This past weekend may go down as Invitational Tournament Week in the annals of poker history, with both the inaugural iSeries Live event and the Party Poker Premier League taking place between Friday and Sunday. In addition to the invitational events that were taking place the PokerStars EPTRead Full Article
File this one under “Unconfirmed but possible”. Last week a poster on the 2+2 poker forums started an interesting thread where he described an encounter between himself and a pair of Secret Service agents investigating a pair of payment processors. The thread written by “bmorganonnap” was met withRead Full Article
Just a day after Chad Elie changed his plea from Innocent to Guilty, on one-count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a deal with prosecutors, his co-defendant, John Campos, did likewise. The former bank Vice President who was one of 11 individuals indicted last April plead guiltyRead Full Article
This past week one of the most well-respected regulatory bodies in poker (the licensing body of PokerStars in fact) The Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta issued a statement saying they had sanctioned the Everleaf Poker Network for “irregularities”. From the LGA website: “The LGA Enforcement Unit issuedRead Full Article
Since deciding to leave the US market after their main payment processor ran afoul of the US Government, the Everleaf Poker Network has issued their first public statement on the matter, clarifying precisely what occurred, and why US players have yet to receive their account balances. In October,Read Full Article
In a recent blog post, one of poker’s all-time greats offered up his thoughts on why the poker world should go easy on Howard Lederer and Chris Ferguson. Judging by his blog post Doyle Brunson feels the poker world is being a little too hard on the FullRead Full Article
Last week, Congress conducted a hearing regarding online poker. One of the main concerns brought up repeatedly in the hearing was consumer protection. It was agreed by everyone that consumer protection needed to be one of the top priorities of any bill passed by Congress. With that inRead Full Article
A report last week by the website Subject: Poker regarding possible Department of Justice action against payment processors working in conjunction with the Merge Gaming Network saw the site take a tremendous hit in terms of overall traffic –with pokerscout.com detailing a 25% drop in traffic this pastRead Full Article