Online poker news
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 »
888.com won the “Poker Operator of the Year” award at the 2013 Gaming Review Operator Awards, which took place on November 25th at the Roundhouse Theater in London. It was the ninth edition of this prestigious event and 888.com and its brands were nominated on several categories, including: Mobile Poker Product, Marketing Campaign, Casino Operator… Read more »
After five days of furious “soft launch” testing, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement gave the OK late Monday night for several sites to “go live,” making New Jersey the third state in the U. S. to offer online gaming for its residents. Although there have been grumblings over several issues related to the… Read more »
Once again, the partypoker Premier League VII saw a relatively speedy heat Sunday, as Heat 5 was completed in fewer than 160 hands. The first three heats were knockdown, drag out affairs, each lasting over 200 hands, but Saturday’s Heat 4 started a new trend, coming in at a nifty 156. It was Brian Rast… Read more »
Ahead of their planned official launch date next Tuesday, several sites in the New Jersey online gaming scene went live tonight at 6PM (Eastern Time) with what is called a “soft test.” Invited players were able to download the software of their choice at that time and, over the next five days (if all goes… Read more »
Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is gearing up for a war on online gambling. According to an article this weekend in the Washington Post, the 80-year old baron of blackjack will soon embark on a public campaign to try to turn public officials and voters alike against internet gaming. The first step: launch the Coalition… Read more »
Now that the process for players to file their claims with the claims administrator has passed (the November 16 deadline was yesterday), what will be the next steps in the procedures in the Full Tilt Poker saga? For most of the players affected by the 2011 shutdown of Full Tilt Poker in the United States,… Read more »
According to an Associated Press report, the state of New Jersey will extend its current self-exclusion list for brick-and-mortar casinos to the internet realm. People who want to keep themselves from gambling in one of Atlantic City’s dozen casinos have been permitted to self-exclude, or place themselves on a list that will prevent them from… Read more »
In September, Garden City Group (GCG), the U.S. Department of Justice-appointed claims administrator for U.S. Full Tilt Poker customer funds, issued a list of people who were to be excluded from the remission process. It relaxed one of the restrictions in October and now this month, according to Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Vice President of… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN), a new online poker network focused on supporting its member poker rooms, launched Friday. Billed as a “non-profit” network, the Equity Poker Network vows to change the way internet poker networks operate. EPN calls itself a “cooperative,” in that the role of the network is to support the poker rooms,… Read more »
In late breaking news on Thursday night, PokerStars will be temporarily denied a license for online gaming in New Jersey. According to Poker Player Newspaper, “three insiders” with direct knowledge of the ongoing procedures in the Garden State – and at least one of those insiders being from “the other side of the pond” –… Read more »
IveyPoker, Phil Ivey’s online poker hub, recently announced that it will soon be launching Ivey League, a new poker training site. The site is currently up, but all that is available is a landing page that gives people the ability to sign-up to be notified when the site officially goes live. It describes itself as… Read more »
In a sign that WSOP.com is really starting to gun for Ultimate Poker in the state of Nevada, the intrastate online poker room announced Friday that through the end of the year, it will match a player’s VIP status on another site with a comparable status on WSOP.com. Considering Ultimate Poker is WSOP.com’s only competitor… Read more »
With the launch of New Jersey intrastate online gaming just three weeks away, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has published a list of ancillary companies and related vendors that have been given the go head to enter into agreements with internet gaming licensees. The document, published November 1st, lists 54 companies that… Read more »
Last week, Delaware became the second state in the U. S. to open the doors to its intrastate online casino gaming network and, from all apparent reports, the “soft” opening has been a success that will lead to the full rollout next week. The “soft” opening, which occurred on Halloween, allowed a limited number of… Read more »
Yesterday, the troubled online poker room Lock Poker left the Revolution Gaming Network to strike out on its own (interpret the meaning of “strike out” however you would like). No advance warning was given to its customers; during the migration to the new, proprietary platform, players were locked out of their accounts. Once the transition… Read more »
If you thought the undead, purple Minions, and flocks of Walter Whites were going to put a scare into you this Halloween, just wait until your opponent hits his two outer on the river. With Delaware set to launch its online gambling industry this Thursday, October 31st, Pokerfuse.com has confirmed that poker will, in fact,… Read more »
Amaya Gaming Group announced yesterday that it has struck a deal with the Golden Nugget Hotels and Casinos to provide the technology for Golden Nugget’s real money online gaming in the United States. This includes both Amaya’s poker and casino gaming software as well as its back-end solutions. Amaya owns the Ongame Network, which it… Read more »
According to several reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has now granted licenses to five prospective online gambling operators in the state. It has been a relatively slow process; at the end of July, the DGE confirmed that 37 applications had been filed and no doubt more have been filed since. The… Read more »
Poker pros Tom Marchese and Randy Dorfman have ended their relationships with Ultimate Poker and are no longer members of the online poker room’s “Team U.” Dorfman had signed on with Nevada’s first legal, regulated intrastate poker site in June of this year, along with Gavin Griffin, Lauren Kling, Dan O’Brien, and 2012 World Series… Read more »
In just about five weeks, the doors will open on only the second operation in the United States that will legalize online gaming and poker. On November 26, New Jersey will crack the seal and open up, for its residents, a variety of casino gaming (any game offered in an Atlantic City casino can be… Read more »
In a study commissioned by the anti-online gaming and poker crusader Sheldon Adelson, a research group has found that, while many people are not opposed to live gaming, they have objections to the online version of the same activity. In a memo dated October 9, The Tarrance Group and its founding partner, Dave Sackett –… Read more »
With online gaming in New Jersey just around the corner, at least one prospective internet operator is getting started on its marketing early. London-based Betfair has launched two sites – LetsPlayNJ.com and BetfairNJ.com – to begin hyping its internet gambling offering in the Garden State. Both websites are exactly the same and both actually display… Read more »
Late last week, Juicy Stakes Poker management sent an e-mail to its customers announcing that it has been acquired by Zagox Management N.V. Zagox, “a serious partner for all types of online gaming,” according to the e-mail, has already taken over the operation of the site. Poker players are hopeful that this will begin a… Read more »
