The Bodog Poker Network is teaming up with TLC88.com to bring its poker products to the Asian gaming market. It's just the latest in a series of deals from Bodog aimed at establishing a major foothold in this rapidly growing gaming market niche. TLC88 is a community-based, sports betting and casino site that serves Asian…
[caption id="attachment_28406" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Paypoint sells vouchers to Poker Stars players"][/caption] Things just got easier for Poker Stars customers, as they can now conveniently purchase new “Top UP” vouchers from Paypoint locations so they can make deposits to their accounts. All they have to do is go to anyone of the 24,000 retail outlets and…
Online poker is a brutal business where hundreds of poker rooms compete for a relatively small number of players. So it's not surprising to find the road to poker success littered with the burned out remains of the poker rooms that didn't make the cut. Here's few of them that should stir your memories. PokerRoom.com…
FeltStars Poker Room on the Merge Gaming Network is closing down, according to an announcement released today. While no reason was given for the shutdown, company officials do a have a reimbursement plan for players already in place. So far, there's no words on how affiliate payments will be handled. Here's what they had to…
Full Tilt Poker has been granted an online gaming license by the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission. This marks a major milestone in PokerStars' efforts to bring the long troubled online poker site back to life after Black Friday. The announcement came from the Rational Group, which recently acquired Full Tilt's assets, and liabilities,…
Bodog is shutting down poker and sports betting operations on its Bodog.uk as part of an effort to focus on the booming Asian Pacific gaming market. For now, the entire Bodog.UK site is completely shut down and will be shuttered and reopened as a casino-only site in the near future. The new Bodog.uk site will…
[caption id="attachment_27988" align="alignright" width="275" caption="Zynga's troubles are piling up."][/caption] Lately, Zynga stockholders have been collecting bad news the way Farmville players collect lost lambs. The latest bad news came yesterday when Zynga stock lost almost 20% of its value in after hours trading. No one knows for certain why the social gaming company's stock ended…
[caption id="attachment_27587" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Jeremy Enke, Livin' Large"][/caption] In this three part article series I want to take a journey and explore the past, present, and future of the poker affiliate market from a US poker affiliate's perspective. So let’s start by taking a walk down memory lane! Many of the veteran affiliates in the…
Bwin.Party is selling their Ongame Poker Network to Amaya Gaming in a deal that may be worth as much as $32 million. The blockbuster deal is just one more sign of the massive game of musical chairs being played in the gaming industry ahead of legal online gaming in the US. Amaya, a Canadian based…
When politicians talk about online gambling, they're not fishing for votes from the public; they're fishing for campaign contributions from the casinos. That's the conclusion of a very interesting Las Vegas Sun article on campaign finances and the gaming industry by Karoun Demirjian. [caption id="attachment_27605" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Nevada Senators Reid and Heller, at your service."][/caption]…
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