Poker News – Spain’s average poker player is male, under 34 years old, and well educated. Spanish online poker players also appear to be at a lower risk of problem gambling when compared to any other form of online gambling. These are the results of the third online gaming industry study by Spain’s Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) published on the DGOJ website earlier this month. The DGOJ’s study combined interviews from 1,027 Spanish residents who have gambled online at least once in the past year. The study does not focus exclusively on online poker, but includes a…

Poker News – Full Tilt Poker is constantly developing new ways to keep online poker fun and exciting, and tomorrow the site will be launching a new, innovative form of poker tournaments that is sure to attract many players to action. On Wednesday, March 19, Flipout Tournaments will be introduced on the Full Tilt Poker client. These are tournaments that allow players to flip straight away to get the action started and send everyone that wins right into the money. That’s right, no more acting like a short-stack ninja on the money bubble or enduring countless hours of the most…

Calvin Ayre – PokerStars’ parent company, Rational Entertainment Enterprises, Ltd. (REEL), or more commonly known as the  Rational Group, won itself a decision against a class action lawsuit in Illinois from a group of poker players who claim to have lost money from illegal gambling. Chief Judge David R. Herndon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois ruled in favor of granting Rational’s motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Kelly Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg’s complaint against Rational centered on her attempt to recover damages incurred by Illinois poker players from playing online poker using the state’s…

Casino.org – Bwin – the world’s largest online publicly traded betting site – says it expects to return to a period of sustainable growth following a difficult year, which saw revenue across all gambling operations tumble 19 percent to €652.4m ($908,623,000). The company blamed several factors for the slump, such as ISP blocking in Greece, the decline of the poker market in France and Italy, and the migration of players to its new technology platform in December 2012. Poker, in fact, was a significant disappointment. Despite the launch of its new poker site with Atlantic City land-based casino Borgata and…

Rational Group is considering adding a Full Tilt Casino to the brand’s offerings. The owners of both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker intend to expand into other online gambling options beyond just poker. The firm announced last summer that Full Tilt Poker would be remade into a fully operational online casino with slots, blackjack, and roulette in addition to the online poker rooms. But Rational Group says the remake will not stop there, with plans to open a licensed sports book under the Full Tilt brand.  If the sports book is added to the domain, Full Tilt will become the…

Poker Fuse – The Delaware Lottery has published the revenue results from February which show a 16% fall in poker rake and fees. The four months of figures now available provide a picture of how each of the three licensees is doing in the market. The amount wagered on table games in February doubled from January’s $1.1m to $2.2m producing net proceeds of $65k. Adding in the $27k of video lottery revenues (slots) produced a total of $92k, which meant that poker’s proceeds of $74k now represent just 44% of the total. That compares with the 76% produced by poker…