Online poker news
Bitcoin. It’s so hot right now. Another new Bitcoin online poker site announced that it will be launching soon, continuing the gradual trend of upstart poker rooms trying to skirt anti-online gaming funding regulations by going with the virtual, decentralized currency. European site Bitnplay (not to be confused with the late 80’s, early 90’s hip-hop… Read more »
Popular poker personality and poker player Kara Scott announced Tuesday that when this year comes to a close, she will be stepping down from her role as partypoker ambassador. On her CardRunners.com blog, Scott said she is ending her five year run simply because the role no longer offers the opportunities it once did. She… Read more »
I don’t know about all of you poker players in countries that are not the United States (‘MURICA!), but these next couple weeks are going to be slowwwww. Yes, we have the fun of Christmas, the end of Hanukkah, and New Year’s Eve/Day, but in between businesses don’t want to do much of any work,… Read more »
Online poker has been around for about 16 years and has really been rolling for 10-11 years. In that time, you would think that the online poker rooms would have their software sleek and refined, chock full of player-friendly features. But alas, it is not so much of the time. Ultimate Poker (may it rest… Read more »
A rash of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continues to plague the online poker industry. The most recent victim: the Winning Poker Network (WPN), which had to abandon its extremely ambitious million dollar guaranteed tournament on Sunday because of technical difficulties most likely caused by a DDoS attack. WPN is one of the few… Read more »
After a partnership that lasted for slightly more than a year, the online poker site PokerHost and its partner in the Equity Poker Network have announced that they will part ways. The severance of the deal between the two organizations took effect on December 9, slightly more than a year after the Equity Poker Network… Read more »
On Wednesday, the offices of the Montreal-based Amaya Gaming, the owners of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and other gaming entities, were raided by Canadian authorities over allegations of insider trading. According to Nathan Vardi of Forbes.com on Thursday evening, the raid was conducted involving Amaya and two financial firms, the Canadian investment bank Canaccord Genuity… Read more »
Here in the United States, we recently had the infamous Black Friday. Not the horrible day in poker history back in April 2011, but rather the mega-shopping day immediately after Thanksgiving (which has now turned into the entire week of Thanksgiving) during which crazed consumers try to cash in on some fantastic deals offered by… Read more »
PokerStars, for all its warts this year, is certainly trying to end 2014 with a bang. During the entire month of December, the world’s largest poker room is running a number of promotions for its December Festival in which it will give out more than $15 million prizes. Here is the run-down $5 Million Guaranteed… Read more »
PokerStars continues to modify its games and policies since its purchase by Amaya Gaming earlier this year. The most recent announcement is about changes that will be made to the Tournament Leader Board (TLB) system starting in 2015. Currently, there are three leader boards, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly. Players can earn points on each by… Read more »
On Wednesday, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) introduced online poker legislation in the state’s General Assembly. The bill, known by the nomenclature Assembly Bill (AB) 9 or the name “The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015,” is being pushed as a bill under “urgency.” This means that, if two-thirds of the Assembly and… Read more »
When United States law enforcement cracked down on internet poker in 2011 with the “Black Friday” indictments, many players who made a living playing the online game were faced with a conundrum. Would they move to another country to continue to pursue their livelihood or ply their trade in the live arena? For many the… Read more »
Is it December already? I guess that’s what happens after Thanksgiving, but man, it still feels like…not…December? At any rate, with the weather getting colder and colder and the holiday season approaching, WSOP.com has launched a slew of promotions in New Jersey. Several of them have also been duplicated in Nevada, but as New Jersey… Read more »
About a month ago, Yahoo launched its play money Texas Hold’em poker game. In another month, it will be gone. The online portal and search engine that has seemingly been around as long as the internet itself recently announced that it is eliminating all Classic Yahoo Parlor games, effective at the start of 2015. Those… Read more »
PokerScout, the poker industry’s leading cash game tracking site, released its weekly update yesterday, reporting a decline in overall online cash game traffic for the second consecutive week. It wasn’t a huge decline, just one percent, but it was a decline nonetheless. Out of the top ten poker sites and networks, half were up and… Read more »
Seating scripts have been a problem in online poker for a long time. Less than two weeks ago, PokerStars implemented the first step in a solution to curb the disruption caused by players using these scripts. Now, over the Thanksgiving weekend, the world’s largest poker site has invited players to travel to Amaya Gaming’s office… Read more »
Things happen in online poker. It’s just a fact of life. Tables freeze, players get disconnected, servers crash. It is not a frequent occurrence, but it is just natural that technological problems can happen in a game that takes place on the internet. And it’s not like issues don’t come up in live games –… Read more »
Continuing a downward swing in what should be a time of growth, all three of the states that regulate online gaming and poker – Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey – instead saw their monthly revenues continue to drop. In Delaware, the online poker segment of their full casino gaming industry only pulled in $28,509 for… Read more »
Today is the one-year anniversary of the launch of New Jersey’s regulated online gambling industry. It has significantly underperformed expectations, as it was projected to generate $1 billion in revenue but instead has only hit about one-tenth of that number. Nevertheless, it has still helped some of the casinos in Atlantic City and the state… Read more »
The deal had been known about for around a week, but yesterday NYX Gaming Group officially announced that it has acquired the Ongame Network from Amaya Gaming. This marks the second transfer of Ongame in two years. No specific dollar amount was given in the press release, but the purchase prices is said to be… Read more »
The New Jersey intrastate online casino created in a joint venture between the Pala Interactive and Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has begun beta testing making it the first tribal internet casino to go live in the Garden State. The partnership between Pala Interactive and the Borgata was given the thumbs-up by the… Read more »
Starting January 1st, Playtech’s iPoker Network will implement a new method of attributing rake to each of its member rooms. Originally reported by PokerTube.com, the new method is called “Source Based Rake” (SBR) and is aimed at encouraging skins to recruit recreational players. Traditionally, the iPoker Network, as well as all other online poker networks,… Read more »
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, all three of the states that have regulated online gaming and/or poker – Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware – have or will pass their first year anniversaries. Of late, however, none of these markets has been the revenue driver that their respective states had hoped for. Delaware, the smallest… Read more »
After closing down its operations in the state of New Jersey just a couple of months ago, the parent company of Nevada’s Ultimate Poker, Ultimate Gaming, has decided to close its operations in Nevada effective immediately. “As has been the case in other jurisdictions, online poker revenues in Nevada have fallen far short of original… Read more »
If you are a company offering an online poker service, it might be a good idea, you know, just saying, to make sure your computer systems are setup properly. Caesars Interactive Entertainment recently learned this lesson the hard way, getting hit with a $10,000 fine by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) for… Read more »
