There was something about a major poker site which is getting ready to accept btc. If they lead the way, gambling could be huge for btc....
But who knows?
Seems you are talking about Seals of clubs updating their site and the software used. I doubt that has anything to do with the price increase.
Yup seals has nothing to do anything with the price increase. Not everyone in bitcoin is a poker player that they would purchase thousands of BTC due to that news.
But it might be due to another poker site pokerstars accepting bitcoin. But I doubt thats the reason either.