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According to a number of reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) is targeting November 23rd as the launch date for online gambling in the Garden State. When the gaming legislation was passed, the soft go-live deadline was nine months from February 26th, thus three days after this most recent mark. The DGE… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has closed its poker room. Last week, a representative from the casino told USPoker.com that the poker room simply closed; there was no internal or external communication about it at all. CardPlayer.com wrote yesterday that a spokesperson said the poker room will… Read more »
Online poker traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com issued its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, indicating that the summer doldrums are over, as cash game traffic was up for the third consecutive week. Last week specifically, traffic increased 2.9 percent, with only one of the top ten poker rooms and networks declining. That one laggard was… Read more »
PartyPoker released its long-awaited new online poker client last Thursday introducing players to a new, socially-centered game experience. The highly anticipated launch, however, could have gone more smoothly. First, let’s take a quick look what’s new. The first thing players will notice after the software is downloaded, installed, and launched, is the new branding. Out… Read more »
The festivities at the first stop for the European Poker Tour’s Season Ten have come to a conclusion, with Tom Middleton finishing off what he started in winning the Main Event and Thomas Muhlocker besting Daniel Negreanu in the €10,000 High Roller. Middleton, who took over the lead in the Main Event on Day Four,… Read more »
The monstrous field that showed up for the European Poker Tour’s first stop of Season Ten in Barcelona, Spain, has been whittled down to only 24 players, but it was the action in the €10,000 High Roller tournament that has drawn a great deal of attention from the poker community. 79 players came back on… Read more »
Coming from the middle of the pack, Jordan Cristos outlasted veteran poker professional Dan Heimiller to take his first major championship at the 2013 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, late last night. At the start of the day, it didn’t look like it would be these… Read more »
The money bubble burst in the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Wednesday as the field narrowed from 235 players to just 79. Thomas Middleton finished as the only player above the million chip mark, though Alejandro Perez Torres (990,000) and Kevin Vandersmissen (970,000) are mere blinds below that line. As was the… Read more »
The survivors from the first two starting flights of the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event came together Tuesday in a single field for Day 2of the season’s kickoff event. Six more levels were completed yesterday and emerging as the chip leader of the remaining 235-player field was Pablo Tavitian with 465,000 chips.… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event began with 71 players. It ended with just 15. The chip leader going into Monday, Dan Heimeller, is still in contention, bagging up 2.155 million chips, but it was Patrick Karschamroon that did work on Labor Day, topping the field at… Read more »
The Maryland Live! Casino opened its new poker room last Wednesday to the thrill of its customers, who lined up hours in advance just to be amongst the first to play there. The 52-table room cost approximately $20 million to build and features such amenities as phone charging ports in the table legs, roving masseuses,… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights came together in a unified Day 2 on Sunday at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event. They were joined by 47 more registrants who took tournament organizers up on the opportunity for a “last chance” re-entry prior to the start of yesterday’s play.… Read more »
After a flurry of activity on Saturday, the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for the Legends of Poker smashed through last year’s total entries, finally ending at 669 buy ins. Along the way, a new overall leader for the three Day Ones was crowned in Fabrice Touli. Even… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s stop at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for the 2013 Legends of Poker wrapped up their second Day One on Friday, expanding the field by another 200 entries to bring the total field within shot of last year’s final numbers. The $3700 ($200 juice) tournament brought back many players… Read more »
The World Poker Tour kicked off its first event of Season XII on Thursday, with a smallish Day 1A field invading the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for one of the stalwarts on the tour, the WPT Legends of Poker. With three Day Ones (and the ability to re-enter the event on subsequent Day… Read more »
Battling through a monstrous field and a quality final table, Blair Hinkle was able to vanquish Justin Bonomo heads up to take down the inaugural championship of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open late last night. Going into the final table yesterday afternoon at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, Hinkle… Read more »
There is just one more day left in the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event as fifteen players were eliminated on Tuesday, leaving just six for Wednesday’s final table. Blair Hinkle jumped one spot from where he started the day to claim the top rung on the leaderboard with 22.8 million chips. The… Read more »
Poker legend and 1979 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Bobby Hoff passed away Sunday at the age of 73. Known in the poker community as “The Wizard,” Hoff was regarded as one of the best No-Limit Hold’em cash game players in the world. Despite his status as a truly intimidating cash game player,… Read more »
It worked. The bold move by organizers of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open to guarantee a $10 million prize pool for $5,300 Main Event was risky, but it worked. After 634 players bought-in on Day 1A and another 690 did the same on Day 1B, 1,060 more players paid the toll on Day 1C,… Read more »
Day 1B of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is in the books at the namesake casino in Hollywood, FL, as the day’s entries brought the total field within striking distance of making the $10 million guarantee. As the day began on Friday, there were 366 players on the tables but some players used the… Read more »
Looking like the epitome of the statement “if you build it, they will come,” the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $10 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event seems to have been a huge success on Day 1A as some of poker’s finest professionals turned out in Hollywood, FL, for the first significant action after this… Read more »
In one of the rare feats in the tournament poker world, Russia’s Alexey Rybin completed what he started in going wire-to-wire in winning the World Poker Tour’s inaugural Season XII stop at the bWin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic late last night (U. S. time). Rybin led a contingent of Russians who took up half of… Read more »
Alexey Rybin is right where he has been for the entirety of the 2013 bwin World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event: on top. With 2.698 million chips, he holds the chip lead going into the six-handed final table by more than 1.1 million over his nearest competitor. Just one more day remains… Read more »
A week ago, we reported that the Garden City Group (GCG), the organization that was chosen by the U.S Department of Justice (DoJ) to handle the disbursement of Full Tilt Poker funds, expected to be able to give players a firm date on when the claims process would commence by the end of last week. The… Read more »
Poor Intertops Poker. It’s a good apple in a bushel full of rotten ones. For the second time in two weeks, it has had to make a business decision because it is stuck on a terrible network, the Revolution Gaming Network. The lastest: Intertops is segregating its mid-stakes and higher players from the rest of… Read more »
