The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released the latest figures for the state’s infant internet gambling industry on Sunday and so far, so good. According to the report, 126,231 online gaming accounts have been registered at the various Atlantic City-based sites, an increase of about 15 percent over the previous week. New Jersey’s… Read more »
Though it appears nowhere close to actually doing so, a Wisconsin Native American tribe has said that it would like to jump into the online poker business. According to an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa tribe wants to expand its online businesses into the online gambling sector in order to… Read more »
We are less than two months removed from the finale of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), so now seems like a rather odd time to start looking ahead to next year. But considering the entirety of the WSOP, including the gap before the final table, is five months, it may not be that odd… Read more »
It’s hard for most to imagine what the tournament poker world looked like only ten years ago. Back before the advent of the World Poker Tour, major high buy-in tournaments (re: $5,000 or more) were quite rare. Outside of the World Series of Poker, there was only a handful that made the grade. Fast forward… Read more »
As we prepare to turn the calendar from 2013 to 2014, it’s time to look back at the past year. Poker and politics were a combination that made headlines throughout the entirety of the year, for both good and bad, as the United States – and individual state governments – struggled with the issue of… Read more »
Last Thursday, Bitcoin-only online poker site SealsWithClubs.com announced that the database used to store user information had been accessed by an unauthorized user and that sensitive information was very likely acquired. As such, the site is requiring that all customers change their passwords upon their next login. Below is the entire message from SealsWithClubs management,… 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 »
Online poker is a tough business in which to get started, especially if your goal is to offer rake-free gaming. LiveAce, an innovative poker room that debuted in mid-August, has announced that it is already shutting its doors. On its homepage, LiveAce posted its obituary, writing, “We have worked tirelessly over the past two years… Read more »
After holding the lead for much of the last half of 2013, poker professional Daniel Negreanu had to withstand some challenges to his position in the three major Player of the Year races during the month of December. After the smoke cleared, Negreanu captured two of those three POY races but was caught in the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s 2013 calendar year has come to a conclusion after events in both Prague and Korea determined their champions. The WPT Prague concluded this afternoon at the Card Casino in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The six survivors from the 284 player starting field featured something for everyone in the… Read more »
In a surprising occurrence in the online poker world, high stakes poker player Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan is no longer a member of “The Professionals,” the sponsored players for Full Tilt Poker. Visitors to the Full Tilt Poker website, which once featured Dwan alongside his “Professionals” teammates Gus Hansen and Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom, are now graced… Read more »
Racing through the largest field in the history of the event, Germany’s Julian Track outran a talented final table on the way to taking down the 2013 European Poker Tour Prague Main Event last night in the Czech Republic. Coming to the final table, Track held a decent lead over former EPT champion Max Silver,… Read more »
As expected, Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was much larger than either of the other two starting flights. In fact, it was larger than both combined. Working backwards from the end total and taking into account those who registered prior to the start of Wednesday’s Day 2, it… Read more »
In poker, chip stacks can change in the blink of an eye. One second you can be at the top of the field, the next you can be wallowing as the short stack. As such, we often see significant changes at the top of tournament leaderboards day to day. In the penultimate day of the… Read more »
The 75 survivors from the two starting flights came together in a unified field for Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event Tuesday as the first official WPT event on the Asian continent moved right along. Those who sat down with chips on Day 2 were hoping to make the… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was almost twice as big as Day 1A, but that’s not saying much as far as major international poker tournaments are concerned. Day 1A saw just 40 players take their seats; the 73 that paid to play Monday were quite the step up on… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event rolled along Monday as the remaining 61 players took their seats for Day 4. With the money bubble having burst the previous day, the goal for the players Monday was to move up the payout ladder and creep closer to the final table. Britain’s Max Silver separated… Read more »
The inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event continued Monday as another round of players gathered at the Ramada Plaza Jeju in South Korea, all gunning for a shot to become the first WPT champion to be crowned on the continent of Asia. Emerging from the scrum as the chip leader was Zhu Ya… Read more »
Don’t get confused. There are two major poker tournaments taking place in Prague right now: one is the “E”PT and one the “W”PT, so be sure you read your updates carefully. In this article, we are discussing the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event, whose Day 1A concluded Sunday. It was a tiny first… Read more »
In golf, it’s called “moving day” when the players look to make their moves towards the top of the leaderboard to contend for a championship. Poker has that itself, especially once the money bubble bursts and the short stacked players look to get the best cash out for their tournament buy-in investment and the big… Read more »
To cap off their festivities for 2013, the World Poker Tour has stepped out of the United States for two tournaments on completely different continents. One of those tournaments has wrapped up its first day of play while the second is in the middle of action as we speak. The inaugural WPT Korea, taking place… Read more »
As expected after the sizeable Day 1A field, the European Poker Tour stop in Prague, the Czech Republic, has shattered its previous record in drawing in over 1000 players. Day 1B on Friday saw a massive flood of participants join the fray. While the Thursday numbers of 389 players were quite decent, the 609 that… Read more »
Rather than taking her chances in the court system, the only woman charged in the federal indictment regarding the massive Russian gambling ring blown apart earlier this year has decided to enter a guilty plea. Molly Bloom, the former poker game hostess that became known in tabloid news as the “Poker Princess,” entered a guilty… Read more »
