After nearly two years of waiting, PokerStars has finally been given the green light from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) to begin operating in the Garden State. The DGE approved Amaya Gaming’s application, meaning both PokerStars and Full Tilt can now get back into the United States online poker market for the… Read more »
Aaron Mermelstein joined a select group of poker players Tuesday as he became just the 25th repeat winner in World Poker Tour (WPT) history, as he took the crown in the inaugural WPT Maryland Live! Main Event. Not only was it his second WPT title, but it was also the second he earned this calendar… Read more »
After much hype, Poker Central, the world’s only round-the-clock poker television network, will make its debut on Thursday, October 1st. On Tuesday, it announced its inaugural programming lineup. Many of the shows, at least initially, will be pre-existing series that originally aired either in the U.S. or overseas, but Poker Central is developing original programming,… Read more »
It was a fairly short day at the inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland Live! Main Event as only fourteen eliminations were needed to determine the composition of the final table. Leading the charge into Tuesday’s action is the chip leader entering Monday, 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Greg Merson. With… Read more »
United States Representative Bob Goodlatte hates, hates, hates online poker. Wishes it would die. And in the U.S., thanks to his efforts to get the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) passed, it almost did. Yet despite all that, Rep. Goodlatte is currently one of the poker industry’s strongest allies against Sheldon Adelson… Read more »
The 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland Live! Main Event has been a swift one, as after just two days (three calendar days because of the two starting flights), the field has been whittled from 337 to just 20 players. Leading the charge for the quarter-million dollar first prize is 2012 World Series of Poker… Read more »
Not one to rest on their laurels, the World Poker Tour quickly swung back into action after the conclusion of the Borgata Poker Open. In fact, while David Paredes was wrapping up the championship of that event, the first of two Day Ones took place at the newest venue for the WPT, Maryland Live! in,… Read more »
After hovering around the top of the leaderboard for the past two days, poker professional David Paredes made his big breakthrough in taking down his first major tournament poker championship in winning the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City late Friday night. Paredes, who held the Day 3 chip lead earlier this… Read more »
After battling through a massive field over the past four days, the final table is now set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City. Leading the final six men will be James Gilbert, but every player at the final table has a wealth of experience and could take down the championship.… Read more »
Once again the players have turned out to the Borgata in Atlantic City for the Borgata Poker Open and it is shaping up to be an outstanding final table battle. With 25 players remaining, David Parades is set up to take aim at his first major poker championship with several top pros in pursuit. 127… Read more »
A two-part public service warning here: 1) Watching reality television is roughly akin to having a lobotomy without the benefit of anesthesia, so don’t do it, and 2) If you want to waste three months, there’s better ways to do it. After three months in which she obviously played the best game of anyone in… Read more »
Remember when Binion’s in downtown Las Vegas used to be a legendary venue for poker? Now it’s more like Binion’s is a place that people only hear about in legends. The latest piece of evidence in the near-disappearance of poker from Binion’s altogether came yesterday, as the gambling hall announced that it is dropping the… Read more »
The survivors from Day 1A and 1B met on Tuesday at the Borgata in Atlantic City for Day 2 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event. After late registration closed, the total field, including those who had already been eliminated, end up at 1,027 players. Just 127 runners remain heading… Read more »
Real money online casino PalaCasino.com released its mobile app last week, allowing customers in New Jersey to gamble online without being tethered to a computer. Available for both Android and Apple, the app allows players to do essentially everything they can from the desktop software. The PalaCasino app offers access to nearly 30 casino games,… Read more »
The opening flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City are complete and the survivors from each are ready to combine into a single field today for Day 2. Sofia Lövgren came out of Day 1B as the chip leader both of her flight and of the… Read more »
Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. And right now, hindsight is being quite critical of bwin.party’s decision to accept the acquisition offer of GVC Holdings over that of 888 Holdings earlier this month. According to UK newspaper The Independent, “observers have questioned the logic of choosing a far smaller player to take it over,” particularly… Read more »
Sportsbetting Poker is a micro skin of BetOnline. It is on the Chico Poker Network and operates alongside BetOnline. The two sites are identical except for the graphics. BetOnline acquired Sportsbetting Poker in 2013. Sportsbetting Poker accepts U.S. players. There are no state restrictions. A Personal Opinion of Sportsbetting Poker What I like about Sportsbetting… Read more »
Americas Cardroom is a member of the Winning Poker Network. It is sister site to True Poker. The network is operated by the same parent company as Bookmaker and Betcris. This company is held in very high regard in the online gaming industry. The Americas Cardroom brand was relaunched after DoylesRoom was acquired by the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour was back in action Sunday with the first of two starting flights of the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. This $3,300 + $200 No-Limit Hold’em tournament has a $3 million guaranteed prize pool and will pay down to 120 places if its field reaches the same size… Read more »
After a huge event following their “restart” after the World Series of Poker – the massive Legends of Poker tournament in California earlier this month – the World Poker Tour kicks back into action this afternoon with the Borgata Poker Open in New Jersey. Usually one of the bigger events on the WPT circuit, the… Read more »
After receiving feedback from industry members and regulatory organizations, a New York State Senator is looking to revise some segments of his online poker legislation. New York State Senator John Bonacic, who is the driving force behind online poker legislation in the Empire State (he has filed some sort of bill in support of online… Read more »
In what has been a tumultuous two days, poker professional Vanessa Rousso has put herself in position to be under consideration for the $500,000 first prize on the CBS reality show Big Brother. After fighting her way into the final three, Rousso now has the potential to make the final two. Come next week, Rousso… Read more »
Another million dollar guaranteed tournament, another Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the Winning Poker Network (WPN). On Sunday, September 13th, the network held the first of five fall Million Dollar Sunday tournaments, which guaranteed a million dollar prize pool and at least $200,000 to the winner. But, as has happened when WPN has… Read more »
Players on the Merge Gaming Network lost even more of the little hope they had of seeing their deposited funds late last week when they were told that Skrill is no longer a viable withdrawal method. Though Merge charged players a 5 percent fee on Skrill withdrawals, the e-wallet was seen as a reliable and… Read more »
As they are pulling into the final week of what has been a summer-long run, the CBS reality television show Big Brother is down to its final five competitors. Of the five houseguests remaining, one is poker professional Vanessa Rousso. Rousso has shown a dominant mental game throughout the run of this summer’s program, but… Read more »
