Tag Archives: Poker News

If you’ve checked out any poker news in the past few months, you probably know that the new Full Tilt Poker invention known as Rush Poker has become a huge phenomenon.  Not only does Rush Poker prevent wasted time waiting on other players to make moves, but it also enables people to collect more rakeback money in the process. Of course, this doesn’t mean Rush Poker is perfect since the biggest problem with it is that cash games are the only form of poker games you can play in this format.  In fact, Full Tilt does not offer a single …

Once the world’s biggest online poker room before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was signed into effect in the United States, Party Poker is doing everything they can to get back on top.  And one of the recent measures they’ve taken to get there again is opening a site that will offer services to French players. Party Poker’s parent company, PartyGaming, signed an interesting (and semi-confusing) deal that will be called www.partypoker.fr.  The deal was signed with PMU, France’s pari-mutual horse racing company, and it calls for PartyGaming to help PMU set up an online poker site.  But rather …

After so many recent battles regarding restrictions to the world of online poker playing, it is nice to be able to bring some good poker news to our readers! At the moment poker players in France have been restricted to playing only with two state companies which have held the monopoly on gambling. All other gambling online has been restricted and banned within the French borders. It seems that this regulation has finally been recognised as unfair and a bill has been proposed to the French government that would mean more access to foreign casinos and tournaments for French players. …