There are still a few tournaments to dust off of the books before we close the 2013 calendar year. One of those is the European Poker Tour stop in Prague, the Czech Republic, which started yesterday and has become one of the more well-attended tournaments on the EPT circuit over the past couple of years.… Read more »
The drive by the online poker industry’s biggest name, PokerStars, to return to the U. S. has suffered another setback, this time at the hands of New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement. According to Nathan Vardi of Forbes.com, the DGE decided on Wednesday to suspend review of PokerStars’ application for a license to be a… Read more »
After starting the final table with the chip lead, poker pro Dan Smith was able to parlay that position into his first championship on the World Poker Tour last night at the Bellagio’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Coming into the final table, Smith’s lead over Australian poker legend Gary Benson was a… Read more »
The United States House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing yesterday to discuss HB 2666, the Poker Freedom Act, introduced by staunch poker supporter Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX). As it turned out, there was not much discussion of the actual bill, but rather general questions and answers about the safety of internet gambling. The… Read more »
It was another nine hour day at the 2013 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event on Tuesday and now we have our television final table. Just 21 players remained after Day 4, but with relatively large chip stacks and players who played cautiously to try to move up on the payout… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event concluded its fourth day on Monday and after a quick pace at the outset as the short stacks went down after desperation moves to try to move up the ladder, things slowed down considerably. It took nine hours for just 38 eliminations… 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 »
After waiting the better part of a year since making its intentions to move originally known, Ladbrokes has announced that it finally plans to jump from Microgaming’s MPN network to the iPoker Network. The decision to leave MPN was made public in March, but there were details to hash out; Ladbrokes couldn’t just flip a… Read more »
While the vast majority of the U.S. intrastate online poker headlines have revolved around Nevada and New Jersey, little discussed Delaware has had its own internet gambling industry up and running for a month now. According to a report on newsworks.org, state officials are pleased with how things have gone so far. Delaware has three… Read more »
Sunday was a good news, bad news day for the survivors of Day 3 at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event. The good news was, well, they made it to Day 4. The bad news was that they were not able to relax when they retired to their… Read more »
The first salvo in the federal online gaming regulation wars will be fired on Tuesday when a House subcommittee meets to discuss the subject in Washington, D. C. On Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade will hold a hearing at 12:30PM (Eastern Time) at the Rayburn House Office Building in the nation’s… Read more »
The chips weren’t the only thing flying around the Bellagio over the past two days as poker’s best players (or deepest pocketed, depending on your view) tossed cash around in their attempt to take down the World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic championship. The “rain” began to fall on Friday with… Read more »
Finishing the first leg of what will be a busy month for the circuit, Derrick Rosenbarger emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal late last night. The six players convened on Thursday afternoon, looking for the championship belt awarded to the WPT Montreal champion and… Read more »
It was another quick day of play during Day 4 of the World Poker Tour stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal yesterday as the field quickly whittled its way down from the final 18 to the official WPT six-handed final table. At the start of play on Wednesday, Sylvain Siebert was atop the… Read more »
‘Tis the season for sharing and in that spirit, two of the most followed tournament tracking sites on the internet have formed a partnership that will help bring the poker community all the tourney information it can handle. PocketFives.com announced today that it and TheHendonMob.com have agreed to share information with one another creating what… Read more »
Unibet Group PLC announced Tuesday that it will be striking out on its own with its online poker room, leaving MPN (Microgaming Poker Network) in early 2014 to become an independent room. The company has partnered with Relax Gaming, an Estonia-based firm that has developed internet poker, bingo, and casino gaming products. “The environment in… Read more »
As expected, it was a quick Day 3 at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event Tuesday as it took just six hours to narrow the field from 59 to 18. Today those dozen and a half players will be further whittled to the final table of six. Leading the pack in a… Read more »
We thought there would maybe, possibly be a chance to burst the money bubble during Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event, but we certainly didn’t expect it to be obliterated like it was. 357 runners started Monday’s action after surviving one of the three Day 1 flights and in the… Read more »
With regulated online poker up and running in New Jersey for about a week now, the natural question on many people’s minds is: how is it doing? To paraphrase Larry David, “Prettay, prettay, prettay, prettay well.” Now make no mistake, the New Jersey internet poker sites aren’t going to come close to the main versions… Read more »
888.com won the “Poker Operator of the Year” award at the 2013 Gaming Review Operator Awards, which took place on November 25th at the Roundhouse Theater in London. It was the ninth edition of this prestigious event and 888.com and its brands were nominated on several categories, including: Mobile Poker Product, Marketing Campaign, Casino Operator… Read more »
The remainder of the starting flights of the 2013 WPT Montreal Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with 357 players surviving to the beginning of the work week. Topping the field is Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, the chip leader after Day 1A, holding 270,800 chips. As expected, each successive Day 1 flight was larger than the… Read more »
