Look at any tournament schedule nowadays and you will see a predominance of Texas Hold’em tournaments on the roster. But what is arguably the true test of a poker player is their skills in non-Hold’em games – Stud, Razz, even Omaha. Over the past couple of days, two of the veterans of the game with… Read more »
The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship couldn’t get to the six players left that seems to be the trend of this year’s tournament, but they got close. They will come back today with six players left and determine the champion, with Italy’s Dario Sammartino holding a dominant lead… Read more »
One of the things that is fun about watching poker, reading about poker, or writing about poker is that it is one of the few sports (or games, if that’s how you think of it) in which it is really easy to live vicariously through the competitors. So many of them – even the ones… Read more »
There was another minor hand controversy at the 2019 World Series of Poker this week. I call it “minor,” but I still love it. When I heard about it, especially since it involved a notable poker player, I thought to myself, in my best Montgomery Burns voice, “Excellent.” Mainly because of the result, what happened… Read more »
Almost no details have been made public yet, but reports out of Atlantic City are that a man fell to his death from an upper floor at the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa early Tuesday evening. Right now, the death appears to be a suicide. Last night the Atlantic City Police Department put out the… Read more »
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The second of nine online bracelet events at this year’s World Series of Poker was contested this weekend, with Josh “loofa” Pollock winning $139,740 and his second career bracelet. For a while, it seemed like that might be it for all of the online hopefuls in New Jersey, as the Department of Justice’s reinterpretation of… Read more »
- Femi Fashakin Finishes What He Starts, Wins “BIG 50” WSOP Bracelet
- Today at the WSOP: “BIG 50” FINALLY Reaches Final Table, Five Other Tournaments in Play
- Partypoker’s Next Update Will Make Players Change Their Screen Names
- Today at the WSOP: Two Tournaments to Crown Champions, “BIG 50” Enters Final Day One
Poker Strategy
If you are any type of tournament poker player, then you’ve been in this position. You’ve taken your starting stack and built it up nicely, maybe doubled it or more. You’ve been in the position normally where you’ve been the chip leader at your table and have been dictating the play. But now your table… Read more »
Online Poker
GVC Earns Nevada Online Poker License, partypoker On the Way
About a week ago, reports emerged that GVC Holdings, the parent company of partypoker, was gunning for an online gaming license in Nevada in order to launch partypoker in the Silver State. On Tuesday, this was confirmed, as GVC announced that it has received its licensing approval in Nevada as well as a “transactional waiver”… Read more »
PokerStars VR Available on Oculus Quest
Fans of virtual reality poker got a boost last week when PokerStars announced that its virtual reality product, the appropriately named PokerStars VR, has now been made available on the new Oculus Quest. Those unfamiliar with virtual reality headsets may have heard of the Oculus Rift, one of the major brands in virtual reality gaming.… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu & PokerStars End Partnership After 12 Years
It’s been quite the past week for Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. The 44-year old poker professional married his fiancée Amanda Leatherman in an absolutely lovely oceanfront ceremony in California on Saturday, marking the second time that Negreanu has headed into wedded bliss. Yesterday, Negreanu took to Twitter to post a video which featured… Read more »
Partypoker May Be Eyeing Nevada: Report
According to OnlinePokerReport.com (OPR), partypoker might be looking to enter the Nevada online poker market. The possibility comes from a licensing application filed by partypoker’s parent company GVC Holdings, which has already made it through one regulatory hurdle. Live Poker Huge in Nevada, Online Not So Much Even though Nevada is the gambling hub of… Read more »
Poker Legislation
Iowa Legalizes Sports Betting
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 617 into law on Monday, legalizing sports betting in the state. Though the law is effective immediately, no sports betting is available yet, as the regulations still need to be hammered out. “Gov. Reynolds believes that legalizing sports betting will bring this practice out of an unregulated black… Read more »
North Carolina Legislature, Governor Legalize Charitable “Casino Nights”
It seems that the tide is turning in one of the more conservative areas of the country when it comes to gambling. The North Carolina General Assembly, while it weighs whether it will open for sports betting in the state, has hit the green light for charitable “casino nights” in the state. This action will… Read more »
NJ Sues DOJ Over Delayed Wire Act FOIA Request
In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sheldon Adelson was the main influence behind the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) new opinion on the Wire Act. The new opinion said that the Wire Act makes all interstate online gambling illegal, reversing a 2011 opinion that said only online sports betting… Read more »
Michigan Governor Comes Out Against Online Gaming, Illinois and North Carolina Looks to Sports Betting
It seems as if every week there are some moves – for good and for bad – in the world of online casino gaming, online poker and sports betting. Some of the latest news involves three states, with one examining a very limited dip into the pool, one looking for a potential wider expansion and… Read more »
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Annie Duke’s “Thinking in Bets” – A Poker Book That’s Not Supposed to Be a Poker Book
Mention the name “Annie Duke” and you’ll get a polarizing response from most…
Women’s Poker Association Founded to Further Female Involvement in the Game
While poker has long been a tremendously popular game that spans all ages…
Women in Poker Hall of Fame Voting – One Writer’s Opinion
After a month of nominations from the poker community and a couple of…
Vanessa Rousso Enters Music Business, Leaving Poker?
