On Tuesday, March 3 at 4.40am (ET), PokerStars experienced technical difficulties after its servers crashed, and the site remained frozen for the next two hours before the action eventually resumed at 6.40am (ET). In the meantime, the outage interrupted PokerStars’ games on all its network domains across the globe,...
March 10th, 2015 By Charles Washington
In April 2013, Zynga and Bwin.Party established a partnership they hoped would convert some of Zynga’s 32 million registered play-money users into a real money poker and casino playing audience. ZyngaPlusPoker and ZyngaPlusCasino was then born in the UK, which was subsequently viewed as a test ground before launching...
March 9th, 2015 By Adam Brown
The US debate of whether to continue allowing legalized online poker in the country has heated up in recent weeks after Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) reintroduced the Sheldon Adelson inspired Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) to the House last month. The bill aims to return the Wire Act...
March 5th, 2015 By Stephen Smith
In 2014, PokerStars introduced its new Spin & Go tournaments and since then the format has proved a great success amongst recreational players, a group deemed vital to the healthy development of a poker ecology. However, these games caused an instant backlash from the site’s legion of regular grinders,...
March 4th, 2015 By Shane Larson
Streaming technology allow individuals to view whatever they please via an internet connection, with one such service, Twitch, having long been the preferred choice for watching players dominate the opposition at their favorite computer games. Founded in 2011, Amazon then bought the video-game streaming service last August for $970...
March 3rd, 2015 By Charles Washington
Global Poker Index CEO Alex Dreyfus is on a mission to sportify poker, and part of his vision for the game’s future includes organizing the American Poker Awards, which he had previously described as “an investment for the future of poker, and the further legitimacy of the GPI.” On...
March 2nd, 2015 By Adam Brown
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