April 5, 2016
Cash game traffic numbers from New Jersey show that the second week of Pokerstars operations in the Garden State has again yielding encouraging results, with the online poker giant maintaining its lead in the dedicated market and averaging 160 ring game players a day according to statistics from the Pokerscout independent online poker monitor. Over […]
April 2, 2016
Russian poker pro Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn has had an up-and-down few weeks on the nosebleed tables at Pokerstars but last week it all came together as he ended 6,513 hands of high stakes action with an impressive profit of $652,845 after besting some of the top players online. The other big winner over the week […]
March 27, 2016
The independent online monitor Pokerscout has given some insight into the immediate impact made by Pokerstars on its New Jersey debut last week, noting that preliminary numbers show that the industry giant boosted cash game traffic in the ring-fenced New Jersey market by around 20 percent…taking the average cash game numbers from 320 players up […]
March 23, 2016
Online poker operator Pokerstars has launched its latest online tournament series, an offering branded “Mountain Series” and comprising 10 events. The tournament is scheduled for four days from April 7-10, and features more than $4 million in guaranteed prize money and progressive buy-ins that range from $11 to $2,100. Each of the 10 tournaments is […]
March 22, 2016
PokerStars has reviewed pricing policies and implemented an increase in rake on a number of games in its shared liquidity market effective March 28, 2016 but maintains it still has the “lowest overall pricing of any major online poker operator”. Key pricing changes include: – Rake increase in Spin & Go’s of 1 percent for […]
March 21, 2016
Pokerstars’ Sunday Million 10th Anniversary celebrations’ $10 million guarantee on this past Sunday’s tournament has led to Canada’s ‘a.urli’ pocketing a staggering $970,000 after 15-and-a-half-hours of play and a four-handed final table deal all on a single $215 buy-in. A whopping 22,000 players took their seats at around 2,500 tables on Sunday afternoon with 55,059 […]
March 21, 2016
Amaya Inc. subsidiary PokerStars, in partnership with Resorts Casino Hotel, is now officially live with online poker and casino offers in New Jersey following a soft launch last week (see previous reports). “We could not be more proud to bring PokerStars to New Jersey,” commented David Baazov, chairman and chief executive officer of Amaya. “Working […]
March 19, 2016
Judging by comments on player message boards and in the online industry media, it looks as if Pokerstars’ soft launch in New Jersey Wednesday has attracted a great deal of positive attention and is going well. There have inevitably been some complaints – that’s what the soft launch is designed to refine and eliminate – […]
March 16, 2016
PokerStars has launched its Jackpot Poker product on the Playphone game store with a marketing emphasis on Taiwan, a development that forms part of its global initiative to introduce poker to new audiences. The app will allow new players to join the existing Jackpot Poker by PokerStars player pool from the Apple App Store, Google […]
March 10, 2016
Pokerstars has announced a change to its formal launch date in New Jersey of March 21, revealing that it will soft-launch in the Garden State next week on March 16. The soft launch characterisation enables the company to restrict the initial number of US$ players to just 500, with an 8-hour play limitation on the […]