US DoJ agrees to PokerStars acquisition An announcement came this week...
iPoker switches off Moore Games without explanation As if thousands of unpaid players of Purple Lounge, Everleaf and 5050 Poker weren’t enough, a report came that a week ago Moore Games was shut down, without much explanation bei...
15 players cash in NZ$3,000 buy-in event The past week was a good one for Australian player David Allan, who took home NZ$110,600 as a reward for being the best out of 149 players who took part in the 2012 PokerStars Australia New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown Snowfest main event. The NZ$3,000 buy-in tournament saw the players generate a priz...
Rumors say that players might have their money before Christmas this year News broke on Friday that a long-awaited solution between Pokerstars and the US Justice Department had been hammered out and that it could lead to the acquisition of Full Tilt Poker and the payment of its owed players in the near future. As Wendeen Eolis wrote: "Without...
The question being whether $20 million ISPT prize pool is really guaranteed The inaugural event of the ambitious International Stadiums Poker Tour managed to attract great publicity with their 30,000 player project, mostly based on the guaranteed prize pool of 20 mi...
The US government pulled the plug on online poker more than a year ago with the events of Black Friday but Ame...
Ultimatebet to be in the limelight once again Remember the hole card insider-cheating debacle at Ultimatebet a few years ago. The scandal investigated by Ultimatebet's licensing body, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which revealed that players were cheated by over $22 milli...
Online poker division in 'all about us' Youtube video Chris Welch casting a spotlight on the internet gambling group's poker operations is the latest Bwin.Party chief to feature in the 'ge...
Another Black Friday indictee gets his penalty It appears that US District Judge Lewis Kaplan is decisive to deal with Black Friday indictees as promptly as possible – and the second sentencing he pronounced this week related to the action was that of online poker payment processor Ira Rubin (54). On the occasion, Rubin (54) received a...
Recreational Poker Model hits the market The latest novelty introduced on the Bodog Poker Network is its Recreational Poker Model software, which is a fully compatible Mac client. It has been specifi...
First licenses to be issued within next three months An announcement came this week that an intrastate online poker meeting of the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee, led by Governor Brian Sandoval, resulted in claims that the first real-money operator licenses can be issued within the next three months. It has been stat...
Timing for the release - first half of 2013 for countries out of the U.S. Recent rumors that social gaming giant Zynga is planning to launch real-money online poker have been confirmed and further revealed by the social gaming giant’s chief executive Mark Pincus, who stated tha...
Sentencing took place today for Ira Rubin, the man accused of assisting online poker companies to send billions of dollars in illegal gambling profits from American players overseas. Rubin will serve three years in prison for his role. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence after prosecutors made a case against Rubin claiming that h...
High profile pro to promote the project An announcement came this week that famous poker professional Michael Mizrachi has signed up to help promote the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) project, the brainchild of Groupe Bernard Tapie's Laurent Tapie and the f...
PPA exec believes the interest is there According to the executive director of the Poker Players Association action group, John Pappas, the meeting Senate Indian Affairs Committee is to hold on July 24 on "the regulation of tribal gaming, focusing on brick and mortar to the internet" implies that tribal operators have their own federal online po...
Nearly 200 submissions for testing received by GLI after achieving the NGCB testing status Nevada Gaming Control Board has allocated third part testing status to Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), which has received nearly 200 submissions fo...
Marketing affiliates will need to meet specific requirements The new regulations and licensing requirements set by the Nevada regulators now concern online poker affiliates, under the "Interactive Service Provider" section. According to two articles of the section, persons who fall under the following definitions will need to obtain a Class 3...
Rumor has it that Zen's software does not satisfy Gaughan It appears that the partnership between South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and Zen Gaming is shakier than ever, judging by the comments made by the South Point owner Michael Gaughan about the software house and its product. Namely, pursuing his interest in a legal online poker b...
GTechG2 and Playtech plc may be software providers for real money action Rumor has it that US social gaming giant Zynga is seriously considering entering real money online poker industry, and that it is currently negotiating with online gambling software providers GTechG2 and Playtech plc fo...
65,063 players simultaneously join the action The second edition of Pokerstar's MicroMillions online poker tournament series gathered a massive player pool over the weekend, when 65,063 players joined the $22 buy-in main event alone. Of this number, 8,505 players received one of the prizes from the massive prize pool, with the lion's share go...
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