Poker Room Insight
Key Takeaways
  • Rational Group is busy with a spate of upgrades across its online poker rooms.
  • Development heats up in France as the major operators introduce innovations.
  • A slew of Bitcoin poker launches expected as the cryptocurrency gets off to a touch start in 2015.
  • Operators focus on mobile with expansion in real money and social poker.

Poker Room Insights is a new weekly column on Poker Industry PRO, wrapping up the week of news from online poker rooms across US and European online poker markets.

The new column is a natural extension to last year’s Software Snapshots, but the new Insight expands on the topic: We’ll be covering poker room launches and closures, network policy changes, commentary on broader themes like mobile and bitcoin, and discuss and review platform upgrades across desktop, mobile and the web.

This inaugural column will bring you up to speed on everything from the Winter of 2014, and glance into 2015: Mobile upgrades on real money and social poker rooms, planned 2015 cryptocurrency launches, plus all the latest changes in dot-com and dot-country markets.