The final stop on the 2014 calendar for the European Poker Tour is in full swing this weekend, with Leonid Markin taking down the €50,000 Super High Roller and the €5,000 Main Event in full swing. €50,000 Super High Roller 51 players took up the challenge of the €50,000 Super High Roller tournament, which started… Read more »
As a way to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the European Poker Tour, PokerStars has published a book that covers the history of what has become the top tournament circuit on the European continent. That book, however, will never be seen by the general public (at least at this point). The 300-page book, simply entitled… Read more »
On Wednesday, the offices of the Montreal-based Amaya Gaming, the owners of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and other gaming entities, were raided by Canadian authorities over allegations of insider trading. According to Nathan Vardi of Forbes.com on Thursday evening, the raid was conducted involving Amaya and two financial firms, the Canadian investment bank Canaccord Genuity… Read more »
One of the top professionals in the world of poker is Phil Hellmuth (just ask him if you don’t believe it). Hellmuth, the 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and 1989 World Champion, looks to be preparing for the upcoming World Poker Tour stop at the Bellagio in Las Vegas by making the rounds… Read more »
Costa Rican officials are not fans of the American movie industry right now. According to InsideCostaRica.com, an English-language Costa Rica news website, Costa Rican police and the Minister of Public Security have taken issue with last October’s film, Runner Runner, seeing it as a slap in the face to the country and its police force.… Read more »
Here in the United States, we recently had the infamous Black Friday. Not the horrible day in poker history back in April 2011, but rather the mega-shopping day immediately after Thanksgiving (which has now turned into the entire week of Thanksgiving) during which crazed consumers try to cash in on some fantastic deals offered by… Read more »
PokerStars, for all its warts this year, is certainly trying to end 2014 with a bang. During the entire month of December, the world’s largest poker room is running a number of promotions for its December Festival in which it will give out more than $15 million prizes. Here is the run-down $5 Million Guaranteed… Read more »
Poker players and fans can relax…for now. After speculation that anti-online gaming measures might be added to Congress’ must-pass omnibus spending bill this week, it turns out that the coast is clear for the rest of 2014 and nothing having to do with banning online poker is in the bill. It is no secret that… Read more »
There is still a long way to go before anything becomes set in stone, but if some lawmakers in New Jersey have their way, it will become harder for online poker operators to acquire a license to offer internet gambling in the state. According to The Press of Atlantic City, a bill has started to… Read more »
PokerStars continues to modify its games and policies since its purchase by Amaya Gaming earlier this year. The most recent announcement is about changes that will be made to the Tournament Leader Board (TLB) system starting in 2015. Currently, there are three leader boards, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly. Players can earn points on each by… Read more »
After coming into the day with one of the shorter stacks in the room, Jason Mercier surged through Day Two to take down the championship of the World Poker Tour Alpha8 St. Kitts. Nine players came back to the felt on Sunday to resume the festivities with Olivier Busquet holding court over the table. With… Read more »
As the tournament poker year winds down to just a few top tier events remaining, the World Poker Tour has taken its cameras to the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. The WPT Alpha8 St. Kitts completed its first day on Friday with Olivier Busquet leading a strong (and deep-pocketed) field that is vying… Read more »
On Wednesday, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) introduced online poker legislation in the state’s General Assembly. The bill, known by the nomenclature Assembly Bill (AB) 9 or the name “The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015,” is being pushed as a bill under “urgency.” This means that, if two-thirds of the Assembly and… Read more »
When United States law enforcement cracked down on internet poker in 2011 with the “Black Friday” indictments, many players who made a living playing the online game were faced with a conundrum. Would they move to another country to continue to pursue their livelihood or ply their trade in the live arena? For many the… Read more »
Let’s give this another try. On Monday, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced Assembly Bill 9, the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015 in yet another effort to get online poker legalized and regulated in the Golden State. Legislators have attempted to get the game going in the state for years, but bickering amongst the… Read more »
Is it December already? I guess that’s what happens after Thanksgiving, but man, it still feels like…not…December? At any rate, with the weather getting colder and colder and the holiday season approaching, WSOP.com has launched a slew of promotions in New Jersey. Several of them have also been duplicated in Nevada, but as New Jersey… Read more »
About a month ago, Yahoo launched its play money Texas Hold’em poker game. In another month, it will be gone. The online portal and search engine that has seemingly been around as long as the internet itself recently announced that it is eliminating all Classic Yahoo Parlor games, effective at the start of 2015. Those… Read more »
PokerScout, the poker industry’s leading cash game tracking site, released its weekly update yesterday, reporting a decline in overall online cash game traffic for the second consecutive week. It wasn’t a huge decline, just one percent, but it was a decline nonetheless. Out of the top ten poker sites and networks, half were up and… Read more »
Seating scripts have been a problem in online poker for a long time. Less than two weeks ago, PokerStars implemented the first step in a solution to curb the disruption caused by players using these scripts. Now, over the Thanksgiving weekend, the world’s largest poker site has invited players to travel to Amaya Gaming’s office… Read more »
Things happen in online poker. It’s just a fact of life. Tables freeze, players get disconnected, servers crash. It is not a frequent occurrence, but it is just natural that technological problems can happen in a game that takes place on the internet. And it’s not like issues don’t come up in live games –… Read more »
