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The first Saturday of the 2016 World Series of Poker saw the tournament arenas around the Rio packed with a plethora of players of all types. For those with a shortened bankroll, the “Colossus II” rumbled on with its final two flights, while those with a bit more change in their pockets chose to take… Read more »
The action at the 2016 World Series of Poker is off and running, with one bracelet already on its new owner’s wrist. As for the next one? There’s still a great deal of poker to be played yet as the “Colossus II” rumbles through the first weekend of the WSOP. Event #1 – $565 Casino… Read more »
Amid much fanfare, the 47th Annual World Series of Poker kicked off on Wednesday at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The traditional starter for the greatest poker tournament of all time, the $565 Casino Employees Event, has put its Day One action into the history books while the weekend is set… Read more »
Last week, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted on two gambling amendments and passed neither, meaning that the progress of a possible regulated online poker industry in the Commonwealth was slowed. Cross our fingers, but hopefully the slowdown is brief as the House is scheduled to reconvene next Monday, June 6th, and hold a re-vote… Read more »
The Canadian province of Québec passed its budget bill, Bill 74, two weeks ago, an occurrence that would not normally be of much interest to us to anyone outside of Québec. This time, though, things are a bit different, as included in said budget was an authorization for the province to require internet service providers… Read more »
The first half of the Global Poker League season has come to a close with a couple of surprising teams atop their individual conference standings. In the GPL Eurasia, the London Royals have slowly been grinding it out and now are in the lead, while the GPL Americas has seen the Montreal Nationals ascend to… Read more »
In the world of poker, one thing that many never have a chance to do is get involved in “staking” a player in a tournament. “Staking” – the act of providing part of the buy in for a player and receiving a percentage of what said player earns from that particular tournament/s – for quite… Read more »
It was a weird day in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Tuesday as legislators voted on whether or not to legalize online gambling, including online poker, in the Commonwealth. It was generally thought that Tuesday would be a close win for the online poker community, but it strangely wasn’t. The conclusion, though, is yet to… Read more »
Week 7 of the Global Poker League has concluded and, with one more week before the teams take a slight pause before heading to Las Vegas for the “Summer Series” and the 2016 World Series of Poker, two teams have opened up some space from the rest of the competition in their conferences. In the… Read more »
After a little glitch in their tabulating system negated their public vote (more on that in a moment), the Women in Poker Hall of Fame induction committee has named the two women who will join the hallowed halls of the organization during an induction ceremony this fall. For the first time earlier this month, the… Read more »
In the five years since “Black Friday” hit the online poker industry, poker professional Daniel Negreanu has been one of the more vocal critics of the people that were in charge of one of the rooms involved in that situation, Full Tilt Poker. Now, more than five years later, Negreanu is allowing one of the… Read more »
On Monday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) released the full schedule for WPT Season XV which, even though the WPT Tournament of Champions just ended, is already underway. Seth Davies won the partypoker.net Canadian Spring Championship to open the season and Andjelko Andrejevic followed that up with a win at WPT Amsterdam. In all, there… Read more »
An interstate online gambling compact between Nevada and New Jersey has never really come close to becoming a reality, but Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval still wants to try to make it happen. Speaking at the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee meeting in Las Vegas on Friday, Sandoval expressed mild frustration that his state hasn’t gotten anything… Read more »
During the recent European Poker Tour Grand Final festival, poker professional Justin Bonomo was one of the fortunate individuals who was able to take some gold away from the proceedings. In the €2000 No Limit Hold’em preliminary event on May 2, he was able to defeat a field of 346 players to capture slightly more… Read more »
Week 6 of the Global Poker League was a big one for the Moscow Wolverines as they used the variety of matches played throughout the week in the GPL Eurasia to demonstrate one of the most dominant weeks of action we’ve seen yet in the GPL. As the Wolverines opened up some room in their… Read more »
Failed Republican presidential candidate, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, is best known to poker fans as Sheldon Adelson’s jock-carrier and the Senator who introduced Adelson’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) last year. RAWA, if it even became law, would place a ban on online gambling in the United States, wiping out the current legal,… Read more »
If you play your online poker on Full Tilt, you have one more week to enjoy the site. The poker room announced last week that it will officially become part of PokerStars next Tuesday, May 17th, putting an end (for the second time, really) to Full Tilt as an online poker room. The initial announcement… Read more »
After coming into the final table as one of the four “short stacks,” veteran poker professional Jan Bendik was able to come back to defeat a difficult final table to capture the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final Main Event at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Casino in Monaco on Saturday. The six men who… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is penning the final chapters to their Season 12 book on the shores of the Mediterranean, Monte Carlo to be exact. The final table has been determined for the Grand Final Main Event, while there are 12 contenders still in the fight for the €25,000 High Roller tournament. EPT Grand Final… Read more »
Poland’s Marcin Chmielewski is having a pretty solid week. Over the weekend, he finished 21st in the France Poker Series High Roller Event (not a huge cash by any means, but still something) and now he is leading the charge to the final table in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final. With just 74… Read more »
The finale for its Season 12 schedule, the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final has exceeded expectations on the coast of the Mediterranean. After two Day Ones, the largest EPT Grand Final field of 1068 players had come to the tables in the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco (potentially with more to come), making the EPT… Read more »
After negotiating a deal that basically ensured both would receive the same payday, Ole Schemion defeated Mustapha Kanit in heads up action to take down the championship of the European Poker Tour’s €100,000 Super High Roller event on Saturday night. The final eight men presented one of the more difficult final tables that you’ll see.… Read more »
The season finale for the European Poker Tour, the Grand Final, rolled along on Friday with Day 2 action in their €100,000 Super High Roller event. After firming up the prize pool with the close of late registration to start the day, the end of the night brought the final table into clear view with… Read more »
The final even for the European Poker Tour, its Grand Final festivities, has begun at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco and they aren’t going small. In fact, not one but two High Roller events – the single re-entry €10,000 High Roller and the rebuy €100,000 Super High Roller – were in action on Thursday,… Read more »
Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) wrapped up Sunday after a busy couple weeks at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. With three major WPT events – the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, and the WPT Tournament of Champions – strung… Read more »
