Poker News – Let me ask you a question – are you happy with your poker results right now? Are you where you deserve to be or are you frustrated by fish getting lucky and busting you after all your hard work? Maybe you’ve had the experience of playing well and going deep. Then you get into a big pot with a bad player… You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. You have AK and the fish has AJ – and then big surprise, a jack on the river. All your hard work undone in an instant –…

Poker News – Is it doom and gloom in France? Some might say so, since regulated online poker has been steadily declining in France since new regulations began in 2010. According to the first quarter report released by France’s online gaming regulator ARJEL about the country’s online poker regulated market, the number of regulated cash game players is shrinking significantly. Cash game traffic dropped by 19 percent year over year, and perhaps even more alarming was the 28percent decline compared to two years ago. ARJEL also shared its concerns about trends in the French market by implying poker operators “are…

iGaming Business – New Jersey online poker revenue levels hit a new low in May after the US state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) reported a second consecutive monthly decline in internet poker revenue. The DGE posted online poker revenue of $2.3 million in May, a decrease of about 12.3% compared to the previous month. In April, the state also suffered a 19.3% month-on-month revenue drop to $2.6 million, but the May figures place online poker revenue at its lowest since it became regulated in New Jersey late last year. Total internet gaming win for May was $10.5 million, down from…

Canadian gaming provider Amaya Gaming is set to acquire Rational Group, the parent company of the world’s leading online poker site PokerStars, for US$4.9bn (€3.6bn). Amaya struck the deal with Oldford Group Limited, the holding company for Rational Group and will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Oldford Group in an all-cash transaction for an aggregate purchase price, which includes certain differed payments and is subject to other customary adjustments. The transaction will be financed by a combination of cash on hand, new debt, and a private placement of subscription receipts, common shares and non-voting convertible preferred….

Poker News – As every poker player knows, there’s nothing quite like a tournament. Every participant in the field — from the underdogs to the overwhelming favorite — begins play with the same sense of hope and optimism, knowing that few fortuitous plays and a little good fortune can fuel them to a run at the title. For forty-five years this maxim has been proven true under the searing heat and summer sunshine of Sin City, as the World Series of Poker brings the game’s greatest players together to test their mettle in tournament play. And while the WSOP is…

Poker Fuse – WSOP.com in Nevada has surpassed the combination of partypoker and Borgata in New Jersey to become the largest online poker site regulated in the US. With a 7-day moving average of 144 cash game players, WSOP.com NV has moved into the top spot ahead of the 141 cash game seats filled on the partypoker network in New Jersey according to data provided by PokerScout to pokerfuse PRO. The steady rise in traffic for the Nevada site began in mid-May as cash game traffic rose from an average in the mid-nineties to a 7-day average of 111 just…