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This week saw the WSOP head honchos hosting a ‘town hall’ meeting on the popular WSOP Twitch.tv channel, where they outlined their plans for changes at this year’s event – and also fielded a Q&A session with viewers.

​The vote to allow certain forms of poker to be played in Nebraska has failed to reach the required 25 votes, with state lawmakers voting 16-14 against its introduction.

The online giant, Amaya, have just released a new game on its sports betting platform BetStars - called Spin & Bet – which as the name suggests is a variation on their immensely popular Spin&Go poker game.

Unibet's poker marketing manager gives insight on the whole Unibet poker project including the new platform, challenges they're facing, and the future of the project.

​Poker legend Phil Ivey has announced his latest adventure which will see him join forces with iTEAM network to launch his own Daily Fantasy Sports site – PhilIveyDFS.

An update on what occurred behind closed doors at a meeting with Amaya, recently.

PokerStars launches a full scale response to the bots infecting its play network.

Before the meeting, the players involved - Stern, Haxton and Negreanu - signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). According to Haxton, the agreements were signed because Amaya showed them data that ‘could influence trading.’

​PokerStars have targeted the social poker scene once again, this time releasing a new version of their hugely popular ‘Jackpot Poker’ designed especially for Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick devices.

Starting this week, Amaya have decided to dispense with the clever positioning of their iconic symbol, and merely have it sitting between the Poker and Stars.

Poker Is Going Through a Serious Transition Phase and No One Knows How it Will Come Out on the Other Side

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) raided 55 locations around the country in an operation using some 300 police officers

In a bid to keep pace with the burgeoning Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) industry, Massachusetts Lottery officials are looking into expanding their own offerings to include similar games.

Isaac 'Ike' Haxton leaves team PokerStars over their recent unethical business decision.