The directorial debut for screenwriter Aaron Sorkin – the poker-themed Molly’s Game, based on the book of the same name written by “The Poker Princess” Molly Bloom – is beginning to fill out as to its cast. While that is normally a good thing for a film, there are other problems that have arose for… Read more »
After a closure that lasted much longer than previously expected, the once-great poker room at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, NJ, is set to reopen at 11AM today, but its future is still a bit murky. The poker room was closed last February and, at that time, people were told that the iconic… Read more »
Week 6 of the Global Poker League was a big one for the Moscow Wolverines as they used the variety of matches played throughout the week in the GPL Eurasia to demonstrate one of the most dominant weeks of action we’ve seen yet in the GPL. As the Wolverines opened up some room in their… Read more »
PokerStars announced this week that the live finale of the Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) will be contested at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 23rd through June 27th. In what is likely not a coincidence, it will coincide with the Copa America Centenario, the 100th year of the famed… Read more »
Lottery Sit-and-Go’s are arguably the hottest thing going in online poker. Seemingly every online poker site and network is adding its own version of the game to its lobby. One exception, though, is Unibet. In an interview with PokerIndustryPRO (paywall), Unibets’ Head of Poker, Andrew West, explained that his site has no plans to join… Read more »
A bill that would legalize and regulate daily fantasy sports (DFS) in the state of Colorado has passed through both chambers of the state legislature and is now on to the desk of Governor John Hickenlooper for final approval. The bill, HB 16-1404, was introduced in the House of Representatives on March 24th and made… Read more »
Failed Republican presidential candidate, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, is best known to poker fans as Sheldon Adelson’s jock-carrier and the Senator who introduced Adelson’s Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) last year. RAWA, if it even became law, would place a ban on online gambling in the United States, wiping out the current legal,… Read more »
For those in the United States who received their Full Tilt funds that were frozen on Black Friday, it was a long wait to get them back. For most, the process was easy – it just required they login to their old Full Tilt accounts and verify the dollar amount – but still took a… Read more »
If you play your online poker on Full Tilt, you have one more week to enjoy the site. The poker room announced last week that it will officially become part of PokerStars next Tuesday, May 17th, putting an end (for the second time, really) to Full Tilt as an online poker room. The initial announcement… Read more »
The Women in Poker Hall of Fame is set to induct a new class of members to their rolls this fall. In the past, they have traditionally kept their voting “in the house,” meaning that a select committee and the past inductees were the only ones who were voting on new members. For the 2016… Read more »
After coming into the final table as one of the four “short stacks,” veteran poker professional Jan Bendik was able to come back to defeat a difficult final table to capture the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final Main Event at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Casino in Monaco on Saturday. The six men who… Read more »
With only three weeks to go until the mid-season break in the Global Poker League schedule, two different courses have become evident for the two divisions. In the GPL Eurasia, two teams have pulled away from the pack and seem to be in position to settle the playoff seeds between themselves, while the GPL Americas… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is penning the final chapters to their Season 12 book on the shores of the Mediterranean, Monte Carlo to be exact. The final table has been determined for the Grand Final Main Event, while there are 12 contenders still in the fight for the €25,000 High Roller tournament. EPT Grand Final… Read more »
In advance of the second running of their extremely popular Super High Roller Bowl that begins on May 29, Poker Central is looking to get the fans involved. Their method? Offering a pile of money to a lucky person in a promotion tied in with the event. Poker Central, in coordination with the 2016 Super… Read more »
On Wednesday, the Michigan legislature’s Regulatory Reform Committee held an informational hearing to discuss two related online poker bills: SB 889, which would legalized and regulate online gambling in the state and SB 890, which would amend Michigan’s penal code to permit for the online gambling that is legalized in SB 889. From the sounds… Read more »
Poland’s Marcin Chmielewski is having a pretty solid week. Over the weekend, he finished 21st in the France Poker Series High Roller Event (not a huge cash by any means, but still something) and now he is leading the charge to the final table in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final. With just 74… Read more »
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) leaders DraftKings and FanDuel have withdrawn from another state, as Idaho’s Attorney General Lawrence Wasden declared DFS illegal. He is the 11th state Attorney General to decide that DFS constitutes illegal gambling. The two fantasy sites were to be gone from the state as of Sunday, May 1st. In a press… Read more »
The largest European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event in history continued on Monday as the 561 survivors from the two opening flights joined together in a unified field on Day 2 at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino. Only about a third of those players made it through the day; Pierre Calamusa leads… Read more »
There was some serious jumbling of the standings in the Global Poker League’s Week 4, as we are still early enough in the season that any hot or cold week by a team can result in major changes to the standings. The Montreal Nationals continued its weekly trading of the top spot with the New… Read more »
With the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final going on as this is being written, the EPT decided now would be the perfect time to announce the initial makings of the Season 13 schedule. Three tour stops have been announced – all familiar locations – as Season 13 gets going at the end of the… Read more »
The finale for its Season 12 schedule, the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final has exceeded expectations on the coast of the Mediterranean. After two Day Ones, the largest EPT Grand Final field of 1068 players had come to the tables in the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco (potentially with more to come), making the EPT… Read more »
With the start of the 47th Annual World Series of Poker at the end of this month, officials with the WSOP have announced a host of innovations that will hopefully improve a player’s – and the fan’s – experiences when dealing with the preeminent organization in the world of poker. With more players being paid… Read more »
