- PokerSnowie vs the World: Up 25bb/100.
- PokerStars to Trial Zoom-Only Games at $50/$100 Next Month.
- Tom Dwan Out at Full Tilt.
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10. ARJEL President’s Departure Risks the Future of French Online Poker
Uncertainty now surrounds ARJEL’s support for lower taxes and shared liquidity. The President of French regulator ARJEL is leaving his post in January to take up a job in the private sector. As a champion of lower gaming taxes and shared liquidity his resignation throws uncertainty into the direction the regulator will take.
9. Proposal for Shared Player Pools Rejected in France
A proposed amendment to share liquidity with other regulated EU markets was rejected, against ARJEL’s advice. It took the French National assembly less than 20 minutes to reject an opposition-proposed amendment to 2010 gambling laws that would have allowed shared liquidity pools with other regulated markets in the EU.
8. Over 1000 Entrants Break Records at EPT Prague Main Event
Less than 300 players remain in day 2 to fight over the €4,800,000 prize pool. New records continue to be set at the Hilton Hotel, Prague this week as over 1000 entrants to the main event make for the largest prize pool tournament ever to be held in the Czech capital city.
7. PartyPoker Claims 50% of New Jersey Market
Top three networks in New Jersey’s nascent regulated online poker market see positive December growth. PartyPoker’s New Jersey online poker network boasts 50% of the cash game traffic in the regulated market, the latest data from PokerScout shows.
6. SealsWithClubs Database Compromised, Passwords at Risk
The article has been updated to include comments from site representative Bryan Micon.
5. Bankruptcy Auction Yet to Produce Buyer for Atlantic Club
Since rejecting the Rational Group’s attempted purchase, the fortunes of the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in New Jersey have gone from bad to worse. Now even the sale of the business in a bankruptcy court has hit problems.
4. Rounders Sequel Gets its Backer
Matt Damon and Edward Norton to star in Rounders 2, to be set in Paris and Las Vegas. Fifteen years since the original iconic poker film premiered, Rounders 2 has officially received the backing necessary to move the project into production.
3. Tom Dwan Out at Full Tilt
Gus Hansen and Viktor Blom remain as sponsored pros. Full Tilt Poker has confirmed that it will not be renewing its sponsorship contract with Tom “durrrr” Dwan to represent the site as one of “The Professionals”—a group of high stakes cash game plaers including Gus Hansen and Viktor ”Islidur1” Blom.
2. PokerStars to Trial Zoom-Only Games at $50/$100 Next Month
Fast-fold only trial to commence January 1 in a bid to reduce “seating and angle-shooting meta-games” at high stakes. PokerStars has announced that it will close all ring game tables at $50/$100 for Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, replacing them with fast-fold “Zoom” pools on January 1, 2014.
1. PokerSnowie vs the World: Up 25bb/100
Aggregate results from new “challenge” feature shows the GTO bot is crushing all competitors. No-limit hold’em bot PokerSnowie, which boasts “near-perfect” game-theory optimal play, is currently beating challengers at a win rate of about 25 big blinds every 100 hands (bb/100).
