Poker

Phil Galfond Announces Engagement to Farah Fath

Phil Galfond, one of the world’s top high stakes poker players, has just announced that he’s getting married. Announcing the news to his legion of Twitter fans in typically witty fashion, the WSOP bracelet holder and...

GPI on time with Roger Dubuis deal

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has secured its first mainstream commercial partner in the form of Roger Dubuis. The Swiss luxury watchmaker is a major brand in the timepiece world and thanks to some stiff negotiations by the...

Victoria Coren Mitchell Leaves PokerStars Team Pro, Citing Casino Games

Victoria Coren Mitchell, the popular UK media personality and professional poker player has announced that she has ended her time as a member of PokerStars Team Pro. Coren, who recently became the first player to ever win two...

Real Gaming Aims Promotion at Former Ultimate Poker Players

Real 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...

PokerStars Begins Play Money World Cup of Poker

The PokerStars World Cup of Poker (WCP) is being held in a play money format this year, eliminating the live final and any cash prizes. The move may be a result of the delays in Amaya Gaming’s efforts to bring PokerStars to...

New Jersey Unlikely to Share Player Pools in Near Future

New Jersey’s online poker sites could certainly use a boost after months of falling revenues. But while help could be on the way eventually, two critical avenues for growth that players and industry officials may have been...

Admiral Linked to Counterfeit Poker Chips

Rear 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...

iPoker Network Changing Rake Calculations for 2015

The iPoker Network will be calculating rake distributions to member sites in a new way starting on January 1, a move that could help reconnect a network that is currently split into two tiers. The new way of awarding rake to...

Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Hit by Cease-and-Desist Federal Order

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel is facing the first legal challenge to its new online bingo platform, which could impact its impending online poker site as well. The tribal operator went live with DesertRoseBingo.com earlier...

New Jersey’s Pala Interactive Goes Live with Neteller

Pala Interactive and Neteller will soon be open for business according to the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jeremy Clemons. After opening its virtual doors for beta testing on Monday, Pala planned to gradually increase...