Back in the days when I lived footloose and fancy free and was actually allowed to play online poker from my home in the southeastern United States, I took full advantage of deposit bonuses. I was a bonus whore, as the phrase goes (hell, I even wrote for a now-defunct website called Bonus Whores for… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN) announced Wednesday that Gear Poker has become the first poker room to make its exodus from the small online poker network. No specific reason for the separation was given, but in a short press release, EPN said, “…each party has different ways of doing business – nothing more, and nothing… Read more »
It is really getting to the point where I would hesitate to visit Atlantic City just because the mood there has got to be so horrible that I wouldn’t enjoy myself. The latest bad news coming out of the former east coast gambling mecca: the Revel Casino and Hotel will close in a month after… Read more »
Another year, another failed online poker bill in California. Frankly, this is getting boring. I didn’t really want to report on this, as it is just the same thing year in and year out, but I suppose people should know what’s going on. Last week, California Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer conceded that time as run out… Read more »
The poker festival that live tournament players wait all year may have recently ended (save the November Nine), but the festival that online players wait all year for is but a month away. PokerStars recently released the schedule for the 2014 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and all is well in the world. The… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced last week that it has inked a deal with the Global Poker Index (GPI) which will the see the WPT use the GPI’s ranking system for the Season XIII WPT Player of the Year race. In a press release, WPT President Adam Pliska said, “I applaud Alexandre Dreyfus and… Read more »
The 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship schedule has been unveiled by the Crown Melbourne casino, giving poker players around the world a chance to start figuring out their schedules for the upcoming year. The most popular event outside of North America and Europe, the Aussie Millions will feature 21 events spanning almost three weeks, beginning… Read more »
We have got to be near the end of this saga, don’t we? The Garden City Group (GCG), the firm appointed by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) to serve as the Claims Administrator for frozen/seized Full Tilt Poker funds, announced Monday that professional players on Full Tilt are now eligible for reimbursement. This… Read more »
I can’t say I enjoy looking at him as much as I do Paris Hilton, but then again, maybe he does a better job at drawing my attention to the product he is selling. That “him” is 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who is now a pitch man for the sister… Read more »
In what has become a less and less frequent sight over the last couple years, online poker traffic actually increased last week, according to PokerScout’s Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update. PokerScout, the authority on cash game traffic at the internet tables, says that player counts went up a healthy 3 percent last week compared to… Read more »
If someone did you wrong but you never knew about it, did they still do you wrong? If the act never actually hurt you, was it still a problem? What if it happened four years ago? Is there a statute of limitations for being furious? Those may sound like stupid questions, but they could be… Read more »
Scientific Games, one of the world’s leading lottery technology providers, announced Friday that has agreed to acquire Bally Technologies for $5.1 billion. The acquisition comes in the form of a purchase of all of Bally’s outstanding common stock at $83.30 per share, as well as the refinancing of $1.8 billion in Bally debt. In a… Read more »
Keeping the issue of online gaming and poker in the spotlight, three Senators have sent a letter to the U. S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder looking to reinstate the previous reading of the Wire Act of 1961. The three Senators – South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, California’s Diane Feinstein and New Hampshire’s… Read more »
