Today bwin.Party announced a formal agreement with the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) to provide online poker to the residents of California if intrastate legislation is enacted. The UAIC is a federally recognized Californian Indian tribe that currently owns and runs the Thunder Valley Casino Resort, which is near Sacramento, California. This partnership is important [...]

In the latest live streaming poker news, Party Poker’s Big Game is being streamed live as we speak. In a move seemingly to echo the IseriesLive, Party Poker made the decision a few days ago to stream the game live. Currently playing are famous pro’s such as Sam Trickett, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, Sorel Mizzi, Phil [...]

Party Poker has unveiled plans to develop their own form of “Rush Poker.” This comes shortly after the successful release of PokerStars’ own version of the game last month. The announcement came during an interview of bwin.Party CEO Jim Ryan by the UK magazine Casinochoice. Ryan confirmed the future release of a fast-paced Rush Poker [...]

Jim Ryan, CEO of bwin.party recently shared his insight into the future of online gaming legalization and regulation in the US and how his company is prepared to capitalize on the very promising upcoming US market. We will summarize some key points he made in his interview with PokerNews. Ryan offers a detailed analysis of [...]

Late last week, the Nevada Gaming Commission officially approved Regulation 5A in a unanimous 4-0 vote. This regulation sets the rules and framework for online poker within the state of Nevada, including licensing requirements. The Las Vegas Review-Journal estimates that “some sites could be up and running by the end of 2012.” Nevada is the [...]

With legalized online poker legislation looming on the horizon, more gaming companies are making plans to secure their place in the potentially re-opened U.S. market. A recent announcement states that MGM Resorts International, Boyd Gaming and Bwin.Party digital entertainment have joined together in anticipation of legalized online poker. This partnership is reported to have been [...]

Party Poker’s inaugural Pokerfest series begins this Sunday. Pokerfest 2011 touts 47 events spread out over 15 days, with buy-ins ranging from points only to the $640 main event. The main event will run on November 6th, with a hefty $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Pokerfest 2011 includes a variety of No-Limit Holdem freezeout, rebuy [...]

One thing PartyPoker does extremely well is offer a large number of satellites to live poker events. Their latest tournament package is for Grand Series of Poker (GSOP) Live Greece, which takes place in Porto Carras Greece from October 11th to 15th of this year. The event is, unsurprisingly, a No Limit Hold’em affair, and [...]

The 2011 version of Oktoberfest is about a month away, and PartyPoker wants to give their Palladium VIPs the chance to attend. Even if you don’t live in Europe, you won’t want to miss out on this event taking place in Munich Germany. Over 5 million people attend the two and a half week festival [...]