Professional poker player Doug “WCGRider” Polk embarked on a bankroll challenge this week. These types of challenges are nothing new – plenty of players have tried them – but they are still a lot of fun. Polk began his Sunday, attempting to grow an online poker bankroll from $100 to $10,000 in the appropriately named… Read more »
The state of New Jersey was dealt a harsh blow in its quest to be able to launch a legal sports betting industry on Tuesday when the twelve judges of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia made their en banc ruling that the state’s efforts to legalize sports betting violated federal law.… Read more »
I news out of nowhere, Bovada, the world’s largest offshore poker site that accepts U.S. customers, announced Tuesday that it has sold its poker operations to the little-known Ignition Casino. In an e-mail to customers, Bovada said: We have important news we want to share with you. Bovada Poker has been acquired by Ignition Casino.… Read more »
Well that was fast. Less than a week after we posted an article about the fourth iteration of a tentative schedule for the 2016 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), PokerStars has unveiled the final, official schedule for the massive tournament series, set to run September 4th through September 26th. And massive is an… Read more »
About two weeks ago, gambling firms 888 Holdings and Rank Group confirmed rumors that they were teaming up to put in a bid for rival William Hill, the largest gambling concern in the United Kingdom. On Tuesday, it was announced that they not only had, in fact, put in a formal offer, but that William… Read more »
Sunday’s Hall of Fame Game between the Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts may have been canceled, but the daily fantasy sports (DFS) football season for New Yorkers has not. New York DFS fans can breathe a sigh of relief, as Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Wednesday that legalizes the games in the… Read more »
What was once a thriving casino scene in Atlantic City a decade ago will be nearly halved come this October as another casino will officially shut its doors. On Wednesday, the Trump Taj Mahal became the latest victim of the East Coast expansion of gaming. Although its owner, billionaire Carl Icahn, tried to invest in… Read more »
After more than 30 months of wrangling over the case, a court in New Jersey has denied the appeal of a group of players who took part in the “Chipgate,” reaffirming the decision by the casino and state gaming regulators as to how to settle the tournament. In a hearing in front of the Appeals… Read more »
So you may be in the World Series of Poker Championship Event, ponying up your $10,000 to play. You get eliminated in the early going from a streak of bad luck, something that you try to share with people. This is a constant occurrence at the WSOP but, for one sports legend/poker player, it seems… Read more »
An administrative law judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that one of the top destinations in Florida for poker tournaments, bestbet Jacksonville, has been violating state laws in running certain games on their floor. The case was a challenge by the Jacksonville Kennel Club, the owners of bestbet Jacksonville, and was heard by Administrative… Read more »
The transition from summer to fall typically means a couple of things, at least here in the United States: the kids go back to school (by the way, my kids started back to school this week, the first week of August – how insane is that?) and American football starts up again! Yay! But poker… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event came to a close on Tuesday as James Mackey advanced all the way from bottom stack to a dominant end-game to win his first WPT title. For the victory, Mackey won $681,758, which includes a $15,000 entry into the season-ending Tournament of Champions. Mackey began the six-handed… Read more »
The real money portion of PokerTribe.com, a legal online poker site launched by the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, has been delayed. The anticipated launch date for what is supposed to be the first licensed international online poker room based in the U.S. was yesterday, but according to a press release, it has been pushed back… Read more »
The televised final table has been set for the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event as the field was narrowed from 40 to just six on Monday. Bastian Fischer leads the sextet with 8.780 million chips. It looks to be a good battle on Tuesday, with three players holding healthy chip stacks. After… Read more »
Caesars Acquisition Corp. and Shanghai Giant Network Technology Co., Ltd. announced Saturday that a consortium of Chinese firms has acquired Playtika, the social and mobile gaming division of Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc. (CIE). The deal, which was rumored to be in the works less than two weeks ago, is worth $4.4 billion. According to a… Read more »
The first major live poker tournament post-World Series of Poker is well underway now as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event has completed Day 2. 330 players entered Sunday’s action from the two Day 1 flights and just 40 remain as Monday’s Day 3 looms. Randi Lister holds court as the chip leader,… Read more »
