- Lock Poker Opens Private Customer Forum, Ends Public 2+2 Support.
- Top Spanish Politician Says EuroVegas Can be as Good for Spain as the Bikini.
- Bodog Launches Zone Poker, Only Fast-Fold Product Available to US Players.
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10. “The Beast” Promo Drives Traffic Spike at WPN, Moving it Ahead of Merge
Traffic spike of 50% this month moves it into the third place spot. The Winning Poker Network (WPN) has moved ahead of the Merge Gaming Network to become the third largest offshore site accepting US players, thanks to “The Beast” rake-race promotion driving a traffic spike.
9. 888 Brand Will be Used to Launch Online Poker in New Jersey
One of Caesars’ casino licenses will be used for 888’s own-brand casino. 888 will launch a licensed online gambling site, including poker and casino, under its own brand in New Jersey, the group revealed Tuesday.
8. Online Poker Operators Not Losing Quite So Much in France
Poker operators lost a total of €36m in 2012 thanks to an effective tax rate of 37%. The latest figures published but French regulator ARJEL are introduced optimistically: “For the first time since the opening of the market, many operators have managed to achieve an operating profit.”
7. Cake Poker “Refreshed, Rebranded” as Win Cake
Non-US Revolution skin gets a new name. Cake Poker, a poker room on the Revolution Gaming Network, has changed its name to Win Cake.
6. Big Names Headline “Poker Night in America” Debut
East Coast and West Coast pros descend on Turning Stone, NY. Rush Productions, the company behind the new Nolan Dalla-fronted poker program “Poker Night In America,” has unveiled the list of poker professionals and personalities that are committed to attending the filming of the premiere episode.
5. Bwin.party Appoints ex-PokerStars Exec Jeffrey Haas as Group Director of Poker
The current Rational Group Director of Strategy & Business Development will take up his new position in September. Bwin.party has appointed Jeffrey Haas as the new Group Director of Poker. Haas will take up the job in September shortly after the expected launch of the group’s all new poker software.
4. 5m VPPs, 3m Hands, $2m Profit, $1m in Rake: TPirahna Makes PokerStars’ Hall of Fame
First limit hold’em player to reach the 5 million mark. High-stakes fixed limit player Anthony “TPirahna” Pirone is to be inducted into the PokerStars Hall of Fame, having amassed over 5M Lifetime VPPs from playing on PokerStars for roughly four and a half years.
3. Bodog Launches Zone Poker, Only Fast-Fold Product Available to US Players
The anonymous poker network debuts its fast-fold product. The Bodog Poker Network has quietly launched Zone Poker, its take on fast-fold poker, making Bovada the first online poker room open to US players to offer the poker variant since Black Friday.
2. Top Spanish Politician Says EuroVegas Can be as Good for Spain as the Bikini
President of Madrid’s People’s Party lends her support to EuroVegas. The President of Madrid’s People’s Party has come out strongly in support of Sheldon Adelson’s EuroVegas project.
1. Lock Poker Opens Private Customer Forum, Ends Public 2+2 Support
New forum is only accessible to members who have raked $100 lifetime. Revolution Skin Lock Poker announced today that it has launched its own poker forum, and will no longer be discussing matters openly in its customer support forum on 2+2.
