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WSOP Online Now Beating Partypoker as Liquidity Sharing with 888.com Takes Hold

Online poker site WSOP.com has taken over as the largest room in the New Jersey Internet market, following a dramatic week that saw a major shift in cash game traffic rankings overall. Within only a week of a liquidity sharing...

New Jersey Online Poker Revenues Finally Looking Up

The New Jersey online poker scene managed to avoid another loss and reverse its three-month downswing with a positive U-turn in the right direction for December, according to the State’s Division of Gaming Enforcement....

Kevin Schulz Wins PCA Main Event with Hero Call

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) reached its dramatic finale last night as American Kevin Schultz won the title with a $1.4 million hero call. When the dust cleared after six days of play on Paradise Island in the...

WSOP and 888 to Partially Combine Enormous New Jersey Player Pools

New Jersey online poker players may see larger tournament prizes and more players at the cash game tables, as two of the larger sites in the state will be combining their player pools. The two sites, WSOP.com and 888poker.com...

Could new dot-poker extensions help the industry?

A new dot-poker domain extension has just entered the first of its three-phase release. Known in the online industry as the “sunrise” period, the initial launch will give holders of a registered poker trademark the...

PCA Action Includes UFC Champ and Poker Fan Tito Ortiz

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) welcomed a star from another sport yesterday in the form of MMA star and the former UFC light heavyweight champion, Tito Ortiz. Following the growing trend of sportspeople migrating from their...

Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Files Motion to Dismiss California AG Lawsuit, Claiming Sovereignty

The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit launched by the State of California via the Attorney General’s office, that seeks to pull a plug on its online gambling aspirations. The tribe,...

PokerStars Signs Japan and India Team Pros in Trend Reversal

PokerStars has gone to the seemingly unlikely countries of Japan and India for its latest Team Pro recruits, and at a time when the trend has been to cut pros, not add them. The ever-surprising site announced the signing of two...

Global Poker Masters Entices Top-Ranking GPI Players to Teams

The first-ever Global Poker Masters (GPM) has announced most of the participants for its debut event, using Global Poker Index (GPI)-rated players as its foundation for teams. The first team poker tournament is scheduled to...

PokerStars Rake Increases Get the Boot, For Now

PokerStars rake increases will not see the light of day after all, at least not for now. The controversial site has announced that it will cancel nearly all of the planned rake increases that it previously announced in October,...