The Microgaming Poker Network has its new Survivor tournaments started, what his players a pretty exciting new way there, tournaments to play. Survivor tournaments have a fixed length, and players do not just fly out when they lost all their chips, but they are also eliminated if they are at the end of predetermined time periods have the smallest stack. The poker software will inform players how many players at the end of a time module are eliminated, how many chips they have in order to stay in it and how much time is left until the end of the module remains. The client software will also display icons are either “safe”, “Warning” or “Danger” state, depending on how tight a player is off to fly out. The Microgaming Poker Network, which spaces like Gnuf Poker, Unibet Poker, Ladbrokes Poker and umfastt, is the ninth-most popular network for cash game traffic, loud PokerScout.com.
* In an interview with eGaming Review, Peter Marcus, CEO of William Hill Online the rakeback system in the online poker industry criticized. He said that the operators are constantly increasing Rakeback Offers must get under control because it has a kind of business would represent cannibalism. For example, if a poker room on a network decides to rakeback offer, then he not only attracts players from rooms on other networks, but also steals players from the premises on his own network, because these players get not only the incentives it anyway already received, but also Rakeback. Marcus believes that offering rakeback is pure laziness and that it is in the long term can not be that the poker rooms that are so undercut. He believes rather that “… Brand marketing, good customer service and reward customer loyalty” the way into the future. You can read more about this in the eGaming Review August issue to read.
* Poker Stars has two new players to the Team PokerStars Pro added. One of the so-called “old school”, and one from the “new school.” The senior player is the man and the inverted Sunglasses Poker Table serenades, the “Flying Dutchman” Marcel Luske. Luske was both in 2001 and 2003 as the European player of the year, although he never had a WSOP bracelet or a WPT title won. But for this he has about $ 3 million in tournament earnings eingesackt. Jason Mercier on the other side is quite large very quickly escaped. The 22-year-old from Florida is just old enough to even legally in casinos in the United States to be able to play, but it already depends only half a million dollars in live tournament earnings behind Luske. 2008 he came to the final table at EPT Barcelona, and then came the hammer, a victory in the High Roller event of the European Poker Championships. This summer he won his first WSOP Bracelet in $ 1500 Pot-Limit Omaha Event.
