The World Poker Tour inked an exclusive four-year deal with Holland Casino this week, which will see the bwin.party-owned tournament series hold an annual WPT Main Tour and WPT National event in the Netherlands until 2019. The WPT broke new ground when it held an inaugural WPT National event last year at the Holland Casino […]

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The Chairman of the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Tribe has called on California to legalize online gaming, warning that failing to do so would be “counterproductive to consumer demand.” Dave Vialpando, who is due to address iGaming conference GIGse in San Francisco next month, is locked in a bitter legal dispute with the State […]

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Amaya has made a lot of subtle moves since acquiring the Rational Group last year: working to gain regulatory approval in the United States, for instance, and changing some of PokerStars’ rake policies. They’ve also made some bigger moves that were probably inevitable, such as adding casino games to the PokerStars client in many jurisdictions. […]

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The Full Tilt remissions process is due to enter a new phase this month as claims administrator Garden City Group (GCG) has announced it will process 3,500 claims, totaling around $2.8 million. The vast majority of these payments, around 3100, will be to claimants who mistakenly provided incorrect information to GCG, such as inaccurate banking […]

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47-year-old B-List celebrity Pamela Anderson claims that her estranged husband, pro poker player Rick Salomon, beat Texas billionaire banker Andy Beal for $40 million last year at the tables at the Bellagio. The revelation came as the former Baywatch star remains locked in messy divorce proceedings with Salomon, who, she claims, is attempting to hide […]

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The PokerStars Sunday Million to top all Sunday Millions came to a conclusion in the early hours of Monday morning, and when the dust had settled it was a runaway victory for BRAYDEN93 of Mexico. The Internet grinder managed to top one of the richest tournaments ever held online, and walk away with a top […]

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Yuguang Li just experienced the best two-days of poker in his life, and possibly anyone’s life for that matter. Back-to-back tournament wins are an extremely rare event, but back-back tournament wins within 24 hours of one another are unheard of. And yet Li, a 36-year-old Chinese businessman, who had previously cashed in just three live […]

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MGM Resorts will no longer allow players at poker tables to keep cash in play, meaning that all gamblers will have to convert cash to chips before it can be used in a game. The change, which Online Poker Report says was confirmed by MGM, will affect many casinos in Las Vegas, including the Bellagio, […]

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A change of pace will take place at 888poker this month thanks to a new commitment to providing more value for online tournament players. A recent announcement by the operator has signaled that the monthly “Whale” event, which commonly offers a prize pool of $200,000, will be increased to $500,000 on March 29. More Money, […]

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Partypoker announced yet another development to its online poker network this week by confirming timebanks will be changed and a new software update will bring re-entries to certain tournaments. Re-entry formats, although similar to re-buys, differ in that a player must bust to re-enter and the amount of times the person can return to the […]

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RAWA, the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, is finally going to have its day in Washington, DC. After its original hearing was postponed earlier this month due to a significant snowstorm, the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security will take on RAWA Thursday, March 26th. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) […]

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WSOP 2015 is taking on exactly what makes sense for the operator that is the heart and soul of Nevada’s online poker industry: an Internet event that will ultimately morph into its live counterpart at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during this year’s tournament series. The World Series of Poker loves […]

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Martijn Ardon has become the first PokerStars Supernova Elite player of 2015, and he did it in record-breaking time. Ardon, a 24-year-old Dutchman whose screenname is “Quadchrazs” on the site, took just 52 days to earn the required one million VPPs (VIP Player Points), averaging a staggering 1,000 €100 ($106) SnGs per day, mostly six-max […]

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California online poker has plenty of supporters, but getting them all behind a single, unified bill has proven to be a challenging prospect. That political reality has come to light again this week, as a group of six tribes in the state have signed on to a letter in opposition to AB 167, a bill […]

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* Bwin.party in discussions with several potential purchasers * Overall online revenues blamed on soft EU poker markets and Greece blocking sites * New Jersey success not enough to offset general losses for 2014 Bwin.party, the online gambling giant, is still in talks to sell some or all of its business, and now says that […]

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The PokerStars Italy network has been accused of fraud and tax evasion by Rome’s Financial Guard. Halfords Media Italy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rational Group, provides both PokerStars and Full Tilt to Italian residents. Regulators on Wednesday accused the media group of transferring some €300 million ($317 million) in revenues to offshore Rational […]

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PokerDom entered the online poker market in 2014 with little fanfare or press, but in less than 18 months it has acquired cash games traffic that rivals any regulated room in the US. PokerDom launched last summer under its license issued by Curacao and immediately targeted players in CIS countries, mainly that of Russia. Since […]

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Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, avid poker player and former husband of Jennifer Tilly, has died at the age of 59 following battle with cancer. While Simon may have been best known for his work as the writer, director and executive producer of The Simpsons, for which he won seven Emmys, he was also […]

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The 2015 Nanjing Millions, scheduled for April 14th to 19th, will bring PokerStars back to the People’s Republic of China for the third time since it entered the market last July. PokerStars may be having a hard time entering America, but the world’s most populated country has been welcoming the Internet’s most populated poker network with […]

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