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A family that was barred from an Atlantic City resort and subsequently taken down and cuffed by security back in 2012 are now suing the property’s ownership. Michael Maggiano, Esq. filed a lawsuit against Caesars Entertainment Corporation in Lee County (FL) court on February 10, 2014 on behalf of Florida resident Renee Binns alleging security… Read more »
Daniel Negreanu would likely be the first to admit that nobody is going to look at him and mistake him for an Olympian. That does not mean, though, that he has given up on the Olympic dream. On the message forum of his website, FullContactPoker.com, Negreanu presented his idea for how to make poker an… Read more »
Scores of Neteller customers received an e-mail this weekend warning them that their accounts would be closed if they did not provide some pertinent account information before the end of the month. That e-mail was a fake. It is what is known as a phishing scam, an attempt to acquire customers’ personally sensitive information and… Read more »
Bitcoin, the virtual currency that to many has seemed like something reserved for techies and 20-somethings who spend their lives in the deepest recesses of the internet, is already accepted at a few online poker rooms, such as SealswithClubs.com. On Wednesday, it will make its first move out of the online gambling world and into… Read more »
With the U.S. financial markets soaring to new heights in 2013, it was apparent that people were willing to gamble last year. Unfortunately for Nevada, they weren’t willing to gamble on dice, cards, and spinning reels as much as the state would have liked. For the fifth straight year, Silver State casinos lost money and… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker Index (GPI) announced that German poker player Ole Schemion had won the 2013 GPI Player of the Year (POY) title, awarded to the years’ most successful live tournament player. Schemion just beat out GPI’s Player of the Decade Daniel Negreanu for the honor. Schemion began the year in style, placing… Read more »
There are some days in the life of a poker news writer when it can get overwhelming trying to choose something about which to write. There can be so much happening that you want to write everything and write it now. But there are days like today, the first day of the year 2014, when… Read more »
Good lord, if I thought I had just lost $300,000, I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. Actually, let’s ratchet that down, as having a bag filled with $300,000 cash isn’t even within the realm of possibility for me. Let’s divide that by ten and say I lost $30,000. Not that I’d ever even… Read more »
In a bit of a good news/bad news situation, the poker world is gaining a new brick-and-mortar poker room while losing another. First, the bad news (from my years of watching television, I am confident that most people want their bad news first). According to an article by Jennifer Gay at anteupmagazine.com, Tunica, Mississippi’s Gold… Read more »
During this season of giving, many poker players around the world are reaching into their bankrolls and sacrificing grinding time to help out those less fortunate. One such person is poker pro and noted poker personality Bernard Lee, who recently made the holidays a little brighter for a number of needy children and their families… Read more »
The Atlantic Club is going out with a sigh. After almost three and a half decades of existence, the casino at Boston Avenue and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City will turn off its lights. On Monday, Judge Gloria M. Burns of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Camden, New Jersey approved a deal in which both Caesars… Read more »
Norway is simply on a roll in the fun-having business lately. First, they brought us the comedy duo Ylvis who have made many an elementary school student giddy with the sounds of a fox. Now, a Norwegian politician has happily agreed to play poker for a real, significant sum of money against a poker pro.… Read more »
The lineup is set for the partypoker Premier League VII (yes, partypoker no longer uses capital letters) as the popular poker competition kicks off today. Last night a draw party was held at the W Hotel in downtown Montreal to determine when each of the 12 participants will play. First, let’s take a look at… Read more »
I am rarely prouder to be a member of the poker community than those times that we are able to band together and rally for a good cause. With the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, it is time to take action once again. Enter Rational Group, owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker.… Read more »
If you polled casual poker fans and asked them who their favorite poker player was, my guess is that Daniel Negreanu would receive the highest number of votes. Ask a more serious fan and Negreanu’s name might not come up. Today, at least from what I can tell, Negreanu is looked at as more of… Read more »
Although it seems as if it were an eternity ago, the actions of “Black Friday” – the indictment of several of the top players in the online poker industry and banking executives who handled the money – are only a scant 2½ years in the poker world’s rearview mirror. At a conference earlier this week… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) revealed the names of the ten finalists for the Poker Hall of Fame Wednesday. There is no guarantee that any of them will be inducted this year, though traditionally one or two players receive the honor each year. The ten finalists are, in alphabetical order: Chris Bjorin, Humberto Brenes,… Read more »
At the very least, you can admire the guy’s industriousness. Too bad he didn’t use his powers for good. After a lengthy investigation, Argentine police arrested a 19-year old young man for allegedly running a hacking network that milked money from victims’ online gaming accounts. The process leading up to the unnamed hacker’s arrest began… Read more »
According to a number of reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) is targeting November 23rd as the launch date for online gambling in the Garden State. When the gaming legislation was passed, the soft go-live deadline was nine months from February 26th, thus three days after this most recent mark. The DGE… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has closed its poker room. Last week, a representative from the casino told USPoker.com that the poker room simply closed; there was no internal or external communication about it at all. CardPlayer.com wrote yesterday that a spokesperson said the poker room will… Read more »
The Maryland Live! Casino opened its new poker room last Wednesday to the thrill of its customers, who lined up hours in advance just to be amongst the first to play there. The 52-table room cost approximately $20 million to build and features such amenities as phone charging ports in the table legs, roving masseuses,… Read more »
Poker legend and 1979 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Bobby Hoff passed away Sunday at the age of 73. Known in the poker community as “The Wizard,” Hoff was regarded as one of the best No-Limit Hold’em cash game players in the world. Despite his status as a truly intimidating cash game player,… Read more »
In February, one of the most popular “non-poker” poker celebrities, Dr. Jerry Buss, passed away. The former owner of the Los Angeles Lakers had been battling cancer for quite some time, finally losing the battle at the age of 80. This Sunday, August 25th, the World Poker Tour Foundation will hold a tournament in his… Read more »
People have been collecting sports and entertainment memorabilia for ages. Most of us have at least one item in our homes that has some special meaning, be it historic or just personal, even if that meaning stems from what someone else did with that item. A homerun baseball, a musician’s guitar pick, a prop from… Read more »
One of last year’s victories for poker was muted a bit Tuesday when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York overturned a judge’s ruling that a New York man was not guilty of operating an illegal gambling business. As a result, Lawrence Dicristina is facing up to 10 years in prison. The… Read more »
