Playtech, a popular online gaming platform, has seen a decrease in their revenue, primarily related to poker. Playtech has suffered a 13% decline in poker revenue but was able to boost their second quarter income by 2% due to the strong growth of their casino and bingo gaming. Total revenues had boosted 32% in the [...]
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David Benyamine: France’s Best Poker Player
Nicknamed ‘Magicpitch’, David Benyamine is France’s best Poker player ever. Born in France in 1972, he has proved to be one of the top European Poker players with a single-year career earnings of over euros 6,00,000. But David started off with tennis as a youngster before being forced to quit the game because of a [...]
Read MoreNew Security Risk at Cereus Network Reported
There has been another report of a vulnerability in the cereus network that further blackens the online poker reputation of two of the larger poker sites on the Internet. The poker tracking database website Poker Table Ratings outlined a new security risk that affects the Cereus network, which powers previous online poker bad-boys Absolute Poker [...]
Read MoreIMSA Recognizes Poker as Official “Mind Skill Game”
The IFP has, precisely a year to the day since its inception, achieved a major piece of recognition as the game of poker was recently accept as an official “mind sport” by worldwide mind sport regulators the IMSA (International Mind Sports Association). This news means that the game of poker will be joining such already [...]
Read MoreSix Figure Checks for Two Winners from PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker
There were a couple lucky winners during the online poker tournament this last Sunday. These winners ended up with a six-figure check at the end of the day. Full Tilt Poker held a Sunday online guaranteed tournament of $750,000. The buy-in was set at $216, which caught the attention of more than 4000 poker players [...]
Read MoreThree New Players Added to PokerStars Online Stable – Two Players from the US and One from Ukraine Bring The Team Total to 26
George Lind, who is Jorj95, and Dusty Schmidt, who is Leatherass9, both from the United States, and Denys Shcherbakov, who is diatty, from Ukraine, were recently signed on to the PokerStars online stable, one of the most prestigious teams in the game today. These three pros each have their own unique style and worthy accolades [...]
Read MorePoker Blog Scene Report
We trawl through the various well-known poker blogs on the Internet from time to time and give you a report on the latest news and views currently being discussed online by many of the professional poker players who blog regularly. Whilst you should probably not be reading poker blogs whilst playing poker online I personally [...]
Read MorePoker Players to Watch in 2010
Poker is no different than any other sport in that it is a great game with a lot of exciting players to watch. Over the years the game of poker, particularly No Limit Holdem, has gained plenty of exposure and created many now recognizable players to the general public. We are going to take a [...]
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