In March 2007, word came out that Sportingbet had a suitor.Austrian gambling company, and owner of the Ongame network, bwin, was interested in purchasing the UK-based online gaming firm.By July 2007, talks had ceased and no deal was made.
Now, almost a year after the rumblings of a buyout started, the same reports are springing up [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | February 26, 2008

Safety and fairness are paramount concerns to the online poker player, and organizations such as eCOGRA are responsible for making sure that players have someone to represent them when they have complaints. Last year, more then half of the complaints submitted to eCOGRA were settled in the player’s favor.
Player protection and standards organization eCOGRA (eCommerce [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 25, 2008

PokerScout.com, the online cash game traffic resource, made strong allegations against poker room DoingPoker.com, surmising that the site very well may be using bots to fill seats at its almost barren tables.
PokerScout does say that it has not observed any collusion or otherwise shady play by the supposed bots, nor does it believe that its [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 25, 2008

Asian Logic Limited has just announced plans for launching two new poker rooms tailored for the Asian market that will run in Playtech’s iPoker network. Asian Logic, through its subsidiary ESL, has partnered with Fortune Bid Holdings BVI for this forage into the growing poker market in Asia.
The first room will be called Dirty Stack [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 22, 2008

Pacific Poker may not be joining the online poker series fun just yet, but it is doing its part by hosting a huge guaranteed prize pool tournament.At $3 million guaranteed, the World Poker Crown tournament should prove to be one heck of a contest.
It costs $1,050 to enter, but players can work their way up [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 22, 2008

Although the UIGEA has so far seemed to be an insurmountable foe to American poker players, fans of the game living in the state of California may have a bit of hope on the horizon. California State Assemblyman Lloyd Levine has introduced a new assembly bill that will direct the California Gambling Control Commission and [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 21, 2008

Picture a 240 runner poker tournament.You’d need about 24 tables, which means you’d need at least that many dealers.You’d need several tournament officials to monitor the tables, plus a few extra staff members for other jobs.
Now picture that same tournament with just four staff members.Four.That was the scene at the Casino Montreal last week, as [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 21, 2008

For reasons that may never be made clear, scores of internet gambling sites were the victims of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for at least a week this month.While the attacks may have started sooner, the internet watchdog group, the Shadowserver Foundation, found that they ran at least from February 10 through February 18.
PartyGaming’s casino gambling [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | February 21, 2008

Information has been rising to the surface this week in connection to Party Gaming for reasons that that most likely have something to do with the company’s involvement in the US gambling market before the introduction of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Taking charge of the investigation is the US Department of Justice [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | February 20, 2008

The World Poker Tour announced the schedule for its seventh season this week, spreading fourteen events from July 2008 through April 2009. All but one event is not in the United States, and that one is in Canada, making the name “World Poker Tour” a bit of a misnomer at this point.
Season 7 has been [...]

Read More... | 1 Comment | By Rocco Havel | February 20, 2008