A poker player has written a letter to New Jersey gaming officials to warn them that online gaming, in particular poker, is extremely vulnerable to money laundering and collusion. That player in question has offered to show the state’s gaming officials how it is done as long as he receives immunity from prosecution. In a… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open with solid pro David Paredes atop the standings. In search of his first major championship, Paredes will have to contend with a quintet of opponents that also includes former WPT champion Jared Jaffee. 36 survivors came back to the felt on… Read more »
Day 4 of the European Poker Tour’s stop in Deauville, France, is in the books with 16 players remaining in the hunt for the title. Of those men, Sotirios Koutoupas has the best shot as he is one of only two players who have eclipsed the two million chip mark. 41 players came to the… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event is one of the largest tournaments in the history of the Tour, making Laz Hernandez’s performance to this point that much more impressive. In what has become a rarity in major tournament poker, Hernandez ended Day 2 as the chip leader after starting… Read more »
The 385 survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event gathered together on Tuesday for Day 2. They did not know how far they would need to last to make the money, as registration remained open until the start of play. Thus, the payout schedule was still… 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 »
Things didn’t start too well for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open, but now that the counterfeit chip scandal is at least partially in the rearview mirror, it’s time for bigger and better things. Day 1B of the Main Event concluded Monday as 806 players bellied up to the tables after 423… Read more »
As is almost always the case with the second of two starting flights in a major tournament, Day 1B of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event was expected to be much more crowded than was Day 1A. We also opined that it was very unlikely that the tournament would eclipse last year’s… Read more »
The Merge Gaming Network is continuing its descent into irrelevance, though this latest step down is probably a wise move. Late last week, Merge, one of the few networks still accessible to most poker players in the United States, began barring customers from the states of New Jersey and Delaware from its member rooms. With… Read more »
Sheldon Adelson really, really hates online gambling. I mean, it is getting to the point where I can’t help but admire his total commitment to the hate. Most people who are opposed to something are at least willing to let the other side speak, to at least consider for even the briefest of moments, the… Read more »
Sunday marked the first day that two major poker tournaments schedules got back into action for their current seasons. In the United States, the World Poker Tour restarted their Season XII schedule at the $3500 buy in Borgata Winter Poker Open and, in France, the European Poker Tour pitched the cards in the air for… Read more »
News late yesterday broke that one of the players in the Borgata Winter Poker Open preliminary event that was canceled – in fact, its chip leader from Day 1B – is now in the hands of Atlantic City and New Jersey gaming authorities for introducing the counterfeit chips that brought about the tournament’s cancelation. According… Read more »
For many of poker’s top professionals, the coming of the New Year brings new opportunities, new events and the chance to make even more money. For one of the poker world’s top players, however, January hasn’t been the month to get back in the swing of things. “My wife, Kayce, has been ill, so I’ve… Read more »
Nearly three years after their monies were frozen in one of the biggest scandals in online poker’s brief history, players from the United States should start seeing their funds from Full Tilt Poker before the scheduled date. In a statement on the Two Plus Two forum dedicated to the ongoing Full Tilt debacle, Poker Players… Read more »
The federal court in New York City continues to be a revolving door for the 34 people charged in last year’s April indictments and arrests in an alleged Russian gambling ring. On Tuesday, one of those who entered a guilty plea received his fate and, earlier this month, another figure received his judgment. Edwin Ting… Read more »
As you are reading this, Americans are free to play online poker in three states. Though no bills legalizing and regulating online poker have made it all the way through Congress, support on Capitol Hill is growing every year. Opponents of online poker are scared, so scared that they are back on the offensive. The… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s new Adrenaline Rush Poker has only been active for two weeks and already the site has launched a special promotion around the lightning-fast game. Called Adrenaline Rush Knockout, it is a two-week long contest to see who can take the most opponents down to the felt. To review, Adrenaline Rush Poker is… 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 »
If you haven’t been perusing all of the poker-related sites on the internet and reading them very carefully, you might have missed it. We certainly did. But better late than never, right? Buried at the end of a post on its website last Thursday, IveyPoker.com announced that it will be launching its new poker training… Read more »
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak has re-introduced a bill that, if passed, would bring more players to the state’s online poker rooms. His bill, S980, allows for New Jersey’s online gaming sites to accept customers from both other states and other countries; to this point, only those within New Jersey’s borders have been able… Read more »
The 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open is in full swing this week, but the excitement of the first major U.S. poker festival of the calendar year has been dampened by scandal. Last week, counterfeit chips were discovered during the Open’s first event, leading to a suspension of the tournament and eventually its cancellation. When the… Read more »
After 2013 saw three states – Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey – enact laws for regulating an intrastate online gaming platform in some format, it was thought that 2014 might be a bellwether for others to join the party. Just a couple of weeks into the New Year, however, those hopes are being quickly dashed.… Read more »
In one of the more honest statements that you’ll find in the poker world, 2004 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner Greg Raymer writes that he is looking for backers for his 2014 tournament efforts. At the start of a post on Two Plus Two’s Staking forum, Raymer recounts the past ten years of… Read more »
On Saturday, Marco “AgentMarco” Valerio, one of the preeminent reporters in the poker industry, posted on his site the draft of an anti-online gaming bill that is supposedly strongly backed by Las Vegas Sands CEO and staunch opponent of online poker, Sheldon Adelson. The bill, designed to be introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives,… Read more »
Earlier this week, we relayed the story of popular poker blogger and photographer Jay “WhoJedi” Newnum, who was arrested on December 16th, 2013, for allegedly stealing $700 from dealer tip boxes at Foxwoods. The initial report was made last Wednesday by Billy Shea, president of the Local 2121 union, on the Facebook page for Foxwoods… Read more »
