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While the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event final table is cause for celebration in Las Vegas this week, the story is much different for another poker hotbed in United States. Atlantic City, New Jersey has been ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, displacing residents, destroying the famous Boardwalk, and forcing all twelve of its casinos… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table just hours away and baseball’s World Series ending last night, the spotlight of the sports world is shining squarely on poker for the next two days as nine players have their sights set on the more than $8.5 million first prize. One of this… Read more »
Sometimes in life we are given a gift so outside the realm of anything that we could even believe existed that upon its receipt, our hearts are overwhelmed with joy and amazement. Those who did not previously believe in a heavenly father now do and those who already did have their faith reaffirmed. A tear… Read more »
The newest Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year (POY) standings were released Wednesday and, as expected, there were no changes at the very top. Dan Smith is the leader for the eighth week in a row, with Kyle Julius still in 2nd place and losing time to catch up. Smith has 1098.79 points… Read more »
David Williams is an excellent poker player. He has been for the better part of a decade now. But this weekend he went back to a card game he played before he took up poker and found success, winning the Magic: The Gathering 2012 Grand Prix San Jose. The 32-year old Williams was part of… Read more »
Chad Elie, a former online poker payment processor and one of eleven people named in the infamous Black Friday indictment was sentenced to five months in prison Wednesday by a judge in a Manhattan federal court. Elie had previously pled guilty to a single charge of bank fraud back in March 2012. Elie served as… Read more »
It is the Democrats’ turn to take the national stage this week as they attempt to rally their base at the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, like the Republicans, the 2012 Democratic National Platform was published to coincide with the festivities. Unlike in the Republican National Platform, however, online poker was not attacked.… Read more »
Back in April, a group of 14 gamblers had the day of their lives: they took the Golden Nugget Atlantic City for more than $1.5 million. Fairly, without cheating. To their horror, though, they found themselves sued by the casino and were still without $1 million of their winnings. Fast forward four months and a… Read more »
Just weeks after purchasing the Global Poker Index (GPI), Pinnacle Entertainment has turned around and flipped it to Zokay Entertainment, a gaming company created by former ChiliGaming CEO Alex Dreyfus. The GPI ranks the top 300 live poker tournament players in the world, adjusted weekly. Pinnacle, which owns several casinos in the United States, purchased… Read more »
Online poker players, don’t get excited just yet. Don’t start running around the neighborhood yelling about how your “One time” has finally come in. Ok, fine, get a little excited. For the first time, Facebook is offering a game in which players can wager real money, not simply things like in-game currency or Facebook credits.… Read more »
Poker players at a Tennessee poker outlet learned their fate this week as Chattanooga District Attorney Neal Pinkston held hearings regarding charges against those patrons. 41 players gathered in front of Pinkston on Thursday as a result of a raid by Chattanooga police in June. Back on June 7, the Chattanooga Police Department raided an… Read more »
It is the news that the poker community has been waiting to hear for well over a year now. After several false starts, the United States Department of Justice and PokerStars have announced a settlement of the civil claims by the federal government against the number one online poker site in the industry. As a… Read more »
Pinnacle Entertainment, owner of the Heartland Poker Tour, reported positive second quarter financial results Wednesday, sparking a jump in the company’s stock price. Revenue increased $8.9 million to $298.3 million, a 3.1 percent lift from the second quarter of 2011. Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization), was even more impressive, soaring… Read more »
Brent Beckley, co-founder of Absolute Poker, was sentenced to 14 months in prison Monday. Beckley was one of 11 people named in the federal indictments unsealed on April 15, 2011, better known in the poker community as “Black Friday.” In December, Beckley pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Bank and Wire Fraud, one of nine… Read more »
A group of more than 70 Tennessee poker players have filed a class action lawsuit against the Chattanooga Billiard Club (CBC) and its owner Phil Windham for allegedly cancelling an annual poker tournament for which the players qualified. In the Complaint, filed by attorney Hoyt Samples, the plaintiffs explain that the CBC hosted a free… Read more »
This Saturday, June 2nd, celebrities from the worlds of sports and entertainment will converge on the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California for the 5th annual Dealing for Duchenne charity poker tournament and auction. Cure Duchenne, a non-profit organization which provides funding for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research, is the organizer of the event… Read more »
ESPN.com recently released the latest edition of its “The Nuts,” its monthly poker player rankings. Player rankings produced by other websites typically take into account only poker tournaments; some use live tournaments, some use online. ESPN.com uses all the information available to sort things out in an attempt to rank the best players of the… Read more »
PokerTracker, the ever-popular online poker analysis software suite, recently released the public beta of its newest version, PokerTracker 4 (PT4). PT4 had previously been made available on a limited basis via the company’s private beta testing program, but now anyone can get their hands on this newest version to give it a spin before the… Read more »
Chad Elie, one of the eleven men named in the April 15th, 2011 “Black Friday” online gambling indictments, has pleaded guilty to one of the nine crimes with which he was charged. Elie was set to stand trial on April 9th for his role as a payment processor for PokerStars, Absolute Poker, and Full Tilt… Read more »
It’s the beginning of a new month (well close enough) and with that, ESPN has released the latest installment of its poker player rankings, dubbed “The Nuts.” ESPN’s rankings attempt to determine who the best poker player is right now, at this moment, and while the pollsters naturally give weight to what a player has… Read more »
It is not exactly a true happy ending, but to this point, it would probably be hard for Jonathan Duhamel to want much more after the frightening pre-Christmas incident that saw him robbed and beaten in his own home. Last Wednesday, the most prized item swiped in the break-in, Duhamel’s 2010 World Series of Poker… Read more »
British pop music icon Robbie Williams recently launched a beta version of a play-for-fun online poker room bearing his name, giving fans an opportunity to test their skills and win “Robbie”-related prizes in the process. Despite the fact that no real money deposits are required to play, Williams is already taking heat from up on… Read more »
In late November 2010, Peter Eastgate auctioned off his 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event bracelet, raising over $140,000 for charity. The identity of the buyer was not made public at the time and for the most part, that was the last anyone heard of it. Until now. Our friends over at PokerNews.com… Read more »
2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Joe Hachem announced this weekend that he has forged a new relationship with the AsianLogic Group. AsianLogic has a hand in many arenas of gambling in the Asia Pacific markets, from online and live sports betting to online casinos to multiplayer P2P games. The company is… Read more »
The poker industry’s two most prominent magazines – Bluff and Card Player – announced their Players of the Year (POY) this week. For both Ben Lamb and Eugene Katchalov, 2011 was obviously a fantastic year, but interestingly, the two took very different paths to their respective titles. Katchalov, winner of the Bluff Player of the… Read more »
