Online poker news
The Washington Post investigative team, led by writer Gilbert Gaul and assisted by ESPN poker writer Gary Wise, presented an in-depth story looking into the background of how the Kahnawake Mohawk tribe of Canada became a part of the online poker scene. Read more »
High stakes cash game specialist David Benyamine is no longer a Full Tilt red pro. For the past couple weeks Benyamine has been playing on Full Tilt's site, but his red avatar has been removed and his name is no longer listed on the official homepage with the other pros. While no press release from Full Tilt has been released and Benyamine hasn't commented, it is rumored that he has made a deal with another poker site. Read more »
Airing as the first feature on CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday was an investigation into the online poker scandals that rocked Ultimate Bet and its sister site, Absolute Poker. Both rooms are owned by Tokwiro Enterprises. Read more »
The third European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) is currently underway. Kicking off on Saturday is a $1,060 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Six-Max tournament with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool and seated among its many tables will be Antanas Guoga, who is better known in the poker world as Tony G. Read more »
In the United States, Thursday marked the annual Thanksgiving holiday. Serving as a time for friends and family to join together, the holiday was also a cause for celebration on online poker room Bodog. On Saturday, the third of four special Thanksgiving tournaments will occur on the site, a $100,000 Thanksgiving Qualifier. Read more »
The Party Poker Premier League pitched 12 of the world's top poker players on a league-style competition for a share of $1,250,000. After 3 days, JC Tran and Peter Eastgate are coming out on top, followed closely by Juha Helppi, Vicky Coren and Tony G. Read more »
SQUARE ROUTE won the very first Bad Beat Jackpot on the newly-formed CEREUS poker network, which was born when the player bases of Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker were combined on Tuesday. His bad break was worth $256,000 and the total jackpot at the time was nearly $800,000. Read more »
Titan Poker's third European Championship of Online Poker has started, with its largest guaranteed prize pool to date: $4,150,000. The kick off event had 1,420 players vying for the guaranteed $250,000 prize. Less than two years after the inaugural ECOOP, Titan Poker players are showing no signs of slowing down, with ever increasing guaranteed prizes and player fields. Read more »
As we previously reported on Poker News Daily, the story by CBS News program "60 Minutes" about the online poker cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker will air this Sunday, November 30th. In a blog posted by Nat Arem, who has been close to the investigation, it was revealed that Tokwiro COO Paul Leggett issued a memo to Ultimate Bet employees about the program airing. Read more »
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 »
