Poker
December 4th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunBetfair Poker has finally decided to bag up its chips for good in New Jersey. The site shut down on December 1, becoming the second operation, after Ultimate Gaming, to withdraw from the market, citing poor performance. The real...
Players
December 1st, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunAn Australian poker player wrongly accused on Facebook of stealing from his roommate during a trip to the WSOP has won AU$340,000 in damages from four of his fellow players. Nicholas Polias sued his former friends after they...
Players
November 30th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunJason Somerville has long been a popular poker player, if not quite on the level of the biggest and most successful superstars of the game. But if the World Series of Poker bracelet winner only had a cult following before, his...
Financial
November 28th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunBreakout Gaming, the first ever gaming platform to be powered by its very own decentralized crypto-currency, the Breakout Coin (BRO), has reported a disappointing initial “crowdsale.” The crowdsale, which is essentially a...
Poker
November 26th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunReal Gaming has been by far the weakest of the three regulated online poker sites in po, attracting virtually no traffic while WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker dominated the market. But with the shutdown of Ultimate Gaming, that may...
Legal
November 25th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunRear Admiral Timothy Giardina has been linked to the counterfeit poker chips he use in a casino last year, with new evidence suggesting that he may have actually created the chips himself. According to a Naval Criminal...
Legal
November 19th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunThe UK Gambling Commission’s (UKGC) efforts to make all regulated sites in the UK as player-friendly as possible took another step forward recently after it published new guidelines on fund segregation. Published on the...
Financial
November 15th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunPlayers protested PokerStars’ recent rake increases on multiple occasions early this month, hoping to show that customers were dissatisfied with the new policies. However, it seems as though those efforts varied in their...
Casinos
November 14th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunUltimate Poker was the first poker room to make a home in the regulated Nevada online poker market, getting its product out to gamblers months before the competition. Now, Ultimate is also the first company to call it quits in...
Players
November 11th, 2014 | by
Greg ShaunThis year’s World Series of Poker Main Event final table hasn’t been a fast-paced affair so far, with hours of play separating eliminations at times on the first night of play. However, there’s been no shortage...
