Between March and October this year, Nevada reported 5 months of online poker growth, but by August that run came to a end after revenues fell by 22.5% to $742,000. Now the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) has just released its latest iPoker results for September, and once again...
October 31st, 2014 By Lucy Brown
After eight months in the “soft-launch” phase of testing, South Point Casino’s online poker site RealGaming.com has officially entered Nevada’s online poker market, where it will now compete against WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker for a slice of the state’s regulated iPoker revenues. RealGaming.com originally launched back in February, but...
October 29th, 2014 By Stephen Smith
PokerStars is used to monopolizing the individual regulated markets it joins, which is why the poker headlines have been dominated recently by the surprise news the site’s French offering, PokerStars.fr, has been overtaken by Winamax as the country’s most popular online poker site. According to online cash game tracking...
October 28th, 2014 By Shane Larson
The Poker Hall of Fame was created by Benny Binion in 1979, and every year since the game’s greatest poker players, as well as those individuals making an outstanding contribution to the industry, are honoured by being inducted into the prestigious pantheon of poker legends. This year, two finalists...
October 27th, 2014 By Charles Washington
In 2010, France legalized online gambling but a restrictive ring-fenced market combined with high rates of taxation meant revenues began contracting just one year later, and by 2013 online poker revenues had fallen by 13% to €258 million compared to 2012. Needless to say, times are tough for professional...
October 24th, 2014 By Lucy Brown
The Full Tilt debacle which occurred post-Black Friday threatened to see the once popular internet poker site permanently shut down, but after PokerStars’ parent company, the Rational Group, rescued the operation in 2012 the site was relaunched together with a streamlined sponsored player roster which included three of the...
October 22nd, 2014 By Stephen Smith
Back in 2011, Lock Poker appeared to be the toast of the industry, with the site employing a full roster of sponsored pros including an exciting new Portuguese poker prodigy by the name of José “Triple P” Macedo. Unfortunately, the site subsequently attracted a whole host of criticism after...
October 21st, 2014 By Shane Larson
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