While PokerStars’ ring-fenced New Jersey player base amounts to just a fraction of its total traffic, that hasn’t stopped it from rolling out features in the Garden State normally reserved for its main global network. This week, the company brought the New Jersey site even more into the fold, announcing the launch of Zoom games […]

Over the past three months, change after change has rocked the landscape at PokerStars. From reducing rewards for high-stakes players to restricting certain poker software, PokerStars has made a litany of moves in order to improve the poker ecosystem. On February 12, another major change will occur.

There could be a virtual monopoly in the fast-fold market for PokerStars‘ parent company, Rational Group, according to a report on Monday from Pokerfuse. The article read in part, “Late last month, the [United States Patent and Trademark Office] decided to issue a patent to PokerStars’ parent company, Rational Group, for fast-fold poker. On May […]

In early 2010, Full Tilt Pokerlaunched a new variant called Rush Poker, introducing players to the wild world of fast-fold poker. Since then, many sites have started their own versions of fast-fold poker games, all more or less the same as Rush. What looked to some people as initially just a gimmick has proven to […]