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Following months of testing and trials 888poker has finally widely released their long-awaited updated poker app. Available for iOS and Android devices the 888poker app delivers a ton of new features that greatly improve gameplay on mobile devices. One of the major highlights for poker players will be the new multi-table option. One of the

A major outage by GeoComply last Thursday left several online poker players with nowhere to play. GeoComply is a geolocation surface used by most online poker sites in the US. It determines where players are physically located which online poker sites need to know so ensure only legal players are using their sites. When GeoComply

If you’re looking for a treat instead of a trick, an Intertops Poker Halloween tournament offers up a scary good tournament with a sweet prize pool. On Halloween night, Saturday October 31, Intertops Poker is running their Halloween Tournament at 7:15 p.m. eastern. The special tournament has a $35 + $3.50 buy-in and a $3,000

888 Holdings, the owner and operator of 888poker, announced revenues for the first six months of 2020 earlier this week, which showed that the COVID-19 pandemic led to more players and higher revenues. 888 Holdings reported $379.1 million in revenue from January 1 to June 30, 2020. That is an increase of 37 percent when

With the football season in full swing, Intertops Poker has brought back its Football Frenzy poker tournaments. If you’re familiar with the regular NFL weekly schedule the Football Frenzy schedule should be no surprise. Football Frenzy consists of three weekly tournaments throughout football season on Thursday, Sunday and Monday. How do Intertops Football Frenzy tournaments

After nearly a decade of waiting PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg received his punishment from the U.S. government for his company’s unlawful acts stemming from violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act  in 2011. In the end, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced Scheinberg to time served

The 2020 World Poker Tour World Online Championship Main Event concluded earlier this week and Phillip Mighall was the last man standing. The $10,300 Main Event drew 1,011 entries and had a $10,110,000 prize pool, which topped the $10 million guarantee. The top 135 players finished in the money, with Mighall claiming the top prize

The Venetian in Las Vegas has been the home of many firsts in Sin City since the COVID-19 pandemic turned out the lights. Since the lights started coming back on the Venetian was one of the first poker rooms to reopen. They also hosted the first multi-table tournaments in Las Vegas and were among the

Flutter Entertainment is pulling its PokerStars branded online sites out of some major Asian markets. An email posted to popular poker forums Two Plus Two stated that all PokerStars branded sites will be pulled out of markets in China, Macau and Taiwan. In the leaked email, it said that PokerStars would be leaving China, Macau

The largest tournament in World Series of Poker history concluded this week after a winner was crowned in the record-shattering Big 50. This year’s online Big 50 was the cheapest buy-in in the history of the WSOP at only $50. Not surprisingly a record number of poker players took their shot at the cheap event,

The latest poker series at 888poker is a month-long massive series with 460 events and $8 million in guaranteed prize pools. The Millions Super Storm Series is scheduled to run at 888poker from September 10 to October 11. There are multiple events everyday with 460 events total on the schedule with varying buy-ins to fit

For years the go-to-site for live poker tournament earnings has been the Hendon Mob. Major wins in big tournaments like the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour and smaller event cashes at casinos around Las Vegas and the world have all been recorded and used to determine the top tournament poker players

The Intertops Poker Summit Series continues to generate good buzz and great tournament profits for online players. Intertops Poker is currently running their Summit Series tournaments Monday to Friday. These No-Limit Hold’em tournaments begin each day at 5:05 p.m. ET with a manageable $22 buy-in. The prize pool is a cool $1,000. How does the

The 2020 World Series of Poker Online has set a new record for the largest field to play in a WSOP tournament. The Opener, a $100 No Limit Hold’em tournament, was the second tournament on the WSOP Online schedule played at GGPoker. The tournament was supposed to wrap up last week, but the final day

The record-setting online gambling revenues produced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania and Delaware sagged a bit in June. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board released the online gambling revenue report for June earlier this week. It showed a dip from the record-high numbers posted in May. In May, Pennsylvania set a new record for online

Winning with certain hands could earn you more than just the chips in the pot under the new 888poker  Hand of the Day promotion. Under the promotion, 888poker players can win up to $1000 cash, or special bonuses in cash games by winning the designated hand of the day. The promotion applies to cash games