Archive for 2015

Amaya Gaming Plans To Use Victiv As New DFS Platform

As you may be aware, Amaya Gaming group recently purchased the Texas daily fantasy sports service ‘Victiv’, which it will soon re-brand under the admittedly better sounding new name of ‘StarsDraft’. Very shortly, StarsDraft is then expected to link up with the PokerStars platform and initially launch in a...

Is Fantasy Sports Gambling Or A Game Of Skill?

Visit any fantasy sport site and you’ll notice that they always refer to their daily fantasy sports (DFS) product as being an activity based upon skill, and as such should not be considered a form of gambling. For example, DraftKings, the biggest DFS site in the world, states that...

Full Tilt Continues Overhaul With New Players Loyalty Program

At the end of July, Full Tilt implemented a major overhaul of its products in order to appeal more to recreational players, the life blood of the online poker industry. The site’s high-stakes buy-in levels were reduced to just $10/$20 for No Limit Hold’em, for instance, while a whole...

Brazil Outlaws Playing Poker In Public

Brazil’s citizens are restricted to just legal horse racing and lottery products, but last year Senator Ciro Nogueira introduced a piece of gambling law, Bill 671-2015, designed to establish a legal gambling framework in the South American nation. One of the aims of the bill was to introduce sports...

Is Poker On Its Way To Becoming A Sport?

There’s no doubt that poker is competitive, but can you classify the game as a sport? People who don’t play or follow the competitive circuit may balk at the idea since poker isn’t a physical game in the same way as traditional sports. Still, the owner of the Global...

New Jersey iPoker Just 15% Of iGaming Market In July

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement has released its latest iGambling results for July, and whilst the $12,531,991 generated by the state’s internet operators represented its third highest total to date, the $1,885,685 accounted for by online poker was just 15% of overall iGaming revenues, its lowest share...

Is Playing Poker Worthwhile Training For The Business World?

If you’re looking for popular games to play, particularly online, or with your buddies for that matter, you’ll be hard-pressed to come up with a more popular card game than poker. Over the last decade, poker’s popularity has literally skyrocketed, with more people playing the game than ever before....