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04.04.12 Poker Stars introduced ZoomPoker - version of fast poker similar to rush-poker of FTP. It's available for Holdem and Omaha up to $0,5/$1.
Shuffle Master bought Ongame network for €20 mln. from BWin.

03.03.12 The Gambling Online Magazine Readers’ Poll Awards were given. Top poker site is Poker Stars (Party Poker second) and they have the best tournaments too, PKR has the best software and Titan Poker - the best support.

02.03.12 Entraction network was sold and it changed name to IGT.
Poker Stars reduced rake, changed to weighted contributed rake accounting method and announced Zoom Poker - soon to be introduced Rush-like game.

01.03.12 E-Gaming Magazine gave its EGR Awards. 888 Poker named "Poker operator of the Year".
Poker Stars announced TCOOP (Turbo Championship of Online Poker) in January.
DoJ explained that Wire Act 1961 doesn't apply to casino and poker, that's one step closer to regulated poker in the USA.

12.02.11 Poker Stars celebrates it's 10 year anniversary this December. They offer lots of promos, including several attempts to break Guiness records!
FullTilt reached agreement with US DoJ, so chances of the players to be paid are high.
Pius Heinz (Germany) won WSOP Main Event!

11.03.11 CEREUS network is going to reach agreement with DoJ and liquidate assets to pay the players.
Two networks (iPoker and Yatahay) announced rake reduction for limit games.

10.04.11 Full Tilt lost it's license :(, but it was bought by French investor Groupe Bernard Tapie. Bernard Tapie hopes to return the room to life in 2012 and pay money back to the players.

09.03.11 Full Tilt continues bargain with potential buyers, meanwhile they renewed Kahnawake license and paid debts to Alderney.
The biggest online championship (62 tournaments with $30 mln. guaranteed) WCOOP starts tomorrow.

08.03.11 Full Tilt license still suspended, Alderney Gaming Commission postponed decision untill the room find investors (but not later then 15th of September).

07.04.11The main news is Alderney suspending Full Tilt license. Room is closed for 5 days already :(, plus MoneyBookers stopped working with them. Rumors are that FTP can reopen with Kahnawake license and that the room was bought by European investors.

06.03.11 WSOP started! You still can qualify for the main event online.
10 more domains (bookmakers mostly though) were seized.

05.02.11 At "black Friday" 15th of April FBI seized 5 popular poker domains. As a result Poker Stars, Full Tilt and UB/Absolute stopped accepting US players. But the game goes on and all players will be paid.
Onyx Cup, NAPT and several TV poker shows in the USA were canceled.
Many rooms offered special promotions and bonuses to attract/retain players.

04.05.11 Poker Stars paid about $200.000 to those who played hand number 60 bln.!

Full Tilt organize Onyx Cup Series that features $100.000 buy-in events!
Both abovementioned rooms make agreement with big US offline casinos to work together after online gambling ban is lifted.

03.04.11 888 Poker introduced CamTables where only players with web cams can play.
It was announced, that BWin will switch to Party Poker software after merging.

02.03.11 Doyles Room changed network once more from Cake to Yatahay.
As many expected, Isildur1 is Victor Blom and he really spice up action on high limits of Poker Stars.
Poker Stars introduced Home Games, where everyone can organize own poker-club and invite friends to play cash or tournaments for real or virtual money.

01.04.11 Victor Chandler Poker changed software from iPoker to Entraction.
Two poker players created cartoon series "Micros" about online poker.
Mysterious Isildur1 signed up with Poker Stars, while UB lost Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

12.04.10 Full Tilt introduced Rush Poker Mobile! Unfortunately it's made in flash, so only some smartphone owners can use it.
PKR got eGaming Award as the "Poker Operator of the Year".

11.03.10 Pacific was renamed to 888 Poker, got new site and soft and offers free $8.
Poker Stars dealt 50bln. hand.
Party Poker introduced Double Holdem with 3 cards dealt preflop.
Ladbrokes (Microgaming) presented anonymous tables, where players get random names for the session.

