The NCAA has pushed back a rule change that would allow college athletes to bet on professional sports. Originally set to take effect Saturday, November 1, the rule has been delayed for three weeks, to November 22. NCAA athletes are not permitted to place wagers on college sports, nor will they even if the new… Read more »
Poker pro Phil Galfond has been known to take on formidable opponents for high stakes; his “Galfond Challenge” was a testament to this. But now it looks like he may sit down at the virtual tables with a different type of competitor: Grok, the conversational chatbot developed by xAI and created in the image of… Read more »
Five men came back on Wednesday afternoon, ready to determine the champion of the 2025 Super High Roller Bowl $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, and a surprise was in store for all. Coming out of the middle of the pack, John Riordan battled from a deficit in heads-up play against the start-of-day chip leader, Sam… Read more »
Hot on the heels of the completion of their PLO Series II event over the weekend, the PokerGO Tour jumped back into the Omaha pool to start the week. After two days of battle, the Super High Roller Bowl: $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha extravaganza has worked its way down to the final five players. Leading… Read more »
In the good ol’ U.S. of A., thirty-nine states, plus the District of Columbia and the territory of Puerto Rico, have enacted regulations that allow for sports betting, either live, online, or both. It has generated millions of dollars, if not billions, in revenue for the different states that offer the activity to their citizens.… Read more »
As the poker world debated the merits of playing in high-stakes poker games over the weekend, the PokerGO Tour went about the business of concluding its latest series. The 2025 PGT PLO Series II came to a close with a $25,000 Main Event, and it brought out 68 entries for the four-card variant of the… Read more »
In a stunning move on Thursday morning, federal law enforcement made over thirty arrests across the U.S. for a variety of gambling offenses. Caught up in the net were two prominent current members of the National Basketball Association. Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and veteran player Terry Rozier were the notable names in… Read more »
Swift justice GGPoker has made a quick decision on how it will handle the players involved in a real-time assistance cheating incident during the final table of the $10,000 GGMillion$. On Wednesday, a week after the situation occurred, GGPoker announced that “RealOA,” the player who won the tournament, is permanently banned from GGPoker, the World… Read more »
Probably not the right person to threaten Poker pro Jordan Cristos has one title and over $900,000 on the World Poker Tour (WPT), but his chances of ever playing in a Tour event look dubious. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the 38-year-old Cristos has been in jail since June for threatening a judge and… Read more »
The fight for the championship of the 2025 PokerGO Tour PLO Series II is heating up, and so is Sean Winter. After coming up short in two consecutive events, Winter would finally break through in his third bite at the apple. After Winter’s victory in Event #5 (and Bryce Yockey’s win in Event #6), Winter… Read more »
Online actions follow him into live play When is the last time you saw someone disqualified from a live tournament for something that had nothing to do with what was going on in the tournament room? It just so happened that this scenario played out this past weekend, when high-stakes poker pro Tony “Ren” Lin… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour PLO Series II is displaying the skills of the four-card masters this week in Las Vegas. Over the weekend, Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel picked up his first PGT title of 2025 in Event #3, while Ben Lamb put his name in the mix for the PLO Series II championship. In… Read more »
It may seem like the PokerGO Tour has just gotten finished with an event…and that would be because they just did! Only two weeks ago, the PGT wrapped the 2025 Poker Masters, and on Wednesday, they started their semi-annual festivities regarding Omaha Hold’em in the PLO Series II. It has been a case of the… Read more »
Labor, management at impasse Horseshoe Indianapolis table game dealers and dual rate employees – workers who split time between dealing cards and supervising the gaming floor – have gone on strike over the right to unionize. Friday, October 17, was the day the 200 workers were scheduled to vote on their union, but because union… Read more »
Reevaluated the economics In a stunning turn of events, MGM has withdrawn from the race for one of three casino licenses for downstate New York. In a press release, MGM Yonkers, Inc. said, “….the competitive and economic assumptions underpinning our application have shifted, altering our return expectations on the proposed $2.3 billion investment.” “The newly… Read more »
When an injury doesn’t hurt Emeka Egbuka has looked every bit the top-20 NFL draft pick that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers made him this past summer. The rookie wide receiver is fourth in the league in receiving yards and is a big reason why his team is 5-1 and sitting atop the NFC. But when… Read more »
It has been a good run of late for Polish poker professional Tomasz Brzezinski. Two months ago at the European Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona, Brzezinski battled for the championship before coming up short in finishing fourth (with a €493,250 check to console him for his loss). This time around at the EPT Malta… Read more »
Lied about having inside information Poker pro Cory Zeidman has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for defrauding sports bettors out of millions of dollars over the course of a decade and a half. After initially denying the accusations, Zeidman pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud in December… Read more »
Over the course of poker’s televised history, there have been plenty of excellent “made-for-television” creations. There have also been those that were a bit questionable. Where the latest partnership will go may yet be seen, but the World Poker Tour and Creator Television, a stable of “content creators,” have joined forces to create a new… Read more »
Zero tolerance Three players in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), a top-level league in Taiwan, have been suspended and fined for playing online poker. The players – Guo Yu-yan, Chen Guan-hao, and Wu Yu-cheng – are all members of TSG Hawks. “Engaging in online gambling is not a sanctioned activity for players, which has… Read more »
As we speak, the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason is in full swing. After the Wild Card round, we are currently in the midst of the Divisional Playoff series as the teams determine who will be the representatives of the National and American Leagues. It seemed like a suitable time to look back at… Read more »
It’s a casino, so Parx Casino Bensalem naturally wants you to visit and gamble your money. But they don’t want anyone to gamble with their health. That’s why Parx is running a special Breast Cancer Awareness Month Fundraiser, highlighted this past weekend by free breast cancer screenings. On Saturday, the Penn Medicine Mobile Mammography Van… Read more »
There was plenty of drama as the final players came to the felt for the finale to the 2025 Poker Masters, the $25,000 Main Event. Four men had a chance at taking the overall title for the festival and capturing the Purple Jacket, making the seven-handed final table critical to that outcome. In the end,… Read more »
“Long-term economic growth” After trying and failing just a few months ago, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is giving the legalization of poker in the District another go. On Tuesday, the Executive Office of the Mayor issued a press release previewing legislation included in what she calls her “Growth Agenda,” one of which would make… Read more »
Two California men have found out that cheating at casino table games doesn’t just get you banned from the casino, but it can put you in prison. On Tuesday, San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced that Vaagn Galustyan, 52, and Armin Martirosyan, 53, have both been charged with two felony counts of conspiracy… Read more »
