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 lot of poker variants which better […]
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 betting additions at land-based lotteries, bingo […]
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 Poker Index (GPI), Alex Dreyfus, is […]
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 of the market since the industry […]
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. All you need to do to […]
What Has Changed Since PokerStars Exited The US Market?
It may seem hard to believe, but it’s actually been over four years since the Department of Justice forced PokerStars to exit the unregulated US market, in the process leaving a gaping hole in the poker community stateside. The good news, however, as many poker enthusiasts will already be aware of, is that PokerStars may […]
Caesars Chairman Gary Loveman Frustrated By US Online Poker Industry
The United States had a thriving online poker market pre-Black Friday, but the whole industry was deconstructed in 2011 to pave way for a market which could be regulated and taxed, rather than revenues being funneled into the pockets of unlicensed offshore operators. In 2013, Nevada then became the first US state to adopt iPoker […]
