Beginning next Tuesday, the brainchild of one of the most powerful men in the poker industry will actually come to fruition. On Tuesday evening, the Global Poker League will begin its inaugural season with its first live matches streamed to fans and later broadcast across the Poker Central channel. The creator of the GPL, Alexandre… Read more »
After last week’s blockbuster announcement that their Chief Executive Officer and five other men would be charged with insider trading, Amaya Gaming now has to deal with the fact that one of the top stock watchers in the industry has downgraded the outlook on their stock. Once it was announced that David Baazov, the now-former… Read more »
Less than a week after being slapped with insider trading charges, Amaya CEO David Baazov is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the company, so says a statement from Amaya Tuesday morning. While the reason Amaya leads with for Baazov’s break is “to focus on preparing an offer to acquire Amaya,” it follows with… Read more »
You had to know this was coming at some point. PokerStars is but only one week old in New Jersey and already it has unveiled a new Spin & Go promotion. Starting yesterday, March 28th (Happy Birthday to me!), PokerStars New Jersey is launching a $100,000 Spin & Go Special Edition promo, giving Garden State… Read more »
On Friday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed her final regulations for the daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry in her state, making it the third state to implement DFS regulations. All three have happened very recently, with both of the others – Virginia and Indiana – passing their regulations this month. Healey initially proposed DFS… Read more »
It’s one of the dirty little secrets that the casual poker fan knows little to nothing about but that veterans of the tournament poker world are well versed in. Staking, in which a person provides a portion of another player’s tournament buy-in (or, in some cases, a cash game stake) for a percentage return should… Read more »
Once they were intricately linked as the only two “legal” areas to gamble in the United States. Since 1976, when the state of New Jersey joined Nevada as the only places which offered casino gaming in the U. S., the two have enjoyed a friendly rivalry as the years have gone by. Forty years later,… Read more »
For the first time in their history, the World Poker Tour won’t be concluding the season by crowning their version of a World Champion. With two events left on the schedule – oddly enough, both at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, with the traditional Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($3500… Read more »
You know what? Before I go to sleep tonight, I feel like writing another article about PokerStars. Let’s keep it lighter this time, though, ok? This week, the world’s largest online poker room introduced a both a new promotion and a new tournament series: CardHunt and the Mountain Series, respectively. Let’s start by talking about… Read more »
David Baazov, the president, CEO, and board chairman of Amaya Inc., the parent company of PokerStars, has charged by Quebec’s Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) with five securities fraud charges related to Amaya’s acquisition of PokerStars parent company, Rational Group, in June 2014. The AMF began its investigation in late 2014, an investigation which… Read more »
On Monday, DraftKings, FanDuel, and the New York State Office of the Attorney General announced that they have reached a settlement in the legal battle over daily fantasy sports (DFS) in the Empire State. In exchange for the two DFS leaders withdrawing from the New York market until at least September, NY AG Eric Scheiderman… Read more »
On Monday, PokerStars announced “revised pricing,” code for “rake increase” that is to go into effect next Monday, March 28th. In a post to the PokerStars corporate blog, Eric Hollreiser, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Amaya Inc. and PokerStars, explained that the changes come “Following a review of the current business environment and the… Read more »
After a four-day period where the software was tested and approved by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, PokerStars once again is alive and well on U. S. soil – or at least New Jersey soil as a part of their online gaming and poker industry. Partnering with Resorts Casino Hotel, PokerStars prepped for… Read more »
In what proved to be a highly entertaining final table, Romania’s Vlad Darie defeated start-of-day chip lead Zoltan Gal to take down the World Poker Tour Vienna title on Sunday afternoon (U. S. time). When the six men gathered at the Montesino Wien in Vienna on Sunday, they were the survivors from the 215 unique… Read more »
Never let it be said that there is a calm moment in the poker world. Over the past couple of days, discussion has emerged among those in the poker community on two issues, one that is fairly blatant (and has been around for some time) and one that is still veiled in mystery. Whether either… Read more »
Picking off the second leg of poker’s Triple Crown, Harrison Gimbel overcame an epic battle against Mohsin Charania – himself looking for his third World Poker Tour title – to emerge victorious at the WPT Rolling Thunder on Wednesday night. The final table of the WPT Rolling Thunder was one of the strong tables in… Read more »
More than two months before it is set to take to the felt, the 24/7 streaming network Poker Central and the Aria Resort & Casino’s Super High Roller Bowl tournament – which proved to be such a success in 2015 that it was expanded for this year – has sold out of seats for the… Read more »
The 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event reached its final table last night; just six players remain from the original field of 409. Russell Garrett goes into the final table as the chip leader with 3.686 million chips, followed closely by Harrison Gimbel, who has 3.315 million. The leader going into both… Read more »
Today is a historic day in the United States as it is the first day in which PokerStars is up and running as a legal, regulated online poker room. Wednesday marks the start of the “soft launch” for PokerStars in New Jersey, when the poker site will host live internet poker games on a limited… Read more »
Do you hear it? That sucking sound is Sheldon Adelson’s hopes for a United States devoid of online poker dying an embarrassing death. The hole where his RAWA-occupied heart should be will now have to be filled with Andy Abboud’s cell phone prop. Late last week, Gambling Compliance reported that Adelson is shifting his focus… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is moving right along – Day 2 of the tournament was completed Monday night and there are just two days left to go. Once again, Ankush Mandavia has the chip lead and is set up to threaten the final table once again, just days after finishing… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is in the books at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort, as another 175 players bellied up to the tables to try to make a run to become a member of the WPT Champion’s Club. Ankush Mandavia, who just finished 23rd at the WPT… Read more »
There are thousands of you out there in the interwebaverse who get tucked into bed every night, cozy and content in the knowledge the Full Tilt funds you once had frozen after Black Friday are now safe and sound in your bank account (until an international hacking syndicate takes down the U.S. banking system, resulting… Read more »
There was certainly no rest for the staff of the World Poker Tour nor the players on the circuit as, immediately following the conclusion of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, the trucks, cars and helicopters headed to Sacramento for the final stop of the WPT’s California Swing. Day 1A of the… Read more »
Around Halloween last year, a Cleveland area man who worked as a dealer for the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland was charged with cheating when he was allegedly found with one of the cards he was using up the sleeve of his uniform. Apparently there was nothing to see here as county prosecutors in the case have… Read more »
