As of 3:00pm ET on Wednesday, September 18th, Garden City Group (GCG), the U.S. Department of Justice-appointed claims administrator for the return of Full Tilt Poker funds to U.S. players, has launched the Full Tilt Poker Claim Filing Site. Former U.S. customers of the poker room can now officially file their petitions to be reimbursed… Read more »
At the very least, you can admire the guy’s industriousness. Too bad he didn’t use his powers for good. After a lengthy investigation, Argentine police arrested a 19-year old young man for allegedly running a hacking network that milked money from victims’ online gaming accounts. The process leading up to the unnamed hacker’s arrest began… Read more »
The 591 survivors from the first two starting days came together to battle it out on Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event Tuesday and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the night, just 174 players were left standing (or sitting, as the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event was completed Monday and, as expected, there was a fantastic turnout. 813 players registered for Day 1B, more than double the number of runners the tournament fielded on Day 1A. Paul Volpe bagged the most chips – 231,850 –… Read more »
The week that former Full Tilt Poker customers in the United States have been eagerly awaiting has arrived. The remissions process has begun. Beginning today, Garden City Group (GCG), chosen by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to be the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator, has started sending e-mails to… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) continues its stint in the States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. The $3,500 tournament features two starting flights and will run through Friday. Sunday’s Day 1A saw 376 players register and just 166 make it all the way through still holding chips.… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the largest online gaming company in the industry, bwin.Party, is reportedly entertaining an offer for a takeover of the company to one of the most powerful entities in the internet game. Writer Geoff Foster of the Daily Mail reported that bwin.Party, which has seen its stock price slowly slide downward over… Read more »
In court documents obtained by an English newspaper, poker pro Phil Ivey and a London casino have filed their claims with a London court, with the casino alleging that Ivey cheated for his nearly £8 million in winnings and Ivey claiming he simply used a “gambler’s edge” to take down his windfall. The Daily Mail… Read more »
With a slight lull before the final charge to the end of the calendar year, Daniel Negreanu has made his move towards reclaiming the lead in several Player of the Year rankings that he started the year with. While he’s been able to claim two of them, the third one has still eluded him but… Read more »
According to reports out of the state, many New Jersey casinos have yet to file critical paperwork with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement as the state readies to launch their full online casino gaming network in just over two months. Meadowlands Matters writer John Brennan reports that Atlantic City casinos received a letter… Read more »
The contents of an e-mail from Full Tilt Poker claims administrator Garden City Group (GCG) were divulged to the poker community Tuesday, stirring up suspicions that the United States government will be none too generous when it comes to reimbursing former American customers of the online poker site. The e-mail was posted on Two Plus… Read more »
According to a number of reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) is targeting November 23rd as the launch date for online gambling in the Garden State. When the gaming legislation was passed, the soft go-live deadline was nine months from February 26th, thus three days after this most recent mark. The DGE… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has closed its poker room. Last week, a representative from the casino told USPoker.com that the poker room simply closed; there was no internal or external communication about it at all. CardPlayer.com wrote yesterday that a spokesperson said the poker room will… Read more »
Online poker traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com issued its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, indicating that the summer doldrums are over, as cash game traffic was up for the third consecutive week. Last week specifically, traffic increased 2.9 percent, with only one of the top ten poker rooms and networks declining. That one laggard was… Read more »
On Thursday, FullFlushPoker.com became the first online poker room to launch on the new Equity Poker Network (EPN). The network, founded by former BetOnline CEO Clive Archer, is billed to be a non-profit online poker network, existing to serve its member rooms. EPN was announced in mid-March, calling itself a “cooperative” network. In a typical… Read more »
PartyPoker released its long-awaited new online poker client last Thursday introducing players to a new, socially-centered game experience. The highly anticipated launch, however, could have gone more smoothly. First, let’s take a quick look what’s new. The first thing players will notice after the software is downloaded, installed, and launched, is the new branding. Out… Read more »
The festivities at the first stop for the European Poker Tour’s Season Ten have come to a conclusion, with Tom Middleton finishing off what he started in winning the Main Event and Thomas Muhlocker besting Daniel Negreanu in the €10,000 High Roller. Middleton, who took over the lead in the Main Event on Day Four,… Read more »
In the finale at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, last night, Vanessa Rousso took down the World Poker Tour’s Ladies’ Night invitational tournament for charity while the poker community also bade farewell to WTP anchor Kimberly Lansing. The players in the tournament – Rousso, Lansing, Liz Lieu, Lily Kiletto, Jessica Dawley and LIPS… Read more »
The monstrous field that showed up for the European Poker Tour’s first stop of Season Ten in Barcelona, Spain, has been whittled down to only 24 players, but it was the action in the €10,000 High Roller tournament that has drawn a great deal of attention from the poker community. 79 players came back on… Read more »
Since April, Nevada has been enjoying its place as the only regulated online poker market in the United States. With two other states, New Jersey and Delaware, ramping up their online gaming efforts for a debut by the end of 2013, many in the gaming industry are wondering if Nevada will be left in the… Read more »
Coming from the middle of the pack, Jordan Cristos outlasted veteran poker professional Dan Heimiller to take his first major championship at the 2013 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, late last night. At the start of the day, it didn’t look like it would be these… Read more »
The money bubble burst in the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Wednesday as the field narrowed from 235 players to just 79. Thomas Middleton finished as the only player above the million chip mark, though Alejandro Perez Torres (990,000) and Kevin Vandersmissen (970,000) are mere blinds below that line. As was the… Read more »
The televised final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event has been set and it looks to be a very competitive one. Leading the charge heading into Wednesday is Ryan Goindoo with 5.57 million chips. While he is the only player with more than 5 million chips, two more… Read more »
The survivors from the first two starting flights of the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event came together Tuesday in a single field for Day 2of the season’s kickoff event. Six more levels were completed yesterday and emerging as the chip leader of the remaining 235-player field was Pablo Tavitian with 465,000 chips.… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event began with 71 players. It ended with just 15. The chip leader going into Monday, Dan Heimeller, is still in contention, bagging up 2.155 million chips, but it was Patrick Karschamroon that did work on Labor Day, topping the field at… Read more »
