Poker News

LockPoker have officially left the merge gaming network today, and taken over the Cake Poker Network re-branding it to the Revolution Gaming Network.

Lock Poker is one of the most popular USA poker sites since Black Friday and claim to have 40% of merge gaming network’s traffic. With their departure from the merge network, it will be interesting to see how the traffic is affected over the next few weeks.

Revolution Gaming was formed by essentially splitting the biggest us poker network into two different networks, offering players faster cash outs and services. In retaliation merge network have reinstated rakeback offering players up to 35% on poker sites Carbon Poker and Aced.

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PKR have created a free WSOP Fantasy Poker League facebook app which players can use to create their own fantasy poker team for the 2012 World Series of Poker.

Players can win prizes which include an iPad 3 and poker chipsets, just for selecting their favourite players for the 2012 WSOP. Earn points every time your fantasy poker players cash in any WSOP event.

PKR Bonus – 100% up to up to $800, plus 30% rakeback, play 3d poker at PKR.

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ESPN have added the 2012 WSOP TV schedule for their broadcast of this years main event. Norman Chad and Lon McEachern will once again form the coverage commentary team along with Kara Scott covering the action from the floor.

ESPN will begin their televised coverage of the WSOP 2012 main event starting on the 14th August with the 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event on ESPN at 9 p.m. and ending with ESPN 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event Final Table on 30th October 2012.

The final table feed broadcast will be delayed by 15 minutes to ensure fairness to the finalists.

This year ESPN have added The Big One for One Drop series and the WSOP Circuit National Championship to the broadcast lineup in the three weeks prior to the main event, both series will be shown on ESPN and ESPN3.

Those looking to watch live streaming tables from the 2012 WSOP will be pleased to know that WSOP.com will stream 60 World Series of Poker Final Tables Online with a five minute delay without hole cards for more information about 2012 WSOP Live web stream.

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Lock Poker will be leaving the Merge Gaming Network at the end of May to start their own new poker network called Revolution Gaming. Lock Poker was one of the larger poker sites on Merge Gaming Network, which is also home to Carbon Poker and AcedPoker.

The USA poker site, Lock Poker decided to take action when Merge Gaming canceled their LockOps tournament series in April.

Lock Poker will be acquiring assets from the Cake Poker Network, to start out their new Revolution Gaming Network, which may turn out to be the best online poker site for US players. Even when Lock Poker were on Merge Gaming Network they ran their own independent cashier which offered players faster cashouts than most USA poker rooms including Merge Gaming sites.

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In what seems to be a silly joke and somewhat of a rumor, PokerStars have bought FullTilt Poker after reaching an agreement with the DOJ following Laurent Tapie’s failed bid at taking over FullTilt Poker.

While it certainly seems that PokerStars have bought Full Tilt Poker it is not yet 100% confirmed as of writing, in the alleged legal agreement reached between PokerStars and the purchase of Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars have agreed to a $750M fee which includes the settlement with the DOJ and player balances worldwide.

The GBT deal is very definitely a no go as can be seen on iGamingFrance and EGR where they have confirmed that without a doubt the FullTilt buyout deal is off.
PokerStars may have just done the right thing by buying FullTilt Poker if indeed the news turns out to be true which I’m guessing it is. It is also being reported that PokerStars will continue to run Full Tilt Poker as a stand-alone brand.
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