The Merge Network will begin taking new player signups from the United States, beginning October 13th at 1:00 AM Eastern Time, according to a report. Players from New York, Kentucky, Washington state, Louisiana, Missouri, and Washington DC will continue to be blocked from creating new accounts. Although the Merge Network is allowing licensees to take [...]
Swedish player Nils Jarefjäll has won the EMOP Prague, after overcoming a field of 231 players over four days to lift the title, and collect the €52,277 top prize. As the €1,100 Main Event at the Card Casino in Prague reached its final table, Nils Jarefjäll was in pole position with 1.195m in chips, followed [...]
This is definitely one to keep on the radar if you like your live blackjack, especially if you live in Europe. Unibet are running an 18 person blackjack tournament that will take place over the weekend of 17th to 19th February in Prague. The winner walks away with €8000, 2nd place gets €5000, 3rd €4000, 4th €3000, 5th €2000 and 6th gets €1000. [...]
All PartyPoker multi-table tournaments will be rake-free throughout the month of January. During this promotion players will not be charged any tournament fees on any multi-table tournament, and 100% of buy-ins will go into the prize pools. The promotion ends at 23:59 ET on 31 January 2012. This month PartyPoker is also offering a 100% [...]
A.J. Brock has won the Resorts World Manila Super High Roller event, after overcoming a field of 101 players over three days to lift the trophy, and collect the PHP 6 million (US$136,135) first place prize. A.J. Brock is employed as a Poker Room Manager at Wynn (Macau), and his duties include training dealers and [...]
The accepted casino table naming convention seems to be that if the table has high limits you name it after something very precious. Gold, Diamond, Platinum are all favorites. Read more…
Merge Gaming Network has seen an overall increase in poker traffic of 21% since re-opening signups to US players. Last week their traffic jumped 13% after increasing by 7% the last three days from the previous week after re-opening US registrations on October 13th. Merge has moved back into the Top 10 of poker network [...]
Demo Kirlopoulos has won the 2011 Punta Cana Poker Classic after overcoming a field of 415 players over four days to lift the title, and collect the $136,950 first place prize. The $1,500 buy-in main event at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in the Dominican Republic managed to attract a whole slew of poker pros [...]
Australias long held legal position with respect to online casinos may be set for an overhaul. A parliamentary inquiry is currently reviewing the Interactive Gaming Act which has been in place for over a decade now and the inquirys Chairman, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie, has said that a move toward a regulated market is being considered. We do [...]
Hey. Things are finally on the improve. I’ve been playing relatively well. Today I managed 3 deep runs in the $22, $16 Turbo and Big $11 managing to come 7th, 8th and 12th for a few hundred a piece. Not too shabby. I busted out of all three in pretty standard spots. My CMU shares [...]