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REEL Malta News
APPT heads to Philippines in April
8 Feb 2012
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour has announced the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino will host the final leg of this year's tour.
Circus Groupe, PokerStars earn license in Belgium
8 Feb 2012
PokerStars has become one of the first online poker sites in Belgium to be officially granted a license under the Casino de Namur A+ license.
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure caps successful week
18 Jan 2012
The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure featured more than 40 different events, several high-profile winners and a prize pool of $22,415,560. Amateur player John Dibella was perhaps the biggest surprise of the week, as he won $1,775,000 after taking down the PCA Main Event.
EPT founder parts ways with PokerStars
18 Jan 2012
John Duthie and PokerStars have agreed to part ways, with Duthie resigning as CEO of the European Poker Tour and as a member of Team PokerStars Pro.
Black Friday payment processor pleads guilty
18 Jan 2012
Ira Rubin, one of 11 men indicted on April 15 by the U.S. Department of Justice, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.
Blom wins PCA Super High Roller event
9 Jan 2012
Swedish poker pro Viktor Blom outlasted a final table that included Jonathan Duhamel and Daniel Negreanu to win the $100k Super High Roller event for $1.25 million at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to be broadcasted live
30 Dec 2011
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event and High Roller finals will be broadcast as live (with a 40-minute delay) on PokerStars.tv with hole cards revealed.
A former Internet poker player sees a way back into the game, thanks to the DOJ
23 Dec 2011
Aaron Todd was pleasantly surprised when he saw that the Department of Justice released an advisory memo admitting that the UIGEA does in fact give states the right to regulate intrastate online gambling.
Top-10 gambling industry stories of 2011
23 Dec 2011
There are times when the Casino City editorial team really has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with enough items to fill a top-10 list. Putting together the top-10 gambling industry stories of 2011, however, was not one of those times.
PokerStars announces three more EPT stops
23 Dec 2011
Stops in Madrid, Berlin and Campione in Italy have been added to the European Poker Tour's Season 8 calendar.
Absolute Poker founder pleads guilty to bank fraud and money laundering
20 Dec 2011
Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley entered a guilty plea today in response to charges of bank fraud, money laundering, illegal gambling offenses and violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
PokerStars launches Turbo Championship of Online Poker
20 Dec 2011
The inaugural TCOOP will incorporate 50 different events across 11 days and guarantee $10 million in prizes.
Asia Pacific Poker Tour to add stop in Seoul
12 Dec 2011
The PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour will set up shop in Seoul, South Korea from March 7-11 at the Paradise Walkerhill Casino.
PokerStars shatters Guinness World Record
6 Dec 2011
PokerStars set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of players in a single online poker tournament when 200,000 people logged-on and paid $1 to compete in a No Limit Hold’em event on Sunday.
PokerStars attempting to set another world record
29 Nov 2011
The World Record Tournament on Sunday is aiming to become the largest online poker tournament ever by surpassing PokerStars’ current record of 149,196 players.
PokerStars gears up for PCA
28 Nov 2011
The ninth annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure gets under way at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas on Jan. 5.
Top-10 gaming industry developments I'm thankful for
21 Nov 2011
Aaron Todd counts down the developments in and around the gaming industry which he's thankful for this year.
APPT Macau Season Five ready to launch
14 Nov 2011
PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa will host the third leg of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour from Nov. 17-27.
Internet key for American poker players
14 Nov 2011
Internet poker -- or the lack of opportunity to play online legally -- could be a reason U.S. players seem to be losing their foothold on a game considered historically American.
The Europeans are here to stay
9 Nov 2011
This year's World Series of Poker Main Event final table cemented a fact in poker that players, fans and experts have known for awhile: The Europeans aren't coming. They are here, and they're here to stay.
Germany's Pius Heinz makes history with Main Event win
9 Nov 2011
Pius Heinz made history early Wednesday morning after winning the World Series of Poker Main Event, as he is the first German player to win the coveted gold bracelet.
PokerStars awards $70,000 to controversial winner in 70 billionth hand promotion
4 Nov 2011
PokerStars executives were probably looking forward to the positive PR the company would be getting out of announcing the winners of its 70 billionth hand promotion. Little did they know that the world's largest poker room would be facing controversy and an outcry from players on the site who feel like the winners gamed the system.
November Niner Pius Heinz joins Team PokerStars
4 Nov 2011
German poker player Pius Heinz, who goes into Sunday’s WSOP final table in seventh place, is the latest member of Team PokerStars.
PokerStars ready for major 10th anniversary celebration
1 Nov 2011
PokerStars celebrates its 10th anniversary in December and will award more than $10 million in prizes that month.
Gambling and the Law: Amnesty for Internet poker sites?
28 Oct 2011
Professor I. Nelson Rose says that the evenutal winners when online poker becomes regulated in the U.S. will be determined if companies are granted amnesty for taking American bets.
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