Poker Affiliate Listings Industry Update for June 2013

From Poker Affiliate Listings – News from the poker industry, brought to you by Tori at Poker Affiliate Listings. This week she discusses the WSOP and online poker in Nevada.     . VISIT POKER AFFILIATE LISTINGS

PKR.com premieres real-money mobile poker app

From iGaming Business After launching free-play roulette and blackjack mobile apps in September, three-dimensional online poker domain PKR.com has premiered a mobile poker real-money edition for Apple iPhone and iPad players in the UK. Offering Texas hold‘em sit-and-go tournaments and ring games alongside pot-limit Omaha and Omaha hi-lo, PKR.com declared that its new app offers the ‘best graphics in mobile poker’ and is ‘fully compatible’ with the iPhone 4 and above as well as the iPad. It also features a ‘full in-game chat system’, 40 three-dimensional avatars with mood, emote and chip trick animations alongside 20 distinct playing environments. “We…

Two Online Poker Bills to be Introduced in the US House

From Poker Fuse Federal lawmakers show renewed interest in online poker. Interest in online poker at the federal level has been renewed and, according to spokespersons for two members of the US House of Representatives, two separate bills to regulate online poker are expected to be introduced in the coming weeks. FULL STORY

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Poker Is Not Gambling and Shouldn’t be Illegal

Wait, poker is not gambling? That’s what we hear! In recent weeks, public radio stations, including New Hampshire’s NHPR, have been airing a broadcast of the storytelling program The Moth that includes a segment by Concord native Annie Duke, who was known as Annie Lederer when she was a student at Rundlett Junior High School. Duke, whose parents were teachers, her mother at Concord High, her father at St. Paul’s, is one of the world’s best poker players, as is her brother, Howard Lederer. For The Moth, Duke recounts the crisis of confidence she faced at the 2004 world series…

The New Full Tilt Poker: Six Months On

From Poker Fuse At midday on Thursday, November 6, Full Tilt Poker was successfully relaunched under new management. As part of Rational Group’s settlement with the US Department of Justice, $186 million, the sum of all non-US player deposits prior to Full Tilt’s closure, was returned to poker players. It could be immediately withdrawn, transferred to PokerStars or—as the new FTP management hoped—left online and used to play on the relaunched site. To encourage players to stay, FTP was launched to much fanfare: “relaunch week” included freerolls, happy hours, and big cash bonuses for all. “The Professionals” graced the high…

WSOP Online Partnership was Years in the Making

When Seth Palansky gets questions about Caesars Interactive rolling out WSOP online poker in Nevada, he inevitably mentions patience. That’s the virtue the company cited when Station Casinos rolled out its Ultimate Poker website last month, becoming the first fully legal real-money gambling program to launch in the United States. “But being first didn’t matter…”, said a spokesman for Caesars Interactive. “There’s got to be a little patience,”. Caesars is now preparing to launch a fully functional WSOP.com during the 44th annual World Series of Poker to perhaps become the second website in Nevada to offer real-money poker tables. And…