Swedish Pro Martin Jacobson Wins 2014 WSOP Main Event For $10 Million
Martin Jacobson has become Sweden’s first ever WSOP Main Event champion, after overcoming his fellow November Niners to claim tournament poker’s most prestigious title, as well its massive $10 million first place prize. Despite entering the final table as the second-lowest chip count, the 27 year-old pro was the most experienced player at the table […]
CIE’s WSOP.com Fined For Soliciting Problem Gamblers
Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s WSOP.com has become the first online gambling site in New Jersey to receive a reprimand from the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) for running afoul of state gaming regulations. Between February 16th and May 28th, Caesars Interactive emailed marketing materials to more than 250 problem gamblers who had self-excluded themselves from gambling […]
2014 WSOP ME Final Table Gets Underway In Las Vegas
The 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event has been on a four month break since July 14th when the final table was reached. Now the waiting is over for the nine remaining players and today they return to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas hoping to claim the $10 million top […]
PokerStars Players Experience Problems After Migrating To UK Platform
A few weeks back, the UK subsidiary of PokerStar announced it was to launch its new platform in Britain in order to accommodate the country’s new piece of legislation called the ‘Gambling, Licensing and Advertising Act 2014. The Act requires online gambling operators to obtain a special UK license to service the UK market, as […]
Georgia’s Adjarabet Riding High In Global Poker Traffic Rankings
Whilst the PokerScout’s ‘Online Poker Traffic Report’ is used to operators such as PokerStars, 888poker, and iPoker dominating its rankings, recently a lesser known gambling operator from the Republic of Georgia called Adjarabet, has crept into the upper echelons of global cash game traffic. Within the past few weeks, Adjarabet even overtook the iPoker Network […]
Santa Ysabel Launches Real Money Online Gambling Site In California
This summer, The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel vowed to launch real money gambling on its online poker site PrivateTable.com as early as July 14th, but several months later and the Californian tribe has now only just made good on its promise. The only catch, though, is that it’s not a poker product, but bingo […]
French Internet Poker Market Falls To €57m In Q3 2014
French online gambling regulator Autorité de Régulation des Jeux En Ligne (ARJEL), has released its third quarter results for the country’s gambling industry and while sports betting gross gaming revenues were up by a massive 94% to €60 million, online poker continued its dramatic decline with revenues shrinking by 2% to just €57 million. Poker […]
