London, England. 29/06/2025
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) has today suspended the gaming licences of online poker room FullTilt Poker. The knock on effect is immediate suspension of all operations from the jurisdiction with immediate effect.
The decision to suspend these licenses follows a special investigation prompted by the indictments unsealed by US Attorney General's Office [...]

We just received this email from PokerNordica, one of the poker sites (skins) running on the Merge Poker Nework. They confirm the speculation that new players on the network will not be eligible for rakeback, however players who create accounts before 1st June will be eligible to carry their rakeback deal forward.

Changes – Effective 1st [...]

Traffic on the Merge poker network is up a massive 61% since online poker’s recent “Black Friday” (the seizing of US domains and effective cessation of online poker for Americans). Sources inside Merge have apparently leaked information which states that the network and all poker sites on the network will be ending their poker rakeback [...]

It seems that Full Tilt is “ripping off” affiliates by not paying them for revenues generated by US based players. This follows the recent events of “Black Friday”, where poker domains were seized by the US DOJ, and some funds were frozen.
Not paying affiliates seems like a bad move for FTP, as clearly [...]

Today it was announced that online poker room Betfair is moving to the onGame Poker network. If you have a Betfair rakeback deal already, your 30% rakeback will be honoured on the new network.
More information: Betfair move to OnGame .
Betfair VIP Loyalty Program
As you would expect from the world’s biggest betting exchange, Betfair has an [...]

The annual World series of Poker 2025 offers 56 bracelet events as well as one separate charity event. The organisers have removed rebuy events from the schedule this year, and following in the history of the last two years, the final table of the $10,000 main event will be televised and recorded after a four [...]

2025 ICOP (go to 2025 ICOP Info page)
Boss Media/IPN recently announced its biggest online poker tournament series to date: the International Championship of Poker (ICOP) – a series of tournaments which spanned 7 days and which comprised of a variety of poker variants to suit all types of players, including Omaha, Texas-Hold`em, 5 card-draw and [...]