It was very interesting to read the news from Microgaming yesterday. Microgaming will form a Network Management Board that will be in charge of the development and operational running of the Microgaming Poker Network. The board will consist of representatives from operators, Microgaming’s Networks Game Team and a chairman from within the industry. My advice [...]
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I have some time to look around and play on different gaming sites during my vacation and today when I went to the poker section at sportingbet.com I noticed on their poker support page that they have a FAQ page for recent upgrades. The only problem is that the information on the page is over [...]
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eGaming Review writes today that the Ongame Network is likely to be sold as a result of the upcoming merger between PartyGaming and Bwin. It would be really interesting to find out why they choose one platform over the other. Is it because it is better when it comes to the technical part? Is [...]
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It is almost time to go to ICE for the second day. I spend a couple of hours at the show yesterday walking looking at all the different exhibitors, especially in the igaming section. And it is pretty similar to previous years. We have everything from Microgaming’s big brands to bwin’s new iPhone poker app. [...]
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I’ve had fun playing around with bwin’s real money poker iPhone App for a few days now. Overall it has been a good experience but there are a few things, I’m listing four that I believe needs to be improved in order to be a real killer app. 1. Give the player the option to [...]
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Today bwin released a real money poker app for the iPhone (currently only available in Great Britain and Austria). Read the press release I’ve just played around with it for about half an hour during my lunch break and my first impressions are mainly positive. I believe that this is great addition to the [...]
Read morePokerStars recently launched a new section on pokerstars.net, their play money site, (I am sure it will be available on the real money site soon as well. UPDATE: It is now avaliable on pokerstars.com as well) which allows players create their home games to play with friends. It is a great move by PokerStars and I [...]
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This week’s redesign is about ParadisePoker’s lobby. ParadisePoker is Sportingbet‘s poker brand and their client is built by Boss Media (my former employer). I play on it every now and then and I really enjoy the clean and nice tables, it helps me to focus on my game. But I find the poker lobby to [...]
Read moreFull Tilt Poker has released an Android app for Rush Poker. It is in beta version and just available to Black Card holders. I wish I had the possibility to try it out. Would be fun to see how well the app works. So if you at Full Tilt want some user experience reviews of [...]
Read moreSwitch Poker have developed a poker client using JavaScript and HTML which you can play on many browsers as well as on the iPhone and iPad. This is the first time you can play on your iPhone and iPad with real money. Image 1. Switch Poker’s lobby Will it be successful? I think it is [...]
Read more888.com is a big player in the igaming industry and when you visit 888.com you get the feeling that it is a gaming portal offering casino, poker, sportsbook and more. Earlier last week after playing casino at 888.com I wanted to try out their poker. But I was really surprised to find out that I [...]
Read moreI got an e-mail from bwin yesterday a few hours after I wrote my blog post about how important it is to pay attention to details. I haven’t been playing on bwin for a while so it was probably a re-activation email I got. In the e-mail bwin offered me a poker bonus which sounded [...]
Read moreI’ve written a number of blog posts regarding folded cards in poker, Show Folded Cards – Great feature implemented differently and Full Tilt improves their Folded Card feature. Last night when I played on Bet24.com I was surprised not being able to see the folded cards. I looked everywhere but I haven’t been able to see if [...]
Read moreImage 1. Zynga’s Facebook App Poker Blitz. Last week Zynga launched a new game on Facebook called Poker Blitz. It is a poker game that have many cool features, features I’m missing on poker sites today. They have a “Weekly Team Challenge” where you get “cash” depending on how you and your team mates play [...]
Read moreMarkus Lind at Inside iGaming wrote an interesting blog post, Fight for fifth, in which he discusses the poker networks and who will take the fifth place after PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, PartyPoker and the iPoker network. It is true that PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have an advantage accepting american players, but I believe they [...]
Read moreI read on Egaming Rewiew’s website that Ladbrokes launched a new version of its poker client from Microgaming. And I thought I would try it out since it’s been a while since I played on Ladbrokes. It sure surprised me when I launched the flash poker client and saw that my username from my Unibet account [...]
Read moreLast night I tried to sign up at 888.com to play casino. It wasn’t the easiest thing to do. The registration form is pretty straight forward but the thing that made me get stuck was the password field. In the images below you see what it looks like. Today Image 1. Password fields Image 2. Help [...]
Read moreToday most gaming portals offer bingo, casino, games, poker and a sportsbook. Is this the best way? Look at Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and PartyGaming who promote brands for one kind of game. For instance players go to PokerStars to play poker, but when you go to for instance bwin, Unibet, Ladbrokes and many more gaming portals [...]
Read morePlaying together with friends is always fun. But it isn’t easy to do at gaming portals today. So I am looking forward to when we’ll see online tournaments in bingo, casino and poker where you play as a team with your friends against other teams. The nice part with this is that you can make [...]
Read moreI wrote a blog post back in October, Show Folded Cards – Great feature implemented differently, where I looked at PokerStars and Full Tilt and how differently they had implemented their Show Folded Cards feature. Today when I played on Full Tilt I noticed that they had changed their implementation. Now it works like it [...]
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