Nick has been involved in the online poker industry for over two decades, at various times a professional poker player, poker coach, video instructor, blogger, software developer, journalist and editor. In 2011, he co-founded pokerfuse, and was for many years the lead writer and Editor in Chief of and our industry trade site, Poker Industry PRO. Today, he leads overall site strategy and product development.
FTP is the first to expand lottery sit and gos to the midstakes buy-in—and continues to lead the industry in lower rakes.
New Go Fast innovates on the aesthetics, but multiple bugs cause the new game to be pulled hours after launch.
October launch date “best guess” for new variant’s debut on primary PokerStars network.
ARJEL greenlights “change of indirect control” of PokerStars’ French subsidiary.
Poker room will “revisit policy”—and expects another change by the end of the year.
FastForward: Special Edition introduces new “patent-pending swipe-based interface” for fast online poker play.
Lottery-style tournaments debut on FTP’s mobile app.
Spain becomes the real money testpad for PokerStars’ entry into online poker’s biggest innovation since fast-fold.
Incident in Uruguay vs Italy match prompts online poker room to end contract after just six weeks.
Lottery-style Sit and Gos, which randomly assigns a prize pool to 3-max turbo tournaments, go live on FTP.
“The most important relationship will be with you, the players,” Amaya chief assures following PokerStars/Full Tilt acquisition.
NJ DGE “optimistic” license could be issued by this fall.