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Geolocation Service Outage Disrupts Online Poker in Nevada
AT&T scheduled maintenance leads to player anger at lack of notice.
- WSOP.com and Ultimate Poker have been affected by AT&T service outages.
- Sceduled maintenance affected geolocation services which meant some players being bumped off the site during tournament play.
- Both sites are looking to improve player communication and to seek technical fixes to avoid similar problems in the future.
WSOPE Main Event Final Table Is Set
The Main Event of the 7th Annual World Series of Poker Europe played down to their final table yesterday leaving only six players to compete for the €1,000,000 first place prize and the title of WSOP Europe Main Event Champion.
- Six players remain to compete for the €1,000,000 first place prize and the title of WSOP Europe Main Event Champion.
- With Thursday being a planned day off, the final six will return on Friday to play down to a winner with everyone at the table guaranteed no less than a €126,000 payday.
Ultimate Poker Adds Omaha Cash Games Tables
6-max PLO games go live, and Omaha 8 to debut shortly.
- Quietly debuting in the client Wednesday night, there are currently PLO tables of $1/2 and 10c/25c spread.
- Its competitor WSOP.com launched with Hold’em, Omaha and Stud games.
“WCGRider” Defeats “Sauce1234” In Heads Up Challenge
The high-stakes heads up challenge between Doug “WCGRider” Polk and Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky came to a conclusion last night with Polk wrapping up the challenge for a combined $740k victory over Sulsky.
Watch: WSOPE High Roller Final Table Live Stream
The final table of the World Series of Poker Europe €25,600 High Roller event is underway.
Daniel Negreanu Clinches WSOP Player of the Year
Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu clinched the 2013 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award today, making him the first-ever two time WSOP Player of the Year in WSOP history.
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Online gaming called 'new frontier’ for states finance.yahoo.com
While onling gaming is being called the “new frontier”, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board Chairman Bill Ryan doesn’t yet see a groundswell in his state to jump on the onling gaming bandwagon. With both moral and religious opposition, as well as “significant regulatory, technical and legal hurdles to overcome” the state of PA may not see online poker anytime soon, but still officials are taking a look at it.
“We do know that Internet gaming is a very big deal,” Ryan said. They just want to make sure online gaming doesn’t hurt their brick-and-mortar businesses.
Why the WSOP Player of the Year system is flawed 4flush.com
Daniel Negreanu is the WSOP Player of the Year! Just days ago, poker writer Steve Ruddock from 4Flush.com detailed his thoughts on why he thinks the WSOP Player of the Year system is flawed and if the WSOPE High Roller determined the winner it would be a “tremendous miscarriage of justice.” Let the debate begin (yet again)!
Do you think the WSOP needs to adjust it’s system to make it more equitable for the everyday player?
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What happens when one of the world best heads up specialists takes on the most sophisticated poker artificial intelligence program? Check out this video of Dan “Jungleman” Cates taking on the advanced poker training system Pokersnowie and see which machine comes out on top.
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Betfair Confirms Trump Plaza Partnership, Plans Marketing Push
“Multi-faceted marketing campaign” across TV, billboards and online will follow its current “Lets Play NJ” teaser websites. UK-based online betting exchange Betfair has confirmed its long rumored partnership with the Trump Plaza casino in New Jersey, and has revealed further details on its planned marketing push in the state.
