As the 2016 Presidential campaign swings into high gear, several of the candidates have made their positions known on a variety of subjects. The question of online gaming and poker is one, however, that candidates from either party – Democrat or Republican – haven’t taken a stand. In a town hall meeting recently one of… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker League released a list of 203 poker professionals who had agreed to a two-year deal to offer their availability to the fledgling organization. Each player has signed a contract – which has generated some controversy in the poker world – and the players are ready to see who the 12… Read more »
After a sign up period in which players could either opt-in to participation in the organization or choose to stay out of the group, the Global Poker League announced earlier today (got to love Europe!) 203 professionals from the 1000 qualified players that will make up the inaugural draft for the GPL’s first season. In… Read more »
Wrapping up a fiasco that dates back to last summer, Florida gaming officials are expected to hand down a massive fine against one of the state’s most popular poker rooms. The fine is the result of a tournament that still has several question marks as to the integrity of the event and the racetrack where… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced the schedule for its television broadcasts yesterday, as episodes of Season XIV will kick off on Fox Sports Network (FSN) on Sunday, February 28th. Episodes will air at 8:00pm ET and will be replayed throughout the week on FSN and FS2. A total of nine World Poker Tour stops… Read more »
On Friday, February 5th, sports fans in the United Kingdom joined those in the United States and Canada in having access to daily fantasy sports (DFS) leader DraftKings. DraftKings originally applied for a gambling license back in June 2015 and was awarded the license in August. At the time, the company said that it anticipated… Read more »
The PokerStars makeover continues. This week, many players on the world’s largest online poker site have received e-mails telling them that their regular heads-up cash game tables will disappear on Friday, replaced with Zoom Poker tables. The e-mail was brief: We are writing to inform you that as of Friday 12th February No Limit Hold’em,… Read more »
GVC Holdings, the company that bought bwin.party – and by extension the partypoker brand – for £1.116 billion (USD $1,697 billion) in September 2015, has announced that it plans to expand partypoker globally. The once-dominant online poker site pre-UIGEA has said that it will re-enter 21 “gray market” countries, or countries where online poker is… Read more »
There have been a lot of Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) in Full Tilt Poker’s checkered history. Yet another one will kick off in a couple weeks when FTOPS XXIX launches the first two of its events on February 21st. Running for three weeks through March 13th, FTOPS XXIX will feature 46 events and… Read more »
PokerStars announced today that it will host a special 10th anniversary edition of its popular Sunday Million tournament on March 20th at 14:30 ET. The ambitious event will have a $10 million guaranteed prize pool (I see what they did there), setting it up to be one of the most lucrative online poker tournaments of… Read more »
It has often been mentioned as one of poker’s “major” tournament events. Much like tennis has the Australian, French and U. S. Opens along with Wimbledon as its majors, poker’s “majors” have often been listed as the World Series of Poker Championship Event, the World Poker Tour World Championship (it was discontinued this year), the… Read more »
It seemed unlikely at the start of the final table, but local favorite Chris Leong – who started the final table as the short stack – was able to come from behind to defeat the start of day chip leader Rafael Yaraliyev to capture the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open… Read more »
In a monumental announcement on Thursday afternoon, the streaming 24/7 poker channel Poker Central met its goal of heading to a broadcast outlet, announcing a deal with an Ohio cable outlet that will start broadcasting the network as one of its offerings. Buckeye CableSystem in Ohio will be the first home for Poker Central on… Read more »
After a protracted twelve-hour battle, the final table has been set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City, NJ. Heading that final table will be relative newcomer Rafael Yaraliyev, who will sit at the start of the day on Friday with 9.945 million in chips. There are two wolves beating… Read more »
The “Battle at the Borgata” is heating up as only 34 players are left in the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open. When the players return for Day 4 this afternoon, Kane Kalas will hold the honor of being the chip leader, but WPT champion David Paredes – who won the fall Borgata Poker… Read more »
Good news for poker players out of New York Tuesday as Senate Bill S5302 passed through the Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering by a unanimous 9-0 vote. The bill aims to legalize and regulate “certain interactive poker games that are considered to be games of skill” (read: online poker). This is the first… Read more »
The 542 survivors from the two opening flights came together in Atlantic City Tuesday – along with a bunch of late entrants – for Day 2 of the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event. After another eight levels, it was Cong Pham who finished the night with a fairly substantial… Read more »
Historically, a PokerStars promotion has been something people can get excited about. So when I tell you that PokerStars is running a promo to celebrate the site’s 100 millionth player (including Full Tilt and all country-specific sites), you wouldn’t be crazy to get your hopes up. But don’t. I mean, yes, it is a promotion… Read more »
It is on to the meat of the tournament today as both starting flights of the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open are in the books and the survivors from Sunday and Monday will come together to compete on Tuesday’s Day 2. Norman Michalek came out on top of Day 1B, bagging… Read more »
As the Aussie Millions came to a close, the World Poker Tour (WPT) got its first Main Event of 2016 going as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event kicked off in Atlantic City Sunday. It was fantastic timing, too, as just a week after a ridiculous, historic blizzard, the city broke its high… Read more »
David Baazov certainly knows how to grab the attention of the financial and poker communities. A year and a half after his company, Amaya Inc., announced its intentions to purchase the parent of PokerStars and Full Tilt in a $4.9 billion deal, Baazov has let loose with another shocker: he is now interested in personally… Read more »
