Is the exec planning a comeback at Dragonfish?

It seems like there has been a serious change on the head of online poker giant Pokerstars. Apparently, the company had to part with Gabi Campos, who has been its CEO since October 2010 became, and who has already updated its LinkedIn profile [ more ]

Absolute Poker$s Brent Buckley and payment processor Ira Rubin admits the charges

On Jan. 16 and 17, two Black Friday indictees, Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Buckley (31) and payment processor Ira Rubin (53) pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.

On that occasion before the US District Court in Manhattan, Buckley acknowledged that he [ more ]

One million Bad Beat Jackpot hit

This has been a very lucky Monday for players who were at the table with the lucky loser that hit Bad Beat Jackpot at the Merge Poker Network $ndash; having in mind that it reached around $1 million there was a number of reasons for [ more ]

Norwegian tax authorities claim millions in unpaid VAT

There seems to be no end to Absolute Poker$s problems $ndash; this week, a report came that Norwegian tax authorities (Skatteetaten) claimed 180 million Kroner (around $30 million) in unpaid value added tax from Madeira Fjord, a shell company set up in Norway [ more ]

Over $1 million for Bilokur

This weekend saw the end of the $25 000 buy-in Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure High Roller event, in which Ukrainian poker pro Leonid Bilokur outplayed all the big names that comprised the player pool and beat the current World Series of Poker champion, Jonathan Duhamel, to the [ more ]