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This first attempt at capitalizing on the increasing use of mobile for gaming was a huge experiment towards trying to tap into the recreational player base that poker networks so covet. Unfortunately, the results are in and they aren’t pretty,

"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."

A botter by the name of themadbotter recently bragged about stealing $30,000 as a bought on the WPN. Now the company is striking back!

​Grinding the Spin & Go tournaments can be horrendous at times, driving any man or woman to the brink of madness. And one Russian poker pro who goes under the alias of ‘aKTepnOpHo’ knows it.

​It’s time to give props to three poker rooms that are making mobile poker a reality and a pleasure. It is no longer viable for poker sites to be “desktop only” as they must move with the times. As internet users we want to be free from our computers.

For this year, the WSOP made a few minor tweaks. Those tweaks were a game-changer setting, new heights, and rewriting U.S. regulated online poker history.

This week 4,820 players bought in directly or won a satellite to get a seat, creating a prize pool of $1.2 million after 1,210 re-bought after busting their initial stacks. This led to 900 players cashing. The initial first prize before the chop was a tasty $182,432.60.

Long story short, we put our heads together and have created a list of the Top 5 Underrated Poker Rooms we’ve found over the course of literally millions of hands.

In a move that appears to be designed to push players up to a higher level of play, PokerStars have started a trial removal of the lowest buy-in No Limit and PLO cash tables on their Belgian site, PokerStars.be.

When we play online we sometimes have that feeling the software is actually targeting us and forcing us to give up all of our bankroll.

Amaya understood the strength of feeling for the Full Tilt brand so have ensured it is respected and preserved. Players who expected Full Tilt to go extinct have had a number of pleasant surprises in this respect and here are just a few of them.

Shakerchi had to fight off some of the world’s top players in the $10K buy-in event, with the likes of Scott Seiver and John Juanda also making the final table of the SCOOP biggie, which saw 824 entries.

Doug Polk won a Spring Championship of Online Poker tournament last night, and he streamed the whole thing, live, on Twtich.tv.

Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen, Jeffrey "SjoW" Brusi and Dario "TLO" Wünsch, will stream their poker play on Twitch and wear the PokerStars logo at a number of high profile live tournaments including the EPT.