Due to the success that Full Tilt is currently having with their promotion called Gold Rush, they have now extended it to Feb. 1. PokerStars’ Italy site has started off 2015 looking to recapture some of the traffic it lost in 2014.

A Russian player turned a $5 buy in into the magical amount of one million in the space of only 13 minutes. New Jersey sites start pooling players. Mississippi takes another shot at an online poker bill.

2014 wasn’t a particularly banner year for online poker in the United States. Will 2015 be a better year? Well it certainly holds the promise for that.

PokerStars has now chosen to revoke their recent rake increases. Ladbrokes has joined the exodus out of Russia and will no longer be serving residents of this country.

Many people have a speciality game when they sign up to play online casino games. For example, there are people who specialise in playing poker and that’s the only game that they really want to play.

It hasn’t been a stellar year for New Jersey gaming, with their land based casinos taking a real hit and their online poker rooms continuing to fall well short of original expectations.

The worldwide online poker cash game player count dropped by 1% this week, which wasn’t unexpected due to the holidays having people busy with celebrating and having less time to play poker.

The U.S. regulated poker market saw a decline this week. Bodog captured the title of number one remaining US friendly site and has been gathering momentum ever since. Santa Ysabel Indians vow to fight for real money gaming.

Things were very stable this week - PokerStars has reaffirmed its place as the king of online poker. PokerStars boasts more cash-game players than the next 10 most popular poker sites combined.

The Santa Ysabel Indians of California have been proclaiming their desire to offer online poker in spite of whatever the wishes of state legislators may be. At the same time Russia has passed a bill that clearly makes playing online poker illegal in the country.