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

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

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

On Friday the Kahnawake Gaming Commission made the first public statement regarding Absolute Poker and UB Poker since the sites came to an agreement with the US Department of Justice in the weeks following Black Friday. The statement basically says that Blanca Games will liquidate the troubled onlineRead Full Article

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

This gossip is still in the early stages, but several sources have confirmed that the Entraction Poker Network will be blocking players from five countries at the end of the month, Canada, Russia, Israel, Norway, and Turkey. While the network hasn’t issued an official statement at this time,Read Full Article

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

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

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

It’s $10 Haircut time over at Titan Poker, as the site announced it would be running a huge promotion: Slashing its cash-game rake by 50% at most tables, while at the same time changing high-stakes cash-game rake collection to a fixed amount of just $.10 per hand. AccordingRead Full Article