PokerStars to Receive a US Patent for Fast-Fold Poker

Poker News – Fast-fold poker is popular on just about every online poker site in the world. Could these games now be in jeopardy in the United States? At the end of April 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made a decision to issue a patent to the Rational Group for fast-fold poker. The Rational Group is the parent company to both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, the latter being the first in the world to offer fast-fold poker. As initially reported by Pokerfuse, on May 20, 2014 the USPTO will issue Patent Number 8,727,850 listed as…