09.02.10 WCOOP - the biggest online tournament ($50 mln. guaranteed) will start in 3 days, satellites available!
UltimateBet ultimately renamed into UB. And the whole CEREUS network was bought by Blanca Games, though no changes expected.

08.05.10 Party Poker and BWin (owns Ongame network) announced merger. Plans on poker-rooms are not opened yet.
A bill to legalize Internet gambling in the US was approved Wednesday by the House Financial Services Committee! We can expect online poker-rooms to become legal in the USA around 2011.

07.05.10 WSOP almost reached Main Event level. Phil Ivey won his 8th bracelet and Frank Casella won two events.
French players moved to separate poker-rooms, that must by licenced in France.

06.02.10 WSOP started! The most expensive ($50.000 buy-in) "The Poker Players Championship" was won by Michael Mizrachi. You can still win Main Event ticket at any online poker-room!
Full Tilt has Mini Series of Poker - the same tournaments as WSOP, but with 100 time smaller buy-in.

05.05.10 Poker Stars and iPoker followed Full Tilt and increased minimal buy-in on no-limit tables to 40 BB.
Exactly one year after it was founded, the International Federation of Poker (IFP) accomplished a major goal: poker was officially accepted as a "mind sport" by the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA). Poker will now join chess and bridge as part of IMSA’s World Mind Sports Games, expected to be held in the U.K. in 2012 alongside the London Olympics.

04.03.10 PartyGaming bought WPT (World Poker Tour) and opened WPT Poker.
WSOP satellites started at all poker-rooms.

03.03.10 PKR got International Gaming Awards as the best poker-room.
Domain poker.org was sold for $1 mln. which is a record for .org domains.
40-billion hand was dealt at Poker Stars. At special Sunday Million tournament with $4 mln. guaranteed took part more 36,169 players and prize pool was above $7 mln.!

02.03.10 iPoker and Microgaming networks changed rake from dealt to contributed. As a result iPoker lost third position by number of players to Party Poker.
Party Poker got eGaming Award as the best poker operator (though Stars and FullTilt didn't participate).
Many poker-rooms raised money for Haity. Poker Stars and its players collected more than a million and you can still participate.
Full Tilt introduced new format - RushPoker where you moved to the new starting game just as you folded which increase play speed 2-4 times.

12.05.09 The biggest bank in online poker was collected at Full Tilt. Patrick Antonius won $1,357 mln. against unknown Isildur1.
Ultimate Bet rebranded into UB.com.
The biggest poker-room Poker Stars introduced euro as the second currency. They aslo give away $500.000 in freerolls till 13 of December.

11.05.09 Final table of WSOP Main Event will start at 7th of November!
FTOPS XIV started yesterday. 25 tournaments have $16 mln. guaranteed prize fund.

10.05.09 Poker Stars set a new Guinness book record with 307 016 people playing simultaneously.
More than $50 mln. were rewarded at WCOOP with $1,7 mln. won at Main Event by Eugeny Timoshenko.
BoDog announced that it will create a poker network.

09.05.09 The biggest online tourney WCOOP ($40 mln. guaranteed) started at Poker Stars yesterday.
MiniFTOPS (low buy-in tournament series) will start in a week.
iPoker network introduced $1 mln. guaranteed monthly tournament.

08.09.09 The biggest online poker-room Poker Stars organized the biggest online tournament with 65.000 players. To celebrate coming WCOOP Poker Stars increased sin-up bonus to $600 and introduced 50% reload bonus.

07.07.09 Poker Stars and Party Poker updated and improved their reward programs. Pacific Poker introduced own loyalty program similar to abovementioned rooms.
56 WSOP tournaments are over, Main Event started and its final table will be held in November. 24000 players participated, more than $100 mln. won, US players took 34 bracelets and $73 mln. The biggest winner is Vitaliy Lunkin ($2,7 mln.), Jeffrey Lissandro took 3 bracelets (all in Stud games), Phil Ivey - 2.
Ongame switched to the new soft, loosing some traffic during transition.

