Nearly two dozen online poker players this week brought a whole new meaning to the term “cheating in online poker” while playing at Europe’s BetFair site.

The online poker website operated by BetFair.com is demanding that users pay back winnings that were a result of a software glitch.

As much as $200,000 was paid out to players of the site’s Texas Hold ‘Em game. A glitch in the system caused players with losing hands to receive cash prizes. When multiple players made an “all in” bet, they all received the award for coming in second place, regardless of how they actually scored.

The glitch made its way around online gambling communities and within hours, hundreds of thousands of dollars was doled out to people with losing hands. Betfair quickly fixed the problem, and then sent out e-mail notices to everyone involved.

The first two operational venues under a white label deal between Kamay Holdings and 888.com have launched under the brands of online poker website LuckyAcePoker.com and online casino website LuckyAceCasino.com.

Elsa Sterckx, a marketing official from the new sites was canvassing possible affiliates this week through the new program Lucky Ace Partners.

In a deal announced in December (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reports) the Limassol, Cyprus registered Kamay Holdings was accepted as a white label client by the Gibraltar-based online gambling group, joining other white label operations using 888.com technology such as Tower Torneos in South America, Rileys Poker in the UK and more recently a sports betting site with Rank’s subsidiary Blue Square.

New features of the new Full Tilt Poker software includes the ability to set a predetermined amount (number of big blinds, as in 10 times the big blind, or 20 times the big blind, etc.) for future buy-in’s. Once you’ve set up your preference through the Full Tilt Poker lobby (under preferences) the software will default to that preference for all future buy ins.

Full Tilt Poker Heads up Sit n Go Rematches. Following every heads up sit n go match each player will be asked if they’d like to rematch.

Automatic Rebuys in Full Tilt Poker ring games (cash games). Pokerstars “Fast” table players will be familiar with this option, when you a player bites the felt (or loses all their chips) in a regular ring poker game, they are automatically rebought back in. The money to cover the rebuy is taken from the players account.

Holding your mouse over a players avatar will now reveal the country that player is playing from in addition to the player notes stored for each player. This is not a preference or an option, can’t be turned off [...]

Online poker guide FlopTurnRiver.com has announced that it has added FullTiltPoker.com to its list of compatible poker rooms for its Hand History Converter.

FlopTurnRiver.com is a Texas Hold’em Strategy Guide and Online Poker Forum Community. FlopTurnRiver.com offers several other free online poker tools including the Hand History Database, the Tournament Trimmer, Tournament Archives, Poker Odds Calculator and Poker Videos.

The Hand History Converter accepts raw online poker room hand histories and then outputs an easy-to-read version with card graphics able to be cut and pasted into discussion forums across the Internet for analysis and discussion. FlopTurnRiver.com stated that the free output makes it easy to understand the action and events of a particular poker hand and attracts more participation for feedback [...]

Online poker leader PokerStars.com has announced the release of the Apple version of their online poker software.

The Apple beta version of PokerStars’ online poker software is expected to attract millions of Macintosh users.

Months of testing has been going on and the feedback has been positive from many Mac users. The testing was being done with play money.

The version will be similar to the current Windows users. The only difference will be the new Preferred Seat, feature and Layout Manager [...]

The World Poker Tour has announced the launch of multiplayer WPT Texas Hold ‘Em 2 in partnership with multi-media company, 3UK. The launch signifies the first time a free play, multiplayer WPT game will be accessible to European poker fans.
The second game in the hugely popular WPT Texas Hold‘Em series, which boasts 200,000 multiplayer hands [...]

Top poker pro Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu has signed on to represent Team PokerStars and in a separate agreement all player accounts on his online poker site, Full Contact Poker, will be transferred to PokerStars.
Although FCP will be shutting down its casino and poker operations, the site will continue to host Negreanu’s blog, the forum, [...]

Sportingbet has announced on Friday that it will close its Paradise Poker online poker platform, incurring a write-off cost of 55 million pounds (USD$107million or 82.43 million Euros), and transfer Paradise players to its existing Sportingbet poker platform which runs off Sweden’s Boss Media platform.
Sportingbet cited the reason to transfer Paradise players to the Boss [...]

Full Tilt Poker, online poker room endorsed by top professionals including Phil Ivey, Phil Gordon, Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Jennifer Harman, and others, has climbed the top of the list of PokerLessons.net as the best site to play poker. PokerLessons is one of the leading online poker tutorial websites with useful poker playing tips, strategies, and flash tutorials for Texas Holdem, Omaha, 7 Card stud, and 5 Card Stud poker games.

Internet poker software company Tribeca Tables has decided to withdraw its poker room from the USA, Israel, and Hong Kong.
The online poker solutions company has insisted that it will endeavour to assist it’s US facing clients in particular with the transition as much as possible.
The move comes after the recent introduction in the US of [...]