Today Lock Poker launched there new cashier. The hope is this will mean the time from withdrawing from your player account to you bank will be decreased greatly. It’s also important to note this is not a merge cashier change, but only refers to the Lock cashier. It is also likely that for the first couple of days after the change over, a fewRead Full Article

Earlier this week it was reported, originally by Subject: Poker, that Chris Ferguson could have been single-handedly responsible for holding up the forfeiture of Full Tilt Poker’s assets to the US Department of Justice (and therefore holding up the eventual sale of the company’s assets by the DOJ to Groupe Bernard Tapie) but on Tuesday we learned that the Full Tilt forfeiture to theRead Full Article

Earlier in December, we reported on a rumor regarding the reopening of PokerRoom.com.  The site had claimed publicly that a tweet about the room’s reopening by a SEO manager was merely misunderstanding.  However our sources within bwin poker revealed that the former online poker room was being considered for reopening, but nothing official had been decided.  That changed on January 5th when PokerRoom.com officiallyRead Full Article

Thursday, January 19, 2012 marks the start of the inaugural Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) at the world’s #1 poker site, PokerStars. The tournament series will run for a total of 11 days, featuring a mind-numbing 50 tournaments with at least $10 million scheduled to be awarded. PokerStars has guaranteed $10 million in prize money over the course of the tournament series, butRead Full Article

Founded in the 1940’s in Great Britain, Victor Chandler has become a name that is virtually synonymous with sports-betting in the UK. However, even their powerful brand hasn’t seemed to be able to crack the upper echelon of online gaming sites, which may be the reason that Victor Chandler announced it would be rebranding its entire operation, now known as BetVictor. Virtually everything butRead Full Article

Throughout the entire Black Friday debacle the Merge Gaming Network’s flagship online poker room, Lock Poker, has continued to add to their talented roster of poker pros, known as Team ELITE, and this weekend they picked-up yet another of poker’s rising stars, Melanie “Callisto” Weisner. Weisner is the latest addition to a vaunted roster that includes Lock Poker’s Poker Room Manager Eric “Rizen” Lynch,Read Full Article

Yet another player has been removed from the Team PokerStars Pro roster as European Poker Tour founder John Duthie confirmed he had parted ways with his longtime sponsor PokerStars on the 2+2 Poker Forum. In addition to founding the EPT, Duthie is also an accomplished poker player in his own right, with over $2.7 million in career tournament earnings according to thehendonmob.com. Duthie postedRead Full Article

Players at PokerStars will find several changes beginning on January 1, 2012 as the site announced a major change to their rake calculations, which in turn will have a severe impact on the site’s VIP Loyalty Program, according to a 2+2 forum post by PokerStars Steve. Beginning January 1st, PokerStars will make the move to the “weighted” model when determining precisely how much aRead Full Article

The world’s largest online poker room (and second place isn’t even close) has just launched a new global marketing campaign targeting players from all over the world, including the growing Latin and South American markets. The new television ad campaigns feature the slogan “We are Poker” and incorporate some of the biggest names in poker into the ads. It’s scary to think that PokerStarsRead Full Article

According to a report at www.PocketFives.com Absolute Poker and UB Poker players may indeed be repaid by the soon to be liquidated sites… but only to the tune of about 20% of their account balances. According to the article, “Two reliable sources close to Absolute Poker and UB have indicated that players owed money from the two CEREUS Network sites could be repaid 15Read Full Article