Despite an ongoing court battle to rid the state of 141 internet gambling sites, Kentucky's House passed a bill taxing online and phone "advanced deposit wagers" on horse racing by an 85-8 margin. Now, the measure will be discussed in the Kentucky Senate. Read more »
Online poker player Taylor "tramp$d0pray" Paur and Team PokerStars Pro member Daniel Negreanu lead the World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic after two days of play. The $10,000 buy-in tournament wraps up on Thursday. Read more »
History repeated itself at the Commerce Casino's L.A. Poker Classic. In the event's $10,000 Heads-Up tournament, Vivek "Psyduck" Rajkumar and Chris Moore found themselves playing heads-up for the championship for a second consecutive year. Read more »
Why tattoo the face of one fellow poker player on your body when you can tattoo two? UB.com pro Joe Sebok will ask himself that question after losing a last longer prop bet during the World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic on Friday. Read more »
Absolute Poker pro Mark Seif and online gamer Ben "xthesteinx" Zamani are among the leaders after one day of play in the World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. Day 2 takes place today at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. Read more »
The UB.com sponsored poker news show "Poker2Nite" has seen its final new episode air on cable station Fox Sports Net. Season 2 of the franchise will appear on Versus, according to a post on PokerRoad. Read more »
Following its acquisition of an Italian online gaming asset, the European gaming giant bwin was able to show a profit in both its fourth quarter gross revenues as well as for the Financial Year 2009. Read more »
Online poker site DoylesRoom announced this week that Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis is the newest member of the Brunson 10, a group of up-and-coming poker stars handpicked by Doyle Brunson himself. Read more »
Poker pro Ashton Griffin edged out DoylesRoom personality Hoyt Corkins heads-up to win the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian. The $25,000 buy-in tournament awarded a top prize of $460,000. Read more »
The winner of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) Main Event, JackQKA, has denied being 16 years-old and having a backer, according to a thread on the popular forum TwoPlusTwo. JackQKA remains atop the FTOPS XV Main Event leaderboard. Read more »
It's that time of the week when Poker News Daily spans the Twitterverse to bring you the best Tweets from poker players. Whatever they may be doing, the professionals who take the time to update their followers on Twitter are sometimes amusing, but always informative. Read more »
Way back in the year two thousand nine, I wrote an article laying out basic strategy for Double or Nothing (DoN) Sit-and-Go tournaments. I had taken a break from them for a little while, just to mix up my game, but this month, I have gotten back into them full force. Read more »
The inaugural North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event has crowned a champion. Tom Marchese, a 22 year-old from New Jersey, took down the first NAPT event on U.S. soil and earned $827,000. Read more »
Scott Seiver stormed through the competition on Day 1 of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) $25,000 High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian. Seiver ousted all six opponents at his starting table to move on to Day 2. Read more »
This month, poker pro and "Celebrity Apprentice" runner-up Annie Duke breaks down the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian $25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout, the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and her appearance on the television game show "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Read more »
Following the lead of the province of Quebec, the leaders of the province of Ontario are now examining the possibility of starting their own provincial online gaming and poker outlets. Facing a deficit of $24.7 billion this fiscal year, the government of Ontario, headed by Premier Dalton McGuinty, is attempting to find ways to make up that shortfall. Read more »
FullTiltPoker.net will be one of the sponsors of the Kandy Masquerade, a sexy costume ball whose proceeds will benefit the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA). This will be the second annual production of the Kandy Masquerade. Read more »
Sam Stein will bring a commanding chip lead to the final table of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event. The eight-handed feature table will play down to a winner today from Las Vegas and air on ESPN2. Read more »
Top female poker pro Annie Duke will join Kevin Pollak's Chat Show live on Sunday, March 14th at 5:00pm PT for an in-depth interview. The internet series is coming up on its one-year anniversary and has featured guests including Adam Carolla, David Koechner, and Dave Coulier. Read more »
On Tuesday, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Judd Gregg (R-NH) introduced S 3018, the Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act. Among other topics, the bill establishes a framework to tax and regulate internet gambling in the United States. Read more »
The landscape of the European online poker and casino gaming world continues to get murkier as two recent opinions from the European Court of Justice question the legalities of the Austrian and Swedish gaming laws. Read more »
What started as a mammoth field of 872 players in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian Main Event has now shrunk to just 24. Eric Blair leads the pack with a mountain of 3.7 million chips; two days remain. Read more »
The six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Celebrity Invitational was determined on Sunday and Sean Urban leads the pack. The tournament won't play down to a winner until March 3rd. Read more »
PokerStars announced the eagerly anticipated schedule for the 2010 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on Monday, revealing a tournament slate with $36 million in guaranteed prize money. SCOOP is unique in that each event features three tournaments with three different buy-ins, so that players of all bankroll sizes can participate. Read more »
The PokerStars Sunday Million regularly boasts a guaranteed prize pool of $1.5 million. On Sunday, that sum was lifted to $4 million. However, the total purse ultimately swelled to well over $7.2 million after a field of 36,169 players turned out. Read more »
