Tribal casino owners opposed to Wright's bill The Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations in a critique sent to state Senate president pro tempore Darrell Steinberg severely criticized California Sen. Rod Wright's online gambling legalization proposal SB1463. Represen...
Poker legend passes away It was a sad day for poker, this Sunday, Apr. 29, as one of the most famous poker players in the world, "Amarillo Slim" Thomas Preston Junior died after a long illness at the age of 83. The same generation of poker playe...
Android and iOS poker apps to be the first ones to get it The latest reports from online poker giant PokerStars involve news that it is preparing to add the largely succe...
Two South Africans present formidable skill, reaching heads up This week’s Asia Poker Tour Philippines ended in a very interesting and intense way when two South Africans confronted one another in the heads up of this $2,700 buy-in tournament. Namely, the grand finale of the event belonged to Divan Le Roux and Conrad Coetzer who outplay...
Bay Watch star to front the social poker product An announcement came this week that Tara Leigh Patrick (40) - better known as television and movie actress and model Carmen Electra has entered a deal to front the popular Texas Hold'em social game offered by Pokerist. It has been specified in the company statement that the former Bay Watch sta...
But legalisation threatens with federal ban on internet gambling in general After a year of rumors about a federal online poker legalisation bill set up by Democrat - Republican combination between Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada...
The official count of participants and the prize pool numbers are in from the 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final main event. On day 1a, 271 posted the €10,000 buy-in and day 1b drew in 394 participants. A total of 665 players hav...
Bwin Poker has launched their very own iPhone poker application. The Bwin poker app loads in offline mode so players have the option to play for free offline or on the internet but real play is where th...
Three new ones join the initiative Another three co-sponsors have decided to support Rep Joe Barton's H.R.2366 Bill on Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2011. These are Rep Mark...
From 13 going to 8 stops next year This week, online poker giant PokerStars announced that it will reduce the number of the European Poker Tour stops in season 9 next year, from the current 13 to just 8 stops. Also, it stated that it has entered partnerships with the Estrellas Poker and the UK and Ireland Poker Tours. Furthermore, the announc...
Young pro wins Euro 1.64 million Apr. 25 was a largely good day for internet and live tourney poker pro Justin Bonomo (26) who on the very date took down the Pokerstars and Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Super High Roller tourney, where he outplayed some impres...
Row with PTR causes Poker Edge to back off After the threats of legal action against data-mining company Poker Table Ratings, which saw the company dropping the stats from the giant operator PokerStars, another similar site, Poker-Edge, seems to have felt threatened by the online poker giant. Namely, it has joined PTR and removed PokerStars f...
FTP subsidiary appears to have no more interest in a class 2 AGCC licence Recently submitted application for a Class 2 Alderney Gaming Control Commission licence by Full Tilt Poker subsidiary Orinic Limited indicated that FTP was about to be resurrected by Groupe Bernar...
Quite a vague response, though Regarding the rumors that Full Tilt Poker will be taken over by Pokerstars, , head of corporate communications for PokerStars, Eric Hollreiser issued an official company statement, briefly noting: "We've had a lot of enquiries and there's lots of speculation on the forums, so I wanted to address the PokerStars chat...
Negotiations are in the works for PokerStars to acquire Full Tilt Poker. If this deal is solidified, it has the potential to finally put a stop to the two online poker companies' legal problems with the U.S. Justice Department of Justice (DOJ). The word is that the deal indicates that PokerStars would acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker; howev...
Groupe Bernard Tapie confirms that they’re out of the picture All the rumors that the French firm Groupe Bernard Tapie was about to re-launch Full Tilt Poker after almost a year of negotiating were obviously unfounded, as a report came on Apr. 24 that it’s actually the Isle of Man-based Pokerstars, who’s to acquire FTP. Name...
A lucrative take-home of Euro 231,000 This past week was a really good one for online and live tournament poker ace Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who bested the field of 57 players and won his third European Poker Tour High Roller event and claimed the Euro 231,000 main prize at EPT Berlin. Some of the names he outplayed at the tournament were...
Everest Poker’s subsidiary may still need to wait for legalization in Massachusetts In an interview given this week, a legal representativ...
Data-mining company's direction change related to Pokerstars action Data mining company PokerTableRatings' (PTR) recent legal run-in with PokerStars has "forced the company to re-evaluate its place in the market" by prioritising an Opt-In service which has been in development for some time. A statement released by the company in response to P...
After almost two years the Brisbane businessman reappears The latest industry news include reports that former payment processor and alleged FBI informant Daniel Tzvetkoff had been spotted strolling about in New York with his family, looking pretty unrestricted, although he did warn the reporters who approached him that "protection" is nearby....
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