- 888 Overtakes PartyPoker to Become 4th Largest Online Poker Network.
- Joe Barton: “It’s Not a Question of if My Bill Passes … it’s a Question of When”.
- An Open Letter To Sheldon Adelson.
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10. Visa Now Accepted at Ultimate Poker
Visa credit and debit cards are now accepted for deposits at Ultimate Poker, according to an email sent to customers late last week.
9. PokerStars, Full Tilt, Party Among 28 Additions to Bulgarian Blacklist
The Bulgarian State Gambling Commission adds major online poker brands to its domain blacklist. The Bulgarian State Gambling Commission (SGC) has blacklisted a further 28 sites, including PokerStars, Full Tilt, William Hill, Betsafe and PartyPoker.
8. Venetian Boycott Gains Steam
Players throw support behind boycott of Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands property. The poker community has been buzzing with contempt recently over the renewed public comments of Las Vegas Sands Corp CEO Sheldon Adelson’s vilifying online poker and his pleas to keep it unregulated and unavailable to US consumers.
7. Poker Pros Rally For Kevin “Phwap” Boudreau
The family of 25 year old professional poker player Kevin “Phwap” Boudreau have established a Recovery Fundraiser after a brain hemorrhage and subsequent surgery last week has left Kevin hospitalized in an induced coma in a Las Vegas facility.
6. 888 Forces Removal of all Data from Sharkscope
Tourney dataminer forced to pull all historical data from the website, as 888 rejects any form of “opt-in” compromise. 888poker has forced popular public tournament tracking site SharkScope to stop tracking all its poker tournaments, and remove all historical data.
5. Ongame Sale Exposes Lack of Protection for Player Funds
A rare glimpse into acquisition financials shows the lack of player fund protection under certain regulations • New owner Amaya assures that player funds are now segregated. The snapshot of Ongame financials presented in Amaya Gaming Group’s first quarter report show that, on the day of acquisition from bwin.party in November 2012, the site held only 31% of the cash required to cover player deposits.
4. Lock Poker Pros Look To Offload Online Funds
In yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of embattled US facing online poker site, Lock Poker, it was brought to pokerfuse’s attention today that two of Lock Poker’s sponsored pros have taken to the Two Plus Two forums to try to sell off some of their online holding.
3. An Open Letter To Sheldon Adelson
Nicholas Kisberg, CEO of popular online poker community CardsChat.com, responds to Sheldon Adelson’s recent criticisms of online poker. Dear Mr Adelson,
2. Joe Barton: “It’s Not a Question of if My Bill Passes … it’s a Question of When”
Barton assures that his forthcoming federal online poker bill “will happen.” Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) looks to introduce a new state-friendly internet poker bill in the next few weeks and spoke with the team at Gambling Compliance about what he hopes and expects to happen when he does.
1. 888 Overtakes PartyPoker to Become 4th Largest Online Poker Network
888poker has nosed ahead of PartyPoker to become the fourth largest online poker network worldwide, the first time in history that 888 has overtaken the one-time online poker giant.
