Matt Savage Receives Epic Poker League Settlement
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Matt Savage Receives Epic Poker League Settlement

September 30th, 2014 | by Brian Corlisse
Matt Savage, the acclaimed poker tournament director who has played an important role in most major poker tours and festivals at one time or another, announced on Twitter last week that he had received a settlement check from the...
Ultimate Poker Future Unclear After New Jersey Exit
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Ultimate Poker Future Unclear After New Jersey Exit

September 29th, 2014 | by Greg Shaun
Ultimate Poker is now facing questions about its future, following an exit from the New Jersey online poker market last week. While the company still operates a fairly successful site in Nevada, recent departures from the company...
World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Coming to Crown Melbourne
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World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Coming to Crown Melbourne

September 29th, 2014 | by Kaycee James
The World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) will begin at the Crown Casino in Melbourne on October 2 this week, with ten bracelet events in a variety of different poker disciplines. And while these tournaments may be...
Poker Pro Achilleas Kallakis Faces $5.3M Fine or Imprisonment
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Poker Pro Achilleas Kallakis Faces $5.3M Fine or Imprisonment

September 28th, 2014 | by Brian Corlisse
Achilleas Kallakis, the convicted poker player imprisoned for perpetrating a $760 million property fraud, has been ordered to repay just £3.25 million ($5.3 million) of his ill-gotten gains. Kallakis, a familiar face on UK...
PokerStars Drops Joe Cada, Marcel Luske
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PokerStars Drops Joe Cada, Marcel Luske

September 27th, 2014 | by Greg Shaun
PokerStars and other online poker sites have been dropping their sponsored pros like a bad habit lately. Recently, we’ve reported on 888 parting ways with JC Tran, Ultimate Poker trimming its roster, and PokerStars ending a...
PokerStars UK Players to Lose Auto Top-Up Function
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PokerStars UK Players to Lose Auto Top-Up Function

September 26th, 2014 | by Jason Reynolds
PokerStars UK poker players are reacting angrily to news that the automatic top-up and rebuy functions will be removed from the new PokerStars UK client, in accordance with Gambling Commission regulations, thus putting them at a...
New UK Gambling Laws Send More Online Sites Packing
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New UK Gambling Laws Send More Online Sites Packing

September 26th, 2014 | by Brian Corlisse
The new UK gambling laws continue to claim casualties in the online gaming industry, as yet more operators have decided to leave the market. Despite the UK’s High Court postponing the introduction of the new laws until...
Ladbrokes Bails from Canadian Market as Bad Bet
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Ladbrokes Bails from Canadian Market as Bad Bet

September 25th, 2014 | by Kaycee James
Ladbrokes is best known for its sports book, but the UK-based bookmaker also runs a fairly large poker room that’s a part of the iPoker Network. That site has been available in a number of countries around the world, even...
JC Tran Drops 888poker Partnership After One Year
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JC Tran Drops 888poker Partnership After One Year

September 25th, 2014 | by Jason Reynolds
JC Tran’s run to the final table at the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event paid off in more ways than one, as it also landed him a sponsorship deal with 888poker. Now, after a successful year for the long-time poker pro,...
Daniel Cates Blasts Tom Dwan and “durrrr” Challenge
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Daniel Cates Blasts Tom Dwan and “durrrr” Challenge

September 24th, 2014 | by Greg Shaun
Tom Dwan’s fabled “durrrr” Challenge was once the talk of the online poker world. Designed to generate some high-stakes action at a time when Tom “durrrr” Dwan was an unstoppable force, the heads-up...