Posted by Carolyn on Feb 27, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Vlogger Andrew Neeme and Poker Central stole the spotlight at the recently concluded American Poker Awards (APA).  The 4th annual APA was the biggest awards ceremony till date and the organizers gave out 20 awards to poker players and media personnel for contributing to the success of poker in 2017.Read Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 30, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has confirmed that they will be introducing two new elements to high-roller events at the 2018 WSOP and the news has received the approval from the majority of poker players. The WSOP confirmed in a tweet last week that the 2018 WSOPRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 18, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Cryptocurrency continues to make huge strides in online poker as CoinPoker.com gets ready to launch the first stage of its ICO sale tomorrow. In November 2017, the cryptocurrency-based online poker room CoinPoker launched the pre-ICO sale of its CHP (CHiP) tokens, a new cryptocurrency that can be usedRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 15, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Now that 2017 is done and dusted, the Global Poker Index (GPI) will look back at the poker industry and award the top performers in its annual American Poker Awards. The popular award ceremony is returning for its fourth season to Los Angeles and will take place onRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 11, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

PokerStars, the biggest online poker website in the world recently announced that it will be implementing its successful ‘Seat Me’ system in its shared liquidity network in Europe once the French, Spanish, Italian, and Portugese pools converge in the coming months. Seat Me System Protects New Players PokerStarsRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 08, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

UK based 888Holdings, the parent company of 888poker announced quite a few months earlier that they were making plans to enter the Italian gaming market. Since then, there hasn’t been a lot of news from 888poker regarding their Italian venture. The online poker operator confirmed last week thatRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Jan 07, 2018 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal all agreed that they would share European poker player liquidity and signed an agreement to that effect in the middle of 2017. There was no specifications given as to when European shared player liquidity would come into effect but market analysts expected itRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Dec 29, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News, Poker Promotions | No Comments »

The World Poker Fund Holdings Inc (WPFH), a gaming development company that deals with event-based social gaming brands and platforms announces on December 27 that it will be launching its own Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Many companies in 2017 have proceeded with creating their own digital currency andRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Dec 20, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

PokerStars is the number one online poker website in the world but the brand also has a strong presence in Live poker tournaments. The company recently announced that they are bringing back popular regional tournaments such as the European Poker Tour (EPT), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) andRead Full Article

Posted by Carolyn on Dec 19, 2017 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
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Back in July 2017, a ground-breaking agreement was been made between the gaming regulators in Portugal, Italy, Spain, and France in order to enable shared player pools between the four countries in order to boost online poker revenues. While no official announcement has been made regarding when sharedRead Full Article