Online poker news
After six years in business, one of the more popular, under-the-radar online poker rooms in the industry has decided to call it a day. Late last week, Poker Nordica let its customers know that it was shutting down its operations on April 1st, 2012. Unfortunately, this was no April Fool’s joke. Poker Nordica customers had… Read more »
A plea deal for the final payment processor indicted in the “Black Friday” case, former Utah banker John Campos, has been delayed by the judge hearing the case as he questions the prosecution’s decision on the plea deal. In a federal court yesterday, U. S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan heard the arrangement of the… Read more »
PokerTracker, the ever-popular online poker analysis software suite, recently released the public beta of its newest version, PokerTracker 4 (PT4). PT4 had previously been made available on a limited basis via the company’s private beta testing program, but now anyone can get their hands on this newest version to give it a spin before the… Read more »
The Australian payment processor who may have been the U.S. government’s key to the Black Friday indictments is set to become the prosecution’s star witness against two of the men named in those indictments, according to the Australian Associated Press. Daniel Tzvetkoff, former owner of Intabill, will appear in a New York courtroom on April… Read more »
When PokerStars does something, the online poker industry sits up and takes notice. Such has been the case with Zoom Poker, the new fast paced poker variety that the world’s largest online poker room introduced late last week. According to cash game traffic tracking site PokerScout.com, the other poker rooms and networks have taken notice… Read more »
If you are a fan of playing online poker at a sprint pace but are not real big on the convenience of a large player pool, you are in luck. Online gaming company Relax Gaming recently announced that it will soon be launching its own fast-paced poker game called, fittingly, Fast Poker. Fast Poker will… Read more »
There has been plenty of drama in the online poker industry in the past year, but unfortunately most of it occurred away from the tables. One of the biggest controversies, however, was actually poker-related, as Bodog (also known as Bovada.lv) made the interesting decision to make its tables anonymous, replacing players’ screen names with poker… Read more »
When Full Tilt Poker bid the world an abrupt “adieu,” it took with it four things from the poker community. Our money, our money, our money…and Rush Poker. Oh, Rush Poker, how we loved thee. For many around the world who are still able to play online poker, the absence of Rush Poker has left… Read more »
According to various sources, the deal between the embattled online poker site Full Tilt Poker and its supposed savior, the French investment firm Groupe Bernard Tapie, is set to be finalized, potentially as early as tomorrow. The noted gaming magazine eGaming Review has stated that the deal between the two companies should be completed within… Read more »
PokerStars has announced that it is ready to take the unprecedented step of hosting meetings with poker players at its headquarters in the Isle of Man to discuss sensitive, confidential company matters. A number of internet poker forums will send representatives, which are scheduled for April 11th through April 13th. On the Two Plus Two… Read more »
It is a question that will come up from time to time in countries around the world. Who are the best poker players in a particular nation? In the United Kingdom over the span of February, Sky Poker attempted to determine the answer to this question, at least on their own patch of turf. During… Read more »
Looking to avenge one of his few defeats in his namesake challenge, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will face off later today against Isaac Haxton on PokerStars. The Swedish online wizard isn’t getting any love from the odds makers, however. According to Matchbook.com, which is accepting wagers on the tournament, Haxton is favored to once again defeat… Read more »
Joining an ever growing list of potential operators and service providers under Nevada’s online poker licensing procedures, the online gaming giant Bwin.Party has officially tossed its hat into the ring. Bwin.Party, the owner of what was the most popular online poker room in the United States, PartyPoker, prior to the enactment of the Unlawful Internet… Read more »
One of PartyPoker’s more popular promotions over the years, The Gladiator, has returned this month to the world’s second largest poker room. It is already up and running, having started March 1st, but it will continue through the end of the month, so there is still plenty of time for all PartyPoker players to win.… Read more »
One of the most popular online poker rooms in Europe has seen its latest ad put on the banned list by the United Kingdom’s arbiter of advertising. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the independent organization that approves advertisements for a variety of British media, decided that an advertisement put out by 888 Poker in 2011… Read more »
American casino equipment manufacturer Shuffle Master is expected to purchase the Ongame Network from online gaming giant bwin.party, according to a report by the UK’s The Sunday Times. The move is likely being made by Shuffle Master as a way to position itself when and if online poker is legalized and regulated in the United… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, is now giving people an opportunity to play in even more locations around the world. Well, not quite “around the world,” but at least in the United Kingdom. Residents of the UK (except Northern Island) and the Isle of Man can now play their favorite poker games on… Read more »
PokerStars announced Tuesday that its new site, PokerStars.eu, is now live for all players in Sweden and Finland. The site, while fundamentally the same as PokerStars.com, is expected to augment the poker experience for players in both countries as well as other European nations that will gain access to it in the future. PokerStars.eu was… Read more »
Around the noon hour EST on Thursday, players logging on to one of the many skins of the Everleaf Gaming Network were greeted with a pop-up detailing the updated Terms and Conditions of the network. To the shock of those who actually read through them, it appeared that residents of the United States were now… Read more »
British pop music icon Robbie Williams recently launched a beta version of a play-for-fun online poker room bearing his name, giving fans an opportunity to test their skills and win “Robbie”-related prizes in the process. Despite the fact that no real money deposits are required to play, Williams is already taking heat from up on… Read more »
The hands may have slowed down a bit on PokerStars since Black Friday, but that doesn’t mean the action isn’t still fast and furious at the world’s largest online poker room. And just as the beat goes on, so does the march towards 100 billion hands. In the meantime, there are some other milestone hands… Read more »
Starting February 1st and running through the rest of the month, PartyPoker will be holding its Card Rush promotion, giving real money players a chance to win cash and freeroll entries just for playing poker like they normally would. Card Rush is a very simple promotion. For every 15 Party Points a player earns, PartyPoker… Read more »
Eight professional poker players filed a lawsuit against Excapsa Software, Inc., the former controlling company of online poker room UltimateBet, seeking damages for Excapsa’s role in the cheating scandal that was uncovered in 2008. The plaintiffs in the case are, in alphabetical order, Daniel “Ashman” Ashman, Brad “Yukon” Booth, Thomas “tommyboy83” Koral, Greg “Captain Zeebo”… Read more »
Lock Poker announced this weekend that it has signed Melanie Weisner to its stable of pros, team LockPRO ELITE. She joins a young team which includes Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Chris Moorman, Leo Margets, Bryan “PrimordialAA” Pellegrino, Brett Jungblut. Formerly a pro at Full Tilt Poker, Weisner is primarily a tournament player, specializing in heads-up Sit-and-Go’s. … Read more »
According several reports, the first of which was published Monday by Poker Player Newspaper, Gabriel “Gabi” Campos Woslovsky is leaving his post as Chief Executive Officer of PokerStars. No replacement has been named. Wendeen Eolis first wrote in Poker Player Newspaper that the initial word of the change surfaced last Friday at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure,… Read more »
