged the poker community last week. “It goes without… Read more »
Due in part to a recent encryption vulnerability, the CEREUS Network fell from the sixth largest in the world in terms of real money ring game traffic to ninth this week, according to PokerScout.com. Major sites such as PokerTableRatings.com, which first reported the security flaw, urged real money players on CEREUS Network sites UB.com and… Read more »
Two weeks ago, we detailed the writings of Haley Hintze, a former PokerNews.com editor who had posted new evidence in the 2007 Absolute Poker “superuser” cheating scandal. Hintze has since made three more posts presenting additional evidence that she believes further implicates Absolute Poker co-founder Scott Tom and illustrates the complex tapestry of interwoven cheating… Read more »
A recent article that appeared on PokerTableRatings.com addressed potential encryption issues on the CEREUS Network sites UB.com and Absolute Poker. According to PokerTableRatings.com, hackers could have been able to access players’ hole cards. PokerTableRatings.com opened its piece by explaining, “We have no way of knowing if this exploit has been discovered and used to steal… Read more »
Extending its reach outside of the poker world, Full Tilt Poker announced a new sponsorship deal that should expose the room to millions around the world. In a statement on the team’s website on Thursday, Formula One racing team Virgin Racing announced that it had reached a sponsorship deal with the second largest online poker… Read more »
From 00:00 ET on Saturday, May 8th to 23:59 ET on Sunday, May 9th, players on the popular CEREUS Network sites UB.com and Absolute Poker can earn twice as many Ultimate Points and Absolute Points in sit and gos. All sit and go tables on the USA-friendly CEREUS Network are eligible. The pair of online… Read more »
The popular poker training site CardRunners was recently re-launched and now includes a bevy of new features. In addition, the site has welcomed 25 new guest pros to the team specializing in a wide range of poker genres. Among the new features is a revamped video player. Text found on CardRunners’ all-new website explains the… Read more »
On Sunday, May 16th at 17:00 ET, Full Tilt Poker will host a $200+$100 charity tournament to raise funds for Thuy Doan, who is battling cancer. Doan has paid out considerable medical expenses and now requires a prosthetic leg. However, her insurance company will not foot the bill for the $15,000 procedure. As a result,… Read more »
