It appears we may all have jumped the gun a bit after CNN Money posted an article (that was quickly taken down by the site). A new version of the article was posted on CNN Money on Friday, with some corrections made; corrections that will not sit well with poker players: The editor’s note that accompanies the article pretty much says it all: Editor’sRead Full Article

On January 1st, 2012 Spain will join the likes of countries like France and Italy and create their own country-wide online poker network, and no less than 16 online poker sites have already begun the process of applying for a Spanish license (at an initial cost of €2 million) according to egrmagazine.com. According to the article, the usual suspects have all filed for aRead Full Article

On November 10th Betfair announced it had finished its search for the company’s next CEO, and the group has decided on Breon Corcoran. Corcoran, the former Paddy Power COO and long-time board member is considered one of the rising stars in the industry, and at just 40 years-old could spend many years with Betfair. Corcoran will begin his tenure at Betfair on August 1,Read Full Article

For years the Cake Poker Network has been staunchly against allowing players to use Heads-Up Display’s (Known in the poker world as HUD’s) taking a number of steps to dissuade and disallow their usage at any of the network’s online poker tables. It now seems that the entire network will be making the necessary changes to ALLOW players to use HUD’s at the network’sRead Full Article

After the old guard took their lumps on Black Friday, the road was basically paved in gold for the mega-casinos who have recently thrown their weight behind online poker legislation in the United States. Even before Black Friday we saw a number of Brick & Mortar casino giants partnering with online poker sites –Fertitta Interactive and Full Tilt Poker, Harrahs and 888 Poker, andRead Full Article

This week the Entraction Poker Network made good on its previous warnings that it would be banning players from select countries around the globe (countries where legislation has made online poker illegal in some way, shape or form). The countries that have been put on Entraction’s “No-Play” list include Canada, Russia, Norway, Israel, and Turkey. A representative from Victor Chandler (perhaps the best knownRead Full Article

Fertitta Interactive has been eyeing the online poker market over the past year, and after a failed attempt to partner with Full Tilt Poker (a deal that fell through thanks to Black Friday) the company has settled on the Oakland, California based software development company, CyberArts Licensing LLC, according to a recent press release. Fertitta Interactive is a part of Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta’sRead Full Article

One of the latest updates many sites have been making is to offer a fully downloadable version of their software to MAC users, who were previously limited to playing in some sort of Flash window. The latest site to jump on the MAC bandwagon is Party Poker. Party Poker unveiled their MAC download earlier this week, giving MAC users something to cheer about. WithoutRead Full Article

PKR Poker is no stranger when it comes to winning awards inside the eGaming industry, and for the third straight year the cutting-edge 3-D software used by PKR Poker has seen them nominated for the highly coveted Poker Operator of the Year award at the 2011 e-Gaming Review Awards. Since breaking into the online poker market in 2006, PKR Poker has continued to pushRead Full Article

Hours after the first whispers of a deal to purchase the ailing online poker room Full Tilt poker hit the Internet, iGamingFrance.com landed an exclusive interview with the man heading the group of investors that have entered into an Acquisition Agreement with Full Tilt poker, Laurent Tapie. According to the article, Tapie, “wouldn’t have undertaken such a project if he didn’t believe in itsRead Full Article