The French poker community was dealt another bad hand this month after PokerStars and the European Poker Tour (EPT) announced that the annual Deauville stop is no more. Although the company’s Senior Manager of Public Relations, Rebecca McAdam, stated that the contract to hold EPT events in Deauville had come to a “natural conclusion”; however, […]

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Consider bwin.party to be like that girl in high school who everybody talks about: lots of speculation, and who knows how much validity. Among the possible suitors rumored to be bedding bwin are gambling conglomerates William Hill and Amaya Gaming, and the gossip keeps on coming. In the latest round of speculation, it seems that […]

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PokerStars’ Sunday Millions will turn nine-years-old on March 8 and to mark that occasion, the online operator will be taking the number nine and multiplying it by a million. For a relatively meager $215, plucky poker players can ante-up and compete for a guaranteed prizepool of at least $9 million when the action gets underway […]

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Bwin-party’s Friday the 13th proved to be a real horror story, as the company’s shares nosedived by almost 20 percent. The major dip was fueled, apparently, by market chatter that its acquisition talks with a mystery buyer had broken down. Bwin-party was forced to confirm speculation that it was in negotiations to sell some or […]

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The World Poker Tour has signed a new partnership with Europe-Bet.com to exclusively license the WPT brand in the Euro-Asian country of Georgia. Through the deal, the online gambling site will host three World Poker Tour events at its Europe-Bet.com Poker Club, the country’s only brick-and-mortar poker establishment located in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. […]

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The Morongo Band of Mission Indians has spoken of its willingness to compromise in order to bring online poker to California. Speaking at an online poker panel at the Western Indian Gaming Conference in Southern California this week, Robert Martin, the tribal operator’s chairman, said that all the tribes needed to unite for the good […]

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Responsible online gambling is the hot topic among regulated European markets at the moment and the UK is the latest country to join the push for a safer igaming climate. Coming a few months after the UK ushered in a new taxation and licensing regime, the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) is now pushing for tighter […]

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Hollywood Cares Charity Poker Invitational host Phil Hellmuth isn’t going to be the only big-name celebrity in the building when the event goes down February 19th in Beverly Hills. “Breaking Bad” star Dean Norris and Kim Coates from “Sons of Anarchy” have been confirmed as co-hosts for the evening, along with reality star and television […]

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Marcel Luske is stepping away from the poker table to tackle a bet he deems more favorable in that of security and fraud prevention. The former PokerStars pro announced this week his new company Fortified-ID Holdings has developed the world’s first and only personal identification card system that features a unique fingerprint that is impossible […]

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Kara Scott wasn’t out of a job for long. Less than two months after revealing that her five-year relationship as a partypoker ambassador was ending, Scott has confirmed a new role with Tilt Events. Writing on her Cardrunners blog, the 37-year-old says she’ll serve as a consultant and brand ambassador to the Italian poker event […]

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The Amaya stock price surged long before it was publicly known the Canadian gaming company was buying the Rational Group and PokerStars for $4.9 billion. In addition to the Province of Quebec launching an investigation into the stock price rise, it was revealed this week that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) began its own […]

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PokerStars is the newest member of the German Association of Telecommunications and Media (DVTM), an association seeking to amend the country’s current interstate treaty that bans all forms of online gambling. At the DVTM’s annual dinner in Munich, the industry group expressed its desire to repeal the chaotic and complex compact, citing its unpopularity and […]

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Martin Jacobson won the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event, making him the first Swedish player ever to accomplish the feat. With the biggest win in tournament poker in his pocket, that made Jacobson the obvious choice for Swedish Player of the Year. Jacobson earned that honor after receiving about 80 percent of the […]

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The American Conservative Union ACU has dealt a blow to Representative Jason Chaffetz’ hopes of gaining a hearing on Capitol Hill for the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA). A week after Chaffetz reintroduced RAWA for the 2015 legislative session, the ACU stated its opposition to the anti-online gambling bill. RAWA wants to overturn the […]

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Russia announced this week it will seek ways to prevent anonymous Internet surfing in order to close off citizens from accessing websites entered on its federal blacklist. Speaking at Infoforum 2015, the country’s annual technology and security conference, Russian Information Policy and Communications Chairman Leonid Levin said Parliament should block anonymous web browsing, thus inhibiting […]

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Although Ognyan Dimov is only the second Bulgarian to win a European Poker Tour main event title, his heads-up opponent, Dany Parlafes, would have been the first from Romania. Parlafes began the EPT €5,300 ($6,000) Deauville Main Event final table as the big stack and dwindled six down to two, but after 117 hands of […]

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Brian Rast had a really, really good, and then a really, really bad day at the recent Aussie Millions. Rast is a well-known, well-liked, and accomplished tournament poker player. At the Aussie Millions, he was able to win a major tournament at Melbourne’s Crown Casino, and won $315,000 in the process. But shortly after winning […]

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Following the news that Partypoker and Europe’s largest live poker room, Dusk Till Dawn (DTD), will be working in partnership this year, it’s been announced that the coalition will launch a new UK poker tour. Dubbed the partypoker Grand Prix Tour, the series will bring the “DTD experience” to venues across the country according to […]

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