Cake Poker has launched their very own rewards store where players can now exchange their Gold Chips for a number of items. Cake is offering everything from electronics, to books, to Cake Poker clothing and merchandise; this is in addition to offering tournament vouchers and cold hard cash! Some of the high-end items include gaming consoles like X-Box and Wii; Flat-screen TV’s; Laptops; and even a Ducati Motorcycle! The creation Read More ...
The months after Black Friday is probably not the best time to be starting an online poker venture, but the fact that the US market has basically been cut-off from online poker didn’t deter 2006 World Series of Poker Champion Jamie Gold from launching his latest project: FreeGoldPoker.com. FreeGoldPoker.com looks to be a free to play online poker room –which allows it to conform with current US online poker laws—and Read More ...
History of Lock Poker Lock Poker is a relatively new online poker site that began life on the Cake Poker Network in 2008 before moving to the Merge Gaming Network in March 2010. As part of the Merge Gaming Network Lock Poker has a good-sized player base with roughly 5,000 players online at any given time. The site is perhaps best known for its growing list of sponsored players and Read More ...
French run online poker room Titan Poker which finds its home within the iPoker gaming network have just announced that they have completed the signing of a 24 year old Canadian professional poker player to their roster. Sorel ‘Imper1um’ Mizzi has just agreed to endorse the premium iPoker online poker room and with the player being regarded as a specialist within the poker tournament setting, this can only be considered Read More ...
In a press release issued on Thursday the Poker Pros Network poker room announced it would be leaving the Cake Poker Network in order to comply with current US laws regarding online poker. The press release also detailed that PPN will be moving to proprietary network in the near future, and would change its domain from PokerProsNetwork.com to PokerProsNetwork.eu. The change will take effect on August 31, 2011 after which Read More ...
The world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars, has found a new way to bring their massive community of poker players together; by creating PokerStars Home Games. Home Games allow players to create and manage private poker leagues for their friends and family by making each individual league password protected and giving the league manager the option to invite people to join. Each league can have a maximum of 50 members, Read More ...
On August 24, 2011 Party Poker will be moving from the “Dealt” method to the “Weighted” method when it comes to determining a player’s contribution to the rake. Although Party Poker does not offer a rakeback program –the most common use of these calculations, and most common reason for a site to switch from the “Dealt” to the “Weighted” method—the change will affect the way players are awarded Party Poker Read More ...
In their constant ‘anything you can do I can do better’ contest Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars are at it again. Merely a day after PokerStars announced their new high-stakes cash game show “The Big Game”, Full Tilt Poker has announced a similar television project that will air in the UK on channel 4, known as “Poker Lounge”. In the Full Tilt version one online qualifier will compete in a Read More ...
Say hello to the newest UB Poker pro Prahlad Friedman! UB Poker officially announced the signing of Friedman today –although it was one of the worst kept secrets in poker over the past week—with an extensive blog entry including a welcome interview with Friedman. Friedman’s picture is now prominently displayed front and center on the Team UB Poker page, taking the place of one Phil Hellmuth, who recently parted ways Read More ...
While there is nothing illegal or even unethical with short-stacking –where a player buys-in for about 20BB, the table minimum, and plays a push/fold strategy, and upon doubling up leaves the table to start all over again—many poker players loathe sitting at tables with players implementing this strategy. Besides the complaints online poker sites receive from frustrated players, short-stacking is also an easy way to kill a table, which is Read More ...
