Over the past several years, PokerStars has abandoned its original player rewards system in favor of one that attracts more recreational players. Other online poker sites have done the same, but PokerStars received most of the grief from professional poker players as most of them depended greatly on the Supernova
As is tradition with the World Poker Tour, each season of live tournaments begins in the summer months of one year and continues through to the spring of the following year. The current tour is in the middle of Season XVII, and as the first half of the schedule approaches,
Music makes the world go ‘round. And it sounds great as an intro or outro for something like a podcast. But in order to use that music, there are rules. Someone at iBus Media probably should have known that using music by popular and modern artists requires authorization. This is
It is always there, lurking around the halls of Congress like a failed lawmaker who just refuses to leave the building. The Restoration of America’s Wire Act, better known as RAWA, takes many forms but has one goal: Overturn the 2011 Wire Act decision by the Department of Justice that
As Phil Galfond has meticulously built his online poker site called Run It Once, he has taken special care to offer the game in a fresh way. He has paid attention to detail, added some features that poker players crave, and even offered polls to determine some of the basics
This week is special for New Jersey. Its internet gaming industry celebrates five years of operation on November 21, the day in 2013 that a group of online poker and casino sites launched for the first time in New Jersey. The November 21 date was the soft launch, a testing
There is no doubt that the new US online poker market is difficult for operators to navigate, as every game and offering must be cleared through regulators. Many markets have hoops through which operators must jump, too, but there’s something special about states like New Jersey. However, after much ado
It has been no secret that The Stars Group has desired a higher profile in the online casino and sports betting world. The company knows that those verticals are the key to a larger customer base and more profits, despite the company having been built primarily on the PokerStars brand.
When the September revenue numbers for New Jersey’s online poker market were released last month, it showed that peer-to-peer games (internet poker) hit the lowest point in the industry’s five-year history. The numbers had been decreasing over the past several years, but the new low was concerning even for the
A bluff gone wrong can cost a poker player a sizeable pot, but the player’s reputation isn’t usually on the line when a bluff fails. In the case of Gordon Vayo, however, he put his character into the pot, along with his career in poker, when he sued PokerStars this
The process has taken years. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has been trying to create and launch its online poker site since 2015, but its share of troubles spanned court battles, license applications, software issues, and a partnership with Monster. There have also been countless launch dates set, only to
The journey for WPTDeepStacks started a decade ago with founder Chris Torina launching a poker instruction program called DeepStacks University. That evolved into a sort of grassroots poker tour that offered lower buy-ins than bigger tours like the World Poker Tour, as well as locations that catered to players not