06.04.09 WSOP-2009 started! You still can win ticket to Main Event through online satellites.
It's a middle of European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP IV), you can participate through any Ongame room, e.g. Titan Poker.

05.04.09 Almost all poker-rooms started WSOP satellites. You are welcome to participate if you are older than 21.
FTOPS XII (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) with $18 mln. guaranteed will start tomorrow.

04.04.09 Poker Stars has the big online championship ($30 mln. guaranteed, $3 mln. for the main event) starting 2nd of April.
Cryptologic Network closed, rooms moved to IPN/Boss Media.
PokerRoom and EuroPoker became part of BWin (big European sportsbook), which bought them and Ongame itself several years ago.
PHIL submitted his personal top.

03.04.09 Poker Stars set up a new record with 250.000 players playing at 35.000 tables simultaneously during 25th billion hand promotion.
PokerHost and Doyle Poker moved to Cake network, so they continue to accept US players.
Cryptologic network will join IPN/Boss Media in two weeks.

02.04.09 iPoker network started to add no-download flash soft to its poker-rooms.
Bluff Magazine and Card Player named the best players of 2008, they are "The Maven" (BoDog) and Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis (Poker Stars).

01.05.09 I wish you good luck for new 2009!
Poker Stars was named the best online poker-room by the Online Gaming Insider.
Poker Stars set several records before New Year - the biggest MTT (35000 players), the biggest SnG (10000 players).
Party Poker improved loyalty program, adding VIP lounge.

12.05.08 Main Event WSOP is over. Peter Eastgate (Denmark) won the bracelet and above $9 mln. Ivan Demidov (Russia) was the second with $5,8 mln. won.
Sun Poker will switch from Cryptologic to iPoker in December and the whole Cryptologic network will join Boss Media IPN network in 2009.
Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet joined under the same network named CEREUS. Both rooms were a center of scandal shown in "60 minutes" TV-program, but new platform should protect players.

11.03.08 WPT closed it's online poker-room. Cryptologic network will lose another licensee - as William Hill will switch to PlayTech in 2009. But rumors are that Cryptologic has some sort of negotiations with PartyGaming.
Kentucky court ruled that each of the 141 online gaming sites threatened by seizure have thirty days to institute and begin enforcement of the geoblocking process, which will block Kentucky residents from accessing the sites. Those who prove their cooperation will not be seized by the state.

10.01.08 Party Poker introduced new version of its software with improved design.
Everest Poker got "the best poker" eGaming Award 2008. PKR was named "hotshot operator", PartyGaming - "operator of the year" and PurePlay - "innovation of the year".
Three new poker-rooms were added.

09.03.08 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will start in a day at Poker Stars with 33 tournaments and $30 mln. in guaranteed prizes.
The biggest bad beat jackpot just above $1 mln. was won at Party Poker.
Playboy Poker (Cryptologic) will have the first televised strip poker tournament. 12 lucky players qualified online will fight Playboy girls in London ;).
Ladbrokes Poker is going to join Prima network.

08.08.08 WSOP Main Event took a break till 9th of November with 9 players left. They all got $900.000 guaranteed, but will fight for $9 mln.
FTOPS IX (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) started. It presents 24 tournaments and $15 mln. guaranteed in prizes.
Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet are going to form a network, joining on the new platform.
Party Poker is celebrating it's 7th birthday with new promos and big tournament.

02.07.08 Most of the WSOP tournaments are over and Main event will start tomorrow. Several well known pros earned another bracelet: Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Mike Matusow, etc.
InterPoker offers a new players in July and August iPod nano 8Gb in addition to $500 monthly bonus.

06.04.08 After "super-user" scandal at Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet had the same problem.
Poker Tracker 3 is live. This poker software has a lots of great new features like heads up display, graphs, table selection, etc.
WSOP started and we have the first bracelet owner. But the best poker player (winner of the Main Event) will be known at Autumn as final table was moved to October.

