Casino News Archive

ONCHAN, ISLE OF MAN – March 28, 2013 – PokerStars today announced the release of a major new television advertising campaign featuring tennis superstar Rafa Nadal. The television advertisements will air globally in coming weeks, and revolve around Rafa Nadal competing online at PokerStars against a fictional character representing one of their 50 million players.

The campaign captures the essence of poker as a mind sport – a battle of wits that anyone can enter, and where your opponent might be Rafa Nadal, or any of the other sporting superstars that regularly play on PokerStars.

ONCHAN, ISLE OF MAN – May 28, 2013 – The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker 2013 has become the richest online poker series ever, after awarding a total of $75,585,435.05 in prize money to players. It surpassed the previous record of $65,332,179, set during SCOOP 2012, by more than $10 million. This year?s SCOOP is also the largest poker festival – online or offline – ever held, with a total of 132 low, medium and high stakes tournaments.

Playtech, the leading international online gaming software and services provider, is pleased to announce that it has successfully integrated and migrated the online poker activity of Unibet to Playtech’s leading network in France - iPoker.fr.

Unibet is one of the largest PAN European operators and a long term licensee of Playtech. This launch marks an extension of the existing relationship with Playtech beyond its current games offering and further strengthens the relationship between the two groups.

ISLE OF MAN – The MPN (www.thempn.eu), formerly known as the Microgaming Poker Network, is pleased to announce the launch of Heads Up 8 Man Blaze on the MPN.