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Matchbook has partnered with the charity Raising for Effective Giving (REG) and as a part of the new partnership a market has been opened on the Dan Bilzerian cycling challenge. The question is will the poker professional be able to cycle from LA to Las Vegas (around 278 miles) in under 48 hours? Whether he does or doesn’t Matchbook will donate …

888poker has confirmed the appointment of poker personality Kara Scott as its latest brand ambassador. Scott a popular figure within the poker community, has previously worked as an ambassador for PartyPoker, fronting its WSOP tour. Scott has further worked presenting TV poker shows Sky Poker, Eurosport and Game TV. Announcing its new brand ambassador, 888poker stated that Scott was the right …

Amaya Inc has earmarked 21 March as the date it will finally launch its PokerStars brand in New Jersey.  The launch quickly follows the September 2015 authorisation by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) to operate the PokerStars and Full Tilt brands in the State. Amaya currently expects to conduct an interim testing period with the DGE and a …

Sussex poker player Curtis Lambert has become the first ever winner of a ‘Unibet UK Tour’ event, taking home a £11,000 first prize win at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton. Held in association with Caesars Entertainment UK, the ‘Unibet UK Tour’ is designed to promote competitive amateur poker with low level buy-in tournaments to be hosted throughout the country. Future …

PokerStars has announced that it will be replacing regular heads-up cash games with its Zoom variant as it continues efforts to become more amateur-friendly. As reported by Bluff Europe, the move from the world’s largest online poker site was revealed earlier this week via emails sent to regular heads-up cash game players and has been designed to reduce ‘predatory behaviour’ and ‘enhance the …

Omni-channel gaming software and services supplier, Playtech, has agreed terms with win2day to take over supply of Austria’s regulated online poker network.   The initial three-year deal will see Playtech work closely with the Austrian Lotteries and Casinos Austria-owned win2day brand to replace existing suppliers and deliver a bespoke desktop and mobile-enabled poker platform for the country’s only regulated network.  Playtech …

Four time world Super Middle Weight Champion Carl ‘The Cobra’ Froch has been announced as partypoker’s new brand ambassador. With Froch on-board as ambassador, partypoker announced that it would be giving 99 poker players the chance to knock the champ out and win a share of $100,000 Furthermore Froch unveiled partypoker’s new tournament schedule for the ‘partypoker Power Series’, with …

Industry supplier Playtech has posted a 47% increase in revenues for the third quarter with increases in all divisions, apart from poker. The growth has been boosted by the company’s recent acquisitions, the figure would be around half if they were discounted, but it still represents impressive progress for the firm. Regulated revenues accounted for over half of group revenues …

partypoker has commenced the roll-out of its planned ‘ecology changes’ aimed at improving its poker product environment for new and recreational players. The introduced changes are part of the operators Poker for the People’ campaign. The operator’s product team announced that the following changes had come into effect Players wishing to wait for a cash game will join the room-wide …

PokerStars has announced that it is taking bets on the winner of the World Championship of Online Poker $51,000 Super High Roller event, which takes place 20-21 September. Team PokerStars Pros Daniel ‘KidPoker’ Negreanu and Jason Mercier, along with Chris ‘Moorman1’ Moorman, who has more than $6.5m in cashes at PokerStars, are the current early favourites at odds of 13.00 …