May 8, 2016
Innovation is always interesting, and Pokerstars used the recently completed European Poker Tour festival in Monte Carlo to assess player reactions to a few new ideas for the game. The company’s ideas chief Christin Maschmann was on hand, poker table and all, to personally talk players, reporters and the just plain curious through a range […]
May 7, 2016
The Amaya Group’s decision to merge Full Tilt with Pokerstars is apparently well enough advanced for the merger to take place on May 17 this year, with preparations for the big move well in hand. The company has announced that the Full Tilt poker platform will not be offered for sale, and will instead be […]
May 6, 2016
Online poker forums lit up this week with reports from Pokerstars players that they have begun receiving refunds following what appears to be a major bust by Pokerstars security, although the company has not released specific details. The refunds appear to stem from the popular Spin&Go action offered by Pokerstars, with some players claiming they […]
May 3, 2016
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest statistics indicate that April was not a good month for ring game traffic for Pokerstars, with the company taking a substantial 14.7 percent decline, attributed by some observers to it’s 4 percent hike in rake towards the end of March. Pokerscout notes that player traffic dropped from 17,000 […]
April 30, 2016
Pokerstars New Jersey has wasted no time in deploying its global “onlive” experience to the local market in partnership with its land-based teammate Resorts Casino Hotel and Twitch ace Jason Somerville. The duo has announced the first Run It Up Resorts Rumble on May 14, an event that combines in-person social poker action with online […]
April 15, 2016
Three weeks on from its March 21 launch in the New Jersey intrastate online gambling market, PokerstarsNJ remains largely in charge on 40 percent of poker cash game traffic, although it has slipped 3 percent from the last assessment at the end of March. Figures published by the independent online poker monitor Pokerscout show that […]
April 14, 2016
This Sunday sees the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Sunday Storm tournament at Pokerstars, and to make it a memorable occasion the company has boosted the prize pool guarantee to $1 million…more than three times the usual $300,000, but for the same $11 buy-in. Entry is capped at 175,000 players, and satellites for […]
April 14, 2016
The wide range of interested parties in the legalisation of online poker in California (see previous reports) will be preparing for the next round of debate on Wednesday April 20, when the California Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee has scheduled a hearing to discuss Assemblyman Adam Gray’s bill AB2863. Preparing the ground for their views, […]
April 8, 2016
The Amaya group has announced a senior appointment at subsidiary PokerStars, advising the promotion of Full Tilt managing director Dominic Mansour to senior vice president for southern European markets. Mansour was appointed m.d. at Full Tilt in March last year (see previous reports) and is an experienced gaming industry executive who has previously served as […]
April 7, 2016
Poker fans in New Jersey are in for a special treat next (May) month when Pokerstars launches a New Jersey-dedicated version of its popular Spring Championship of Online Poker. A company representative on the 2plus2 poker forum revealed this week that a draft schedule has been drawn up proposing 27 prize pool guaranteed tournaments with […]