It is said that the true test of a poker player is their abilities in games other than Texas Hold’em. If that is the case, then David ‘Chino’ Rheem is making a case to be considered amongst the best who have graced the baize. At the halfway mark of the PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha… Read more »
Hey, a $4,000 profit is still pretty nice When a poker tournament ends with 15 players remaining, it is generally safe to assume that the event was some sort of satellite tournament. Perhaps it awarded 15 seats to a bigger tourney, or maybe 14 seats and the 15th-place finisher won a little cash. But in… Read more »
Easy decision for lawmakers Arkansas has become the 44th state to ban greyhound racing. On Tuesday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1721, which also requires off-track betting facilities to phase out simulcast greyhound racing by 2028. “Greyhound advocates everywhere applaud Governor Huckabee Sanders for signing this important bill,” said GREY2K USA President and… Read more »
Despite efforts, the tournament poker world has been impacted by the “high roller” events on the various 2025 Player of the Year races. Since the creation of the PokerGO Tour in 2021 and the addition of other events like the Triton Super High Roller Series, players don’t have to wait for major tournaments on the… Read more »
Patience of a saint Anyone who has played live poker has probably had to sit through someone thinking long and hard about a decision. Maybe you were the one who took an inordinate time to make a move once! The subject of tanking has been up for debate for eons, but generally poker players are… Read more »
One of the unique things about PokerStars is that they are consistently looking to innovate for the poker playing clientele. Come this April, one of the longest-lived online poker operations in the world will make its first foray into the live poker world in the U.S. The inaugural PokerStars Open Series will kick off the… Read more »
Back to Commerce The 2025 World Series of Poker is just over two months away and while the schedule has been set for a while, there was still one detail left to settle: the Tournament of Champions. The WSOP announced this week that this year’s Tournament of Champions will once again be at The Commerce… Read more »
It may not seem like it, but the 2025 season of the World Poker Tour has been traversing the world. They did make it back to the States this week for their first event, the WPT Rolling Thunder at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in California. That tournament is in the books and, after a deal… Read more »
Bought ticket through lottery courier An anonymous Texas woman is getting close to losing her patience with the state over an $83.5 million lottery win that she has yet to receive. The sticking point: her use of a lottery courier to buy the ticket. According to the Texas Tribune, the woman and her lawyer, Randy… Read more »
If there is something that poker players are wont to do, it is a wager on sports. Baseball is one of those activities that will spark the betting interests of some poker players, and the season is slightly more than a week away for Major League Baseball. Although we haven’t seen any action yet, we’re… Read more »
If there is something that poker players are wont to do, it is a wager on sports. Baseball is one of those activities that will spark the betting interests of some poker players, and the season is slightly more than a week away for Major League Baseball. In the American League, the fall of the… Read more »
If there is something that poker players are wont to do, it is wager on sports. Baseball is one of those activities that will spark the betting interests of some poker players, and the season is slightly more than a week away for Major League Baseball. In the National League, there is but one question… Read more »
Accelerated version of gambling fuels addiction You would think that someone who founded one of the best-known gambling brands in the world would be encouraging people to gamble. You would think that he would be saying, “More, more, more!” But at least in the case of Paddy Power co-founder Stewart Kenny, you would be wrong.… Read more »
Following the dark days of “Black Friday” nearly fifteen years ago, the States of America’s online poker market has been, at best, a fragmented one. Since the day when the federal government ended online play on the major sites in the industry, the individual states have had to work under a conglomerate of differing regulations,… Read more »
One of a possible 53 tournaments on his schedule You know those “something that makes you feel old” posts on social media? Well how about this: Daniel Negreanu, the man known as “Kid Poker” is 50 years old and qualifies for the Seniors Event at the 2025 World Series of Poker. And according to a… Read more »
Avoided jail time Former poker dealer Jason Saliba is a lucky man. Saliba, who was caught stealing money from cash game pots, pleaded guilty to nine gambling law charges and will avoid any time behind bars. The saga dates back to September 6, 2024, when a poker player in one of the low-stakes cash games… Read more »
We are a quarter of the way into the 21st century. We have been able to get sports betting legalized in almost 80% of the country. But one thing that has not kept up is legalizing the live action of a poker game. Recent developments in the state of Texas, the namesake of the best… Read more »
Cryptocurrency and gambling have been joined at the hip for years. Online poker rooms were among the first to embrace Bitcoin in the cryptocurrency’s infancy and several Bitcoin-only poker rooms cropped up as a result, particularly when the industry was in flux in the United States. Now, crypto casinos are among the most popular on… Read more »
When it comes to mixed game formats, there is little discussion about who the preeminent players are. Michael Mizrachi, with three titles in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the World Series of Poker, comes to mind, as does Poker Hall of Famer and fellow three-time PPC winner Brian Rast. Another name can now be… Read more »
GGPoker making further live poker moves NSUS Group Inc., the parent company of online poker giant GGPoker and the World Series of Poker, has acquired an equity stake in High Stakes Poker Productions, the producer of the livestream poker cash game show Hustler Casino Live. In Wednesday’s announcement, High Stakes Poker Productions said that the… Read more »
After several years away from the spotlight, one of poker’s most iconic tournaments is making its highly anticipated comeback. The Bay 101 Shooting Star, the tournament that pioneered the bounty format craze, will return to the World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule this October with a $5,000 Main Event and the signature bounty system that made… Read more »
When it comes to casinos, a poker room is not a necessity, but it is a nice touch. Especially if there isn’t any sanctioned poker activity within a few hundred miles of you, a casino operating a poker game is sure to draw a significant amount of action. Such a situation has occurred at the… Read more »
Right in front of their noses Maurice Hawkins won the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Horseshoe Baltimore this week to earn his 18th career ring, tied for the most all-time with Ari Engel. Controversy has erupted around his victory, however, as it turns out that a mistake by the dealer gave him… Read more »
Day 1: Totally Borked It’s never fun when technical difficulties disrupt online poker tournaments, but sometimes, things don’t go your way. The world is an imperfect place. But when it happens multiple times over the course of a week, players can and will get restless. On Monday, GGPoker was forced to cancel the $5 million… Read more »
Another tournament poker season is underway and, as typical for the two major ratings systems, there is no consensus. Because of the way that these two organizations allot their points, there is a major conflict in ranking the Poker Player of the Year. That is why there are twelve months to the year, however, and… Read more »
