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Innovation Takes Center Stage at Full Tilt with the Introduction of Flipout Tournaments
All players are all-in in the first round with the survivors instantly making the money.
- Full Tilt is launching Flipout tournaments in which the first round of the tournament pits players against each other with everyone being put all in.
- The survivors all qualify for the prize payouts and continue as a normal tournament.
- The structure is designed to be attractive to recreational players providing almost instant gratification and reducing the time they need to devote to early tournament play.
Inside iGNA: A Poker-Focused Guide to the 2014 Conference
Pokerfuse’s schedule picks at the iGaming North America conference.
- The iGaming North America 2014 conference gets underway today at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.
- We provide our picks from the three-day schedule of sessions and events.
- Team Pokerfuse will be there to report on all the important sessions relevant to the online poker players and industry.
Peak Traffic: Nevada Online Poker Market Matches its Population Size
The number of cash game seats in Nevada as a proportion of its population fits the same ratio observed in markets worldwide.
- Total Nevada cash game traffic is now lower than it was six weeks after UP launched at the end of April last year.
- Nevada has a population of 2.75m and total cash game traffic is currently 179 seats filled
- The current average number of cash game seats filled hovers around 0.006% of the population in almost all of the regulated and segregated markets.
- Nevada is at or slightly above this average suggesting that there is not much extra growth to be expected.
UK Gambling Bill Clears House of Lords Vote
The UK’s new gambling bill is on target to become law by the Summer.
- The UK House of Lords has voted its final approval of the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) bill that will require operators with UK customers to have a license from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC).
- The bill will now go to the House of Commons for its final reading and vote, before coming into law, sometime before the House of Parliament breaks for its Summer recess.
Picks from F5 Poker:
Mixed Martial Arts to Magic Tricks The Off-The-Felt Talents In Poker
Check out the top 5 secret talents of poker’s elite. The bros at PokerStrategy complied a short list of the totally cool talents of some of the biggest names in poker. From Daniel Negreanu being a pool hustler to Liv Boeree shredding on guitar, it goes to show you that the elite rounder talent can also take their laser-like focus and channel it into something good for mankind – like throwing cards at high speed.
EPT Vienna Waits For You
Actually…it’s starting today with or without you. PokerStars is back in the capitol of Austria for the first time in 3 years to hold the sixth stop of Season 10 of the European Poker Tour – EPT Vienna! The poker festival kicks off today with the €1,000 + €100 Main Event of their partner tour, the Eureka Poker Tour, as well as some side events just to get the action warmed up.
Phil Galfond – If You Don’t Laugh, You’ll Cry
RunItOnce wizard cracks wise about over $1 million in losses.
Esfandiari, Trickett and Ivey Join “Anonymous Businessmen” In The 2014 Big One For One Drop
Seats are filling up for the $1 million buy-in event. If you want to plunk down $1 milly for a seat at the 2014 Big One for One Drop this summer at the World Series of Poker you’d better act fast. The capped seating is going fast with only 33 seats left as 23 seats are spoken for.
Quoc Pham, JC Tran & Mimi “I Can’t Fold This” Luu Lead WPT Rolling Thunder Final 6 Live Stream
Team U’s Phil Collins Moves Like Jagger
Poker pros kicked out of O’Sheas for bustin’ a move. St. Patrick’s Day, a worldwide excuse for getting s***faced, was this past Monday and the pros from Utimate Poker did what any respectable Las Vegas team of professional poker players would do – go out and get down.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: Druff & Friends – 03/18/2014 – Cat On a Cold Tin Balcony Poker Fraud Alert
Druff calls out the shady affiliates still promoting online poker. The prospect of California legalized online poker is discussed, including Pokerstars’ possible role with Casino Morongo. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is being investigated for possibly taking online-poker-related bribes. A listener gives a rebuttal to last week’s Pokerstars-related editorial. Druff gives two editorials for this week, one about the increasing ignorance of casual gamblers, and the other about how to deal with deadbeats in poker who owe you money. An update is given regarding Ken Scalir, and then he calls in with crazy friend Stephanie regarding what to do with his cat. Dutch Boyd still hasn’t released book after collecting almost $9k on Kickstarter. Druff takes questions from the chat room and via text message.
Podcast: Is poker still beatable? Ante Up! Pokercast
Nolan Dalla writes an interesting blog post wondering if poker is beatable anymore, plus we have a new O’Mally’s Move.
Training Video: RP’s Replayer Reviews – Part I – 100$ Turbo 9man SNG Drag The Bar
The first episode of this series focuses on steal and resteal situations in regular-heavy environments but also covers interesting postflop and preflop decisions. All this of course with the usage of analytical softwares in order to provide extra evidence on the given concepts.
Training Video: Ghost: Common Adjustments for Small Stakes NL Deuces Cracked
Jacob 'threads13’ Hoke queues up 4 tables of $50NL action at Intertops, discussing his strategy and thoughts as he plays. Starting with an initial focus of playing without reads, threads13 continues to discuss the adjustment he makes from his default strategy to exploit specific tendencies in his SSNL opponents.
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Unibet Plans Platform Expansion, Reveals Innovative Loyalty Program Details
Mobile and and dot-country rollout scheduled for next month, with an achievements-based loyalty program to go live April 1. Unibet is scheduled to roll out updates to its brand new independent online poker client, with major upgrades and a new loyalty program expected in the coming weeks.
Next PokerStars Player Meeting Set for May
Members of the 2+2 poker forums are invited to visit PokerStars HQ on the Isle of Man as part of a regular series of player meetings. PokerStars has announced that the next opportunity for player representatives to visit their business headquarters on the Isle of Man will be from May 21 to May 23.
MyPok Saga May End in Merger with JOA Online
Since November MyPok.FR players have not had access to their funds. The French regulated poker room MyPok has been offline since mid November, but reports suggests that it may soon relaunch in partnership with iPoker France site JOA-online.
Regulation in Review: Europe and Beyond
A weekly review of the latest developments in gaming regulation outside the US. This week: The UK, Sweden, Malta and Spain. Sweden