There were new restrictions regarding payment processing for online poker players trying to use Visa and MasterCard credit cards. It was legal for MasterCard to process online poker transactions even after the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act was passed in the U.S in 2006. Not all transactions related to internet gambling were blocked, with some even operating MasterCard.

Cash in is down significantly and online poker players are trying to get money online. The players are not aware that their funds are not being deposited using credit cards. They will still be billed for the transactions because their deposits still go through. There is an issue that the gaming company never receives the funds as they are intercepted. The processor that is used by the company has its account with MasterCard closed and they are fined for it, which goes directly to the gaming company.

Rumor has it that MasterCard blocked internet gambling transactions by auditing thousands of transactions manually, looking at coded declines and subsequent approved transactions. The reason is unknown as to why MasterCard blocked the transactions.

Players are directed to methods such as e-wallets whenever their cards are declined. Online pokers cannot use debit card to deposit on their accounts with MasterCard because it does not run debit cards. Visa or the banks can run debit cards.

During the night at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, hearing tsunami warning swept all the poker players in the tournament. Everyone became sad thinking that thousands of people are suffering from calamity. Casualty in Haiti has already reached into six figures.

Photographs that became head turning and bits of bad news begun to appear in the media show a massive disaster has fallen to Haiti. Due to this bad news, poker community has step up on its own by offering financial assistance to all the victims of the Haitan capital city of Port-au-Prince. Read the rest of this entry »

The Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker classic has earned another winner. Daniel Christopher Alaei grabbed the coveted seat surviving the rigid battle against 328 players. He won an enormous prize of $1.4 million on the said event.

Alaei is a dedicated NLHE player who play a lot of cash games and had already made a $3.7 million dollar income from live he participated since the start of his career. He owns two WSOP bracelets and had been successful in winning the $10,000 World Championship Omaha Hi/Lo 8-or-better event. Daniel also won 18-cashes from the WSOP making him gain more than $1.5 million. Read the rest of this entry »

Poker Production has again exceeded itself by bringing up a new twist in their NBC show Poker after Dark. The show will features in their newest episode a new theme called Railbird Heaven wherein poker players will be going to play high stakes poker in a span of two weeks.

Poker after Dark has gathered some of the most celebrated live game players in the poker record, and also the man that has been performing well in the online poker arena. They will be place in a very unusual cash game where they had to buy in a minimum of $100,000 and must not exceed $250,000. Read the rest of this entry »

A prominent official of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has affirmed that internet poker is not saved from schemes and manipulation in the web.

“There are several ways to cheat at online poker, none of which are legal,” Shawn Henry, assistant director for the FBI’s cyber division, inscribed in a correspondence to Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s the aim of the Poker Players Alliance to alleviate the sufferings of online poker players in the United States by making a bill that will go against the very discriminating UIGEA bill. It’s popularly known that the UIGEA has denied the players in the US to play poker online, categorizing poker as similar with other types of pure gambling when poker has been tested as a game of skill rather than luck generally.

But it seems that the change people expect that will take place when the Democrats won the Congress in 2006 did not progress like the analysts have predicted. Read the rest of this entry »

The Poker Players Alliance also called PPA has long been pushing a return to reason when it comes to online poker legislation within the United States. It’s been a long time since the UIGEA has denied players in the United States of online poker opportunities, grouping poker into equal class as other types of pure gambling when poker has more factors of skill than luck to the general game.

At the moment, it seems as though the transformations people anticipated to begin in 2006 when Democrats took over Congress has at last started to appear, but not in the expected direction that most forecasters had. Read the rest of this entry »

This event which happens in Malta annually is one of the most awaited tournaments in the world of poker. It’s known as the European City Poker Tour or ECPokerTour.

The ECPokerTour is held as another prestigious event that will come into terms with the big leagues in the future due to the wide array of tournaments and higher stakes featured in it. Read the rest of this entry »

Introduction

If ever you are one of the fortunate players of Titan Poker then I think you need to know more about Club Titan Poker. This article is a little bit short for your taste but I think this is enough to get you started. Read the rest of this entry »

Having a maniac on the PLO table results in different responses on its occupants – some players will enjoy their aggressiveness, others will feel threatened making them play poorly. It may sound strange to you but a lot of poker players don’t enjoy having a maniac on their table, they are not ready to be on a war of raises heads-up against a maniac unless they have an AAxx hand. They protest having this kind of action player in their midst instead of welcoming the change.

In the subsequent instances, we will be using this maniac profile: A player who always raises first on the initial round of the game and have the guts to re-raise 95% in one hand. This maniac personality tries to get the pot before the flop opens. Read the rest of this entry »