October 30, 2015
More Spin&Go millionaires – six to precise – have been created by PokerStars over the past week than in the rest of the year, following the online poker giant’s decision to make the big money available across most Spin&Go buy-in levels. The hyper-turbo style tournaments offer mega prize pools that are randomly determined, making the […]
October 26, 2015
PokerStars has crowed its third Spin&Go millionaire in a week, and eighth of all time, after English player ‘prophethicks’ won after just seven minutes of play in a $5 tournament. Second and third runner-up’s Romanian ’BARCA1CRIS’ and Dutchman ’snagon-nl’ both banked $100,000 from a tournament that was over in just 48 hands. On 21 and […]
October 20, 2015
Today (Tuesday) sees the start of the European Poker Tour Malta festival of poker, which will include the inaugural live run of the popular online Pokerstars Spin & Go tournament The Spin & Go live element will feature the three-handed super-turbo event with Euro 50 buy-ins, enabling the fortunate few to win up to Euro […]
October 14, 2015
PokerStars has announced the rollout of a range of new game offerings across Europe and the United Kingdom. PokerStars.com, .EU and .UK have rolled out video poker games offering several game variations and different stakes which are now accessible via the ‘Casino Tab’ in the PokerStars lobby. Games include Deuces Wild, Double Bonus, Double Double […]
October 2, 2015
Pokerstars’ land casino partner in New Jersey, Resorts Casino Hotel, issued a statement Thursday on the internet poker giant’s long-awaited success in obtaining an online gambling transactional waiver from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, saying that its subsidiary Resorts Digital looked forward to jointly developing a stronger online presence in the Garden State. […]
October 1, 2015
The news late Wednesday that Amaya Inc. has at last been given the green light to operate in the New Jersey online gambling market by the Division of Gaming Enforcement has observers speculating on how soon the company’s Pokerstars and Full Tilt brands, partnered by local Atlantic City land operator Resorts Casino Hotel, will be […]
September 26, 2015
Pokerstars high stakes player “JayP-AA” created a disturbance on the high stakes $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha virtual tables this week when he demolished opposition that included names like Ike Haxton, Viktor Blom and Ben Sulsky to take home profits worth $873,000, in the process racking up what is believed to be the biggest pot record […]
September 26, 2015
Online poker provider Pokerstars celebrates a decade of Isle of Man residence next week with a major on-island poker tournament and a free-to-view 3D projection and lighting spectacular at 8pm on Wednesday. The tournament will be hosted at the Villa Marina in Douglas and consists of 13 events with the main focus on the GBP […]
September 23, 2015
David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division for Gaming Enforcement (NJDGE), responding in an interview with GGB News’ Roger Gros, said the NJDGE’s continued review into Amaya focuses more on the company’s purchase of Rational Group rather than on the company itself. Rebuck revealed that the division had conducted 80 sworn interviews in connection […]
September 18, 2015
Pokerstars is attracting attention to its recent sportsbook initiative, and at the same time is cross-marketing to its poker interests in what appears to be a savvy move associated with the company’s Super High Roller event at the current World Championship of Online Poker. With a buy-in of $51,000 the event was always going to […]