In a shocking turn of events, Neteller announced this week that it will cease service to Canadian customers, effective April 9 (technically, this is only for online gambling transactions, but who are we trying to fool). instaCASH transactions have already been stopped, but unlike what happened to U.S. customers, Canadians can still get to their [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 29, 2007

Lee Jones, the very popular poker room manager at PokerStars, is moving on to bigger and better things. Earlier this week, he made the announcement that he will leave his post and instead work for the European Poker Tour, while still doing some consulting for the online poker room. Below is the message he left [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | March 29, 2007

Don’t know how they did it, considering other online gambling companies are having trouble with ACH transfers, but Absolute Poker has now made those very ACH transfers available as a cashout method. If they truly work as easily as they seem like they should, this will be great for those trying to quickly and smoothly [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | March 29, 2007

Nothing has been posted yet on the UltimateBet.com website, but online poker room UltimateBet did announce today that it has created an internet version of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC). The NHUPC, which matched 64 poker pros and celebrities (63, actually, plus one internet qualifier) in a “March Madness” style tournament bracket of heads-up [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | March 22, 2007

Sun Poker made a bad public relations move this month when it reduced the value of the top five prizes in its “One Sick Promo,” which started back in December. The promotion spans six months and rewards the one hundred players who earn the most loyalty points (through heavy play) over that span with World [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | March 22, 2007

Slowly but surely, the online poker rooms are finding ways for U.S. customers to fund their accounts. This week, Bodog.com added the Instant Check option to the cashier. Unlike many other methods, there is no separate third-party account to create.
All that is needed to make a deposit into Bodog using Instant Check is a [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | March 22, 2007

The Ongame network (PokerRoom.com, HollywoodPoker.com) announced last week that throughout the rest of March, it will be adding $400,000 to its guaranteed tournament prize pools. Other networks have made similar moves recently, including Party Poker, the Microgaming poker network, and Absolute Poker, so this most definitely appears to be a “keeping up with the Joneses” [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | March 19, 2007

Playtech’s iPoker network is now amongst the top five largest poker networks on the internet, thanks to last week’s completed migration of the Tribeca Tables and Tain networks onto the iPoker platform. The total absorption of the new rooms comes a month ahead of schedule.
Based on figures published by pokersitescout.com, iPoker did hit the [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 19, 2007

It’s that time of year again. Time for the online poker rooms to roll out the World Series of Poker satellites! This year, even though Harrah’s has said that it will not accept third party payments for WSOP seats, Full Tilt Poker is going all out to send hundreds of players to the Series.
Full [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | March 19, 2007

UK online poker room, Gutshot.com is the latest in a growing line of poker rooms to change networks. It announced Wednesday that it was making the move from the lagging 24hNetwork to the suddenly very hot Microgaming Network. Microgaming has become the destination of choice for several migrating poker rooms lately, largely because of its [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | March 8, 2007