05.05.08 Gambling Online Magazine announced Full Tilt the best poker-room. The best tournaments are at Party Poker, and freerolls at Poker Stars.
WSOP is near... All poker-rooms offer online satellites to this major poker event. Please, choose one of the best poker rooms to play and win your trip to Vegas!
Looks like ePassporte has problems working with US players and poker sites.

04.02.08 Poker Stars as the biggest online poker-room is going to send at least 1000 players to WSOP 2008.
If you are the USA player and want to play 100% legal online room paying with your credit card, try DuplicatePoker. This poker-room offers interesting variant of poker game that is considered skill game and is allowed in the USA.

02.21.08 eGaming Review magazine announced winners of eGaming Award. "Poker Operator of the Year" is Everest Poker.
Several popular poker sites suffered a DDoS attack (Full Tilt halts operation for several hours). One of my sites was under attack too and "Online Poker Ratings" was unavailable for several hours because both sites were on the same server.

01.15.08 The best poker players of year 2007 were named. Poker player 2007 is David 'The Dragon' Pham, European poker player 2007 is Alex Kravchenko.
Poker Stars set two new records: more than 20.000 players the same time and more than 150.000 seats occupied.
One new poker-room was added.

11.03.07 Absolute Poker after hard pressure on forums confirmed that "trusted consultant" was able to see players' cards and shared this info with another player. Absolute promised to pay all players who suffer and tighten internal security.
Absolute announced that the biggest bad-beat jackpot above $820.000 was won.
Bet365 Poker changed soft from Prima to Ongame.
Doyles Room (Prima) started to accept US players again.

09.04.07 Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker allow internal transfers between the rooms.
CGM forum voting top was added.
Two new poker-rooms were added.

08.03.07 WSOP 2007 is over. 55 bracelets have their holders. Main event and $8,25 mln. won by Jerry Yang (USA) who promised to donate 10% to charity.

07.02.07 Full Contact Poker closed, all players, including Daniel Negreanu moved to PokerStars.
B2B network rooms started to offer the second poker-room with Boss Media soft under the same login.
Prime Poker (Ongame) offers interesting bonus - every month you get as much as you won in previous month!

06.04.07 Small flash game was added, where you can face the well-known poker pros ;).
Paradise Poker switched software to Boss Media and joined IPN network (no US).
Intertops Poker (Prima, US OK) offered the biggest poker bonus around - 500% up to $10.000!
10 bln. hand was dealt at PokerStars, lucky winner got $100.000.
Yahoo (search portal) introduced poker among its games (Boss Media no-download version).
Three new poker-rooms were added.

04.18.07 Tain and Tribeca networks merged with iPoker network (no US). Doyles Room switched to Prima (US OK).
PokerHost switched to Prima too, it offers the biggest bonus now - up to $2000.
"Card Player" magazine will announce Online Player of the Year.

02.21.07 Flash hand history replayer was added at "Soft for Poker" site.
Four Prima poker-rooms joined PokerTime room.
Three new poker-rooms were added.

01.10.07 Mehmet Karaman added his personal top.
PartyGaming bought Empire and IOG Group (includes Fair Poker - iPoker).
Poker Stars was announced the best online poker room of 2006 by "Bluff" magazine.
I've made "Soft for Poker" site where you can find my several Windows programs and preflop tests made in flash.

12.13.06 Many different information was updated: poker-rooms' reviews (first of all number of players), all voting and site tops.
Voting top of this site is added. You can cast your vote here (it wouldn't change voting top immediately).
I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year (and watch for holiday promotions too)!

11.15.06 Tribeca network merges Tain and is bought by PlayTech (so probably it will merge iPoker too). Both iPoker and Tribeca closed access to US players.
eGaming award 2006 announced Party Poker "Poker Operator of the Year".
Two new poker-rooms were added.

10.04.06 US Senate passed Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act a week ago. This Act does not make online gambling illegal!!! But it makes illegal accepting US bets for foreign poker rooms. All Cryptologic poker rooms closed US account yesterday. Party Poker and Pacific Poker are going to close US accounts too (all rooms will return money, of course). Other rooms will continue to accept US players and Neteller will continue to process gambling transactions for US players.
Gambling Online Magazine opened it's annual voting poll.
One new poker-room was added.

