Poker News

Yatahay Poker Network has become the Winning Poker Network in a recent rebranding move by the Network that still accepts USA players.

“It’s more than a name, it’s a mantra,” stated a spokesman for The Winning Poker Network. “Our promotions are better, our guarantees keep getting bigger, and our software delivers everything players ask for. Players who love to win are hitting our network in record numbers and the entire poker world has good reason to be excited about what’s ahead.”

Two of the most famous sites on the new Winning Poker Network are True Poker and Doyles Room. You do not get more established than that as both sites have been in the business for years.

Purple Lounge Poker is to leave its Micrograming platform and network and move to the Entraction network.

Purple Lounge Poker will be available on the Entraction network from January 16th 2012.

They will be running a huge €60,000 rake race from 16 January to 15 March.

Spain has delayed its move to regulate online poker in the country. The Spanish online poker market was planned to be regulated by the end of last year but has now been postponed until at least 30 June 2012.

This means that Spanish online poker players can carry on playing as normal up until that date.

The AEDAPI should announce before then what sites will be granted a licence and the exact date the Spanish market will be regulated

Denmark has regulated its poker market from the New Year meaning that some sites are not offering poker to Danish players.

The decision was made just before Christmas and came into effect on 1st January 2012. The lateness of the decision has caused a bit of chaos. Some sites who have been awarded a License by Denmark are not able to offer Danish people a suitable solution yet but will do so in the coming days, weeks and months.

The DOJ says the Wire Act does not apply to online poker but is meant for sports betting. The DOJ released a statement after investigating a case to do with online Lotteries and the sale of tickets over the internet. Their statement confirmed the change in the DOJ view about if the Wire Act covered online poker.

Having considered the Criminal Division’s views, as well as letters from New York and Illinois to the Criminal Division that were attached to your opinion request,1 we conclude that interstate transmissions of wire communications that do not relate to a “sporting event or contest,” 18 U.S.C. § 1084(a), fall outside of the reach of the Wire Act. Because the proposed New York and Illinois lottery proposals do not involve wagering on sporting events or contests, the Wire Act does not, in our view, prohibit them. Given this conclusion, we have not found it necessary to address the Wire Act’s interaction with UIGEA, or to analyze UIGEA in any other respect.

The DOJ is not commenting on the UIGEA but at least the Wire Act and its effect or non effect with online poker has been cleared up by the DOJ themselves.

Poker prop deal 11 is offering poker props a Christmas gift of 150% rakeback.

For the calculated rake week from 18th December up to 25th December prop players will get 150% rakeback payment.

When this Christmas deal is finished poker props will then be paid at a rate of 125%.

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Prop deal 11 will be changing its rakeback % for prop players from 125% to 100% on 4th December.

Any prop play rakeback up to 11:59 on 4th December will be paid out at 125%.

Any prop play rakeback afer 12:00 on 4th December will be paid out at 100%.

For more details or to sign up to this prop deal now click here: Prop deal 11

Full Tilt Poker and the DOJ may have reached an agreement to repay US players and also FTP’s world wide players. The Groupe Bernard Tapie, who are in negotiations with the DOJ, still need FTP shareholders to agree to a takeover of FTP though.

The deal between Groupe Bernard Tapie and the DOJ would see the DOJ paying the US players while the Groupe Bernard Tapie pay non US players their funds back.

The signs look encouraging but it will still be up to the Full Tilt Poker shareholders when or if they are asked about the proposed buy out. Even if the shareholders agree it is not confirmed when FTP’s players will be refunded their money.

Poker Stars have announced a special $10 million Sunday Million as part of the PokerStars 10th Anniversary promotions and Giveaways.

On December 18th Poker Stars will host the $10 million guaranteed Sunday Million and the buy in will remain only $215. You can qualify through all the usual routes of $1 satellites, hyper turbo satellites and FPP satellites.

Poker Stars will also be having a 1 month Giveaway of 100 Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in the Bahamas, worth over $15,000 each. To win one of these 100 free packages to the PCA you will need to qualify for the weekly Finals, or, reload your account with the bonus code PCA100 to get a free ticket into that weeks Final.

It appears as if the players on the CEREUS Network (Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet) may have some or all their bankrolls refunded. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission has issued a press release stating that:

ABSOLUTE POKER/UB.COM

(MOHAWK TERRITORY OF KAHNAWAKE – October 27, 2011) – Since the actions taken by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (the “SDNY”) on April 15, 2011, the Commission has been in close and regular discussions with its licensee, Blanca Games Inc. (“Blanca”), operating as Absolute Poker and UB.com (“AP/UB”), to facilitate the reimbursement of both US and non-US players. The Commission has also received regular updates of discussions between AP/UB and the SDNY.