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O Casino Estoril vai receber, de 02 a 07 de maio, a 12.ª etapa do maior circuito mundial de ‘poker’, com cerca de 500 jogadores e mais de meio milhão de euros em prémios, foi hoje anunciado. A penúltima etapa da World Series of Poker (WSOP) terá lugar no...
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The long-awaited revamp of PokerStars’ VIP rewards program will start rolling out in June, the company has announced. The system will replace the current decade-old “volume-driven” loyalty program with a personalized system of awarding random prizes. In a corporate blog post, Severin Rasset, PokerStars’ Director of Poker Innovation and...
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The Department of Justice have recently announced that Absolute Poker is to compensate players through a claims process similar to that of Full Tilt, which is part of an ongoing civil complaint settlement following the events of online poker’s “Black Friday” in 2011. In April 2011, the U.S. Department...
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After a long and laborious wait, the European Commission finally rubber-stamped a technical framework from the Serviços de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos allowing them to start negotiating with other European regulators on a shared online poker liquidity scheme. The sorry saga for online poker pros trying to ply...
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In this week’s poker news round up we remind you of the death of online poker in Australia, a storm brewing above the heads of the High Rollers competing in the PokerStars Championships and more. Australian poker players were dealt a blow this week when the Interactive Gambling Amendment...
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Problem gambling costs the UK up to £1.2bn according to a report by charity GambleAware, with spending related to police intervention, mental health services and homelessness putting pressure on the system. The charity warned of the “narrow” focus on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs), known as the “crack cocaine of...
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O fundador do que foi um dos maiores sites de poker online aceitou, na quinta-feira, enfrentar as acusações americanas resultantes de um longo processo criminal contra empresas de Internet como a sua, que operam ilegalmente nos Estados Unidos. Scott Tom, que fundou o Absolute Poker, sediado na Costa Rica,...
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Pela primeira vez, o Casino Estoril será o palco de uma etapa do World Series of Poker (WSOP) que, entre 2 e 7 de maio, vai trazer a Portugal cerca de 500 jogadores. Estes vão lutar pela vitória no torneio, que vai distribuir mais de 500 mil euros em...
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I was one of those who said it could never be done: that a computer wouldn’t ever manage to beat the best at the game of poker. I was romantic and wide-eyed at 18, when my heroes were the cowboys from Texas who ruled the felt. They were uneducated...
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After months of delay, Portugal has finally sent its new online poker liquidity sharing technical standards to the European Commission for approval. Last November, Portugal welcomed the first online poker site (Amaya Gaming’s PokerStars) under the country’s new online gambling licensing regime, but it wasn’t until this Tuesday that...
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The newly launched PokerStars.pt in Portugal is one of the busiest online pokers sites in the world based on real money cash game players. That is the finding of PokerScout, an online poker traffic ranking site which estimates the number of players at cash game tables on the major...
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Os jogadores portugueses vão poder voltar a apostar dinheiro em jogos de póquer online. A PokerStars, conhecida como a maior plataforma de póquer da internet, vai voltar a operar em Portugal quase dois anos depois do anterior governo suspender a atividade para legislar o setor depois de ter sido...
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The real-money online poker room has decided to remove games from the Romanian market, a move aimed at reducing costs as players will be driven into higher stakes. The change began in early October when the $0.01/$0.02 zoom poker games were removed from the lobby. Later in the month,...
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The French government is moving forward with plans to allow its poker licensees to pool liquidity with other jurisdictions, submitting draft legislation to the European Commission (EC) for approval. The proposed legislation aims to allow customers of licensed French poker sites to play against players registered with companies operating...
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Nos dias 22 e 23 de Outubro o Casino de Espinho recebe o World Poker Tour National Iberia Grand Final de Espinho. Sendo que os dias de arranque acontecem entre 13 e 16 de Outubro. Em comunicado divulgado esta quarta-feira, 11 de Maio, a Solverde informa que o Casino...
O Casino Estoril vai receber, de 02 a 07 de maio, a 12.ª etapa do maior circuito mundial de ‘poker’, com cerca de 500 jogadores e mais de meio milhão de euros em prémios, foi hoje anunciado. A penúltima etapa da World Series of Poker (WSOP) terá lugar no...
The long-awaited revamp of PokerStars’ VIP rewards program will start rolling out in June, the company has announced. The system will replace the current decade-old “volume-driven” loyalty program with a personalized system of awarding random prizes. In a corporate blog post, Severin Rasset, PokerStars’ Director of Poker Innovation and...
The Department of Justice have recently announced that Absolute Poker is to compensate players through a claims process similar to that of Full Tilt, which is part of an ongoing civil complaint settlement following the events of online poker’s “Black Friday” in 2011. In April 2011, the U.S. Department...
After a long and laborious wait, the European Commission finally rubber-stamped a technical framework from the Serviços de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos allowing them to start negotiating with other European regulators on a shared online poker liquidity scheme. The sorry saga for online poker pros trying to ply...
In this week’s poker news round up we remind you of the death of online poker in Australia, a storm brewing above the heads of the High Rollers competing in the PokerStars Championships and more. Australian poker players were dealt a blow this week when the Interactive Gambling Amendment...
O fundador do que foi um dos maiores sites de poker online aceitou, na quinta-feira, enfrentar as acusações americanas resultantes de um longo processo criminal contra empresas de Internet como a sua, que operam ilegalmente nos Estados Unidos. Scott Tom, que fundou o Absolute Poker, sediado na Costa Rica,...
After months of delay, Portugal has finally sent its new online poker liquidity sharing technical standards to the European Commission for approval. Last November, Portugal welcomed the first online poker site (Amaya Gaming’s PokerStars) under the country’s new online gambling licensing regime, but it wasn’t until this Tuesday that...
The newly launched PokerStars.pt in Portugal is one of the busiest online pokers sites in the world based on real money cash game players. That is the finding of PokerScout, an online poker traffic ranking site which estimates the number of players at cash game tables on the major...
The real-money online poker room has decided to remove games from the Romanian market, a move aimed at reducing costs as players will be driven into higher stakes. The change began in early October when the $0.01/$0.02 zoom poker games were removed from the lobby. Later in the month,...
The French government is moving forward with plans to allow its poker licensees to pool liquidity with other jurisdictions, submitting draft legislation to the European Commission (EC) for approval. The proposed legislation aims to allow customers of licensed French poker sites to play against players registered with companies operating...
