Online poker news
Marc Karam is a well-known online poker personality who has been playing professionally for a number of years. Recently, his sponsored site, Eurolinx, went into liquidation on the Microgaming Network and potentially thousands of players won't see a dime of the bankrolls they held on the site for the foreseeable future. Read more »
Lock Poker, a site on the popular Cake Poker Network, has inked 12 non-U.S. online poker pros to grow its player base worldwide. Poker Players International's Randy Kasper orchestrated the signings. Read more »
In recent months, a group of users made a claim that they believe that small poker site Pitbull Poker had superusers. A similar controversy was revealed on Absolute Poker and UltimateBet with millions of dollars having changed hands. This time around, the scale of the accusations is much smaller, but the premise remains the same. Read more »
Denmark, home to reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate, is notorious for having one of the most heavy-handed taxation codes of any country in the European Union. Eastgate, who took down $9.1 million when he captured the WSOP Championship Event bracelet last November, was taxed at a 45% rate for… Read more »
Former Ongame Network CEO Patrik Selin is leading the launch of the Bodog Network, whose player base consists of customers of Bodog Europe, the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, and Haydock Entertainment. Read more »
Online poker room Ultimate Bet (UB) issued an official response to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission's (KGC) 11-page report discussing their conclusions about the UB cheating scandal. The report, issued on Thursday, claimed former World Series of Poker Main Event winner Russ Hamilton and 31 co-conspirators used 117 screennames and 23 different Ultimate Bet accounts to cheat users on the site out of over $22 million from 2003-2007. Read more »
The much-anticipated report from the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) regarding the Ultimate Bet cheating scandal was released to the public on Thursday. The 11-page document determined that a total of 23 accounts, 117 usernames and 31 individuals were involved in the cheating operation and the KGC pointed the finger at former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Russ Hamilton as the individual who benefitted the most financially from the four years of cheating on the site. Read more »
Earlier today, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) released a final report on their investigation into the cheating scandal involving Ultimate Bet (UB) and several online poker players. The story first broke in January of 2008, when complaints started filtering in about possible fraudulent activities taking place on Ultimate Bet's tables. Read more »
PokerStars' World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continued to attract massive fields this week as each event went above and beyond its guaranteed prize pool. Despite the enormous turnouts, a couple well-known professionals managed to win tournaments in the year's biggest online poker series. Read more »
The railbirds at the nosebleed cash games on Full Tilt Poker that loved watching Luke "FullFlush1" Schwartz mouth off to Tom "durrrr" Dwan earlier this year will be happy to hear there is yet another chance for the two to face off on the felt in person. Read more »
It was a busier Sunday than normal on the virtual poker felts as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) recommenced with three events, two of which played down to a champion early Monday morning. Read more »
The 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which started on September 3rd, has had several of the opening tournaments break their guaranteed prize pools to this point in the schedule. As the tournament grinds its way through its first weekend, eight WCOOP bracelets have been awarded in several different disciplines of poker. Of… Read more »
The Ultimate Bet-sponsored Aruba Poker Classic is only a month away and the online poker room recently announced a new incentive to persuade players to take a Caribbean vacation come October. Read more »
Starting on Thursday, online poker players from Canada can officially sign up for Bodog, one of the world's largest sites, through Bodog.ca. Previously, Bodog did not accept players from the North American country, which has produced some of the game's top-tier players. Read more »
PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site, is gearing up to present the seventh annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on Thursday. The 45-event series will span across 17 days and culminate with a $5,200 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Main Event on Sunday, September 20. Read more »
While millions of online poker players take part in the game throughout the world, there is a segment of the market that is frequently overlooked when it comes to online gaming. The portion of the populous that runs an Apple computer or prefers the Mac operating system (OS) is left out of many of the activities to be found online, especially poker. Read more »
PokerStars, the world's leading online poker site, once again generated the largest turnouts Sunday, as its major events extended well beyond their guarantees. The site, which is preparing for its WCOOP this week, drew nearly 9,000 players to its flagship Sunday Million tournament. Five players struck a deal and each received a six-figure payday. Read more »
Taking place throughout the month of September on Full Tilt Poker is Take 2, an innovative online poker promotion that allows players to earn up to $50 in cash and double Full Tilt Points (FTPs). Read more »
This weekend, the high-stakes action at the Full Tilt nosebleed tables was relatively calm compared to the Pot Limit Omaha frenzy that transpired last weekend. The slow action of Friday and Saturday brought an anticlimactic end to a week that saw the return of Durrrr Challenge play and a substantial loss for the player known as "martonas." Read more »
Starting in September, a $1 million guaranteed prize pool tournament will take place monthly on the massive iPoker Network. The $535 buy-in gala will kick off on September 13th at 18:00 GMT. Read more »
While Bodog grew into one of the most notable gaming platforms in the industry, the site did not accept action from Canadian players allegedly due to having business outlets in Canada that would not be protected from governmental intrusions. Recent actions have indicated, however, that this situation is about to change. Read more »
After two months of no action in the Durrrr Challenge, many of the high-stakes railbirds began chirping about the possibility that the million-dollar bet's hiatus might be permanent. However, play resumed on Monday and Tuesday, with Patrik Antonius now holding a slight lead. Read more »
As it prepares for the start of the annual WCOOP, which is set to begin on September 3rd, PokerStars is responding to what it called in a press release "inaccuracies" in media reports and quotes from competitors regarding player numbers. Read more »
The development team that had previously released a set of shortcut and hotkey tools for PokerStars applied the same theory for a solution aimed at users on Full Tilt Poker. The result was the beta release of TableNinjaFT, which is currently available for free. Read more »
A newcomer joined the high-stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker in August and has captivated the online poker world like we haven't seen in quite some time. The player, who hails from Sweden, goes by the moniker "martonas" and has already clashed with Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond, David Benyamine, Brian Hastings, and many others at some of the biggest No Limit Hold 'em and Pot Limit Omaha games on the site. Read more »
