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And now for the other bad beat jackpot story of the day. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has ruled in favor of the players who stood to win money in the Station Casino bad beat jackpot after Stations management refused to pay out because of an inadvertent rule violation by one of the players involved… Read more »
Bad beat jackpots have been in the news lately and today we continue that trend with not one, but two BBJ-related articles. In this first one, a poker dealer and player were arrested in Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish for conspiring to rig the Boomtown Casino’s bad beat jackpot. The Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations Gaming… Read more »
On Monday, Malta-based Gaming Innovation Group (GiG) announced that it has entered into a five-yar agreement with Hard Rock International to be the company’s online gambling provider for its Hard Rock Atlantic City property, set to open this summer. The two companies had signed a Letter of Intent in late October, though at the time,… Read more »
Poker Central has renewed partnerships with both 888Poker and the NBC Sports Group, announcing the deals in two separate press releases in the past week. Poker Central, having struggled to establish itself as a true 24/7 poker television network, has successfully revamped itself as an online digital video subscription service for poker. It surprised the… Read more »
Poker bad beat jackpots are not the typical article topic on this here website, but this is going to be the third one in the span of what, about a month? On Tuesday, January 16th, what was reportedly the largest bad beat jackpot in United States history was hit at Detroit’s Motor City Casino poker… Read more »
Atlantic City’s Revel Casino, which has been closed since September 2014, has been sold. Bruce Deifik, the founder of Integrated Properties in Denver, confirmed Monday that he purchased the ill-conceived property for $200 million through his business AC OCEAN WALK from Florida developer Glenn Straub. The Revel was designed to be a luxury casino property… Read more »
Another Las Vegas casino was hit this week, as a cage at New York-New York was robbed in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. At the time of this writing, about 24 hours since the robbery, the suspect has not been captured. At about 1:00am January 10th, a man armed with a handgun approached a… Read more »
New Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has a lot on her plate, but one of the things she would prefer not to deal with is gambling in her city. In an interview shortly after her inauguration on Tuesday, she expressed said that if it came down to it, she would rather see a casino elsewhere… Read more »
When the news broke in October that the San Antonio Stars of the WNBA were purchased by MGM Resorts International and moved to Las Vegas, a few things popped into my head: a) that stinks for fans in San Antonio, b) how interesting that a gaming corporation acquired a professional sports team, c) Las Vegas… Read more »
Ohio became the 18th state to legalize and regulate daily fantasy sports (DFS) Friday as Governor John Kasich signed House Bill 132 into law. The Ohio Casino Control Commission will oversee the industry’s regulation. The bill, which exempts daily fantasy sports from the state’s gambling laws, was supported by a good portion of Ohio’s professional… Read more »
Merry Christmas, Ladbrokes Coral Group shareholders. Last week, GVC Holdings, the parent company of partypoker, announced that it has come to an agreement to buy UK gaming powerhouse Ladbrokes Coral in a deal that could be worth as much as £4 billion. “In its relatively short time as a merged entity, Ladbrokes Coral has demonstrated… Read more »
After writing a story about how a casino is possibly trying to pull one over on its customers, how about a nice poker-related story for the holiday season? Professional poker player Bernard Lee, who hosts the Bernard Lee Poker Show on Rounders Radio and is the former co-host of ESPN’s poker news show Inside Deal,… Read more »
Penn National Gaming announced Monday that it has agreed to acquire Pinnacle Entertainment for $2.8 billion in combined cash and stock. Pinnacle shareholders will receive $20 per share of Pinnacle plus 0.42 shares of Penn National stock for each Pinnacle share they own. The implied price per share is $32.47, a 36 premium for Pinnacle… Read more »
I know sports betting is illegal in most of the United States, but dammit, it still really grinds my gears when a sports betting or betting-related enterprise, event, or site that otherwise isn’t hurting anyone gets busted. That’s what happened last week when federal agents shut down Ron & Mike’s Football Pool, seizing money and… Read more »
Caesars Entertainment Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell Harrah’s Las Vegas to VICI Properties for $1.14 billion. If this sounds rather shocking, you may be relieved to know (or not really care, as the case may be) that it is all part of a plan. In mid-November, Caesars announced… Read more »
The Chengdu Pandas came back from near elimination to advance through the playoffs and win the inaugural season of the Global Poker League (GPL) China. The team won one million Yuan – approximately $151,000 – and donated five percent of it to charity. The twelve teams participating were as follows (listed alphabetically): • Beijing Great… Read more »
When I was a freshman in high school, won the botany division of my high school’s science fair and advanced to the city-wide/regional competition. I didn’t win top honors, but there were other, independent awards handed out; I was fortunate enough to win one, called (and I’m probably not being quite accurate here, as this… Read more »
Las Vegas police are still searching for a man who robbed the Bellagio poker room cashier cage at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon. In a brief news conference, Las Vegas Metro Police Capt. John Pelletier said that his department is “comfortable and confident” that they have enough information that will eventually lead to the thief’s capture. Other… Read more »
As two Senators renew a quest to ban online gambling in the United States, another prominent figure is supporting the all-out national legalization of sports betting. On Monday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke with ESPN Radio’s Mike Golic and Trey Wingo on the aptly named “Golic and Wingo” show and addressed, in part, his desire… Read more »
Gambling industry consolidation talks have started up again, this time with Australian bookmaker CrownBet as the acquisition target by both William Hill and Paddy Power Betfair. CrownBet is 62 percent owned by Crown Resorts – Crown Melbourne is the host venue of the popular Aussie Millions poker series – which is itself part of James… Read more »
Wherever there is money, there is the potential for trouble. And A LOT of money circulates at casinos every day. As such, casinos are required to hyper aware of what is happening on their premises and must have procedures in place to report anything suspicious. Apparently, the 100-plus year old Artichoke Joe’s Casino in San… Read more »
Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of daily fantasy sports (DFS) giant FanDuel, announced that Monday was his last day at the company. Matt King, the CFO of FanDuel from 2014-2016 will step into Eccles’ vacated role. Between his previous stint at FanDuel and now, King was equity partner and President of Regional Operations and Corporate… Read more »
Libratus, the artificial intelligence powered by a multi-million dollar supercomputer that crushed teams of poker players in No-Limit Hold’em twice this year, was honored with the 2017 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of AI last week. The Libratus Poker AI was developed by Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown at Carnegie Mellon University. I… Read more »
The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) unveiled a five-point strategy on Tuesday designed to make the gambling market “fairer and safer for consumers.” Forward-looking through 2021, the strategy looks to balance consumer safeguards with industry growth. The report opens by citing a few select statistics about gambling in the UK. Of the 50 million people… Read more »
PokerNews.com, one of the longest tenured poker news sites in the industry, admitted yesterday what was really a poorly-kept secret: it is owned by PokerStars. The revelation, which was surprising in that iBus Media – PokerNews’ corporate name – pretended like nobody really knew, was made during an internal conference call and then posted as… Read more »
