Financial

$300K in Prop Bets: PLO Grinder Bets on 100x Buy In Profit

News of a $300,000 Pot Limit Omaha prop bet recently piqued the interests of Isaac Haxton and a slew of community members. Looking for some side action and something to help refocus his mind, Bren ‘YaAaRnY’ Lenton...

PokerStars Allows Users to Donate FPP to Charity

PokerStars (and other poker sites) have had great success in getting their players to donate to charities in times of need, particularly after some of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. And in general, poker players...

Nevada Online Poker Revenues Dip in July

Nevada’s online poker sites had a record-breaking month in June. It was the first time they had ever surpassed the $1 million mark in revenues, and was fueled mostly by the presence of tens of thousands of poker players in...

bwin.party Restructures for Brand New Image

Bwin.party will be undertaking a series of major changes in the coming months: that’s the message emanating from the company’s HQ following another set of disappointing financial results. After publishing a...

Bitcoin Online Poker Transactions Refused by Coinbase

Bitcoin seems ideal for online poker in many ways: it’s a virtual currency that usually comes with a high degree of anonymity, while also giving American players a way around financial institutions that can’t legally...

Smelling PokerStars Return, New Jersey Online Rebounds

New Jersey’s online poker market enjoyed an upswing in July, thanks in part to rumors that PokerStars could be set to join the action. Following a sustained period of decline stretching back over the last three months,...

PayPal May Come Back to US Online Poker Markets

PayPal is the dominant force in online payment processing. That’s true in almost all spheres except for one: the world of Internet gambling, where they’ve lagged behind some of their competitors because they stick to...

Everleaf Non-Payment Leads to Malta Player Protest

Everleaf Poker Network customers in the US who had their bankrolls frozen remain in a frustrating state of limbo, the un-championed victims of a far less-publicized scandal than their more newsworthy colleagues at sites like Full...

One Drop Foundation Benefits from WSOP $5M Donation

Guy Laliberté’s ONE DROP foundation received a substantial donation of more than $5 million from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and its patrons, thanks to another busy summer of tournament action in Las...

Full Tilt Refunds OK’d for Pros from Garden City Group

The Full Tilt Poker account reimbursement process from Garden City Group (GCG) has been painfully slow for American players. After nearly three years of waiting, the first players who submitted applications to recover their...