Archive for January, 2012

PokerStars CEO Resigns after 16 Months

Monday, January 30th, 2012

If you are an online poker player, some of your poker site options are Lock Poker, Titan Poker, Party Poker, and a William Hill Poker download. The site with the biggest amount of traffic, however, is currently PokerStars.

They may have the biggest site, but PokerStars hasn’t had the easiest time the last year or so. They dealt with Black Friday last April, and they have also lost some key members of their team since then. For example, John Duthie was a Team PokerStars member and also the creator of the EPT. However in December of last year, he chose against renewing his contract with the site. Is there a chance that he will download Roulette and try to get into the casino industry?

Thomas Kremser is another member of the team that left last year. Kremser acted as an EPT tournament director for PokerStars from 2004, but he decided to leave his job just a month after Black Friday. The online poker industry was very surprised that Kremser did this.

The most recent source of shock for the online poker industry came from the news that Gabi Campos, the PokerStars CEO, has decided to resign. Campos originally…

Randy Lew Sets Guinness World Record

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Randy Lew, better known as “nanonoko” online, has been very famous in the online poker community for a long time now. He has been one of the biggest winners in online cash games for a while, and he has achieved Supernova Elite every year since 2007. Supernova Elite has allowed him to gain a huge amount of PokerStars rakeback every year.

These accomplishments gained him a spot on Team PokerStars Online a couple years ago. Since then, he has expanded his game to brick-and-mortar tournaments. He recently took down his first major event in Macau for almost $500,000. And now, amazingly, he has added his name to the Guinness World Records.

Lew planned to try to break some record during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and he had been asking his Twitter followers for suggestions. I wanted to suggest trying to break a Bingo codes record, but I thought he probably wanted a poker related goal. Sure enough, he decided to try to play the most hands ever in an eight hour span while still earning profit.

He got to work on January eighth. He started with around forty tables of $50NL and tried to keep that…

January Promotions at Party Poker

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Despite pulling out of the US market a number of years ago, Party Poker has remained near the top as one of the best online poker rooms around. They’ve done this by maintaining excellent software as well as using solid promotions to attract new players. They have a couple new promos in January and February designed to start 2012 on the right foot.

If you are a fan of multi-table tournaments, you’ll love this: in January, all MTTs on the Party Poker download will have no rake! This means that the entire buy-in of each tourney will go straight to the prize pool. This started at the beginning of the month and will run all the way until 11:59 pm on January 31st. The last time Party Poker ran a promo like this was back in August of last year.

In addition to the zero MTT rake promo, there will also be a 100% deposit bonus so that you can pad your bankroll. If you are looking to play a freeroll, there will be a $50k depositors freeroll on February 5th at 11 AM ET.

Tournament players in February will have the chance to use the money they…