- PokerStars hosted a meeting with player advocates at their Montreal offices earlier this week to discuss the ongoing dispute over the reduced VIP benefits in 2016.
- Sam Trickett has been confirmed as the new brand ambassador for little-known Indian poker upstart StarPoker.IN.
- iPoker raised its rake on January 1 this year.
- Bwin.party’s online poker brand launched a native app for the Windows Phone, becoming the first major dot-com operator to do so.
Player Strikes
PokerStars hosted a meeting with player advocates at their Montreal offices earlier this week to discuss the ongoing dispute over the reduced VIP benefits in 2016.
According to public tweets, known attendees include Dani Stern, a vocal opponent of the changes and a boycott organizer, Isaac “Ike” Haxton, a former PokerStars Team Pro who stepped down from his role over the issue, and Daniel Negreanu, the head of PokerStars’ pro roster and apparently acting as a form of mediator.
There has been no public reports yet following these meetings, but Stern tweeted that public dissemination will follow soon.
PokerStars
Aside from all the protests, PokerStars and parent company Amaya are moving forward with significant product development in 2016, with various new games and formats announced in recent days.
