Online poker news
The current bad beat jackpot on popular online poker site Carbon Poker sits at nearly $1 million. In an e-mail sent to affiliates late Sunday night, Carbon Poker officials announced that they expected the seven-figure threshold to be shattered officially within 48 hours. Read more »
Recently, members of Devilfish Poker, the flagship online poker site of the Entraction Network, logged in to see that the room had received an extreme makeover. New features that focus on betting, showing hand strengths, and displays of already folded cards make the process of hitting the ground running at Devilfish Poker even easier. Read more »
Beginning on Sunday, February 1st, PartyPoker will host a $640 buy-in $1 Million Guaranteed tournament once per month. Aptly called the Monthly Million, the first installment will take place at 17:45 GMT on the first Sunday of every month. Read more »
According to a press release by the Ongame Network of poker rooms obtained by Poker News Daily on Thursday, Betsafe will become its newest member. The site is the latest to depart from the CryptoLogic Network, which is poised to turn over its online poker clientele to the Boss Network by the end of the first quarter of 2009. Read more »
According to a customer service e-mail received on Wednesday, Playboy Gaming, the parent company of Playboy Poker, will shut its doors on January 29th. Poker News Daily has also confirmed the news with CryptoLogic, the network Playboy Poker belongs to. Read more »
PaddyPower Poker announced today that they will be beginning the third edition of one of their most popular promotion campaigns beginning on January 18th. Read more »
Despite the sagging economy in the United States and throughout the world, subscription-based online poker site PurePlay has thrived. The site doubled its player base during the 2008 calendar year and, according to a press release distributed on Tuesday, is now 10 times as large as its next closest competitor. Read more »
On Monday, two prominent organizations in the online poker world - Players Network and the National League of Poker - entered into an agreement to create an online poker room for Players Network that will be accessible to the American consumer. Read more »
In December, Carlos Poker and the iPoker Network parted ways. The move was effective in January and, this week, Carlos Poker announced that it was headed to the popular Microgaming Network. The online poker room is owned by Unibet, which also operates a Microgaming Network site. Read more »
The world of Google AdWords is about to change, as the site recently announced a modification of its policy towards gambling. Affiliates of internet gambling sites can now bid on popular industry terms, such as "online poker," according to a press release distributed Friday by Income Access. Read more »
Poker players around the world can rejoice in knowing that the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS as it's commonly known, will return for an eleventh installment. The wait won't be long, either, as FTOPS XI debuts less than one month from now on February 4th. Read more »
The latest salvo has been fired in the ongoing case pitting poker professional Clonie Gowen against her alleged former employer, Full Tilt Poker. On January 6th, attorneys representing Tiltware, Inc. and the 13 fellow poker pros that Gowen brought her suit against filed a defendant motion for dismissal. Read more »
According to Michael Corfman, Executive Director of the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA) and Chief Executive Officer of Casino City, the owners of Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP) are also the men behind CardSpike. Read more »
The World Poker Tour's subscription-based online poker room, ClubWPT, recently awarded its two millionth dollar of prize money. It has been one of the staples in the industry since its launch by the World Poker Tour (WPT), a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Read more »
In threads that have ballooned on Poker Affiliate Program's website as well as TwoPlusTwo, numerous affiliates have reported issues with payments from CardSpike, a skin of the Cake Poker Network. Read more »
Less than one week after being parting ways with the iPoker Network, NoiQPoker has joined the Entraction Network, whose flagship site is Devilfish Poker. Players will officially be moved from iPoker to Entraction by the end of January. NoiQPoker got its start back in 2006. Read more »
On Rounders Radio this week, Ultimate Bet pro Phil Hellmuth joined the Ultimate Poker Show to discuss the incorrect awarding of a pot in a hand on his home site. The UB-sponsored show is hosted by Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon and Annie Duke. Read more »
Recently, World Record Week was held on PokerStars. Already the Web's largest poker site, PokerStars sought to expand its player base and notoriety by attempting to shatter two key industry records: The Largest Online Poker Tournament and the Most Players to Simultaneously Play Poker Online. Read more »
The record for the world's largest online poker tournament was broken over the weekend, as 35,000 players turned out for the $11 buy-in $500,000 Guaranteed event on PokerStars. The tournament was specifically designed to attract the largest field ever. In the end, stan34powa parlayed his $11 into a $30,000 first place payday. Read more »
On Sunday, PokerStars will be dishing out 30 seats to its annual Caribbean Adventure (PCA), which takes place next month from the Atlantis Hotel and Casino on Paradise Island in The Bahamas. The luxurious hotel and its world-famous bridge suite set the stage for the $10,000 buy-in Main Event of the PCA, which begins on Monday, January 5th. Read more »
In a press statement issued on December 26th, the iPoker Network, one of the largest collections of online poker rooms in the world, announced that it will shed itself of NoIQ Poker and Carlos Poker effective in January of 2009. It's one of the first shakeups to be prescribed for the New Year in the poker industry. Read more »
The theme of the holiday season has been giving in the online poker world. PokerStars is offering its members a chance to become a part of the largest poker tournament ever held. Full Tilt Poker has recently stepped up to the plate and offered a pair of Holiday $100K tournaments, which will run on Saturday, December 27th and Sunday, December 28th. Read more »
On Sunday, December 28th at 4:30pm Eastern Time (16:30 ET), PokerStars, the world's largest online poker room, will bump up the prize pool of its weekly Sunday Million to $2.5 million. The marquee tournament regularly boasts a $1.5 million guarantee, making it the largest weekly event held. Read more »
Early Saturday morning, DOUBLEBALLER and Ultimate Bet front man Phil Hellmuth were battling against each other. When the smoke cleared in the hand, Hellmuth scooped the pot with a pair of deuces, despite DOUBLEBALLER holding three kings. Ultimate Bet issued a press release explaining the fluke late Tuesday afternoon. Read more »
Bodog Poker kicked off its first ever "12 Days of Poker" promotion Sunday afternoon with its first four events. The 45 tournament series runs through January 1st and will see Bodog add over $100,000 to the prize pools of the scheduled tournaments. Read more »