08.17.06 Party Poker opened special Monster tables with huge jackpot, plus $100k weekly and $1 mln. monthly freerolls.
WSOP is over, main event was won by Jamie Gold, who got $12 mln.
No-deposit offer from GoPlay Poker still active (see previous news).
One new poker-room was added.

07.26.06 One new poker-room was added.
I have several $10 no-deposit coupons for GoPlay Poker (B2B network). Just submit your top (5 poker-rooms with reviews!) and e-mail me.

06.16.06 AceofSpades added his personal top.
One new poker-room was added.

05.23.06 Poker Stars registered 5 million players and dealt 5 billion hands recently. 
Party Poker introduced special training tables, where you can play with bots and get advices.
ECOGRa (well known "watchdog" organization) granted "seal of approval" to several Prima and Ongame rooms.

04.13.06 Party Poker and PokerRoom introduced own casinos. 
Party Poker updated soft and added 13 daily freerolls. Pacific Poker introduced multitable version.
One new poker-room was added.

02.22.06 Jonny Li added his personal top.
Party Poker bought Empire Poker, the whole ex-Party Network belongs to Party Poker now (except for EuroBet that switched to Ongame).

01.11.06 Bartendr, loul07, TYFYCHIPS and PLWBY67 added their personal tops.

12.21.05 YDJJAY added personal top.
Gambling Online Magazine announced 2005 top winners, Party Poker became the best poker-room.
Empire Poker sues Party for about $300 mln.
Bet & Win is going to buy Ongame (PokerRoom) for about $500 mln.

11.30.05 EuroBet switched from Party/iGM to PokerNetwork/ Ongame, they offer $600 to all players now.
Three new poker-rooms were added.
Voting tops were updated.

11.11.05 Three new poker-rooms were added.
Paradise Poker prepares another $1 mln. freeroll.
Expekt changed Prima to Tain network. Eurobet is expected to switch from Party skins to PokerRoom network.

10.20.05 Party Poker updated software and spitted from other rooms of Party network. Now Party Poker is stand-alone and all other rooms are in one much smaller network.
Kristyn and Steve added their personal tops.

10.06.05 Gaylon Lodenstein added personal top.
One new poker-room was added.
Expekt poker will leave Prima network soon.

08.15.05 River Belle and Lucky Nugget Poker (Prima) merged with Gaming Club Poker.
There are rumors that Betfair Poker (Cryptologic) and Expekt (Prima) will acquire own software and leave their networks.
"Online Poker Ratings" forum is live!

07.28.05 WSOP 2005 is over! Josef Hakem (Australia), who qualified through online satellite, got the first prize in No-Limit tournament - $7,5mln.
Yura (it's me) submitted personal poker top.

07.06.05 Party Poker got $8,5 bln. through IPO now it's value above $10 bln.! Bet365 Poker (Prima) organized five $20.000 freerolls in July, no raked hands requirements. Paradise Poker will have $1 mln. freeroll in August.

06.15.05 Cryptologic rooms introduced low limits (0,25/0,5 and 0,5/1) in all three currencies and fast (Lightning) tables.
Party Poker is going to go public, they hope to get $9 bln. through IPO this year. Empire Poker is another IPO candidate, they want to collect about $1 bln.

03.26.05 PokerRoom offers 40% bonus up to $200 till 1st of April. Absolute Poker increased bonus to $350.
One more voting top was added (Flop Torn River).

02.08.05 Ultimate Bet increased bonus to 40% up to $200 and Gaming Club increased to $300.

12.29.04 OK, the site is 100% ready!!! Check poker tops, read reviews and submit your own tops!
Wish you good cards in Year 2005!

12.24.04 More reviews, tops and pages added.
Merry Christmas!

12.04.04 Gambling Online Magazine announced 2004 poll results (check Voting Tops).

11.21.04 Launch of the beta-version of the site