The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. With everything that is currently going on in the poker community – the two “chipgate” events, the ongoing battle regarding online gaming and poker, the fall of Bitcoin and its effects on internet gaming, the fans… Read more »
The Illinois General Assembly held a hearing on Wednesday regarding expansion of their gaming laws to include online poker, drawing out a heavy hitter from the Poker Players Alliance as well as a major opponent of such a move. The Illinois Senate Executive Committee welcomed the PPA’s Executive Director, John Pappas, to their hearing, which… Read more »
According to a published report from Gambling Compliance, the senior Senator from the state of South Carolina, powerful Republican Lindsey Graham, will be introducing legislation that looks to put a federal ban on internet gaming and poker. The report from Gambling Compliance, passed along to the Poker Players Alliance membership through Vice President of Player… Read more »
Justice has come swiftly in the case of a poker player who allegedly pilfered a tournament chip from his event at the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Florida last week, with said justice being forceful, heavy and a warning to any player who might think about doing it themselves. Last week Chan Pelton,… Read more »
On Friday, the final day bills could be filed with the California Office of Legislative Counsel, two online poker bills were introduced into the California legislature. Both were written with the goal of seeing intrastate online poker legalized and regulated this year. The first (for no other reason other than the fact I chose it… Read more »
A family that was barred from an Atlantic City resort and subsequently taken down and cuffed by security back in 2012 are now suing the property’s ownership. Michael Maggiano, Esq. filed a lawsuit against Caesars Entertainment Corporation in Lee County (FL) court on February 10, 2014 on behalf of Florida resident Renee Binns alleging security… Read more »
In a ground-breaking agreement, Nevada and Delaware, the first two states to legalize and regulate intrastate online gambling, joined forces Tuesday to allow players from either state to play on internet poker rooms based in the other. Interstate gambling compacts are nothing new; many states around the country have combined to grow jackpots in lotteries… Read more »
Matthew Lapossie was mired deep in the middle of the pack to start the final table of the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event on Monday, but he quickly leapt into contention thanks to a spectacular hand and from there, Lapossie went on to win it all. For his efforts, he won CAD $363,197 (USD… Read more »
It’s so close. Christmas in February nears. Well, if you consider receiving money that a former friend has owed you for three years a Christmas gift, then it’s certainly Christmas. On Monday, the Garden City Group (GCG), which is serving as the Claims Administrator for the frozen U.S. Full Tilt Poker funds, announced that payments… Read more »
If you were looking for a quick World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you are in luck. The 2014 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event started on Saturday and is already down to its final ten players. Jason James is the chip leader going into Monday’s Day 3 with 2,606,000 chips, a significant advantage over his… Read more »
As they prepare to hit the home stretch of their Season XII schedule, the World Poker Tour has settled in Niagara Falls, Canada, for today’s start to the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic at the Fallsview Casino Resort. The 2014 Fallsview Poker Classic could perhaps be called a “throwback” to the way poker tournaments were previously… Read more »
After more than a month without a decision on the event, a class action lawsuit has been filed by poker players from Event #1 of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open against the casino alleging fraud, negligence and improper supervision of the tournament. According to Jennifer Bogdan of the Press of Atlantic City, Egg Harbor,… Read more »
In an interview with Laura Myers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the junior Senator of the state of Nevada, Republican Dean Heller, states that he expects a bill that will outlaw online gaming – except for poker – to make an appearance in the Senate next month. Furthermore, Heller says that his fellow Senator from… Read more »
As several top international tournaments – and major High Roller events – have been concluded over the first six weeks of 2014, Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald has emerged as the early leader in the top Player of the Year races in poker. The early part of 2014 has seen major tournaments such as the PokerStars Caribbean… Read more »
A year and a half ago, the South Point casino was the talk of the poker world when it was granted the first online poker license in the United States. It was exciting; South Point was developing its own software and planned to be the first to market. Now, quietly, South Point Poker is finally… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, has become the first poker operator to receive a license from Bulgaria’s State Commission on Gambling. The Commission posted an updated list of approved operators on its website yesterday. In a press release published on the website of the Rational Group, PokerStars’ parent company, PokerStars officials said, “The… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu would likely be the first to admit that nobody is going to look at him and mistake him for an Olympian. That does not mean, though, that he has given up on the Olympic dream. On the message forum of his website, FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu presented his idea for how to make poker an… Read more »
The gains online poker made a couple weeks ago, however slight, were short-lived, according to the latest Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update from PokerScout.com. During the first full week of February, cash game traffic at online poker rooms increased one percent, breaking three-week losing streak. But last week, the downward trend resumed, as traffic dropped… Read more »
While people around the world expressed their love for one another on Valentine’s Day, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal sent a hate letter to online poker players in the United States. The Republican governor penned a guest column for the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report last week, coming out strongly against internet gambling and vowing to… Read more »
After two days of play in what was a disappointing turnout for the World Poker Tour Alpha8 series, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates emerged as the champion over local favorite Kinesh Pather at the Emperors Palace Hotel Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa, this afternoon. The WPT Alpha8 tournaments have had decent fields leading up to the Alpha8… Read more »
After using the lure of a windfall from online gaming revenue taxation to gain its passage, the state of New Jersey is quickly realizing that there won’t be bounteous amounts of money flowing into the state’s coffers, at least for its first year. Noted New Jersey gaming writer John Brennan of NorthJersey.com took a look… Read more »
In the battle regarding online poker and casino gaming, the targets of legislation have traditionally been the companies and organizations that provide the outlet. The UIGEA of 2006 targeted the banks and the Wire Act of 1961 targeted the operators (the state of Washington was one of the few exceptions in making playing online poker… Read more »
New details in the case against Christian Lusardi, the alleged mastermind behind the introduction of counterfeit chips at the first tournament of the recent Borgata Winter Poker Open, have emerged that show he was on the radar of federal authorities for much more serious crimes. According to Jennifer Bogdan of the Press of Atlantic City,… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker schedule was released Tuesday, a seven-week odyssey featuring 65 events culminating, of course, with the $10,000 Main Event. Speaking of which, the WSOP has decided that to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the poker festival being held at the Rio, it will guarantee $10 million to the winner of… Read more »
In this week’s Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update, PokerScout.com reported that online poker traffic (cash games only) increased a scant one percent last week, though that did snap a three-week losing streak, so that’s something. Overall, though, traffic is down sharply from the same time last year: 13 percent. Since the launch of its online… Read more »
