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After dominating much of the tournament over the final three days of play, Brian Altman completed the job in finishing off his only nemesis, Mark Dube, to win the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, last night. To say that Altman, who picked… Read more »
With Day 4 in the books, the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open is set. And while there may be six players at the table, it appears, at this point, that it will come down to two: Mark Dube and Brian Altman. The two men, who led the… Read more »
Ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and all-around poker legend, Doyle Brunson, announced last week that he has cancer and will soon be undergoing surgery. The good news is that it sounds like it was caught early and as far as cancers go, it is not overly serious. Brunson relayed the news to the… Read more »
With the three starting flights in the books, Sunday saw all of the survivors of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event reconvene for Day 2. 361 players entered Sunday’s play with just 78 remaining to advance to today’s Day 3. It is a close race for the pole position, as… Read more »
Three Day Ones have been completed in the 2015 World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. From that trio of Day Ones, a massive field has been built, guaranteeing a sizeable first place prize. The WPT changed the Lucky Hearts event for 2015, going… Read more »
After his opponent started the day as the chip leader at the final table, Bulgaria’s Ognyan Dimov outlasted Romania’s Dany Parlafes to capture the title at the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event in France this afternoon (evening in France). Coming to the final table of six players (two players, Massou Cohen and Matas Cimbolas,… Read more »
It was a short Day 4 of action in Deauville, France, as the European Poker Tour determined the final 15 players in its Main Event. The Day 3 action on Wednesday had whittled the field from 138 to the money bubble of 87, but that wasn’t good enough for the contenders in France. They continued… Read more »
The Three Stooges are back. The Sheldon Adelson-backed Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) bill has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R – Utah), the same person who introduced it in 2014. Senator Lindsey Graham (R – S.C.) introduced a twin bill in the Senate last year, and while… Read more »
We’re in the month of February, so that means we are no longer allowed to say, “Happy New Year!” to each other right? It’s hard to believe (for me, anyway), that we are already a month into 2015 and though Punxsutawney Phil says we have six more weeks of winter left, we are getting dangerously close… Read more »
It is shocking when someone in Washington, D.C. admits that gambling might be ok, but when one of most prominent politicians in the United States wants to discuss matters, people just might listen. Last Thursday, Senator John McCain (R – Ariz.) was on ESPN’s Capital Games podcast to talk about the NFL and said that… Read more »
Although there is still one more event left on the schedule, the 2015 Aussie Millions crowned two champions over the past two days. In today’s Main Event final table, Manny Stavropoulos overcame the odds to capture the win and, on Saturday, Richard Yong took his first High Roller championship in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions… Read more »
At a final table in which nearly everyone held the lead at some point, Aaron Mermelstein held it when it mattered most in winning the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open last night in Atlantic City. Shawn Cunix, in the hunt for his second WPT championship, had run roughshod over the field the previous… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open final table in Atlantic City this afternoon as Shawn Cunix continued his charge towards potentially his second WPT championship. Three tables (27 players) returned to action on Thursday, looking to work their way down to the six fortunate individuals who would… Read more »
The final 27 players have been determined at the 2015 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City with two former WPT champions, Shawn Cunix and James Calderaro, in position to vie for their second titles. 136 players came back to the chilly climes of the Atlantic City Boardwalk on Wednesday with Justin… Read more »
It is unusual to see a player have the chip lead in consecutive early days of a live poker tournament, so Jan Suchanek’s 2015 Aussie Millions to this point has been quite impressive. Suchanek was the Day 1A chip leader, ending the day with 163,400 chips (ok, so he wasn’t the overall chip leader, but… Read more »
The 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open guaranteed a $3,000,000 prize pool and thanks to an active Day 1B, it just made it past that threshold. After 360 players entered on Day 1A, another 629 registered on Monday, bringing the total field to 989. With the $3,300 buy-in (another $200 fee went… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back in action for 2015 and kicking off the latter portion of Season XIII is the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City (you thought I was going to say “at the Borgata,” didn’t you?). The first of two starting flights ran yesterday; 360 players registered for Day… Read more »
After the introduction of a new bill regarding the regulation and taxation of online poker in California from a previously unaffiliated Assemblyman, a new online poker bill has come to the table from one of the industry’s longtime supporters. On Friday, California State Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer introduced the latest version of his efforts to regulate… Read more »
A new bill has been filed on behalf of the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) in the State Senate that could effectively end the practice in poker known as ‘staking.’ Senate Bill 40 (SB 40) was filed on December 20 to “prohibit certain acts related to wagering,” naturally something that would be covered by the NGCB.… Read more »
While the battle rages on regarding the regulation of online poker, many may not realize that it is illegal to play poker in many areas of the United States. One lawmaker in the Heartland of America is looking to change that situation in his state. According to Zach Pluhacek of the Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska… Read more »
One of the venerable tournaments on the international poker circuit, the 2015 Aussie Millions, is in full swing at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Several events have already been completed as its $10,000 Main Event and two High Roller ($25,000 and $100,000, respectively) prepare to take the stage this weekend. Five events have crowned… Read more »
Mark one in the “W” column for Sheldon Adelson against online poker. Before you panic, though, and worry that the Las Vegas Sands CEO is making inroads in the United States in trying to get online poker banned completely, know that this victory has nothing to do with the U.S. Last summer, Adelson and his… Read more »
Sometimes a screen name is just so amazingly appropriate. Last week, Darren Woods, who was known by the screen name “DooshCom” in the poker community, was sentenced to prison for defrauding players on internet poker sites, including 888poker and the iPoker Network. Woods, who hails from Healing, a town about halfway up the east coast… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Alpha8 tournament series does not get a lot of attention and to an extent, that is understandable. The high roller series, despite being broadcast on Fox Sports , is not heavily marketed and features tiny fields. Since the players involved have to pony up $100,000 to play, though, those fields… Read more »
Although we are only a few weeks into 2015, online poker and gaming regulations have been on the minds of many in the United States. Since the calendar flipped to January, three different areas of approach have appeared and, from maybe at least one of them, perhaps online poker and/or gaming legislation can be passed.… Read more »
