Archive for the Poker News Category

Where can American poker players play now?

It is hard to believe that it is now the first day of August and the situation in online poker for Americans has still not been resolved. Poker Stars no longer accepts American players. Absolute Poker and UB are no longer paying their players so there is no point in playing there. Full Tilt is [...]

Full Tilt Poker Withdrawal Problems

All existing players with an account at Full Tilt Poker are experiencing withdrawal problems. Primarily this is because the poker rooms gaming license has been suspended and they need to be licensed in order to handle deposits and withdrawals. Technically of course they don’t need a license to do any of that; they could even [...]

US Poker Room Closures

On the 15th April, 2011 the FBI unsealed indictments against a number of online poker rooms and people involved with their operation. They also tried to seize a number of bank accounts associated with those poker rooms. The rooms affected were Poker Stars, FullTilt Poker, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet Poker. In this process they seized [...]

VCPoker moving to new network

In a surprise development, VCPoker announced that they will be moving their poker platform, currently on the iPoker network, to the Entraction Poker Network. This move is to take place on the 10th December. The iPoker network is currently about fifth in the list of most popular poker rooms with Entraction being twelfth. Accordingly, the [...]

Big News at Merge Poker Network

The big poker news this week is at Merge Poker Network. Merge is the home of poker rooms such as Carbon Poker and PDC Poker. And of late a whole lot more rooms. The news story is that a number of poker rooms have jumped ship from the Cake poker network and are moving to [...]

Poker In Canada merges with TigerGaming

Poker In Canada has now merged with TigerGaming poker room. This is not strictly a poker room closure, as no players will lose out. Both poker rooms are on the Action Poker Network, so the software is exactly the same. And existing Poker In Canada players don’t have to do anything – when they next [...]

Bugsys Club poker room closes

Bugsys Club is the latest online poker room to close its doors due to the ‘economic climate’. The worrying aspect here is that  Bugsys club had a decent number of daily players on average. At 1,500 players daily, they had more traffic than some other poker rooms and networks that are still operating.  They had [...]