After continuing operations for more than two years despite the fact that they were not paying out players, a former employee for the besieged online poker room Lock Poker says that the website is “on the verge of collapse.” In an interview with Pokerfuse.com’s Michael Gentile, former Lock Poker spokesperson Shane Bridges emerged from the… Read more »
What was expected to be a scintillating debate between the two men at the helms of both sides of the ongoing debate over regulation of the online gaming and poker industry instead turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. Currently in Washington, D. C., the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) opened up its… Read more »
Pennsylvania State Representative John Payne (R – Dauphin) has introduced a bill that would legalize and regulate online gambling in the Keystone State. The bill, HB 649, already has support, sponsored by sixteen Representatives in addition to Payne. While HB 649 has been entered on the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s website, the complete text of the… Read more »
Tales of casino closures during the past year or so have emanated mostly from Atlantic City, as the east coast gambling hub’s economy has been struggling. But the next landmark casino to become memory will be in Las Vegas: the Riviera. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that the famed gaming venue has not only… Read more »
In “real life,” five years is not a particularly long time,* but in the online poker universe, it is an eternity. Therefore, to me, at least, it seems odd that a five-year old topic that affected very few people was recently drudged up, but it was, and here we are. Cole “cts687” South recently appeared… Read more »
The combination of Nevada’s and Delaware’s online poker player pools may be around the corner. Finally. According to Steve Tetreault of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has said that the year-old interstate gaming compact between the two states will finally have its promise met within the next month or two. Despite being… Read more »
A pair of identical poker bills were introduced into the California state legislature Friday by State Senator Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Adam Gray. The bills, SB 278 and AB 43, would aim to legalize online poker in the Golden State. They are both stubs, meaning they are not complete, details bills yet, but rather provide… Read more »
Management of leading Bitcoin online poker site SealswithClubs has announced that after more than a week of unscheduled downtime, it has officially shut down the site for good. Adding to the intrigue: a revelation from site chairman Bryan Micon that the site’s closure was precipitated by a law enforcement raid of his home on the… Read more »
Never one to remain silent on his opinions about situations in the poker world, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu has once again opened up his mind on a poker issue. In this particular case, Negreanu has compiled a list of players that may be banned from participating at the World Series of Poker and… Read more »
Barely a month into the new Congressional session, Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz has not only reintroduced a House version of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) legislation that died in the last Congress but also now has a hearing scheduled on the bill. On March 5, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security… Read more »
According to reports from New Jersey, a new online venture will be joining with the state’s online gaming industry by the end of this month. The casino operating the new site – and its potential partner for online poker – could draw a great deal of interest from the online gaming and poker community. NJ.com’s… Read more »
Late last month, prospective United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to suffer through the ordeal of a several-hour long confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. These sorts of hearings are usually filled with committee members hurling stupid, politically-motivated questions at the nominee, particularly if those members are not members of the… Read more »
The quarter-year mark is approaching, and with it comes an inevitability: another Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Sure enough, Full Tilt Poker has released the schedule for FTOPS XXVIII (Twenty-eight! And it would have been more had the former executives at the site not been crooks and led to Full Tilt disappearing for a… Read more »
It’s about damn time. After years of fighting against PokerStars’ inclusion in the regulated United States online poker market, Caesars Entertainment finally relented last week and said it will no longer support “bad actor” clauses in internet gaming legislation. This week, the company took things a step further, announcing that it will be teaming up… Read more »
In a result that should surprise exactly nobody, Anthony Zinno won the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Monday night, claiming about $400,000 in combined prize money and a seat in the WPT Championship at the end of the season. This is Zinno’s second WPT title, the first coming in 2013… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event is today and while it comes with plenty of celebration, a damper was put on the excitement at the beginning of the Classic because of an unusual problem for a poker tournament: ticket scalping. It is not unusual for people to… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event was set yesterday evening as just six players remain from the original 419. Anthony Zinno is the chip leader with 4.73 million chips, a solid 2 million ahead of his closest competitor, Corey Hochman. After Hochman, it is another million down… Read more »
After slugging it out for the past seven years regarding the regulation of online poker in the state of California, three state Indian tribes have offered a compromise that may move forward current legislation. In a letter obtained by Pechanga.net, the leaders of those three tribes – Bo Mazzetti of the Rincon Band of Luisefio… Read more »
Demonstrating the difficulty for poker professionals to either get or maintain their sponsorships with online poker site, two of the more prominent female poker professionals in the business have recently announced the end of their sponsorship deals with their respective sites. Earlier this week, PokerStars announced that Vanessa Rousso would no longer be a member… Read more »
A prominent business website has come forward with something that many in the poker/gaming industry have assumed regarding Amaya Gaming’s efforts to license PokerStars in New Jersey in accusing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie of blocking those efforts for his own political gain. The website Businessinsider.com and writer Hunter Walker this afternoon went public with their… Read more »
After dominating much of the tournament over the final three days of play, Brian Altman completed the job in finishing off his only nemesis, Mark Dube, to win the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, last night. To say that Altman, who picked… Read more »
Shares of online gaming firm 888 Holdings PLC soared Tuesday after the company confirmed that it has been approached by fellow gambling company, William Hill PLC, with a possible purchase offer. 888’s stock price closed at 171.50p after opening at 143p, a jump of 20 percent. 888 issued the following press release in response to… Read more »
With Day 4 in the books, the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open is set. And while there may be six players at the table, it appears, at this point, that it will come down to two: Mark Dube and Brian Altman. The two men, who led the… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is getting ready to kick it old school on February 15th. Starting this coming Sunday and running through the next, Full Tilt is hosting the Full Tilt Classic. The sixteen event tournament series dispatches with all the multi-entry bullshit that has been increasing in popularity and gets back to the basics: the… Read more »
It was a relatively quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida on Monday as just 60 eliminations were needed to get down to the final 18 players. The tournament still proceeded into the night, but shutting the festivities down before 9:30pm is early compared to… Read more »
