PokerStars have since released a real money version of the PokerStars Mobile App and plan to make it available to players from France, UK, Denmark and Spain in 2012.
Sign-up for a free PokerStars account and get 100% bonus up to a maximum of $600 when making your first deposit.
It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.
Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.
Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)
Read more for the top poker articles and major event winners of Poker 2011.
Updated 2014: added PokerStars Bulgaria
In the ever changing world of online poker with the challenges it presents in terms of licenses and each country’s unique laws and legislation regarding online poker, Pokerstars the current world leader in poker traffic have needed to adapt their approach to retain their coveted crown of busiest poker room online.
We suspect 2012 will continue to bring out new laws and legal requirements for poker rooms to adhere to.PokerStars have done remarkably well despite being closed to the USA which was for many years was their main source of revenue.
In order to accommodate the changes and comply with local legislation, PokerStars have obtained licenses in those regions permitting them to do so and have opened several foreign domains to cater for the demand. In doing so, PokerStars now offer several new bonus codes which are region specific.
On the downside it can be a bit tricky for players not knowing where they can or are meant to play at this article will cover the basic information about PokerStars worldwide and the bonus codes they offer per region and respective domain suffix.
The up side of covering so many regions is that PokerStars now supports many languages by default and by doing so is making online poker truly global.
The new name Bovada is a combination of the words Bodog with Nevada, other changes include anonymous poker tables to prevent the sharks from abusing the recreational poker players. Poker tracking software and data-mining websites have also been blocked.
Existing BodogPoker US players will then be able to login to the new website using their username and password to access their player accounts and bankrolls.
New US players can sign-up for a free Bovada account here, get a $1000 poker bonus at Bovada.
Full Tilt Poker still need to agree and sign the deal to start the process of the sale of the company, while there may still be further negotiations, representatives from both parties seem optimistic about the recent developments. Hopefully we’ll see Full Tilt Poker open it’s doors to players and restore their negative reputation and regain players trust.
