Welcome to the inaugural Poker News Review: Every day at 8pm pokerfuse time (that’s 9pm in the UK, 10pm in Central Europe, 3pm CDT and 1pm in Las Vegas) we’ll be wrapping up the day in poker news—including the latest pokerfuse headlines, news from around the web, latest videos, forum threads and more.
Main Headlines
ANZPT Queensland Gets Underway, Full Tilt Announces New Ambassadors
Final stop of ANZPT Season 5 gets started, and first stops of season 6 announced.
- NZ $3k main event kicks off in Queenstown.
- Three appointed to represent Full Tilt Poker at the event.
Further Skin Separation on Revolution Network
Low stakes games entirely separate between skins on the same network.
- All games at NL100 and up understood to be segregated on Intertops.
- Late last week Intertops began auditing all winnings from cash and SNG games due to high incidence of chip-dumping.
PokerStars Record Breaking MicroMillions V Paid Out Over $8m
The PokerStars MicroMillion V tournament series ended on Sunday as Lithuanian player “stygher” won the $22 Main Event for $160k.
9 US, European Expats Arrested at Live Poker Game in Thailand
An illegal live poker game was raided by police in Thailand Sunday morning, resulting in the arrest of 9 foreign nationals and two Cambodian Casino workers who were acting as host and dealer for the game.
Jungleman Hints At The Return of Durrrr Challenge
High stakes heads-up specalist Daniel Cates has recently been stoking the fires of the long-in-limbo Durrrr Challenge 2 and recently suggested that he and Tom “Durrrr” Dwan have reached terms to resume and, hopefully, complete the very public and drawn out heads-up match.
UKIPT Galway Gets Underway
The UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) kicked off this past weekend starting with the Full Tilt Galway Festival.
More Headlines from Around the Web:
ANZPT day 1 summary youtube.com
Sarah Grant is in Queenstown, New Zealand, to keep us up to date with all the action from the Main Event of the ANZPT.
Interview with Chris Moneymaker calvinayre.com
Candid video interview with the legendary 2003 WSOP winner and Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker, touching on his gambling history, historic win, and live and online experience today.
Was the Venetian boycott a success? nolandalla.com
Nolan Dalla, WSOP Communications Director and organizer of last week’s boycott of the Venetian poker room, discusses its successes and failures, and corrects some misconceptions.
Etruvian is putting faith into new verticals calvinayre.com
Interesting in-depth look into Etruvian—including its recent sale of the poker training arm PokerStrategy to Playtech earlier this month, and how it has repositioned itself into other online gambling markets.
Revel to close its poker room in August uspoker.com
USPoker.com reports that the troubled Atlantic City boardwalk casino and hotel Revel is planning to shut down its poker room by August 15.
'Ask me Anything’ with Jason Somerville flopturnriver.com
Ultimate Poker pro Jason Somerville is conducting an “AMA” on the FTR poker forums on August 5—get your questions in.
Exclusive Articles on pokerfuse PRO:
WPN Traffic Grows, Merge Gaming Steadies
The spring traffic decline may have found its bottom for some offshore US-facing sites: The traffic at Merge Gaming has steadied, and the Winning Poker Network (WPN) has shown recent growth.
PokerStars, Winamax Fight for Top Spot in France
Less than 1% separates the two networks. For the first time in over 18 months, PokerStars.FR briefly overtook Winamax in cash game traffic.
CIE Still “Preparing to Launch” in Nevada
In prepared remarks for its second quarter financial results, Caesars CEO and President Gary Loveman stated that Caesars Interactive Entertainment is preparing its Nevada launch, but gave no timetable. The group also stated it was hoping to launch in New Jersey by the end of the year.
DGE Director Provides Insight into New Jersey’s iGaming Regulation
David Rebuck talks to Global Gaming Business Magazine on licensing suitability, casino partnerships, affiliates and more. David Rebuck, Director of the Division of Gambling Enforcement for the state of New Jersey, recently granted an interview with Roger Gros, publisher of Global Gaming Business magazine.