Last Sunday saw the New England Patriots come from behind to defeat the…
Gossip
“Poker Satellite Strategy” Offers Road Map to Success
With the World Series of Poker going on, it isn’t surprising to see…
Two Sugarhouse Casino Customers Sue Claiming Card Shuffler Problems Contributed to $250K Losses
Philadelphia’s Sugarhouse Casino might be celebrating being the first in Pennsylvania to launch…
Motörhead Crushes Lady Gaga in “Favorite Poker Music” Race
In the history of music, gambling and its lifestyle have been the subject…
Poker tournaments
Eli Elezra Wins $1,500 Seven-Card Stud, Fourth WSOP Bracelet
There are 47 players who have won at least four bracelets at the World Series of Poker. After winning Event #20: $1,500 Seven-Card Stud last night, long-time poker pro Eli Elezra is one of them. This was Elezra’s first WSOP win since 2015, when he won this exact same event. His first bracelet came in… Read more »
Frankie O’Dell Wins Third WSOP Bracelet
It is clearly not easy to win a World Series of Poker bracelet. If it was, I would have one (to be fair, I should start by actually playing in a WSOP event, but let’s not pick nits). To win more than one is something that I, frankly, feel is absurd. On Sunday, Frankie O’Dell… Read more »
Ole Schemion Wins WPT Season XVII Tournament of Champions
As the 2019 World Series of Poker was beginning, Season XVII of the World Poker Tour was ending and it all came to a head early this week when Ole Schemion won the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Not that my opinion means anything, especially… Read more »
Haxton Wants Soverel DQ’ed After Acting Out of Turn in WSOP $50K High Roller
Sweet. We have a controversy at the 2019 World Series of Poker. With four players remaining in the Event #5: High Roller – $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em for the 50th Annual, veteran poker player Sam Soverel acted out of turn, potentially influencing the rest of the action and possibly contributing to Dmitry Yurasov’s elimination in fourth… Read more »
Site News
Responses Pour In On Full Tilt Poker License Revocation
The shockwaves of yesterday’s decision by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) to revoke the e-gaming license of Full Tilt Poker continue to be felt across the poker world. Following the announcement of the decision by the AGCC – where the executive director of the organization, Andre Wilsenach, said that Full Tilt Poker “fundamentally misled… Read more »
PokerStars WCOOP 2011 Schedule Announced
As the saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” While the online poker industry has been attempting to weather a serious storm over the last few months, one constant still remains: the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). The world’s largest online poker room (smaller, but still the largest)… Read more »
Tom Dwan Addresses $1 Million Promise
On April 19, four days after the U.S. Department of Justice seized the three major online poker rooms, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil Galfond turned to Twitter to try and calm the storm. The two poker superstars each guaranteed $1 million from their own pockets if PokerStars and Full Tilt didn’t pay back players, and… Read more »
Phil Gordon Dismissed from Full Tilt Poker Class-Action Lawsuit
After being included in a class-action lawsuit filed against Full Tilt Poker last month, Phil Gordon immediately went to work to clear his name from any illegal activity involving the embattled company. He hired Maurice Suh of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher of Los Angeles to press a civil suit filed by a group of poker… Read more »
Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Full Tilt Poker
A class action lawsuit was filed against Full Tilt Poker in the Southern District of New York on Thursday, a move that could potentially delay the return of player funds following the tentative sale of the company to European investors. Plaintiffs Steve Segal, Nick Hammer, Robin Hougdahl, and Todd Terry filed the lawsuit against the… Read more »
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