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Lottery SNGs Latest Trend in Online Poker

Cash game players will often derisively refer to poker tournaments as lotteries. This isn’t entirely true, of course, but tournament play does come with much greater variance, and even the best players can go dozens of...

Spanish Poker Players Permeate Unregulated Online Market

Forty-three percent of Spain’s online gamblers and poker players play on illegal sites, and many care little about their country’s regulatory efforts. Those are the findings of  a new research study conducted by...

PokerStars and Amaya Up for Possible Stock Exchange Listings

PokerStars could experience another round of financial growth in the coming months if the poker site’s parent company, Amaya Gaming, goes ahead with plans to obtain a dual stock market listing. At present, Amaya is...

Former Jamie Gold Site Aced Poker Hits the Rail

Aced Poker, of the embattled Merge Gaming Network, has announced it is bagging up its chips for the final time and heading for the fire exit. The site will become the latest in a string of Merge skins to close its doors when it...

Bwin.Party Says No Sale Imminent

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the imminent sale of bwin.party have been greatly exaggerated. That’s the word from the company board itself, which has moved to quash rumors that it has hired Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to...

Luis Suarez Faces 4-Month Ban, Loss of 888poker Partnership

When Luis Suarez decided to take a bite out of Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup last week, everyone knew that he would be facing serious consequences in the world of soccer. But what’s quickly becoming apparent is that...

Northern Nevada Peppermill Teams with Ultimate Poker

Online poker in Nevada probably doesn’t need any more competition at the moment. After all, there’s barely enough traffic to go around for two sites, let alone the three that are currently operating in the state. But...

888 Poker Questions Luis Suárez Relationship After Bite

Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez is a study in contrasts. He’s certainly one of the most talented soccer (or football, if you prefer) players in the world, and has had many great moments for both his country and his club...

PokerStars Inches Towards Licensing in New Jersey, Quebec

The ink hasn’t even dried on the announcement that PokerStars and the Rational Group will be bought by Amaya Gaming Group, and it will still be months before the deal is finalized. But PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are...

Microgaming Poker Network Ditches English Only Rule

The “English only at the table” rule in poker has always been a sacrosanct law; a ruling tenet of poker etiquette, etched in stone perhaps by the poker gods themselves.”Thou shalt not collude against me in a...