In was announced today that Bodog intends to be out of the US market by the end of the year. Many US players are already finding it difficult to deposit at Bodog and it has been that was for a few months now. Because of the way that the Bodog brand is structured it can [...]

Poker games used to be played in darkened rooms and casinos, before the online revolution turned the game into a truly popular worldwide phenomenon. The ease of access to Poker games that online providers have brought to the table has changed the face of the game. It is now possible for complete amateurs – otherwise [...]

Now that it is the middle of July, we had expected to have some announcement from the Merge Poker Network regarding their position on American poker players. Remember their block on US players was only meant to be temporary and to last for a few weeks while they got caught up on a backlog of [...]

In the latest move against online poker by the US administration, four of the top online poker rooms that continued to accept American players after the passing of the UIGEA in 2006 have had their websites seized by the FBI. Having operated in the American market for the last five years when many other poker [...]

Today brings more bad news for the Cake Poker Network as Doyles Room announces they are moving (in fact have moved) to the Yatahay Poker Network. That’s good news for players though as at least you can now download the Doyles room software, which many players were unable to do for the last month. The [...]

The latest version of the Poker Stars Software has been released this week, and most of the changes are based on player feedback, so presumably this will be the best poker client ever. One addition worth noting is the new ‘Knockout tournaments’ where every player has a ‘bounty’ on their head. So even if you [...]

The big news in the online poker world is the pending move to the Merge network of four Cake poker skins.

These poker sites include SportsBook Poker and PlayersOnly Poker. The resultant increase in traffic on the Merge Network is expected to be huge – possibly up to six times the current level – and [...]

In a continuing trend that began last year, the two small networks Everleaf Gaming and the Universal Poker Network announced that they would merge this month (January 2010). The new larger network is still called Everleaf so I guess you could say that the UPN was taken over by Everleaf.  The details don’t matter too [...]