Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 05, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Granted, the list of poker fails is a pretty lengthy one (after all, this is the game that gave us the terms robusto and busto); you have everything from dormant online poker rooms, to one of the wildest forum posts to ever hit 2+2, to the failed ideaRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 30, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In a recent editorial on CalvinAyre.com, Preston Oade J.D. echoed I. Nelson Rose’s concerns over Joe Barton and his apparent partnering with the Poker Players Alliance. However, Oade didn’t simply rehash Rose’s arguments; instead he put together his case against the Barton Bill itself by pointing out theRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 22, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After Black Friday online poker sites where starting t get bad press with stories coming out like the Full Tilt scandal. However, where Full Tilt had been taking money from players, Lock Poker decided to give back this Christmas. Lock Poker heard about a small Christmas tournament gettingRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 01, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

According to a report at egrmagazine.com (the subscription part of the site), Facebook is preparing to enter the online poker industry in the UK; well preparing to partner with existing online poker sites in the UK by offering to host up to eight online poker companies’ software onRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 18, 2011 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

High Pulse Poker is a new player on the poker scene, the site launched its real-money version on the 15th of November, but unlike other online poker startups that mimic what the current crop of online poker rooms are doing, High Pulse Poker has decided to do thingsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 16, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

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 €2Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the top independent online poker rooms in the world, PKR Poker, has announced that it will be signing one of “the best poker players in the world” to its Team PKR Pro roster, according to a press release issued on Friday. PKR Poker is one ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 13, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

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 entireRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Nov 02, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »

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” listRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 21, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
party poker software update

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. PartyRead Full Article