August 13, 2018
Recent posts on Twitter have indicated that Americas Cardroom was not the only online poker site attacked by DDoS hackers this week (see previous report). Very little detail is currently available but it appears that: On August 9 PartyPoker advised players: “Apologies for the technical difficulties, we are working to rectify, the site has been […]
August 9, 2018
Americas Cardroom, in the past a frequent target for Distributed Denial of Service attacks (see previous reports), was targeted again this week by unknown parties, causing it to suspend an ongoing series of online tournaments. The attacks, which were successfully repulsed, took place on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday night, with cardroom management subsequently advising players: […]
May 1, 2018
Americas Cardroom (ACR) on the Winning Poker Network is the victim of severe Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks which began the better part of this past week, the online poker site confirmed in an advisory. Since Wednesday, 25 April, customers have had intermittent success accessing the site at login, while many others have been […]
November 6, 2017
Starting Sunday January 7 next year, Americas Cardroom on the Winning Poker Network will be offering 12 one million dollar guaranteed MT tournaments, a significant $12 million investment by the operator. Publicity material from the operator claims that the Sunday tournaments constitute the largest available to action-starved US players, with buy-ins of $265 and prizes […]
July 28, 2017
The US player-friendly online poker operator Americas Cardroom has added a million dollars to the guaranteed prizes for its Online Super Series poker tournament next month, offering guarantees of $6.7 million across 141 events running from August 13th to September 10th. The schedule includes three Main Events which carry not only big prize money, but […]
April 4, 2017
Americas Cardroom has introduced the “next edition” of the OSS Cub3d online tournament series. The three back-to-back tournament series will run from April 9 to May 7, 2017, featuring around $5.7 million in guaranteed prize money and packages for the Punta Cana Poker Classic. The series, each featuring a Main Event, comprise the MOSS (Mini […]
February 28, 2017
The publication High Stakes Database reports that high-profile, high stakes poker players playboy Dan Bilzerian and hedge fund manager Bill Perkins were banned last weekend by online poker site Americas Cardroom for “blatant” multi-accounting whilst live streaming via Twitch. The HSDB report notes: “The blatant multi-accounting first came to light last month after Bilzerian streamed […]
September 14, 2015
The Americas Cardroom online poker operator was hit by a “pretty large” series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks by persons unknown Sunday, with the hackers demanding an undisclosed ransom in Bitcoins to stop swamping the servers with data. Although the attacks disrupted the company’s Million Dollar Sunday afternoon tournament, causing a loss estimated by […]
April 14, 2015
The unidentified e-cash processor handling online poker operator Americas Cardroom business is probably a target following an incident this week in which a customer service rep allegedly told a customer to mislead his bank by declaring that a deposit was not for gambling, but for “sporting goods from China.” US-facing ACR was quick to deny […]
December 15, 2014
Amid reports over the past two weeks of a growing number of suspected Distributed Denial of Service attacks on internet gambling sites (see previous reports) the weekend saw a million dollar online poker tournament at Americas Cardroom cancelled due to a persistent assault on the servers by a person or persons unknown at present. The […]