Bellagio Poker Cage Robbed at Gunpoint

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Las Vegas police are still searching for a man who robbed the Bellagio poker room cashier cage at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon. In a brief news conference, Las Vegas Metro Police Capt. John Pelletier said that his department is “comfortable and confident” that they have enough information that will eventually lead to the thief’s capture. Other… Read more »

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William Hill, Paddy Power Betfair Competing to Acquire CrownBet

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Gambling industry consolidation talks have started up again, this time with Australian bookmaker CrownBet as the acquisition target by both William Hill and Paddy Power Betfair. CrownBet is 62 percent owned by Crown Resorts – Crown Melbourne is the host venue of the popular Aussie Millions poker series – which is itself part of James… Read more »

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Sam Greenwood Enjoys Trip to the Caribbean, Wins partypoker MILLIONS Caribbean Poker Party Main Event

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Normally when people take a trip to the Caribbean, they are going for the change in weather. Canadian poker pro and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Sam Greenwood’s trip to the 2017 Caribbean Poker Party presented by partypoker might have started out as a pleasure trip, but Greenwood quickly made it a profitable business… Read more »

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Christmas Gifts for the Poker Player in Your Life

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The Thanksgiving turkey’s carcass has been cast into the trash, people have gotten over their tryptophan comas and life is moving on, so you know what that means…it’s time to start thinking about Christmas! Yes, that delightful time of the year when we look at our loved ones and say to ourselves, “What the heck… Read more »

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Molly Bloom Breaks Silence in Forum Interview with Fortune Magazine

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Breaking the silence she has maintained since her eponymous book was released in 2014, former skier turned poker “fixer” Molly Bloom talked about her life as THE biggest poker organizer in the world at a forum in California recently. Bloom, who has kept a decidedly low profile since releasing Molly’s Game in 2014 and the… Read more »

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FanDuel Co-Founder Nigel Eccles Leaves Company

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Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of daily fantasy sports (DFS) giant FanDuel, announced that Monday was his last day at the company. Matt King, the CFO of FanDuel from 2014-2016 will step into Eccles’ vacated role. Between his previous stint at FanDuel and now, King was equity partner and President of Regional Operations and Corporate… Read more »

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DraftKings Sponsoring WPT European Championship

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Daily fantasy sports (DFS) leader DraftKings has signed on as a sponsor of the World Poker Tour (WPT) European Championship, this per a press release issued by the WPT. The poker festival will be held at the Speilbank Casino in Berlin, Germany from January 5th through January 10th, with the Main Event beginning January 10th.… Read more »

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Libratus Poker AI Wins Prestigious Computing Award

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Libratus, the artificial intelligence powered by a multi-million dollar supercomputer that crushed teams of poker players in No-Limit Hold’em twice this year, was honored with the 2017 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of AI last week. The Libratus Poker AI was developed by Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown at Carnegie Mellon University. I… Read more »

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partypoker Eliminates Inactivity Fees

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After Black Friday, like a lot of poker players living in the United States, I stopped playing online poker. I had money on one or two sites and dabbled here and there, but for the most part, I quit because a) there was little traffic where I had money and b) I decided it wasn’t… Read more »

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Indiana Says Smoking Ban in Casinos Would Cost State Jobs, Money

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Since the 1990s, smoking has been banned in most of the poker rooms of casinos across the States of America. For the most part, however, smoking has been allowed in other areas of casinos outside of the sacred poker room area. Individual states are now having issues with the implementation of smoking bans in their… Read more »

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Can Bryn Kenney Hold onto Player of the Year?

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With roughly six weeks to go in the tournament poker season, there is virtually only one question left:  can Bryn Kenney, who has led the various Player of the Year races since the start of the year, hold onto those leads as the year comes to a close? On the CardPlayer Magazine Player of the… Read more »

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Maxime Heroux Rides Big Stack to Victory at WPT Montreal

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Bringing the second largest stack to the final tabl3e on Thursday, Maxime Heroux earned his first major tournament poker championship in winning the World Poker Tour Montreal at the Playground Poker Club last night. Heroux came to the final table with a 5.345 million stack, good for second place on the leaderboard to start the… Read more »

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UKGC Establishes Three-Year, Five-Point Strategic Plan

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The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) unveiled a five-point strategy on Tuesday designed to make the gambling market “fairer and safer for consumers.” Forward-looking through 2021, the strategy looks to balance consumer safeguards with industry growth. The report opens by citing a few select statistics about gambling in the UK. Of the 50 million people… Read more »

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PokerStars Expects to Compete in Pennsylvania Online Poker Market

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At the end of October, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a bill to legalize and regulate online gambling – including poker – in the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania is now the fourth state – behind Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey – to legalize online poker, so now the discussions in the poker community revolve around when, exactly,… Read more »

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UIGEA Villain Rep. Bob Goodlatte Retiring from Congress

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With the focus nowadays on Senator Lindsey Graham, Sheldon Adelson, and former Rep. Jason Chaffetz when it comes to those trying to prevent regulated online poker in the United States, it is easy to forget the founding assholes of the anti-poker league. One of these reprobates, Rep. Robert Goodlatte, announced that he will be retiring… Read more »

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