Dan Cicala

Diamond Flush Poker has leaked a surprising and quite peculiar e-mail that Laurent Tapie sent to the “key staff” of Full Tilt Poker (FTP). He mailed it out just hours before Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) officially stated that they had dropped out of negotiations to buy FTP. What was made crystal clear in the e-mail [...]

PokerStars has announced their schedule for Season 9 of the European Poker Tour (EPT), and there are some big changes. President of the EPT, Edgar Stuchly, talked about their approach when making the schedule: “We looked at every EPT season up until now and asked ourselves how we could make the tour even better for [...]

With poker news running rampant surrounding PokerStars’ rumored purchase of Full Tilt Poker, another massive story has been undeservingly swept under the rug. In a move that would easily have been the biggest story of any other poker news week, PokerTableRatings.com has heeded the Cease and Desist that PokerStars sent them last week and is no [...]

With the NFL’s biggest offseason promotional event starting tomorrow, they have announced an incremental change to their advertising policy. Gaming advertisements are now permitted for NFL events and properties for the next two years, though there are a plethora of strings attached. The first rule is that the entity being advertised cannot offer a sports [...]

8:30 PM ET Update: Diamond Flush spilled details of how players would have been repaid had the GBT gone through: Players with an account balance of less than $ 100 could be repaid in full or have that balance credited to their players account in the new company, virtually immediately. According to some sources, this [...]

Players signing up for a new account on Bovada Poker already get a 100% up to $1,000 bonus. Now, players signing up through an affiliate link also get a ticket to any of the $1,000 Freeroll satellites for the World Series of Poker Main Event. Don’t miss your chance to play your way into the [...]

PokerStars has taken their next step in a long-standing battle with infamous data-mining site Poker Table Ratings (PTR). They’ve sent a cease and desist to the site and have a team of lawyers ready to take legal action on the order if necessary. Poker Table Ratings is a site that collects hand histories on the [...]

While the casino business on the whole in the US seems to be moving toward online gaming, Sheldon Adelson continues to keep his sights dead-set on dominating the live casino business. Ever since Black Friday, the tide has been turning in the US back toward allowing online gaming—making recent news are the state of New [...]

Over the last year, Boss Media/International Poker Network has been demonstrating a commitment to getting their software up-to-date on the most modern features available. Boss—which includes rooms like InterPoker and ParadisePoker—had already made leaps and bounds in 2011 with improvements like Auto-Rebuy at cash tables and options to rematch in Sit ‘n Gos. Now Boss/International [...]

If you fancy your circle of poker friends to be the next “Crew” or if you simply have 3 fellow poker players that you could team up with to make for a formidable force, then Ladbrokes Poker has the promotion for you. The second edition of the Ladbrokes Team Championship is just a couple weeks [...]