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

Earlier this week Calvin Ayre called out the online poker tracking site PokerScout.com, claiming that they were “stealing” Bodog data as part of their collection methods. While it remains unclear what precise methods pokerscout.com uses in their data collection (the site basically keeps statistics on the amount ofRead Full Article

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

There have been a lot of developments in the poker world since the US Department of Justice shutdown the online poker industry on April 15, 2011 (known as Black Friday in the poker world), and while many people have been adversely affected by the ongoing saga that isRead Full Article

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

There is always one announcement or another coming out of Facebook every week, and while the typical announcement usually has something to do with a privacy setting or some other minor change to the site itself, this weekend the Social Media mega-company detailed a change in their advertisingRead Full Article

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

In a press release issued on Thursday the Poker Pros Network poker room announced it would be leaving the Cake Poker Network in order to comply with current US laws regarding online poker. The press release also detailed that PPN will be moving to proprietary network in theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 25, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
PokerStars versus Full Tilt

Prior to Black Friday, PokerStars controlled an estimated 50% of the online poker traffic in the world, with Full Tilt poker a distant second with a further 25% of the online poker traffic. That left a 25% piece of the pie for the hundreds of other online pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Aug 12, 2011 Posted in Poker Industry News | No Comments »
merge gaming rakeback

A large percentage of the few online poker rooms that still allow US players can be found on the Merge Gaming Network, but the most US-friendly poker network in existence even had to halt new signups from the US for a considerable period in the aftermath of BlackRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Attention all out of work Full Tilt Poker Red Pros: The poker agency Check Raise Management has made an appeal to all European based poker players who have lost their sponsorship deals since Black Friday to contact the agency regarding possible sponsorship deals at other online poker rooms.Read Full Article

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

The Cake Poker Network has found yet another partner to add to its ever changing poker network of over 75 online poker rooms, this time with a site that has interesting on helping the endangered Red Panda species, and aptly named Red Panda Poker. We’ve seen Rake-Free pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 20, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

1. Olivier Busquet is AWESOME in the broadcast booth, and Antonio Esfandiari is only slightly inferior The 2011 WSOP Live Stream on ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 seems to be the wave of the future, and this is only possible because of the fantastic job done by pokerRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
party poker software update

With online poker players raising their hands in frustration as poker sites are being shutdown and having their licenses pulled, Party Poker has come up with an innovative reason to join one of the most popular, and 100% legal, online poker rooms in the world by eliminating allRead Full Article