March 19, 2016
The successful Dusk Til Dawn and PartyPoker partnership on the popular Grand Prix Poker Tour, has persuaded the team to build on the concept by launching a new live poker series titled the Grand Prix Poker Tour Mini. The new tour has 20 confirmed dates at venues across the UK between March 23 and Dec. […]
February 28, 2016
Bwin.Party has not confirmed speculation this week that its PartyPoker subsidiary may be ousted later this year from the New Jersey online gambling alliance with Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Whilst the Borgata online gambling enterprise is the market leader, its poker numbers are reportedly lagging behind the Caesars-WSOP-888Poker venture, which may be a motivating […]
February 24, 2016
Last weekend proved to be embarrassing (and probably expensive) for PartyPoker after its newly upgraded software client caused network errors that ended in a more than 7 hour crash over a peak period Saturday. The company quickly came forward with an apology and an assurance to players that refunds will be made in respect of […]
February 11, 2016
Possibly due to a more player-friendly approach by new owner GVC Holdings, Party Poker announced Wednesday that a decision to charge players for e-wallet withdrawals has been rescinded with immediate effect. The policy change applies to withdrawals from Neteller, Skrill and Webmoney, where all cash-outs from PartyPoker are now free of charge. Professional players will […]
February 6, 2016
American Chris Leong outlasted a field of 1,171 to take the Party Poker WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open title scoring a huge payday of $816,246. Leong sat down at the final table together with Joe McKeenhen, reigning WSOP main event champion, and Yevgeny Timoshenko, WPT 2009 Championship winner but it was Rafael Yaraliyev who he […]
November 9, 2015
UK poker pro Iaron Lightbourne emerged victorious in the 2015 PartyPoker WPT UK Main event besting a field of 450 and ultimately Craig McCorkell in heads-up. Lightbourne took home the title and a his biggest career pay check to date of GBP 200 000. Final Table : Iaron Lightbourne – GBP 200,000 Craig McCorkell […]
October 22, 2015
The Philadelphia 76ers US basketball franchise has prematurely ended its partnership with Bwin’s PartyPoker in a move that has left industry observers surprised and puzzled. PartyPoker is not involved in the daily fantasy sports sector which has been under siege for the past three weeks, although US sports teams have been criticised for closer links […]
October 16, 2015
PartyPoker’s announced intention to make changes in order to ensure a level field for all players continued to progress this week with the completion of the first phase of the plan it has titled Poker for the People. The release of a software update on Thursday heralding the completion, and included restrictions on third party […]
September 26, 2015
PartyPoker director of games Golan Shaked has apologised to the player community for the company’s decision to postpone the 80-event Pokerfest tournament for a month due to technical problems. Carrying $2.5 million in guarantees, Pokerfest was scheduled to kick off this Sunday (September 27) but a last-minute decision to postpone was made on Friday, apparently […]
September 23, 2015
PartyPoker’s Pokerfest Online series is set to kick off again next week (September 27) with 80 events, several poker game styles and $2.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. Buy-ins range from $5 to $2,100 (for the NLHE Super High Roller Freezeout), and the operator is offering a range of satellites for players to win entries […]