When it comes to online poker tournament series, the focus is always on PokerStars with its Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and the currently-running World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Full Tilt Poker’s FTOPS was also very popular, but Full Tilt no longer exists except as a skin of PokerStars. But poker players who… Read more »
In a move that has been speculated for the past week, online poker rooms on the Microgaming Network will no longer accept new players from the United States. Poker News Daily has confirmed the report with Microgaming. The move went into effect on Monday across many Microgaming sites, which include Doyle's Room, Eurolinx, and Poker Host. Read more »
On Monday, online poker rooms Eurolinx and Poker Host announced that they would no longer accept new customers from the United States. As Microgaming Network sites, Eurolinx and Poker Host had previously not allowed players from 13 states in the U.S. where internet gambling is problematic. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that poker network Microgaming may be leaving the United States market entirely, according to a reliable source that represents one of its online poker rooms. Currently, the site enforces an IP block on customers from 13 U.S. states. Read more »
Amidst an ongoing legal battle in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the United States, several online poker rooms and networks have altered their policies towards players from that locale. Poker News Daily has confirmed that the Merge Gaming Network has blocked any new players from Kentucky from setting up an account on any of its client poker rooms. Read more »
In an e-mail distributed to affiliates of Eurolinx Poker on Thursday, the online poker room stated that the Microgaming Network will be blocking customers from 13 different states in the U.S. from accessing any of its rooms' poker or casino clients. However, players from the states in question may still bet in the sports book. Read more »
This is complicated, but we'll try to make it as clear as possible: Ladbrokes does not accept players from the US into its poker rooms, but it will allow some of its high stakes players to compete against US players already in the Microgaming network. Read more »
