Financial

WSOP Online Now Beating Partypoker as Liquidity Sharing with 888.com Takes Hold

Online poker site WSOP.com has taken over as the largest room in the New Jersey Internet market, following a dramatic week that saw a major shift in cash game traffic rankings overall. Within only a week of a liquidity sharing...

New Jersey Online Poker Revenues Finally Looking Up

The New Jersey online poker scene managed to avoid another loss and reverse its three-month downswing with a positive U-turn in the right direction for December, according to the State’s Division of Gaming Enforcement....

Is Amaya’s Share Buy Back a Hint PokerStars’ US Return is Close?

Could Amaya Gaming’s recent pledge to buy back almost CA$165 million worth of its own shares be a sign that PokerStars and Full Tilt are set for big things in 2015? A recent statement by the company has outlined that over...

PokerStars Rake Increases Get the Boot, For Now

PokerStars rake increases will not see the light of day after all, at least not for now. The controversial site has announced that it will cancel nearly all of the planned rake increases that it previously announced in October,...

Svenska Spel Trumps Offshore Operators Among Swedish Online Gamblers

Svenska Spel is the site of preference for the vast majority of Swedish gamblers, according to a survey of the country’s online gambling habits published by Lotteriinspektionen, the Swedish regulator. The study found that 59...

Bwin.party Looks to Sell Amid Disappointing Revenues

UK-traded gambling operator Bwin.party announced this week its 2014 earnings will come in short of previous estimates, citing “exceptionally weak gross win margin in sports betting” as the primary culprit. While bet...

Poker Pro Phil Gordon Raises Millions for New Startup Chatbox

Phil Gordon’s Seattle-based Tetrapod Software has attracted investors to the tune of $2.35 million for its soon-to-be released collaboration software product Chatbox. Seed investors include several tech-savvy experts,...

Euro Bitcoin Site Bitnplay Offers 100% Lifetime Rakeback for Early Investors

Bitcoin poker sites became an emerging force in 2014, and now a new European-facing site called Bitnplay will make this niche portion of the industry a little bit bigger in 2015. The latest Bitcoin-powered poker platform will...

Poker Pros: How the Career Changed in 2014

Poker pros are the sharks amateur players must be aware of, whether in an online cardroom or real life casino. These men and women dominate the game, and while these all-in masters have existed for decades, the occupation of...

2014 Poker Legislation Battles: Winners and Losers

Poker legislation is moving at a pace nearly as fast as the flop. States around the country are debating whether the legalization of online gaming is beneficial to its specific economy, and of course its residents. Like most...