Online poker news
When the poker world woke up on Tuesday morning, the player bases of online poker rooms Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker had been merged to form CEREUS. As of 12:30pm ET, over 17,000 players were seated at tables on the new network, manifesting the higher player counts that customers can expect to see in the future. Read more »
In an e-mail sent by affiliate group Chipleader to its business associates on Monday, it was revealed that CEREUS, the merged player base of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker, would launch on Tuesday. The formation of the network was originally announced back in July. Read more »
Today, many members of PokerStars were able to pick the brain of one of the top names in the poker industry. Three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Team PokerStars Pro member Barry Greenstein held a Masterclass Eight Game Single Table Tournament. Read more »
Poker News Daily has confirmed that Cake Poker is no longer accepting new customers from the state of Kentucky. A reliable source at Cake Poker told Poker News Daily, "We still continue to accept U.S. players, except players from Kentucky." Read more »
A software update for popular online poker room Absolute Poker recently caused confusion among customers when the security program AVG identified a component of it as a Trojan Horse. Poker News Daily sought explanation from Absolute Poker as well as feedback from a customer who experienced the abnormality. Read more »
In a move announced on Tuesday, the Peak Group Malta, the parent company of Sun Poker, announced that its online poker site, along with Omni Casino and CSCasino.com, will be moving to Playtech's iPoker Network effective in the middle of December. Read more »
The tenth Full Tilt Online Poker Series wrapped up over the weekend and emerging victorious from the $5,200 buy-in Two-Day tournament was Amit "amak316" Makhija, who took home a healthy $550,000 payday. Read more »
The Full Tilt Onlike Poker Series carried on in a big way the past week with a handful of online pros enjoying success on the virtual felt. Dan "imabigkidnow" Kelly took control of the FTOPS X leaderboard by making a pair of final tables and taking down Event #14 ($200 NL Hold ‘em Turbo) for over $104,000. Read more »
In a move that has been speculated for the past week, online poker rooms on the Microgaming Network will no longer accept new players from the United States. Poker News Daily has confirmed the report with Microgaming. The move went into effect on Monday across many Microgaming sites, which include Doyle's Room, Eurolinx, and Poker Host. Read more »
Rakeback is one of the fastest-growing parts of the online poker world. Sites typically make money by charging a rake, or juice, in order to play. Money taken out of the pot in a ring game and entry fees paid to play in a tournament are two of the main ways that online poker rooms generate revenue. Read more »
Just a week after forbidding its players from using the datamining site SharkScope.com, PokerStars is reconsidering its methods to prevent users from accessing the popular program. Read more »
On Monday, online poker rooms Eurolinx and Poker Host announced that they would no longer accept new customers from the United States. As Microgaming Network sites, Eurolinx and Poker Host had previously not allowed players from 13 states in the U.S. where internet gambling is problematic. Read more »
The Main Event of the Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker IV (or LEOCOP IV as it's commonly referred to) begins today, serving as the culmination of one of the most successful tournament series ever held on the online poker room. Read more »
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) X started this week and has already helped generate record traffic numbers for the site as well as massive payouts for each of the first five events. The tenth edition of the series has been a huge success thus far by covering each of its guaranteed prize pools by a wide margin. Read more »
The end of October marked the cessation of business for Fleet Street Games, a subscription-based online poker room. Each month, members of these sites, which are generally legal in the United States, pay a fee which allows them access to thousands of dollars in tournaments. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that poker network Microgaming may be leaving the United States market entirely, according to a reliable source that represents one of its online poker rooms. Currently, the site enforces an IP block on customers from 13 U.S. states. Read more »
In an e-mail sent to its affiliates on Thursday, the Fortune Lounge Group announced that it would no longer accept new players from the United States beginning on Monday, November 10th. Instead, the Group will shift its attention to bringing in new customers from the rest of the world. Read more »
In the latest twist in the reimbursement of players at Ultimate Bet, a subsidiary of the parent company (Tokwiro) of the online poker room has won a $15 million judgment against Excapsa, a software manufacturer and former owner of the site. Read more »
The tenth chapter of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) will get underway Wednesday evening with a $200 Six-Max No Limit Hold'em event. It is the first of 25 tournaments that make up a total guaranteed prize pool of more than $15 million. Read more »
In a move that broke across many of the major online poker forums this morning, PokerStars banned its players from using the database site SharkScope.com and its corresponding Heads Up Display (HUD). SharkScope now joins other collective databases like Poker Edge as not permitted on the site. Read more »
Due to ongoing liquidation involving software manufacturer Excapsa, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), Ultimate Bet's regulatory agency, may give the online poker site an extension on its mandates that were set forth on September 29th. Read more »
Amidst an ongoing legal battle in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States, several online poker rooms and networks have altered their policies towards players from that locale. Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Merge Gaming Network has blocked any new players from Kentucky from setting up an account on any of its client poker rooms. Read more »
On Saturday, November 1st, players on PartyPoker will be in for quite a treat. The season of gift-giving will be coming just a little earlier for its members, who will have a chance to take home a portion of an estimated $1.9 million prize pool slated to be given out to 10,000 players. Read more »
The Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker IV (LEOCOP IV) held the fourth tournament on its docket on Wednesday, which was a $22 buy-in Beat the Team event with $10,000 added. The goal was to knock out Ladbrokes-sponsored pros in the field in order to capture a rich prize placed on each person's head. Read more »
The Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker (LEOCOP) kicked off over the weekend, the fourth time that the tournament series has been held. This time around, it boasts $500,000 in money added to the prize pools of 16 tournaments, culminating in a $250,000 added Main Event on November 9th which has a $1,100 buy-in. Read more »
