Although many courtrooms are darkened at this time, action has been heating up in the Mike Postle case in California. One of the defendants in the case, Stones Gambling Hall, has filed new motions that, for all purposes, state that it isn’t their job to watch out for any of their patrons while at the… Read more »
The current lockdown of society due to the COVID-19 outbreak has brought everything to a screeching halt. This has been particularly hard on the casino industry and, by extension, the poker world. At no other point in history has the gaming industry faced such travails, but it may be even more problematic looking towards the… Read more »
Not home, but safe and comfortable Among all of the problems the COVID-19 pandemic has created, one of them is the quandary health care workers and first responders have been put in. They work so hard every day to save lives, but in turn risk the lives of their family members when they return home… Read more »
Dan Smith, fifth on the all-time poker tournament money list, announced on Monday that he has launched an initiative through his Double Up Drive organization to raise money for households in the Las Vegas area that are most at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, he has teamed up with Phil Galfond,… Read more »
Poker is a funny game, isn’t it? One minute, you can be down and out, not able to do anything right, and the next minute you can be flying high, hitting every card you need. Such has been the case for Phil Galfond in the first matchup of the Galfond Challenge. In February, he was… Read more »
It looks like Monday is partypoker news day here at PND. Last week, GVC holdings, the parent company of partypoker, announced that partypoker has been granted a gaming license for the Italian market. The license is effective April 1st and the poker room has already launched in the country after a four year absence. Right… Read more »
After the actual health crisis, the biggest problem resulting from the coronavirus epidemic is the loss of employment for millions upon millions of people around the world. In just the last two weeks, 10 million people have filed unemployment claims in the United States. And that’s just claims. Loads more people haven’t filed (either by… Read more »
When it came out in 2014, the book Molly’s Game pulled the curtains back on the high stakes poker world. Written by the ringmaster of those games, former Olympic skiing hopeful Molly Bloom, the story entranced both the poker community and the celebrity world as Bloom documented the exploits of celebrities and businessmen inside the… Read more »
The COVID-19 outbreak has seen something that has never happened in the history of the casino industry in the States of America. The closure of all gaming activity in casinos across the land has left several states wondering what the impact will be from the strangulation of revenues. In one state, however, that abrupt shutoff… Read more »
With the majority of the sporting world either postponing their marquee events or canceling them altogether – the All-England Tennis Club’s cancelation of the 2020 Wimbledon tennis tournament is the most recent occurrence – due to the COVID-19 (or coronavirus) outbreak, there are few events that haven’t been touched. One of the events that hasn’t… Read more »
This doesn’t exactly have anything to do with poker. Actually, it has nothing to do with poker. It doesn’t kind of relate to sports betting, so if we want to pretend this has something to do with gambling, there you are. But regardless, Wimbledon is cancelled. On Wednesday – and this was not an April… Read more »
The WSOP.com Online Super Circuit just ended, so WSOP.com figured it was as good of a time as any to start up another big tournament series. And the Spring Online Championships is much, much bigger. Starting today, April 1st, and running through May 3rd, the Spring Online Championships feature more than 100 events and over… Read more »
