Last week, Eldorado Resorts, Inc. announced that it completed the acquisition of Tropicana Entertainment, Inc. from Icahn Enterprises. It’s a bit of a complicated transaction, valued at $1.85 billion, but I will do my best to explain it. Eldorado merged a “subsidiary” into Tropicana and then Tropicana became a subsidiary of Eldorado, but not before… Read more »
Call it a partnership on spec, if you will. MGM GVC Interactive LLC announced on Monday that it has formed a sports betting partnership with the United Auburn Indian Community (UAIC) of California. The Tribe owns the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, just north of Sacramento. This could be big news, but “could” is… Read more »
Gambling legend and long-time Las Vegas gaming executive Bobby Baldwin will soon be out at MGM, according to an announcement from the company late last week. The 1978 World Series of Poker Main Event champion and four-time bracelet winner has been with the company or one that was later acquired by it for about three… Read more »
In July, the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) launched a complete rework of its software client, named Prima. At the time, it was released as a “Minimal Viable Product,” meaning that many features that one might expect were missing in favor of simply having a strong, foundational software package sooner rather than later. Yesterday, MPN began… Read more »
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the possibility of reviving federal regulation of sports betting. The discussion, which was brought up because of the Supreme Court ruling in May that overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992, deviated away from just being about sports betting and brought… Read more »
On Tuesday, the eleventh running of the World Series of Poker Europe will kick off at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. The best poker players from across Europe will be in attendance and, it is fairly certain, a rather large contingent of U. S. players will make the trip “across the Pond” also.… Read more »
Heading into the final quarter of the 2018 calendar year, what once looked like a runaway has actually turned into a battle. In the first half of the year, Justin Bonomo looked like he would run off and hide from the rest of the poker world with his performance at the Super High Roller Bowl… Read more »
CBC News has reported that two former dealers at River Rock Casino in Richmond, British Columbia were involved in an illegal gambling bust back in March. The raid was conducted by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit and Richmond RCMP, who in turn told the Gaming Policy Enforcement Branch of the B.C. government. Honestly, this… Read more »
PokerStars has been hyping the PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC), a $25,000 buy-in live tournament, for what seems like forever. Everywhere you turn on the PokerStars website, you see information about Platinum Passes being awarded via online and live events. Aside from it taking place at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in January 2019,… Read more »
I’ve always been a casual, micro-to-low stakes online poker player. Well, I was when I played online poker; living in Georgia makes things a bit more difficult nowadays. I played for fun, which is why I wish I could have been playing on PokerStars this year. I had no loyalty to the site when I… Read more »
In my previous article, I said that one personality trait that I find “painfully endearing” in poker players is their willingness to take on prop bets. Whatever, whenever. Now maybe this is just me not being a professional poker player and viewing that world largely from the outside, but one thing I have never understood… Read more »
One of the things I find both idiotic and painfully endearing about poker players is how they are seemingly willing to make prop bets on anything at any time. World Poker Tour television host Vince Van Patten was once one of these types of people and has co-written a feature film with Steve Alper called… Read more »
