Online poker news
As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. According to Jon Ralston on his website RalstonReports.com, Steve Wynn is now opposed to the legalization and regulation of online gambling. This would be news in and of itself, but adding to the interest is that he was swayed to his new point of… Read more »
On Friday, the Garden City Group (GCG), the company authorized by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to be the Claims Administrator for the long-frozen Full Tilt Poker funds, posted a couple important updates on the remissions process on its website. The first concerned former U.S. customers of Full… Read more »
A poker player has written a letter to New Jersey gaming officials to warn them that online gaming, in particular poker, is extremely vulnerable to money laundering and collusion. That player in question has offered to show the state’s gaming officials how it is done as long as he receives immunity from prosecution. In a… Read more »
Scores of Neteller customers received an e-mail this weekend warning them that their accounts would be closed if they did not provide some pertinent account information before the end of the month. That e-mail was a fake. It is what is known as a phishing scam, an attempt to acquire customers’ personally sensitive information and… Read more »
The Merge Gaming Network is continuing its descent into irrelevance, though this latest step down is probably a wise move. Late last week, Merge, one of the few networks still accessible to most poker players in the United States, began barring customers from the states of New Jersey and Delaware from its member rooms. With… Read more »
Sheldon Adelson really, really hates online gambling. I mean, it is getting to the point where I can’t help but admire his total commitment to the hate. Most people who are opposed to something are at least willing to let the other side speak, to at least consider for even the briefest of moments, the… Read more »
Nearly three years after their monies were frozen in one of the biggest scandals in online poker’s brief history, players from the United States should start seeing their funds from Full Tilt Poker before the scheduled date. In a statement on the Two Plus Two forum dedicated to the ongoing Full Tilt debacle, Poker Players… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s new Adrenaline Rush Poker has only been active for two weeks and already the site has launched a special promotion around the lightning-fast game. Called Adrenaline Rush Knockout, it is a two-week long contest to see who can take the most opponents down to the felt. To review, Adrenaline Rush Poker is… Read more »
If you haven’t been perusing all of the poker-related sites on the internet and reading them very carefully, you might have missed it. We certainly did. But better late than never, right? Buried at the end of a post on its website last Thursday, IveyPoker.com announced that it will be launching its new poker training… Read more »
On Saturday, Marco “AgentMarco” Valerio, one of the preeminent reporters in the poker industry, posted on his site the draft of an anti-online gaming bill that is supposedly strongly backed by Las Vegas Sands CEO and staunch opponent of online poker, Sheldon Adelson. The bill, designed to be introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives,… Read more »
If you look at any of the professional football teams (soccer to those in the United States) in Europe, you will see several online gaming companies as sponsors on their jerseys. Those companies, such as bwin, 888, Bet365 and Paddy Power (among others) have recognized the advertising potential by being associated with a professional sports… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is determined to get your rake as quickly as possible. In an update released Wednesday, PokerStars’ little brother introduced a new variation on its popular Rush Poker fast-fold poker game, dubbed “Adrenaline Rush Poker.” Adrenaline Rush is for those people who don’t have the time to wait through the flop, turn, and… Read more »
Last week, I penned an article titled “There’s Nothing Going on in Poker Right Now” because there wasn’t. The Christmas/New Year week was barren of tournaments and, for the most part, any particularly interesting news. And though people spent much of their time away from work and away from the live poker tables, they didn’t… Read more »
Late last week, Full Tilt Poker announced the crowning of its first batch of sponsored Black Card Team Professionals, determined by a competition that spanned the second half of 2013. The dozen poker players will now have their names lit up in red for the next four months. The Black Card sponsorship program was launched… Read more »
PokerStars is not pleased that it was shut out of New Jersey’s regulated online gambling industry and it wants to tell you about it. In a post on the PokerStars corporate blog, Eric Hollreiser, Head of Corporate Communications for the world’s largest online poker room, criticized the Atlantic Club casino’s ownership for the death of… Read more »
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released the latest figures for the state’s infant internet gambling industry on Sunday and so far, so good. According to the report, 126,231 online gaming accounts have been registered at the various Atlantic City-based sites, an increase of about 15 percent over the previous week. New Jersey’s… Read more »
Though it appears nowhere close to actually doing so, a Wisconsin Native American tribe has said that it would like to jump into the online poker business. According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa tribe wants to expand its online businesses into the online gambling sector in order to… Read more »
Last Thursday, Bitcoin-only online poker site SealsWithClubs.com announced that the database used to store user information had been accessed by an unauthorized user and that sensitive information was very likely acquired. As such, the site is requiring that all customers change their passwords upon their next login. Below is the entire message from SealsWithClubs management,… Read more »
Online poker is a tough business in which to get started, especially if your goal is to offer rake-free gaming. LiveAce, an innovative poker room that debuted in mid-August, has announced that it is already shutting its doors. On its homepage, LiveAce posted its obituary, writing, “We have worked tirelessly over the past two years… Read more »
The drive by the online poker industry’s biggest name, PokerStars, to return to the U. S. has suffered another setback, this time at the hands of New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement. According to Nathan Vardi of Forbes.com, the DGE decided on Wednesday to suspend review of PokerStars’ application for a license to be a… Read more »
After waiting the better part of a year since making its intentions to move originally known, Ladbrokes has announced that it finally plans to jump from Microgaming’s MPN network to the iPoker Network. The decision to leave MPN was made public in March, but there were details to hash out; Ladbrokes couldn’t just flip a… Read more »
While the vast majority of the U.S. intrastate online poker headlines have revolved around Nevada and New Jersey, little discussed Delaware has had its own internet gambling industry up and running for a month now. According to a report on newsworks.org, state officials are pleased with how things have gone so far. Delaware has three… Read more »
‘Tis the season for sharing and in that spirit, two of the most followed tournament tracking sites on the internet have formed a partnership that will help bring the poker community all the tourney information it can handle. PocketFives.com announced today that it and TheHendonMob.com have agreed to share information with one another creating what… Read more »
Unibet Group PLC announced Tuesday that it will be striking out on its own with its online poker room, leaving MPN (Microgaming Poker Network) in early 2014 to become an independent room. The company has partnered with Relax Gaming, an Estonia-based firm that has developed internet poker, bingo, and casino gaming products. “The environment in… Read more »
With regulated online poker up and running in New Jersey for about a week now, the natural question on many people’s minds is: how is it doing? To paraphrase Larry David, “Prettay, prettay, prettay, prettay well.” Now make no mistake, the New Jersey internet poker sites aren’t going to come close to the main versions… Read more »
