Financial
August 1st, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseThe social gaming arm of Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE), Playtika, has been purchased by a Chinese consortium for $4.4 billion. CIE is owned by Caesars Acquisition Co and Caesars Entertainment Corp. and currently offers...
Poker
July 30th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseMike Pence agrees with Sheldon Adelson that online poker has no place in American culture. But Donald Trump doesn’t appear to have anti-Internet poker attached to his platform. Pence is Trump’s running mate heading into the...
Poker
July 27th, 2016 | by
Brian Corlisse888 and William Hill could be set to merge if the latter decides the deal is sweet enough to advance its position in the iGaming market. By the close of 2015 one of the stories of the year was the mergers between some of the...
Poker
July 25th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlissePokerStars, the world’s most popular online poker site, has seen its global cash game traffic decline but the New Jersey client posted a solid first quarter. It’s been an interesting few months for PokerStars. The company...
Players
July 22nd, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseThe poker auction to end all poker auctions has been held in St. Tropez, France, this week. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, set up by the Hollywood A-lister, hosted another celebrity bash in order to raise millions for...
Players
July 21st, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseWe are now down to just the Main Event final table before closing the doors on the 2016 WSOP. The series had many great and not-so great performances. Big name pros such as Jason Mercier, Justin Bonomo, and even Chris “Jesus”...
Legal
July 19th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseRay Bitar, the man who helped start Full Tilt, won’t be able to start any new companies in Ireland for the next decade according to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE). Detailed in the ODCE’s...
Players
July 19th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseThe October Nine might not ring a bell, but the presidential election has bumped this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event final table playdown back a week, thus the name change. And as of the wee hours of Tuesday...
Players
July 16th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseOn Friday, the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event played down from 800 players to the final 251. Bryan Piccioli, who won the 2013 WSOP Asia-Pacific $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Accumulator for his first bracelet, bagged and...
Financial
July 14th, 2016 | by
Brian CorlisseNew Jersey online poker is in a healthy state as gambling sites recorded a growth in revenue. Licensed sites showed overall gaming revenue of $16.4 million for June, a 40 percent jump on the same time last year. While many sites...