The money bubble drew ever closer Tuesday at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event as the field was slashed by about two-thirds. With just 32 players getting paid and 65 remaining going into Wednesday’s Day 3, the field will still need to be cut by half before anyone can exhale even a… Read more »
Lottery Sit & Go tournaments are standard fare at online poker rooms now, but it is strange to realize that they have only been around a short time. PokerStars only introduced its version of the Lottery Sit & Go, the Spin & Go, in September of last year. And now, to celebrate the Spin &… Read more »
With the preliminary events out of the way (except for the High Roller Event, which begins Wednesday), it is on to the Main Event at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe. The two starting flights are already in the books and leading the way heading into Tuesday’s Day 2 is Scotland’s Niall Farrell with… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker Europe has made its share of history this year. Last week, it hosted the largest event ever at the WSOP Europe, The Oktoberfest, which fielded 2,144 players. And now, the latest bracelet winner is just the third player from Greece to pull off the feat. The kicker here, though,… Read more »
I’m not going to go so far as to say that the end is nigh for daily fantasy sports (DFS), but it is not looking good for the young and suddenly extremely popular gaming pastime. On Monday afternoon, yet another shoe dropped, as Amaya Gaming announced that it is pulling its DFS site, StarsDraft, almost… Read more »
As the €10,000 Main Event prepares to begin today, preliminary action at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe is beginning to wrap up. Two events have reached their conclusion, with Greece capturing its second bracelet of the WSOP-E and a veteran Brit making some noise in Pot Limit Hold’em. Event #6 – €3000 No… Read more »
Over the past two weeks, the news hasn’t been very good for the online gaming and, in particular, the daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry. After the revelations that employees of the two major players in the game, FanDuel and DraftKings, would often play on the opposite site (barred from playing on the site that employed… Read more »
While it has caught some flak for not being the true “television network” that was probably initially planned, Poker Central has steamed along with its near 24/7 reruns of tournament and “made for television” poker for over two weeks now. On Sunday, one of the first programs made especially for Poker Central will hit the… Read more »
One thing that cannot be doubted with Mediarex Sports & Entertainment’s Chief Executive Officer Alex Dreyfus is that he isn’t thinking about improving poker. From implementing the Global Poker Index and turning it into the premier metric for measuring poker professionals to creating the Global Poker Masters, Dreyfus has been able to demonstrate his vision… Read more »
It’s been a busy couple of days at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe at the Spielbank Berlin Casino in Germany. Two bracelets have been handed out, including a U. S. expatriate earning one and a European taking his first for his country. Event #4 – €1500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold’em 22 players… Read more »
The Million Dollar Sunday tournaments on the Winning Poker Network (WPN) have never managed to reach that million dollar guarantee, which why they will no longer be Million Dollar Sundays. While there has been no official announcement on its website, WPN has decided to chop the million dollar guarantee in half to $500,000. At the… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker Europe rolls on and Tuesday night, Richard Gryko (not to be confused with former “21 Jump Street” star Richard Grieco) picked up his first WSOP bracelet, winning Event 3: €3,250 Eight-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha. Gryko picked up €126,345 ($143,489) for his achievement. It was a small event compared to most… Read more »
Points for creativity go to Full Tilt Poker. In an effort to expand its player base, Full Tilt is attempting to get its play-money game client, FullTilt.net, listed on the Steam entertainment platform. The poker software is currently in the voting process on Steam Greenlight. Steam is a software distribution platform developed by the Valve… Read more »
Event #2 of the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe made history over the past several days, as it became the largest tournament – in terms of player numbers – ever seen at the WSOP Europe. It obliterated the previous record, too, fielding 2,144 entries, almost three times as many as the 771 who played… Read more »
PokerStars has yet another poker tournament series starting today. It’s not a gigantic one like the recently-ended 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), but it certainly looks like fun. During Knockout Week, PokerStars is hosting 35 tournaments, all Knockout, Super Knockout, and Progressive Super Knockout varieties. The tournaments start Monday and run through Sunday,… Read more »
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released an 89-page report detailing its investigation of Amaya Gaming’s acquisition of PokerStars and Full Tilt and the possibility of issuing the company a Transactional Waiver Order – essentially a probationary license – to offer online gaming in New Jersey. As we know, the Order was granted,… Read more »
Defeating a difficult final table, Makarios Avramidis emerged as the victor of the first event at the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe, the €2000 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament, on Saturday night. Six men (hence the name of the tournament) returned on Saturday to determine the champion of this event with Paul Michaelis,… Read more »
In motions filed on Wednesday in federal court, the Atlantic City casino the Borgata is looking for a dismissal of a lawsuit brought by poker professional Phil Ivey regarding the non-payment of his winnings from a 2012 baccarat binge. In their motion, attorneys for the Borgata claim that Ivey and a partner, Cheng Yin Sun,… Read more »
The 2015 World Series of Poker Europe has opened the doors of the Spielbank Berlin Casino in Germany with action in its first event on the schedule. The €2000 Six Handed No Limit Hold’em tournament’s Day One action saw a nice turnout and a popular British pro take the top slot for the day’s play.… Read more »
Oh good, Senator Harry Reid (D – Nev.) is weighing in on the daily fantasy sports (DFS) “insider trading” scandal. According to NewJersey.com’s John Brennan, the Senate Minority Leader spoke with his colleague, Herb Jackson, to give his two cents on the issue that has been gaining more and more attention in the past week.… Read more »
If fans of online gambling and daily fantasy sports (DFS) hoped that news of the recent “insider trading” scandal would stay contained to niche industry news sites and message boards, they are now sorely disappointed. Mainstream news sites have now caught wind of what has been going on and have jumped on the situation. Even… Read more »
The prize pool may not have been anything unusual, but the size of the field of PokerStars’ inaugural Common Cents tournament series certainly was. On Monday, PokerStars broke its own record for the largest online poker tournament of all-time by attracting 253,698 players to the micro-roller tournament series’ kickoff event. PokerStars didn’t get over a… Read more »
We have heard about the Global Poker League (GPL) from Global Poker Index (GPI) CEO Alexandre Dreyfus before, but really all we have ever heard is that it is part of his plan to “sportify” poker. The GPL was always some blurry thing coming in the future, but never have any details been forthcoming. On… Read more »
The recovery process from the freezing of Full Tilt Poker player funds nearly four and a half years ago continues. Though millions of dollars have been paid out to former U.S. customers of Full Tilt, there are still millions left to go. You thought it was all over, didn’t you? On Friday, the Poker Players… Read more »
We have seen a trend lately of online poker rooms trying to make themselves more recreational-player friendly, not by necessarily weeding out skilled pros (though this is often what happens), but by attempting to protect weaker or simply newer players from those who want to prey on them by means other than simply playing good… Read more »
