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The fight for legalized online poker in Australia has been a long winding battle for the last two decades with the government firm on its decision to ban citizens from taking part in the popular sport. Since the Interactive Gambling Act (IGA)’s implementation in 2001 which prohibits gambling providers to offer services including the likes […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Full Tilt finally retiring Many poker fans reacted to this news with “Huh? Wasn’t Full Tilt already gone?”. Technically yes, but PokerStars had kept the Full Tilt brand as a skin after the […]

The last time the Asian Poker Tour held a full blown live festival was nearly one year ago in Taiwan. Immediately after, the world went on a sudden standstill, grounding many land based poker operators due to the novel coronavirus. One of the few places that was able to arrest the virus early was Taiwan […]

The WPT Spring Festival wrapped up its twelve-day online series that ran from February 11 to 22 at sponsor Poker King app. For those in attendance, money flowed daily with CN￥2,000,000 (~US$ 310,880) guaranteed across 12 tournaments and a whopping CN￥10,000,000 (~US$ 1,554,390) paid out at the highlighted Main Event. We’ve got the results for […]

2021 seemed like a new year for live poker as clubs began to reopen here and there amidst the continuing global health crisis. Successful yet much smaller live festivals in a number of countries were also welcomed by local players considering the situation. With about the whole of 2020’s events canceled or postponed for a […]

After losing $1.2 million in the 25,000-hand heads up challenge vs Doug Polk, Daniel Negreanu is quickly moving forward and is ready to take on his next opponent. While no plans were initially set following the grudge match, talks of another anticipated challenge against 15-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth recently blew up […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Daiva Byrne latest GGPoker ambassador After the signing of Dan Bilzerian and the outcry about this decision in the poker community, specifically the female one, GGPoker had promised to work on making the game more inclusive. […]

The WPT Spring Festival is in full swing at the online Poker King app with several events already completed. The twelve-day festival kicked off on February 11 to conclude on February 22. The star attraction Main Event CN￥10 million guaranteed has already begun with 1318 turning up for Day 1A. As advertised, well known pros […]

Andrew Robl is an American professional poker player. He was born on September 27th, 1986 in Okemos, Michigan.

It has been a week since news of notable figure Larry Flynt’s passing took everyone five decades back worth of memories to where the Hustler founder was seemingly on top of the world. Flynt was mainly known for the Hustler brand in which he founded in the late 1960s stemming from entertainment bars, a pornographic […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. PokerStars launches Tetris Spin & Gos On 15th February, PokerStars launched the new Tetris Spin & Gos in the .com market. It is a leaderboard promotion running until 28th March. More than $1.5 […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. GGPoker gets approval for Pennsylvania It took a bit over a year for the approval process to go through, but on 10th February it was decided that GGPoker’s parent company NSUS Group will […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. HU for souls – Landon Tice vs. Bill Perkins It’s been a long while since we experienced the rise of the young online kids up through the ranks and sometimes to the live felt. We all […]

The globally renowned World Poker Tour and one of Asia’s leading brands, Poker King, have teamed up for an upcoming festival that players are definitely not going to want to miss. Running from February 11 to 22 is the WPT Spring Festival featuring a substantial CN￥12,000,000 (~US$ 1.86 million) in guarantees. The event will be […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting news and gossip from our favourite poker people. Chris Moneymaker joins ACR Just a few weeks ago Chris Moneymaker announced his departure from his 17-year long ambassadorship with PokerStars. Moneymaker stated that he left because he wanted to spend more time with his family. […]

Nick Schulman is an American professional poker player and poker commentator. He was born on September 18th, 1984 in New York City.

Manila has been one of the fastest growing poker hubs in the Asia Pacific region having hosted a number of major international tournaments in recent years. Poker clubs have sprung up left and right in the last decade with the local poker community growing alongside it. A steady stream of daily and monthly tournaments always […]

Article sponsored by Natural8 A brand new tournament format has been introduced on Natural8 – GGNET called “Flip & Go”. It consists of two stages and will take considerably less time to crown a champion as compared to a regular MTT. When the new format was introduced, it was scheduled to take place once every […]

Almost two weeks in and seven more to go, the awaited U Series of Poker – World of Champions is finally underway. The two-month long festival running on the UPoker platform until March 21, 2021 serves as a benchmark as one of the biggest series to date in the mobile poker applications market. The exciting […]

In this column we deliver you the latest and most interesting online poker industry news from across the world and all platforms. Germany’s online gambling situation endangered by taxes It almost comes as no surprise that taxes might be the final nail in the coffin of a thriving German online gambling landscape. After all, taxes […]