Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 15, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
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Pinnacle Entertainment, which happened to be one of the Epic Poker League’s largest creditors, put in the winning bids for both the heartland Poker Tour (at $4.2 million) as well as for the remaining assets of Federated Sports + Gaming including the Epic Poker League, the Global PokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 15, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

It would appear that people may have jumped the gun in saying that the Heartland Poker Tour’s original ownership, All-In Productions, got the short-end of the stick after selling their prized possession to the Epic Poker League’s parent company Federated Sports + Gaming, which later went belly-up, owingRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 20, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the largest online poker affiliates, PokerStrategy.com, has been the subject of two threads on the website PokerAffiliateListings.com (one recent, and one about a year old) where other users have alleged the massive online poker portal is using strong-arm tactics in order to secure certain domain namesRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 12, 2012 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

The poker world has some more fodder to speculate and ponder, as news came down Friday that Churchill Downs inc. had purchased Bluff Media’s US operations, including both the online and print versions of Bluff Magazine, as well as the company’s blogs, BLUFF POY rankings, and other assetsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 26, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

One of two things happened on Monday when it was revealed that ten more online gaming sites had their domain names seized by the DOJ including two small online poker rooms: Either the DOJ specifically targeted TruePoker and DoylesRoom despite the fact that the investigation would likely costRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 1 Comment »

Although not on the same level, and far less surprising, as the indictments handed down against Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute/UB Poker on April 15, 2011, on Monday May 23, we learned of 10 more online gaming sites that saw their domain names seized by the DepartmentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 11, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

After both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker quickly came to an agreement with the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York that saw the two online poker sites returned their domain names in order to begin returning US players funds, the poker world was leftRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 22, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Thursday we finally heard from Absolute Poker, which was the only poker room yet to respond to the seizures and indictments handed down this past Friday by the DOJ and FBI. The statement from Absolute Poker shows them moving in a slightly different direction than PokerStars andRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Apr 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 2 Comments »

Can you hear the collective sigh of relief coming from card-rooms and home office “balla setups” around the United States? It was announced today that both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have reached an agreement with the US Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York thatRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | 2 Comments »

As the fallout from Friday’s news that the DOJ and FBI had shutdown and seized the domain names of the four largest online poker rooms in the United States continued to roll throughout the night, both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars both made the decision to leave theRead Full Article