Online poker news
The Chinese government is not known to be the most forgiving. A soft touch it does not have. In its crosshairs at the moment is online gambling and more specifically, online gambling sites based in the neighboring Philippines. Last week, the Chinese Embassy issued a lengthy statement on the problems it has with such sites.… Read more »
The Stars Group, parent company of PokerStars, reported its second quarter results this week. In what the poker world is wondering if it is a sign to come, the percentage of poker as a portion of revenue compared to the rest of the company sharply decreased. Sports betting took over as the top vertical in… Read more »
All-In Cash Out only for micro-stakes A few weeks ago, PokerStars began testing a new All-in Cash Out feature on its play-money .NET client. Apparently, that testing went well, because the poker room announced on Monday that the feature is now live on the real-money, .COM client. It is only an option at the micro-stakes… Read more »
It is not often that we write about PokerStars.net on this site, as PokerStars.net is for play money only and really, who cares about play money poker?* Recently, though, PokerStars.net pushed a software update that added something called All-in Cash Out tables to its cash game lobby as a way to test them for possible… Read more »
In a decision that goes contrary to the move toward anonymous tables at many online poker sites, partypoker recently announced that it will allow players to use their real names at cash game tables. ….the chance to build more of a community feel around the tables. The brief mention in a longer blog post that… Read more »
A year ago, PokerStars extended its “Seat Me” experiment to its Italian site, PokerStars.it after previously implementing it in France, Spain, and Portugal. Last week, the world’s largest online poker room reverted a few of its tables back to “normal” on a trial basis, allowing players to table select like they used to. Blind Lobby… Read more »
One of the nice things about online poker is there is no dealer error. No miscounting of chips, no bad deals, no misreading of cards, no failing to collect antes. But what if there was? What if the dealer does make a mistake? There is no floor manager to call over to correct things; play… Read more »
While the 2019 World Series of Poker was wrapping up, the “start date” for online gaming and poker in Pennsylvania’s came around. On July 15, the proposed opening of the new Pennsylvania industry took place with the “soft” opening of two online casinos. The news isn’t so good for online poker, however, with its start… Read more »
A little over a year ago, Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a law – by about a 3-to-1 margin – that banned online gambling operators from outside of the country. That law is now in effect, with only the country’s casinos as the ones who are permitted to be licensed. Even though 73 percent of those… Read more »
Did you ever play any of the novelty cash games at PokerStars last year and think to yourself, “Self, I wish I could play this game in a four-hour long tournament.” Well, you are in luck, as three of those novelty games are now available in multi-table tournament format at the world’s largest online poker… Read more »
Last week, partypoker, one of the leading online poker rooms, launched a major software update with the goal of making the poker environment more hospitable for casual players. Significant changes included banning heads-up displays (HUDs) and the elimination of downloadable hand histories. Recently, partypoker partner Rob Yong posted an article on the partypoker blog to… Read more »
As partypoker moves to purge its site of third-party software tools (and partypoker is only the latest one to do this, not the only one), another online poker network is doing the exact opposite. The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) announced on Monday that it is going to make tracking hands easier to do than it… Read more »
Players logging into partypoker on Monday were greeting with a significant client update, designed with the goal of making casual players have more fun and feel more comfortable on the site. As previewed a few weeks ago, partypoker is putting the kibosh on most “third-party tracking tools,” things like PokerTracker and Hold’em Manager. These tools… Read more »
We are a little late to the party on this one (no pun intended), but partypoker recently issued its monthly report on bot account banishment, announcing that it purged 42 accounts in May. 33 of those bot accounts were from the main, “dot com” site, while the other nine were on the “dot eu” site… Read more »
If you are currently playing on partypoker and you love your screen name, I suggest taking a picture of your monitor because that screen name will disappear in a couple weeks. In a move we heard was coming about a month ago, partypoker announced late last week that with a major software update on June… Read more »
About a week ago, reports emerged that GVC Holdings, the parent company of partypoker, was gunning for an online gaming license in Nevada in order to launch partypoker in the Silver State. On Tuesday, this was confirmed, as GVC announced that it has received its licensing approval in Nevada as well as a “transactional waiver”… Read more »
Fans of virtual reality poker got a boost last week when PokerStars announced that its virtual reality product, the appropriately named PokerStars VR, has now been made available on the new Oculus Quest. Those unfamiliar with virtual reality headsets may have heard of the Oculus Rift, one of the major brands in virtual reality gaming.… Read more »
It’s been quite the past week for Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. The 44-year old poker professional married his fiancée Amanda Leatherman in an absolutely lovely oceanfront ceremony in California on Saturday, marking the second time that Negreanu has headed into wedded bliss. Yesterday, Negreanu took to Twitter to post a video which featured… Read more »
According to OnlinePokerReport.com (OPR), partypoker might be looking to enter the Nevada online poker market. The possibility comes from a licensing application filed by partypoker’s parent company GVC Holdings, which has already made it through one regulatory hurdle. Live Poker Huge in Nevada, Online Not So Much Even though Nevada is the gambling hub of… Read more »
It is a constant struggle in the online poker industry to fight cheaters and frankly, online poker rooms have fallen well short time and time again for the past couple decades. There are many reasons for this: lack of effective detection technology, unwillingness to admit that cheaters abound, or even an acceptance of such accounts,… Read more »
The 50th annual World Series of Poker begins in about two weeks and though the schedule was finalized quite a while back, there has still been uncertainty about the nine online bracelet events. With the new Wire Act opinion published by the Department of Justice in January, the ability of people in New Jersey to… Read more »
Earlier this month, we reported that PokerStars was getting ready to launch “novelty game” tournaments based on new filters that were added to the PokerStars poker client. There was no indication as to when any of these tournaments would appear in the lobby, but now we have answers. On Friday, PokerStars announced that 6+ Hold’em… Read more »
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has fined Malta-based Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) $25,000 for failing to prevent someone from outside the state to gamble on HardRockCasino.com, a site for which GiG provides its online gambling services. The incident actually occurred at some point before July 4, 2018, though it is not specified when… Read more »
Last year, PokerStars introduced a “novelty” cash game every few months as a way to keep things fresh, a way to keep players interested in cash game poker. Mix things up, you know? The games, though, were only temporary, which obviously would not please people who enjoyed them. At the same time, it was known… Read more »
According to a report from PokerFuse, partypoker is on the verge of prohibiting the use of heads-up displays (HUDs), a move that it hopes will make the poker experience more enjoyable for recreational players. HUDs are overlays on the poker table produced by third-party poker tracking software. Historically, online poker rooms have made personal hand… Read more »
