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The game show Jeopardy! has been on the air for decades, a staple in homes across America, but rarely has it been appointment viewing like it was this spring when professional sports bettor and former semi-pro poker player James Holzhauer went on a run the likes of which had only been seen a couple times… Read more »
After rumors of a deal swirled, Eldorado Resorts, Inc. and Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced on Monday that they have agreed to a merger, forming the largest gambling company in the United States. The combined company will operate close to 60 casino-resorts in 16 states, including the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, home of the World… Read more »
Everyone knows that Phil Hellmuth has the record for the most World Series of Poker bracelets won (15), but when it comes to the best of those that have never won a piece of the coveted jewelry, it is a lively debate. On Saturday, three men who were arguably atop the list for the dubious… Read more »
In what was arguably the most talent-laden final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker so far, two Poker Hall of Famers squared off on Wednesday night to determine the champion of the $10,000 Seven Card Stud event. In the end, it was John ‘World’ Hennigan who got the best of Daniel ‘Kid Poker’… Read more »
As partypoker moves to purge its site of third-party software tools (and partypoker is only the latest one to do this, not the only one), another online poker network is doing the exact opposite. The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) announced on Monday that it is going to make tracking hands easier to do than it… Read more »
Look at any tournament schedule nowadays and you will see a predominance of Texas Hold’em tournaments on the roster. But what is arguably the true test of a poker player is their skills in non-Hold’em games – Stud, Razz, even Omaha. Over the past couple of days, two of the veterans of the game with… Read more »
The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship couldn’t get to the six players left that seems to be the trend of this year’s tournament, but they got close. They will come back today with six players left and determine the champion, with Italy’s Dario Sammartino holding a dominant lead… Read more »
The second of nine online bracelet events at this year’s World Series of Poker was contested this weekend, with Josh “loofa” Pollock winning $139,740 and his second career bracelet. For a while, it seemed like that might be it for all of the online hopefuls in New Jersey, as the Department of Justice’s reinterpretation of… Read more »
After battling through the largest entry field in the history of the event, Femi Fashakin completed what he started. Coming to the final table of the “BIG 50” at the 50th Anniversary World Series of Poker, Fashakin wasn’t even slowed down on his way to capturing the biggest payday of his career and his first… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker is off to its second weekend of action, but there is plenty left over not even looking to the weekend. That “little” $500 buy-in event called the “BIG 50” has finally reached its final table and five other events will be at some point in their action. That doesn’t… Read more »
If you are currently playing on partypoker and you love your screen name, I suggest taking a picture of your monitor because that screen name will disappear in a couple weeks. In a move we heard was coming about a month ago, partypoker announced late last week that with a major software update on June… Read more »
The first weekend of the 2019 World Series of Poker will wrap up today, but there’s no rest awaiting those in the Rio on Sunday. Two tournaments will be looking to crown champions while the “BIG 50” enters its final Day One and the Mixed Triple Draw tests the wills of its competitors. “BIG 50”… Read more »
We’ve already hit the first weekend of the 2019 World Series of Poker, but there were some loose ends to tie up before the weekend bacchanalia could begin in earnest. In a tough battle against the Media Director of the WSOP, Nicholas Haynes was able to emerge as the champion of the Casino Employees Event.… Read more »
On only the second day of the 2019 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, we’ve already seen the first bracelet awarded. Coming through one of the tougher final tables you’ll see in any tournament schedule, Brian Green was able to outlast an all-star final table in… Read more »
It is Christmas, New Year’s Day and the Fourth of July (which now falls during the event) all rolled into one. For the denizens of the world of poker, there’s almost nothing better than the start of the World Series of Poker. The 2019 version, the 50th anniversary of the event, is now underway with… Read more »
Did you wake up this morning with a sense of anticipation? A feeling of elation that you haven’t felt since last year? Or were you like me and woke up to an e-mail informing you that your homeowner’s insurance policy is lapsing because your mortgage loan company’s system screwed up the premium payment?* If it… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has traipsed the world over the past 12 months, traveling from Sochi, Russia, to Barcelona, to Montreal, to Atlantic City and, finally, to Las Vegas. The ARIA Summer Championship will begin on Monday with a $10,000 buy in tournament that is sure to draw a sizeable and strong professional contingent ready… Read more »
It’s been quite the past week for Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. The 44-year old poker professional married his fiancée Amanda Leatherman in an absolutely lovely oceanfront ceremony in California on Saturday, marking the second time that Negreanu has headed into wedded bliss. Yesterday, Negreanu took to Twitter to post a video which featured… Read more »
The six-handed final table has been determined for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event. The players will now take a week and a half break before commencing final table play at the Luxor’s HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas on the final day of May. Right now, it looks like a two horse… Read more »
It is a constant struggle in the online poker industry to fight cheaters and frankly, online poker rooms have fallen well short time and time again for the past couple decades. There are many reasons for this: lack of effective detection technology, unwillingness to admit that cheaters abound, or even an acceptance of such accounts,… Read more »
We are two weeks away from the start of a historic moment (OK, technically 13 days, but you get what I mean). The 50th Annual World Series of Poker will begin on May 29 at 11AM with its traditional first event, the $500 Casino Employees Event. From there, the prestige only gets bigger as some… Read more »
In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sheldon Adelson was the main influence behind the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) new opinion on the Wire Act. The new opinion said that the Wire Act makes all interstate online gambling illegal, reversing a 2011 opinion that said only online sports betting… Read more »
The 50th World Series of Poker arrives at the end of his month, but for many poker enthusiasts, participating in the festival is just not a possibility. Whether it is the buy-in (though there are some “inexpensive” ones now), travel, time off of work, or whatever, it just doesn’t work out for everybody. That is… Read more »
After battling through two Day Ones and 922 entries, the Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s stop at the Casino de Monte Carlo has ended. In what was a stirring battle after a three-way chop for the money, Germany’s Manig Loeser emerged as the champion in defeating China’s Wei Huang and Hungary’s Viktor Katzenberger… Read more »
In what was a stunning afternoon of activity in and around the city of Houston, several top “card clubs” – basically poker rooms that were skirting the laws of the state – were raided by local law enforcement. As a result of the raids, other card clubs in the area shut down out of an… Read more »
