Merge Gaming has stopped accepting new U.S. players, according to players and two site representatives. The U.S. country option was removed from the new account form last week at Carbon Poker, PlayersOnly, Sportsbook.ag and SuperBook. The decision affects the poker platform, casino games and sports betting products. The policy may not be a permanent one,… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker starts this week, but before things really get rolling, there was still one big tournament left to complete: the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB). Hosted by the ARIA Resort & Casino, this is the second year the SHRB has run. The SHRB debuted last year, created by the upstart… Read more »
Here we are. Today, May 31st, is the first day of the 47th Annual World Series of Poker. With 69 events spanning a month and a half (not counting the break for the November Nine), the WSOP should prove once again to be one hell of an experience for all involved. There are no official… Read more »
In February, the iPoker Network launched a new type of poker game, Six-Plus Hold’em, that first gained popularity in Macau’s famous high stakes cash games. The action-packed Hold’em variant has proven quite popular. So popular, in fact, that the network has added two more stakes levels, NL50 and NL100. As often happens when new online… Read more »
The Canadian province of Québec passed its budget bill, Bill 74, two weeks ago, an occurrence that would not normally be of much interest to us to anyone outside of Québec. This time, though, things are a bit different, as included in said budget was an authorization for the province to require internet service providers… Read more »
In this day and age, there are many things or people that we would like to be able to identify simply from their appearance. From judging whether someone has donned a disguise to more sinister implications, such identification would be critical for particular situations. A software company in Israel says it has developed a facial… Read more »
The first half of the Global Poker League season has come to a close with a couple of surprising teams atop their individual conference standings. In the GPL Eurasia, the London Royals have slowly been grinding it out and now are in the lead, while the GPL Americas has seen the Montreal Nationals ascend to… Read more »
In the world of poker, one thing that many never have a chance to do is get involved in “staking” a player in a tournament. “Staking” – the act of providing part of the buy in for a player and receiving a percentage of what said player earns from that particular tournament/s – for quite… Read more »
A month ago, Senator Lindsey Graham (R – SC), a member of the kiddie table version of the Republican Presidential debates, resurrected his attempts to ban online poker in the United States by shoehorning language into the Senate Appropriations Bill. It was a longshot attempt to advance Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson’s anti-poker agenda,… Read more »
When PokerStars (or its parent company, to be exact) agreed to purchase Full Tilt Poker nearly four years ago as part of its Black Friday settlement with the Department of Justice, it also agreed to make whole all of the players whose funds had been lost or frozen when Full Tilt went down. To date,… Read more »
It was a weird day in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Tuesday as legislators voted on whether or not to legalize online gambling, including online poker, in the Commonwealth. It was generally thought that Tuesday would be a close win for the online poker community, but it strangely wasn’t. The conclusion, though, is yet to… Read more »
Once upon a time, the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) was an upstart online poker series, trying to give poker players their big tournament series fix while they waited for the giant World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) to kickoff later in the year. SCOOP is an upstart no more; it is now… Read more »
In March 2013, the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas became one of the first companies to be granted an online poker license in Nevada. Shortly before that, 888 Holdings entered into a joint venture with Avenue Capital Group to create the All American Poker Network (AAPN). The first poker room on the network was… Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced Monday an initiative that sounds like it came straight out of a decade ago: a poker education site called LearnWPT.com. LearnWPT.com is trying to differentiate itself from other poker training sites by “focusing on clarity of instruction,” which makes sense. The sites that have been/were around during the last decade… Read more »
Week 7 of the Global Poker League has concluded and, with one more week before the teams take a slight pause before heading to Las Vegas for the “Summer Series” and the 2016 World Series of Poker, two teams have opened up some space from the rest of the competition in their conferences. In the… Read more »
After a little glitch in their tabulating system negated their public vote (more on that in a moment), the Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction committee has named the two women who will join the hallowed halls of the organization during an induction ceremony this fall. For the first time earlier this month, the… Read more »
In the five years since “Black Friday” hit the online poker industry, poker professional Daniel Negreanu has been one of the more vocal critics of the people that were in charge of one of the rooms involved in that situation, Full Tilt Poker. Now, more than five years later, Negreanu is allowing one of the… Read more »
In what could prove to be a true test of whether their concept could actually work outside of a major gaming metropolis, the Global Poker League announced earlier this week that the inaugural season’s playoff schedule would take place during TwitchCon 2016, which will be held in San Diego, CA, between September 30 and October… Read more »
New York has been the most hostile battleground in the daily fantasy sports (DFS) wars in the United States, but if recent reports hold true, it appears that there may at least be some positive momentum for DFS in the Empire State in the near future. According to LegalSportsReport.com (LSR), a new DFS legalization and… Read more »
On Monday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) released the full schedule for WPT Season XV which, even though the WPT Tournament of Champions just ended, is already underway. Seth Davies won the partypoker.net Canadian Spring Championship to open the season and Andjelko Andrejevic followed that up with a win at WPT Amsterdam. In all, there… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is dead. Long live Full Tilt. On Tuesday, May 17th, Full Tilt was officially absorbed into PokerStars, ending the second – and likely last – era of the gaming site’s existence. Amaya Inc., the parent company of both sites, announced the merger in February, saying: This platform migration will allow Amaya’s development… Read more »
Poker Central announced last week that the second annual Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network. The 24/7 poker network said in January that it would air the SHRB on Poker Central itself; it is unknown if it will now be broadcast on both networks or if it… Read more »
An interstate online gambling compact between Nevada and New Jersey has never really come close to becoming a reality, but Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval still wants to try to make it happen. Speaking at the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee meeting in Las Vegas on Friday, Sandoval expressed mild frustration that his state hasn’t gotten anything… Read more »
Governor Phil Bryant signed SB 2541 Thursday, officially legalizing and regulating daily fantasy sports (DFS) in the state of Mississippi. Mississippi is the fourth state to approve of DFS this year, behind Indiana, Virginia, and neighboring Tennessee. The bill took a roundabout way to become a law. In March, the bill, called the “Fantasy Contest… Read more »
During the recent European Poker Tour Grand Final festival, poker professional Justin Bonomo was one of the fortunate individuals who was able to take some gold away from the proceedings. In the €2000 No Limit Hold’em preliminary event on May 2, he was able to defeat a field of 346 players to capture slightly more… Read more »
