Tag Archives: poker

Mastercard and Visa online gambling crackdown

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Caruso

Credit cards Mastercard and Visa have recently imposed restrictions on online gambling transactions to US customers, in preparation for the implementation of the anti-gambling legislation in June this year. The following was reported by eGaming Review: Mastercard crackdown leaves US … Continue reading →

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UK’s Advertising Standards Authority slaps BetFair again —this time, over e-mail ads featuring a young poker player.

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

UK’s Advertising Standards Authority: Ad An e-mail ad for an online poker site showed a photograph of a young woman. Text stated “ONLINE EXPERIENCE IS MEASURED IN GAMES, NOT YEARS. JOIN THE NEW BREED. Annette Obrestad – “ANNETTE_15″. Issue 1. … Continue reading →

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Eurolinx: Withdrawal problems and cashflow concerns for this formerly top-ranked Microgaming poker room. How can lightning strike twice in the same place?

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Caruso

In my Microgaming poker article of earlier this year, I described the saga of the collapse Of Tusk Investment Corporation and the subsequent loss of around $5,500,000 in player funds. This was a debacle from which the software provider, Microgaming, … Continue reading →

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BetFair Poker is far behind.

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

In spite of their sponsorship of the World Series of Poker Europe, BetFair Poker is #16. I heard that their software is a joke.

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Crackdown on Internet gambling and betting

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Federal authorities in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million belonging to 27,000 online poker players.

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Microgaming poker trouble: $5,300,000 owed to players of failed licensee, and a deafening silence from the oldest software provider in the business

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Caruso

This post is long even by my standards, but please bear with me as it’s significant news on several levels. It is an extension of the Microgaming poker scandal article I wrote for my own site, with some additional material … Continue reading →

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Poker is popular on FaceBook. So should be the prediction markets.

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – YooPick – (a FaceBook application) – (MSR + AMM) – Yahoo!’s Yootopia – (?) -

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Computer beats human experts at poker…

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Chris F. Masse
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If I had to guess, I would say about 50 percent of the “name pros” you see on television on a regular basis have a negative net worth. Frightening, I know.

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Phil Gordon on Poker -

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Independent production company seeks deep throats to spill beans on online poker industry and BetFair Poker.

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Betting Market: I am a researcher employed by a leading award winning UK based independent production company, that specialises in factual programmes. We are currently researching the online poker industry, for a forthcoming documentary that will look at the broader … Continue reading →

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