This week, PokerStars followed competitors Full Tilt Poker and Cake Poker in making adjustments to the buy-ins of certain cash games in an effort to combat the ever-increasing population of “short stackers” at the virtual poker tables.
At most stakes of No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha, tables will now be split into three different buy-in levels:
20-50 [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | April 15, 2010

Online poker traffic tracking site, PokerScout.com, released its weekly update this weekend, reporting that cash game traffic remained virtually unchanged from the previous week across the entire industry.
The one poker room which did show some noticeable movement was Full Tilt Poker, which saw its cash game activity increase 7 percent.  PokerScout attributes this to Full [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | April 14, 2010

The PartyPoker.com Big Game IV gets underway Sunday April 11th at Les Ambassadeurs Club in Mayfair in London and even so close to the start date, the list of participants continues to expand.
As posted here two weeks ago, Team Party member Antanas “Tony G” Guoga will be playing, but the question on everybody’s mind was, [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | April 9, 2010

With the inaugural event just over a month away, the roster for Team USA has been determined for the World Team Poker competition.  The squad is filled with familiar faces and sure to be one of favorites at the May 19th  match at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.
Phil Hellmuth was originally named captain of [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | April 8, 2010

Neither PokerStars nor Full Tilt Poker can seem to do anything these days without the other responding.  Within days of each other recently, the top two online poker rooms in the world announced that they will each launch their own branded poker television shows.
PokerStars was the first to make the announcement, revealing its new show [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | April 7, 2010

Full Tilt Poker has not been a stranger to lawsuits over the last couple of years, but the potential legal trouble it may be facing soon is a whole other animal.  According to an article in Sunday’s Financial Times, a federal grand jury in Manhattan is investigating the world’s second largest online poker site as [...]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | April 6, 2010

According to an article that appeared in last Friday’s Las Vegas Sun, Ultra Internet Media S.A. (UIM), the owner of online poker room Everest Poker, has filed a lawsuit against Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., owner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP).  The lawsuit claims that Harrah’s is in breach of contract of the three-year deal [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | April 5, 2010

Party Poker will launch its new Online Cash Game Championships (OCGC) on Monday, April 5th.  The OCGC is a seven-level competition in which players move up based on how they perform in cash games.
To determine the standings in each level, Party Poker will calculate each participating player’s profits at the required stakes during their first [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | April 2, 2010

Party Poker released the latest version of its software this week, implementing several changes intended to make the gaming experience better for its players.
The most significant change won’t actually kick in until mid-April.  Following the leads of Full Tilt Poker and the Cake Poker Network, Party Poker is removing short-stackers from the No Limit cash [...]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | April 1, 2010