The French Partouche Group will shut down its online poker site in the restricted and highly taxed French market on June 17, confirmed its owner Patrik Partouche. The reason for such a decision is lack of profitability, despite the fact that the site was one of the first to ob...
Various player reports started arriving this week that Massive Group N.V.-owned Moore Games has gone offline without providing its players with any prior notice. Whether this move has anything to do with an earlier financial dispute between the online...
It seems Nevada's online poker drive is energetically pushed forward by the state governor Brian Sandoval who is already discussing cooperation with like-minded fellow governors. So far it is not known which states’ governors are in question, but Sandoval specified that “I’ve talked with a few governors and I’m introducin...
The Californian tribal interests in the online poker legalisation are at their final stage, with the draft proposal circulating among interested parties in the state. This third initiative will be competing with renewed proposa...
The latest reports in the Full Tilt Poker class action involve news that some of the defendants in the lawsuit that seeks to recover gambling losses from former Full Tilt Poker-Tiltware LLC individuals and entities requested a protective order against class action discover...
This week, another skin left the beleaguered Everleaf online poker network - one of its most popular skins, to be precise, Minted Poker (.eu). Minted Poker thereby changed Everleaf for a young Curacao-licensed Plutos poker network, from which it offers lucrative incentives su...
The latest reports from the online poker industry in Nevada indicate that the one to follow Ultimate Poker and become the second online poker operator in the Nevada, US market is a venture between Caesars Entertainment and pa...
Judging by the latest announcement from French operator Groupe Partouche, the French market will lose another big player. Namely, on May 15 Partouche informed its players that it will close its .fr site for business on June 17 due to difficult market conditions and tax environment. Reportedly, the group has already requested French regulator...
Bitter relationship between Colony Capital, the owners of the troubled Atlantic Club in New Jersey and Pokerstars parent The Rational Group was increased last week when Rational succeeded in obtaining a temporary restraining order as the two companies fought...
The management of Ultimate Poker has already axed Iovation, a business founded by Greg Pierson, who was allegedly one of the individuals involved in the incriminating recorded discussion between UltimateBet executives and their lawyers on the hole card cheating scandal back in...
In an interview given over the weekend, apart from the already reported explanations regarding delayed payments and similar issues experienced by Lock Poker players, the company owner and CEO Jennifer Larson continued to explain her company's position on problems w...
International ace Phil Hellmuth, the World Series of Poker's most successful player, has released a statement on his involvement with UltimateBet in the wake of the fresh disclosures on Youtube tapes. After listening to the incriminating tapes, Hellmuth made the statement expressing regret over his association with the cheating online poker ent...
In return to international poker ace Phil Ivey’s suit for payment of millions of pounds in winnings, the Crockfords poker room in London responded with claims that he exploited a design or manufacturing flaw on the cards to ensure that he won big. What they imply is t...
A report came this week that one of the main defendants in a federal government sweep on illegal poker in New York, Vadim Trincher, could soon get out of jail thanks to a $10 million bail set late last week by Manhattan federal Judge Jesse Furman. The bail is accompanied by a condition of home confinement despite the protests of prosecutors, who...
In an interview given last week, the owner of the reportedly beleaguered Lock Poker company, Jennifer Larson stated that it is impossible to moderate fears of Lock Poker's financial security through an independent third party verification, because the US Department of Justice is in the wings waiting to take legally questionable action that could se...
A ten year-old the multi-million dollar Ultimatebet hole card cheating scandal has resurrected over the weekend with the tapes being released onto the internet implying to record a discussion on the cheating software between lawyers and Ultimatebet executives including the now notorious Russ Hamilton . Allegedly former Hamilton associate Travis...
Reports came over the weekend about a ban imposed by Playtech’s iPoker Network on its super affiliate Muchos Poker this week. So far, it is not clear why the network made such a decision, but it is known that they are conducting a security investigation and that the whole issue may be linked to player-to-player transfer issues. In its b...
On Friday an audio tape recorded by UltimateBet cheater Russ Hamilton was released by Hamilton’s former computer expert. The recording reveals the roles played by Hamilton, Greg Pierson and several others involved in cheating the online poker site. Special software allowed the players to cheat UltimateBet for four years from 2003 to 2007....
In the latest development with Lock Poker, the company management broke silence and announced that player-to-player money transfers are now subject to a new policy restricting any withdrawal until 15 percent of the amount has been generated as rake. Furthermore, in their website statement, the management advised that "Through a detailed investig...
News came this week that the owner of beleaguered online poker site Lock Poker, which has been hitting headlines recently due to allegations of delayed-payment tactics, interference with player-to-player money transfers, and loss of its sponsored pros Paul Volpe and Chris Moorman who chose not to renew their contracts, decided to personally do dama...
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