POKERSTARS PREVIEWS VIRTUAL REALITY POKER
UK.- PokerStars is interested in conquering a new market, as it has decided to preview a virtual reality version of its online poker software. The company is expecting a successful preview in order to release it to the market in…
AMERICAS CARDROOM TO HOST POKER CASH GAME IN COSTA RICA
Beginning September 28, Americas Cardroom (ACR) will be in Costa Rica. It’s just a little weekend getaway, but the US-facing poker site will host a poker live cash game for a few of the site’s lucky winners. The game, a Cage Event,…
POKERSTARS GARRY GATES ON HIS ROLE AS SENIOR CONSULTANT OF PLAYER AFFAIRS
Lee Davy, sits down with Garry Gates, Senior Consultant of Player Affairs for PokerStars Live, to talk about his first year in the job. The first person I see when I walk into the Pullman Hotel, Barcelona, after travelling for…
IS POKER GOING TO BE SCRATCHED IN MACAU?
Tencent, the company behind some of the most successful online gaming in China, as well as the WeChat social media platform, recently had to shut down a popular online Texas Hold’em game. The move came as regulators in the China have begun…
UKRAINE DEFINES POKER AS A SPORT
Lawmakers have decided that poker is not a game of chance, therefore it is exempt from anti-gambling laws. Urakine.- Ukrainian lawmakers have listed poker in the Register of Recognized Sports after discussing whether it was a game of chance or…
POKERSTARS LIVE MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER TO MACAU RETURN
Hong Kong businessman and high stakes poker player Stanley Choi has taken a key step forward in his quest to bring the PokerStars LIVE brand back to Macau with his company, International Entertainment Corp (IEC), acquiring Rational Live Events…
SPANISH TAXMAN CHASES HOSSEIN ENSAN; LIVE OPERATORS SHOULD PROVIDE MORE ADVICE
As news circulates that the Spanish tax authorities are chasing the German poker player Hossein Ensan for back taxes relating to a 2014 third-place finish in the European Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona, Lee Davy wants the live tournament…
SLOTS BENEFIT THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY
A new study shows that legal slot machines operations benefit the country’s revenues. Australia.- Although “pokie” machines (as slots machines are known in Australia) are facing a national crackdown in a framework of strict opposition against gaming expansion in the country,…
NEW YORK POKER ROOM MADAM, ALLEGED DRUG TRAFFICKER FREED ON BAIL
She described herself as the “LeBron James of poker,” whatever that means. She certainly isn’t as tall as he is and has way more hair. Whatever her reasons, Geeta Singh became known as the madam of a Greenwich Village, New York…
BILL JORDANOU GETS 12 YEARS OVER GAMBLING SCAM
The fate of one of Australia’s most notorious swindlers has been revealed. Bill Jordanou, a former professional poker player who made a better living as a scam artist, will spend at least nine years behind bars for his role in a scheme…