A spectacular failure after only 14 months of operations New financial filings on April 3 show that the Epic Poker League’s parent company, Federated Sports and Gaming, financial situation is worse than was first indicated in its February 28 bankruptcy disclosures, which recorded 100 creditors and debts of $5 million. Card Player reports that the [...]

Pokerstars will guarantee $30 million in prize pools The draft schedule for the next Pokerstars  Spring Championship of Online Poker was released for player comments some weeks ago (see previous InfoPowa report) and has now been tweaked and firmed up by the poker company. Pokerstars is guaranteeing $30 million in prize pools for the popular [...]

Veronika Pavlikova is a name you’ll be increasingly reading about in the future Veronika Pavlikova, an 18-year-old internet poker player who has already made $225,000 and a name for herself as xbet_kiddi in online tourneys, has made an impressive entry into the major live tournament sector with her recent Euro 70,000 win at the France [...]

British Columbia and Manitoba to work together The Canadian province of Manitoba is to benefit from the internet gambling experience of British Columbia following a joint announcement that the two provincial lotteries are to collaborate on the introduction of online gambling facilities for Manitoba residents. Quebec and British Columbia have well-established online gambling operations regulated [...]

Chinese organisers among the 137 people arrested In one of the biggest busts yet seen in anti-online gambling initiatives in Malaysia, police report that a football betting ring exploiting top British matches has been broken up with the arrest Thursday of 137 people, mostly originating from China and Taiwan. Police spokesman Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab [...]