- Player Banned for Repeat “Buttoning” on PokerStars.
- Full Tilt Gaming: FTP Reportedly Expanding Beyond Poker.
- Confirmed: Full Tilt to Expand into “Casino Style Games”.
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10. iPoker Adds “Heads Up Hogging Prevention”
New client update includes player tracking for HU tables to curtail inactivity. The latest iPoker update introduces “Heads Up Hogging Prevention,” among other changes, in a minor client update rolling out to skins.
9. Mobile Poker Apps Pulled from Apple Store in Australia
PokerStars and 888 mobile apps pulled in “clamp down” on mobile gaming. The PokerStars and 888 poker apps have been removed from the Apple App Store at the request of the government, pokerfuse understands.
8. WSOP Main Event Marches into Day 5
282 remain in the hunt to be a part of the November Nine. Day 4 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event will go down as a day of big swings involving massive pots.
7. The 2013 WSOP November Nine Is Set
Day 7 reveals who will return to play for the Main Event bracelet. The 2013 World Series of Poker summer series has drawn to a close, and with it the November Nine has been set.
6. Only 68 Remain on WSOP Main Event Day 6
The Main Event heads into the final stretch. There’s only 68 players left in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event, as the tournament heads into the final stretch and prepares for it’s penultimate day.
5. Winning Poker Network Rolls Out Major Software Update
Redesigned tables, cash game filters, integrated tournament lobby and more in software overhaul. Winning Poker Network (WPN) rolled out its much-anticipated new software client today, which makes significant design changes and implements a variety of new features.
4. Full Tilt Claims Administrator Wants Your Vote
The Garden City Group (GCG), the claims administrator in charge of overseeing the return of US deposits on Full Tilt Poker, sturred up the collective wrath of the online poker community Wednesday with a tweet asking for followers to vote it “Best Claims Administrator.”
3. Confirmed: Full Tilt to Expand into “Casino Style Games”
PokerStars to remain poker-only. Parent Rational Group has confirmed via a statement to pokerfuse that Full Tilt plans to launch online casino games alongside its poker product. PokerStars will remain poker-only.
2. Full Tilt Gaming: FTP Reportedly Expanding Beyond Poker
Update: Rational Group has since confirmed to pokerfuse that Full Tilt will expand with casino-style games.
1. Player Banned for Repeat “Buttoning” on PokerStars
Lifetime ban handed down to notorious buttoner at the high-stakes and nosebleed limit tables. A high stakes player repeatedly warned for rules violations and “buttoning” his opponents, has received a lifetime ban on PokerStars.
