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While the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has seen hundreds of thousands of players compete from all over the world, as well as multiple international champions, it has always been a very American extravaganza. Not any more. Monday, Harrah’s Entertainment, owner of the World Series brand, announced that it is starting up the World Series […]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 27, 2007

With the online poker industry getting shaken up seemingly every day now, poker rooms are working hard to draw in the crowds. One way poker rooms have tried to differentiate themselves has been with the mega-prizepool tournaments. The rage right now is the online tournament series, such as FTOPS at Full Tilt Poker or the […]

Read More... | Comment | By Kevin Felix | February 27, 2007

The list of online poker tournament series is growing. Ultimate Bet and Poker.com started theirs recently, joining PokerStars and Full Tilt. Now PKR.com has joined the fray with its entry, Springfest. Starting March 31, Springfest will consist of ten events and over $70,000 in guaranteed prize money. One twist is that only eight of the […]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 27, 2007

YouTeller, a newly formed online payment processor started by London-based Seed Captial Ltd., announced this week that it will begin accepting customers in March on a limited basis. Following the Gmail model, YouTeller will initially allow 1,000 customers who pre-registered to signup for the service. After that, one must be “invited” by a current customer […]

Read More... | Comment | By Kory Travers | February 23, 2007

Two poker rooms on the Microgaming Poker Network (formerly known as Prima), PokerTime and Royal Vegas Poker, have merged into one, unified poker room. All customer login information will remain the same. The only real difference anyone will see is that both rooms are now under the PokerTime name. Obviously, this will go unnoticed by […]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 23, 2007

Websense Security Labs has issued a warning to Party Poker customers to be on the lookout for fake e-mails that encourage players to divulge their private login information. These “phishing” attacks are relatively easy to detect, as they were sloppily created, but they are still dangerous, nonetheless. The scam e-mails make reference to the five-month-old […]

Read More... | Comment | By Adam Ulick | February 23, 2007

Online poker room PokerStars.com rolled out a new payment option Wednesday, and while it is nowhere near perfect, if it works well, it could be a way for U.S. customers to continue playing there with minimal difficulty. The new method is a pre-paid VISA card, which players can sign up for right in the PokerStars […]

Read More... | Comment | By Rocco Havel | February 22, 2007

Online poker room Doyle’s Room shocked many Monday night by announcing it was closing its doors to U.S. customers. No more U.S. signups are allowed and all American players will be blocked as of March 1. While Doyle’s Room’s network, Tribeca Tables, announced last week that it was universally banning U.S. players starting at the […]

Read More... | Comment | By Joe Zusman | February 20, 2007

It is no secret that online poker is under attack in the United States. There are not many people speaking up for poker players, but one group that is is the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). Currently, the lobbying group is attempting to get poker an exemption from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that was […]

Read More... | Comment | By August Darnell | February 20, 2007

Online poker room BetonUSA will be moving to the Digital Gaming Network (DGN) from the Microgaming Poker Network. BetonUSA’s poker site is currently unavailable as the company makes the transition to the new software platform. DGN is a new poker network that recently purchased Dobrosoft software, which was the platform it had been using for […]

Read More... | Comment | By Neal Farran | February 20, 2007