Once again, sports betting in New Jersey will have to wait as the curiously short-sighted American sports leagues get to take their ball and go home. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp issued a temporary restraining order, halting the start of a sports wagering regime in the Garden State, at least for now.… Read more »
There has been a bit of a lull in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XIII schedule since the WPT Borgata Poker Open, but never fear, the WPT National Events have come to fill the void. On Monday, the WPT National Philippines Main Event wrapped up, as Japan’s Tetsuya Tsuchikawa triumphed over a solid field… Read more »
After having one of the most restrictive online gaming and poker laws in the United States on the books for years, commentary has suddenly exploded as several figures try to make a change in said law. According to MYNorthwest.com writer Josh Kerns, Seattle radio station KIRO-FM host Dori Monson called out the Washington state government… Read more »
While it is not quite clear what their intentions are, the Poker Players Alliance has introduced a page on their website examining the current crop of politicians that are running for various offices during the 2014 midterm elections. Entitled “It’s Time to Take the Jokers Out of the Deck,” the PPA webpage lists off 22… Read more »
After tabulation of the votes from the living members of the organization and a select list of poker journalists, poker professional Daniel Negreanu and longtime poker fixture Jack McClelland are the two men who will comprise the class for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame. Negreanu and McClelland will become the 47th and 48th members… Read more »
The big news coming out of New Jersey last week was that Governor Chris Christie signed Senate Bill 2460 quickly after it had passed overwhelmingly in both the State Senate and General Assembly. The bill lifts the ban on sports betting in the state, which has been in place since 1992 when the Professional and… Read more »
On Thursday, October 16th, Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Sturla introduced House Resolution 1095 into the Pennsylvania General Assembly, a bill which encourages the United States Congress to not give in to Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson and his cronies who want to make sure Americans cannot play poker online. United States Senator Lindsey Graham… Read more »
PokerStars…Full Tilt Poker…partypoker…Adjarabet? We are used to seeing those first three names at or around the top of the charts in the online poker industry, but that fourth one? Most people probably don’t even know what Adjarabet is. As it turns out, according to PokerScout’s cash game traffic rankings, the Georgia-based online poker room (Georgia… Read more »
When Full Tilt Poker removed the likenesses of Gus Hansen and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom from its website, people started gossiping that something was up. It was. The two high stakes poker pros are no longer sponsored by the site. In a statement released to multiple media outlets, Full Tilt confirmed the departure of Hansen and… Read more »
The antiquated law prohibiting all but four states is starting to be turned on its head. On Thursday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed Senate Bill 2460 into law, legalizing sports betting at the states casinos and racetracks. The confirmation came just a day after the General Assembly approved the bill 73-4. It previously flew… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) wrapped up over the weekend with Scott Davies taking the Main Event bracelet and Mike Leah capturing the High Roller crown. One side story, though, garnered interest in the last days of the WSOP APAC: the race for the WSOP Player of the Year (POY)… Read more »
In a stunning case out of the United Kingdom, a (formerly) sponsored online poker affiliate and World Series of Poker bracelet winner has been charged with several counts of online gaming fraud. The British newspaper the Grimsby Telegraph reported that British poker professional Darren Woods was charged with 13 counts of fraud and money laundering… Read more »
Ever since “Black Friday,” the number of poker programs on television has dwindled. Although stalwarts like the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour and even the Heartland Poker Tour have been able to make it through the fray, the number of “made for television” poker productions has become almost nil. There is some… Read more »
Although two men came to the table on Saturday afternoon with a shot at becoming only the second two-time winner in European Poker Tour history, Sebastian Pauli denied both of them – including runner-up Kevin MacPhee – en route to taking down the EPT London at the Grand Connaught Rooms in the United Kingdom. Pauli… Read more »
After a heads-up battle that lasted longer than the four eliminations leading to it, the United States’ Scott Davies outlasted the United Kingdom’s Jack Salter to take home the Championship Event bracelet at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) Saturday night (early morning U. S. time) at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.… Read more »
In what turned out to be an extremely rapid final table, Canada’s Mike Leah rode a chip lead that he took two days to create in dominating the final six players en route to winning his first bracelet in the $25,000 High Rollers event at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC). Coming to the… Read more »
The close of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) is upon us with two tournaments set to close over the next couple of days. Up first will be the $25,000 High Roller event on Friday and the festivities Down Under will conclude with the crowning of the $10,000 Main Event champion. $10,000 Championship… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event turned the corner Wednesday as the money bubble burst and the tournament played down to the final 18 players. It almost got down to the desired 16, but the plan was to play to either that number or six 90-minute levels, and the… Read more »
Tuesday saw Day 2 come and go at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event as the survivors from the two opening flights came together in a unified field for the first time. A total of 182 players came over from Days 1A and 1B, while five more players registered… Read more »
We said it would take a strong Day 1B for the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event to be bigger than last year’s and it happened. 444 players registered for the second starting flight, nearly doubling Day 1A’s field and bringing the total player numbers to 668, easily beating 2013’s field of 604. Topping… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) has returned after a two month hiatus with the £4,250 buy-in EPT London Main Event. Held in the Grand Connaught Rooms in London, the Main Event saw 224 register for Day 1A on Sunday with 135 making it all the way to Day 2. The chip leader for the first… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) AU$10,000 Main Event got going this weekend in Australia as two waves of players started their quest for the final bracelet of the Series (wait, wait…before you say that the High Roller Event is still to be played, I will counter with the fact that… Read more »
When European Poker Tour officials announced their schedule earlier this year, there was a huge gap in the Season 11 roster of events. In that original schedule, there was a lack of any EPT action between a trip to Deauville, France, in January 2015 and the Grand Final in Monaco in April. That gap has… Read more »
Battling through arguably the most difficult final table to date at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC), Germany’s George Danzer captured his third bracelet of the overall WSOP and took over the lead in the WSOP Player of the Year race. Although only 48 players put their money on the line in Event… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) is creeping closer to its $10,000 Championship Event, but there’s still a bit of work with the preliminary events left to wrap up. One of those tournaments on Saturday (Friday in the U. S.) was Event #7, the $2000 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em tournament, which saw its… Read more »
