Tag Archives: online poker

Minted Poker customers who have given up on ever seeing their deposits again may be able to recoup their losses. It’s not a great chance, but it’s a chance. The beleaguered online poker room announced yesterday that it is moving from the Everleaf Gaming Network to the really-never-heard-of-before Plutos Poker Network. The Everleaf saga has [...] Continue reading →

It’s not a meteoric rise in traffic, but it’s something. Online poker monitoring site PokerScout.com reported yesterday that for the second week in a row, online poker cash game traffic increased. Like the previous week, last week’s increase was small – just 0.2 percent – but that’s better than the alternative. Six of the top [...] Continue reading →

According to a report by Howard Stutz of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (GCB) is looking into the relationship between Ultimate Poker and iovation, the company that provided Ultimate Poker with identity verification services until last Thursday. Ultimate Poker became the first legal and regulated online poker room to go live [...] Continue reading →

One day the UltimateBet cheating scandal will die and, aside from never forgetting what happened, we won’t have to talk about it again. But until then, the tremors continue to rumble. On Friday, UltimateBet insider and Russ Hamilton’s computer expert, Travis Makar, published, among other things, an audio recording of a meeting between Hamilton, UB [...] Continue reading →

The beleaguered Lock Poker has had quite a bit of trouble over the past few months as it continues to offer online poker to U. S. residents. Now it has to bid adieu to two of its more prominent professional players from its Lock Poker Pros team. According to the PokerNews UK’s Matthew Pitt, online [...] Continue reading →

We all knew it was coming. And now it’s almost here. At the European Poker Tour Grand Final, PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones announced that the world’s largest online poker room will soon be launching its Road to 100 Billion celebration. That’s one hundred billion cash game hands over the history of PokerStars. [...] Continue reading →

Online poker cash game traffic monitoring website PokerScout.com released its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, revealing the first weekly increase in the number of players sitting down to ring games in two months. Before everyone starts jumping for joy, it was only a half a percent increase, but still, that is better than the [...] Continue reading →

Back in the “good old days” of online poker, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker were fierce rivals. Numbers one and two in the traffic rankings, they were in the business of trying to one-up each other. PokerStars had the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP); Full Tilt launched the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). [...] Continue reading →

Although it is extremely early to gain a read on how successful it will be, the early days of action on Ultimate Poker are showing that the site is steadily garnering support from Nevadans who can actually play on it. Opening up on Tuesday, Ultimate Poker became the first regulated online poker room in the [...] Continue reading →