After not considering the legislation in their previous congressional cycle, the Iowa General Assembly could once again take a look at passing legislation that would make the Hawkeye State another player in the online poker industry. According to reports from O. Kay Henderson of RadioIowa, an Iowa Senate subcommittee has passed the same identical bill… Read more »
As the rest of the players are packing their bags to head to Northern California for the weekend, the final six men are set to play out the final table of the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic beginning this afternoon. Coming back to the felt on Thursday were 18 men who had the… Read more »
PokerStars announced changes to its software and additions to its game offerings this week, slated to become active within the next few days. PokerStars representative Stefan detailed what would be seen in the update on the Two Plus Two poker forum yesterday. The most noticeable changes will be made to the ring game lobby. Currently,… Read more »
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have been rivals for a long time and despite the fact that they are now owned by the same company, they continue to battle it out for online poker supremacy (we don’t think PokerStars will lose that battle any time soon). Now it looks like it might be time for… Read more »
Day 4 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic is in the books and just 18 players remain of the 63 who started the day. Londoner Toby Lewis has the lead with 1.816 million chips, followed by Paul Klann with 1.581 million. The leader going into the day, Jeremy Ausmus, was stagnant,… Read more »
New Jersey became the third state in the U.S. to legalize online gambling Tuesday, seeing a revised bill fly through votes in both houses of the legislature before being signed by Governor Chris Christie. While the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement technically has the power to decide whether or not poker will be one of… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker announced Friday that is making every tournament on its schedule a guaranteed prize pool tournament, a first for the online poker industry. The new schedule began yesterday, allowing players to enter tournaments with the confidence that a minimum prize pool will always be reached. In a press release, Full Tilt Poker boasted… Read more »
They’re getting down to the nitty-gritty at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic, as the field narrowed from 162 to just 63 players Monday. While the pressure will ratchet up a notch for many on Tuesday as the final table is visible on the horizon, others may now feel relaxed, as everyone… Read more »
The schedule for the 2013 World Series of Poker was announced last week and with it came the usual commentary from the poker community about what has changed and what has stayed the same. One of the most interesting moves made by WSOP officials was the decision to jack the buy-in for the Ladies Event… Read more »
As honest-to-goodness, legal online gaming in Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey continues to inch closer to a reality, some legislators are continuing to try to get internet poker legalized in California. The latest is State Senator Lou Correa, who introduced Senate Bill 678 on Friday. SB 678, formally named the Authorization and Regulation of Internet… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic got going this weekend in bittersweet fashion. While it is always a good time, the opening of the Main Event had a somber tone, as players remembered former Los Angeles Lakers owner and avid poker player, Jerry Buss, who passed away last week after a lengthy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour wrapped up its stop at the Casino Baden in Austria Sunday evening (afternoon in the United States) with Vladimir Bozinovic maintaining his lead throughout the final table on the way to taking down the championship. Bozinovic came to the final table with slightly more than 400,000 chips than two-time WPT champion… Read more »
The final table for the World Poker Tour stop in Baden, Austria, is set, with the potential for another chapter in the eleven year history of the tour to be written. Twenty men came back to the felt at the Casino Baden on Saturday to work their way down to the six handed final table… Read more »
As they wrap up their tournament in Baden, Austria and prepare for the start of their next event, the L. A. Poker Classic, today at the Commerce Casino in California, the World Poker Tour has announced seven more stops on their calendar leading up to the WPT Championship in May. Of those seven events, two… Read more »
The battle for the latest World Poker Tour championship kicked into overdrive on Friday as the money bubble burst today at the stop in Baden, Austria. Only 44 players were remaining at the start of action on Friday, but there would be many long faces in that crowd although they had made it to Day… Read more »
Dr. Jerry Buss, the recently deceased owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, not only had a passion for the sport of basketball but also a passion for the game of poker, Seven Card Stud in particular. With this in mind, the World Series of Poker could potentially honor Dr. Buss by naming a tournament after… Read more »
Potentially seeing that citizens of their own state weren’t going to be enough to persuade investment in the industry (and other potential issues), the Nevada Legislature and Governor Brian Sandoval rushed a measure through the Nevada General Assembly today that will allow licensees of the state’s online poker operation to enter into compacts with other… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is in the middle of the second leg of its European Texas (Hold’em) Two-Step, finishing up Day Two at the Casino Baden in Austria earlier this afternoon (U. S. time). 131 players returned to the felt, joined together for the first time after two separate Day Ones started the tournament on… Read more »
In a way, it almost marks the end of what has been a sordid tale that will go down in the annals of poker’s history, for good or for ill. On Tuesday, former World Series of Poker Championship Event winner and Full Tilt Poker board member Chris Ferguson and the attorneys for the U. S.… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Baden Main Event watched 150 more players (well, actually 126, since 24 of them re-entered after busting out Tuesday) pull their chairs up to the poker tables at Casino Baden. 77 of them will have chairs to which to return for Thursdays Day 2 as the trek… Read more »
There are certain situations where it can be more than beneficial to take obvious plays and turn them into your favor. Have you ever called down a bet that was so clearly a bluff only for your opponent to showdown the nuts? This may very well have been an example of a time where someone… Read more »
After three events in the United States, the World Poker Tour is back in Europe this week as WPT Baden kicked off Tuesday with the first of two starting flights. It was a fairly small Day 1A as just 104 players paid the €3,300 to participate. Just over half of them – 54 – made… Read more »
PokerRoom.com is closing down again, this time presumably for good. The one-time internet poker trailblazer announced the decision on its website, giving players little to no notice that it was going to join the likes of Planet Poker as former industry leaders who could not survive in a post-UIGEA world. The message facing visitors to… Read more »
As internet poker licensees scramble to try to become the first to open for business and offer intrastate online poker in the state of Nevada, there still may be changes to the law that could affect how wide of a net the operators can cast. We already told you about Assembly Bill 5, which aims… Read more »
Has it been that long already? It has been seven years since the world’s largest internet poker room, PokerStars, introduced its now-famous Sunday Million tournament. To celebrate, Stars is hosting a special Sunday Million 7th Anniversary tourney and for this party, it’s the host that is giving the gifts. The Sunday Million 7th Anniversary tournament… Read more »
