A recent agreement by WSOP.com and 888Poker’s All American Poker Network (AAPN) to share liquidity in New Jersey’s online poker market has lead to a dramatic increase in their player numbers, with both sites now overtaking Party Borgata as the state’s most popular poker sites. According to the latest...
January 20th, 2015 By Shane Larson
The biggest and most innovative online poker room on the planet, PokerStars, has just launched a novel new way to further promote its product amongst players by launching a “Pay-by-Poker” restaurant in the East of London. The limited three-day venture is a collaboration with Jones and Sons restaurant, and will...
January 19th, 2015 By Charles Washington
The State of Washington has the strictest attitude towards online poker in the whole of the US, and since 2006 the game has been classed as a Class C felony with those players caught gambling online facing the prospect of spending up to five years behind bars and being...
January 16th, 2015 By Adam Brown
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission has released its gambling results for December, revealing a 22.8% increase in online revenues to $10.7 million compared to the previous month. From that tally, casino games were up by 26.5% to $8.68 million, while online poker, too, noted a 10.1% improvement in...
January 15th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
The New Jersey online poker market is dominated by two main licensees, namely the Borgata Hotel Casino whose online partner bwin.party has the state’s largest site with Party Borgata, and also Caesars Atlantic City, whose partners WSOP.com and 888Poker occupy second and third places respectively. Up until now, however,...
January 13th, 2015 By Shane Larson
This week, computer scientist Michael Bowling and his team from the University of Alberta in Canada stunned the poker world by announcing that they have successfully built a computer program that plays perfect fixed-limit heads-up Texas Hold’em (HULHE), and is ‘essentially unbeatable’ by a human opponent. According to Bowling,...
January 12th, 2015 By Charles Washington
The Federal Republic of Germany maintains a monopoly on lotteries and sports wagering, whilst imposing a blanket ban on internet gambling across its 16 Bundesländer, or states. Up until now, however, the country did little to halt the thousands of Germans who regularly gamble at numerous sites online, in...
January 9th, 2015 By Adam Brown
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