The more information about the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) and its supporters that comes to light, the more ridiculous the Sheldon Adelson-backed bill becomes. For many in the poker industry the legitimacy of an anti-igaming bill backed by a billionaire casino owner is shaky at best, but now it’s emerged that one of […]

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Seals With Clubs (SwC), the suddenly-defunct bitcoin-only only poker website, has announced that all its players must cash out their balances by May 5, 2015, or they will be lost. SwC was the biggest bitcoin poker operator on the market until it suddenly went offline on February 11, citing a “hardware failure,” which it quickly […]

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Pala Poker is indefinitely delaying its launch into New Jersey due to the imminent approval of PokerStars. In an interview this week with CalvinAyre.com, Pala Interactive CEO Jim Ryan credits the difficult player liquidity environment as the main setback for the company’s decision to fold on poker even though the network is ready to go. […]

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Zynga Poker, it was once hoped, might single-handedly spawn a second poker boom. Around 2013 the social gaming giant seemed poised to enter the real money market, as poker players licked their lips at its 32 million registered play-money users (or, to put it another way, 0.5 percent of human life on Planet Earth). The […]

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Mike Sexton is one of the most respected names in the poker community. So when he makes a point of suggesting changes to one of the most revered institutions in the game, it’s certain to get some notice. Sexton wrote a blog post at partypoker.com in which he laid out some of his concerns over […]

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The World Poker Tour isn’t an easy place to win. Each event features a field that includes many of the world’s top players, making each title a cherished victory. That makes it all the more incredible when a player manages to win two WPT events in a row, the feat Anthony Zinno just managed to […]

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Doyle Brunson is once again cancer free following surgery at a Phoenix hospital to remove melanoma from the top of his scalp. In early February, the poker legend revealed cancerous growths had developed on his head that required an operation, marking his third battle with the disease. The 81-year-old revealed the successful outcome of the […]

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The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) was supposed to get a hearing this Thursday in front of the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations. That hearing has been pushed back due to inclement weather, as Washington D.C. is squarely on the “cold and wet” side of the dueling extreme winters plaguing […]

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PokerStars servers crashed at 4:40 AM EST yesterday morning, freezing play and interrupting games across all of its network domains and around the world. Lee Jones, head of corporate communications for PokerStars confirmed the outage in a tweet saying, “Hi folks we know that @PokerStars is down the software guys are swarming on it. We’ll […]

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Sweden poker fans considering moving to online play are finding the transition much more difficult after the Swedish Gaming Board asked Apple to remove all gambling apps targeting its citizens. The country currently has a state-run monopoly on both land-based and mobile gambling through its company Svenska Spel. Although Sweden’s decision to prohibit an open […]

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SwCPoker, the successor to the world’s largest and most used Bitcoin poker network, has relaunched less than three weeks after its predecessor was forced offline by the Nevada Gaming Commission. Seals with Clubs (SWC) unexpectedly went dark on February 11th, the same day founder Bryan Micon would later reveal he was arrested at gunpoint from […]

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The Poker Players Alliance, the grassroots non-profit advocacy group devoted to championing the rights of poker players in the United States, has launched a petition against the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA). The Sheldon Adelson-backed bill that seeks to prohibit all online gaming on a federal level, with the exception of horseracing and fantasy […]

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Serious invention or a crazy marketing ploy? That’s the question poker players across the community are asking after reports of a new poker headset capable of reading brainwaves was revealed. Reviewed and reported on by British newspaper, The Daily Star, the mind reading device, known as Emotiv, could potentially help poker players refine their skills and […]

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The first-ever American Poker Awards took place on Friday night following a glittering reception at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Kara Scott, the awards were the culmination of a day of seminars and forums, as Global Poker Index CEO Alex Dreyfus, the awards’ brainchild, implemented his masterplan to unite and fortify the industry […]

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Twitch is buying into the online poker industry by expanding its live streaming broadcasts of Internet tournaments and events featuring many of the game’s top professionals. Following its acquisition by Amazon last fall for $970 million, Twitch, whose primary focus has been video games, added poker to its repertoire of content in November and has […]

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The US online poker scene could welcome another major player in the coming months thanks to a new igaming bill by Pennsylvania’s Rep. John Payne. When the news broke earlier this week that HB649 had been submitted to the House Gaming Oversight Committee, the industry was keen to learn more about what would be allowed […]

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Spin & Go tournaments have proven to be a controversial addition to the PokerStars lineup. While they’re certainly made plenty of money for owner Amaya Gaming, professionals and regular players bemoaned the fact that recreational players flocked to the lottery-style tournaments in huge numbers, taking them out of their preferred stomping grounds. Worse still, these […]

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The WSOP Circuit has been confined to the United States in previous years, but the most prestigious poker series is branching out by announcing three international stops for the 2015-2016 season. In an attempt to get a bit more worldly, the Vegas-based tournament operator has reached agreements with casinos in Italy, Mexico, and Morocco. “It’s time […]

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