- The week’s top poker news.
Full Tilt Poker’s softer approach to skill segregation topped the list of most read news articles this week. PartyPoker pulling out of 18 countries hit the wire late in the week climbing to number two and major changes over at iPoker rounded out the top three.
So, if you have missed anything in poker news this week, keep reading about the most read stories in the last seven days. It’s always easy to catch up or keep up with all the news in the world of poker.
10. Bodog Removes Skrill Payment Option
Pokerfuse can now confirm that Bodog has stopped processing deposits and withdrawals from Skrill accounts. Bodog’s affiliate management company, Betting Partners, told pokerfuse that Skrill was no…
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9. Florida Outlaws Internet Sweepstakes Cafes
Ban of electronic devices capable of playing games of chance worries unrelated e-gamers.
8. Bitar Avoids Further Jail Time, Forfeits $40m
In a New York courthouse Monday, Ray Bitar plead guilty via a live video stream from California to charges of fraud and violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). He is…
7. PokerStars Completes NJ Application, 90-Day Review Period Begins
Rational Group US Holdings, a United States-facing entity associated with online poker giant PokerStars, has completed its interim application to purchase and operate the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel…
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6. The Rising Concern of Forced Disconnection Attacks
On March 28, a player waiting at a shallow 200/400 NL table was joined by BartonPro1. Almost immediately the pair were involved in a big hand: Our hero, holding two pair and a flush draw on the turn,...
5. High-Stakes Poker Players Caught in Sportsbetting Sting
A number of well known high stakes poker players were named as defendants in an unsealed indictment targeting multiple organized criminal operations on Tuesday. The charges include operating an…
4. “Rags to Riches” Absolute Poker Book to be Released Next Month
Straight Flush, a new book about the rise and fall of Absolute Poker that has drawn criticism from the poker community well before hitting the shelves, will be released next month.
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3. Major iPoker Upgrade: Mobile Platforms, New VIP System
iOS and HTML5 apps to come to select iPoker skins, and new Elite VIP loyalty program to come network-wide in the following weeks.
2. PartyPoker To Block New Signups from 18 European, South American Countries
Redrawing the boundaries: bwin.party pulls out of gray markets.
1. Full Tilt Takes Softer Approach to “Skill Segregation” with “New to the Game” Tables
Beginner tables can only be played for 2000 hands before “graduating” to normal tables.
