Bas de Laat Leads Final 10 into Unibet Open Malta €1,100 Main Event Day 3

by May 29, 2016

Casino Malta is currently playing host to a Unibet Open poker festival. Day 2 of the €1,100 Main Event was completed last night with 10 hopefuls bagging up their chips. They are to return today to battle out for the first-place prize of €65,000.Overall, it could be said that ...

Jason Mercier Continues Online Losing Streak

by May 28, 2016

Jason Mercier is a name that every self-respecting poker fan has heard. With live tournament earnings of $16,422,563, he is currently one of the world’s most profitable players. A lot more could be said about the Florida resident.For instance, he has won three WSOP gold ...

Vladimir Troyanovskiy Moves Up in GPI Ranking

by May 27, 2016

After topping the field of a No-Limit Hold’em event during the EPT Season 12 Grand Final and finishing 29th in a High Roller tournament, with that one, too, part of the grand European poker festival, Russian poker pro Vladimir Troyanovskiy climbed in the GPI leaderboard. Th ...

NetEnt Obtains Class 2 Gaming Licenses in Romania

by May 27, 2016

Swedish provider of solutions for the international online casino industry NetEnt AB announced today that it has been granted gaming licenses from the Romanian online gambling regulator.The licenses NetEnt has obtained were Class 2 ones. Generally speaking, this type of lice ...

Pariplay Relocates Headquarters to Gibraltar

by May 27, 2016

Gaming technology supplier Pariplay Ltd. announced that it has relocated both its head office and operations center in Gibraltar. The relocation came after the company received a Remote Gambling license from local authorities.Pariplay was formerly headquartered in Douglas, t ...

Justin Bonomo Moves Up in GPI Leaderboard

by May 26, 2016

It has been a quiet week in top 10 of the GPI ranking. The Wednesday update of the leaderboard showed just one change. In other words, Steve O’Dwyer is still reigning with his 4,329.51 points, followed by Anthony Zinno and Bryn Kenney. Connor Drinan entered the cluster of p ...

Manila Bay Resorts on Schedule for 2016 Opening

by May 26, 2016

Tiger Resort, Leisure & Entertainment, a company owned by Japanese business magnate Kazuo Okada, announced that it has started Phase 2 of the development of its first integrated casino resort in Manila, with Phase 1 of the major project on schedule to be launched by the end o ...

BetStars Beta Version Goes Live in Italy

by May 26, 2016

Canadian gambling company Amaya Inc. announced on Wednesday that BetStars, its latest online gambling brand, has gone live in Italy. A beta version of the sports betting website is now available to Italian gambling customers in their web browser and in Amaya’s desktop casin ...

Playtech Acquires Quickspin for €50 Million

by May 25, 2016

Major gambling software developer Playtech announced that it is to purchase Swedish gaming studio Quickspin as part of its strategy to expand its global reach.Founded in 2011, Quickspin is a fast-growing company that specializes in the development of video slot games for bot ...

Andrew Jankowski Wins partypoker WPT National UK $1,100 Main Event

by May 25, 2016

Andrew Jankowski was the player to win the partypoker WPT National UK $1,100 Main Event and to scoop the largest share of the prize pool. The player collected $195,210 for his victory. It is interesting to note that Jankowski had previously had only two live tournament cashes and ...

OlyBet Choses Income Access to Manage Relaunched Affiliate Program

by May 25, 2016

Online casino and sports betting brand OlyBet announced the relaunch of its affiliate program – OEG Partners, which is to be managed in partnership with digital gaming and marketing company Income Access. OlyBet is a subsidiary of Estonian gambling operator Olympic Entertainment ...

Thomas Marchese Takes 8th Place in GPI Ranking

by May 24, 2016

After the Wednesday GPI update, Steve O’Dweyer is the player to be taking 1st place in the ranking. In fact, he has been atop the prestigious poker leaderboard for record 19 weeks now. The player has a total of 4,329.51 points. He is followed by Anthony Zinno with 4,197.65 ...

Anthony Zinno Ranks 2nd in GPI Leaderboard

by May 23, 2016

For a relatively short period of time, Anthony Zinno has managed to establish himself as a big name in poker. The player is only one of three poker pros to have won three WPT Main Event titles and was really close to winning a fourth such title not long ago.Given his more th ...

Online Poker Legalization Efforts Emerge in Poland

by May 23, 2016

In Poland, poker is a game that can only be played at land-based casinos. Organizing poker tournaments in private homes is prohibited by law and online poker is not among the legalized and regulated gambling activities provided to gambling customers from the country.This, how ...

2016 WSOP Kicks Off on May 31 with New Events and Important Changes

by May 23, 2016

Las Vegas has long been referred to as the Entertainment Capital of the World, the gathering point for casino players from around the United States and the rest of the world. And every year at approximately the same time, the city becomes the gathering place for the world’s ...