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It was carnage on Monday as the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was narrowed from 151 players* to just 18. The money bubble clearly burst – the top 45 players were paid – and Taylor Paur emerged as the top dog with 1,400,000 chips. If Paur can keep this going, he… Read more »
The third leg of the World Poker Tour’s California Swing was in full…swing…this weekend with the 2015 WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event at the Thunder Valley Casino in the Sacramento, California area. A total of 379 players have entered the tournament – 181 on Saturday and 198 on Sunday – making it easily the smallest… Read more »
In what was arguably the toughest final table of the current season, Taylor Paur emerged victorious in the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars early Saturday morning. Paur came to the final table with the second biggest chip stack (4.27 million), behind only Isaac Baron’s 6.175 million, when the cards hit the air on… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star has completed its Day 3 play, setting up for an exciting final table that still features two of the Shooting Stars (bounty players) remaining in the tournament. 36 players came back to fulfill their dreams of reaching a WPT final table, with Imad Allahham having the most realistic… Read more »
In rapid fashion, the players at the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event in San Jose, CA, rocketed through the money bubble to get down to the final 36 players that will take part in Day 3 action. At the head of the pack is a player with a limited tournament resume, Imad… Read more »
Both starting flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event are in the books as Day 1B wrapped up last night. Haixia Zhang ended up bagging the most chips at the end of the day, collecting 281,000. 389 players entered Tuesday’s action, making it an even 700 for the… Read more »
One of the most popular events on the World Poker Tour (WPT), the Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event, kicked off on Monday as 311 players bought-in to Day 1A of the tournament hoping to become the next member of the Champion’s Club. Just 106 made it to Day 2 with Bay 101 defending champ,… Read more »
After coming from the bottom of the standings, Anthony Zinno made history on a few fronts with his victory in the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic on Thursday night. At the start of the final table, Zinno was looking way up to the top of the leaderboard. Igor Yaroshevskyy held the chip lead… Read more »
After what turned out to be a short day of action for those in attendance, the World Poker Tour has set the final table for the L. A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino. Of the six men who will come to the tables this afternoon to contend for the championship, one is looking for… Read more »
Wednesday could be quite a fun day for Peter Tran at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event as he has a massive lead with just twelve players remaining. And since the tournament will play down to the six-handed final table today, Day 5 should be short. Heck, Tran might be… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is in the books and with just 43 players remaining, things should be a bit tense at the Commerce Casino on Tuesday as the final table is within reach. Peter Tran leads the survivors going into Day 4 with 1.369 million… Read more »
The first leg of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) California Swing kicked off over the weekend as the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event got underway at the Commerce Casino. Two days have already been completed; 538 players registered for the $10,000 tournament and going into Monday’s Day 3, only 120 remain. Brent Hart has… Read more »
On Friday night, the ‘best of the best’ in North American poker came together for the inaugural American Poker Awards. After a day of seminars and forums addressing issues in the game, the finale was the actual awards show hosted by Kara Scott, capping a hugely successful debut. The World Series of Poker drew the… Read more »
What was expected to be a scintillating debate between the two men at the helms of both sides of the ongoing debate over regulation of the online gaming and poker industry instead turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. Currently in Washington, D. C., the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) opened up its… Read more »
Pennsylvania State Representative John Payne (R – Dauphin) has introduced a bill that would legalize and regulate online gambling in the Keystone State. The bill, HB 649, already has support, sponsored by sixteen Representatives in addition to Payne. While HB 649 has been entered on the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s website, the complete text of the… Read more »
The combination of Nevada’s and Delaware’s online poker player pools may be around the corner. Finally. According to Steve Tetreault of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has said that the year-old interstate gaming compact between the two states will finally have its promise met within the next month or two. Despite being… Read more »
Management of leading Bitcoin online poker site SealswithClubs has announced that after more than a week of unscheduled downtime, it has officially shut down the site for good. Adding to the intrigue: a revelation from site chairman Bryan Micon that the site’s closure was precipitated by a law enforcement raid of his home on the… Read more »
Never one to remain silent on his opinions about situations in the poker world, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu has once again opened up his mind on a poker issue. In this particular case, Negreanu has compiled a list of players that may be banned from participating at the World Series of Poker and… Read more »
Barely a month into the new Congressional session, Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz has not only reintroduced a House version of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) legislation that died in the last Congress but also now has a hearing scheduled on the bill. On March 5, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security… Read more »
According to reports from New Jersey, a new online venture will be joining with the state’s online gaming industry by the end of this month. The casino operating the new site – and its potential partner for online poker – could draw a great deal of interest from the online gaming and poker community. NJ.com’s… Read more »
The quarter-year mark is approaching, and with it comes an inevitability: another Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Sure enough, Full Tilt Poker has released the schedule for FTOPS XXVIII (Twenty-eight! And it would have been more had the former executives at the site not been crooks and led to Full Tilt disappearing for a… Read more »
In a result that should surprise exactly nobody, Anthony Zinno won the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Monday night, claiming about $400,000 in combined prize money and a seat in the WPT Championship at the end of the season. This is Zinno’s second WPT title, the first coming in 2013… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event was set yesterday evening as just six players remain from the original 419. Anthony Zinno is the chip leader with 4.73 million chips, a solid 2 million ahead of his closest competitor, Corey Hochman. After Hochman, it is another million down… Read more »
After slugging it out for the past seven years regarding the regulation of online poker in the state of California, three state Indian tribes have offered a compromise that may move forward current legislation. In a letter obtained by Pechanga.net, the leaders of those three tribes – Bo Mazzetti of the Rincon Band of Luisefio… Read more »
A prominent business website has come forward with something that many in the poker/gaming industry have assumed regarding Amaya Gaming’s efforts to license PokerStars in New Jersey in accusing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of blocking those efforts for his own political gain. The website Businessinsider.com and writer Hunter Walker this afternoon went public with their… Read more »
