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The first-ever final table for the Monster World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions has been set after a day of play on Saturday and it has six men that are well-qualified to be sitting in the seats. Atop the leaderboard when action resumes this afternoon is Jonathan Jaffe, but he’ll be facing some heat from… Read more »
After two tournaments that were quite popular with the tournament professionals, the World Poker Tour rolled the dice with their end-of-season event. The Monster WPT Tournament of Champions – the replacement for the WPT World Championship – started on Friday and, from first look, the change was not as successful as WPT officials might have… Read more »
Etching his name into the history books, David ‘Chino’ Rheem became only the fourth player in World Poker Tour history to take down three WPT championships (following Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno) when he was able to defeat Aditya Prasetyo in heads up play to win the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale… Read more »
After the oddity of beginning the day with a 10-handed final table, Justin Young exorcised the demons of an earlier World Poker Tour final table loss in defeating Garrett Greer to emerge victorious in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL, last night. Instead of having the official six-handed WPT final table… Read more »
The second of the three big World Poker Tour events at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida will wrap up tomorrow as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale has reached its final table. Though the six-handed final table was determined on Tuesday, the players have the day off on Wednesday… Read more »
After slumbering through the first quarter of 2016, the drive for another state to join the three United States locales that have already enacted online gaming or poker legislation grew by one with the addition of the state of Michigan. On Friday, Michigan State Senator Mike Kowall introduced his bill SB 889, or “The Lawful… Read more »
After two weeks of action in the Global Poker League, the GPL Americas and the GPL Eurasia both have surprise leaders atop the tables. In the Americas, the Montreal Nationals have seized the lead from the preseason pick to win the conference in the New York Rounders, while the Eurasia’s still have the intriguing battle… Read more »
In an ingenious move that might not gain any traction – but it doesn’t hurt to try – a poker fan has started a petition asking officials at the World Series of Poker to eliminate the rake on the WSOP Championship Event. In addition to this elimination of rake, the petition is also asking for… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XIV is coming to an end, but with that end comes the beginning of a tweak to the way major tournaments might be run in the future. Today, famed tournament director Matt Savage announced via Twitter that the season-concluding WPT Tournament of Champions will institute a “shot clock,” limiting… Read more »
As the two major tournament circuits in the world prepare for their season finales ahead of the start of the World Series of Poker at the end of May, Aussie Millions champion Ari Engel is continuing to hold the lead over the field in the CardPlayer Magazine Player of the Year race. While he has… Read more »
After the inaugural week of action on the Global Poker League, one conference has it preseason favorite not unexpectedly sitting atop its standings with a couple of surprises in pursuit. In the other conference, a team that wasn’t heavily favored to do much in this inaugural season of the GPL has stunned many by jumping… Read more »
As the date approaches for the first rendition of this version of the World Poker Tour’s Tournament of Champions, the tour officially announced on Tuesday that more prizes had been added to the awards that will be handed out in the event. Monster, the official headphones and speakers of the WPT, announced that they would… Read more »
The first day of action is in the books for the Global Poker League and, for the most part, the day has to be viewed as a solid start for the burgeoning poker-as-sports organization. While there were some very good things that came out of the day’s proceedings, there were definitely some things that needed… Read more »
According to press reports from North of the Border, the Canadian province of Quebec is looking at a bill that would, for the most part, eradicate any online gaming from the region, save for the state-sponsored sites that the government operates. Several outlets, including Huffington Post Canada and its writer Giuseppe Valiante, have publicized a… Read more »
As they prepare for Opening Day of their inaugural season, several of the managers of the Global Poker League franchises have decided to announce the players who will be their “wild cards” for the upcoming season. In some cases, the managers have decided to call their own number (AKA put their own name in as… Read more »
When a player wins the World Series of Poker Championship Event and becomes the de facto World Champion of the game of poker, he (or perhaps one day she) also becomes an ambassador of sorts for the sport. Not only for the year following but pretty much for the rest of their involvement in the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
