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Nearly six years after creating the All American Poker Network in a joint venture with Avenue Capital Group, 888 Holdings has acquired Avenue Capital’s 53 percent share of the network for $28 million. The transaction gives 888 Holdings complete ownership of the online poker network. In press release last week, 888’s Chief Executive Officer Itai… Read more »
Online poker players, hold on to your butts. According to a report from Online Poker Report, the United States Department of Justice is working on a new opinion of the Interstate Wire Act of 1961, known simply as the Wire Act, that will say that it applies to all forms of online gambling, rather than… Read more »
Dylan Linde was a one-man wrecking crew on Saturday night at the Bellagio, storming through the final table of the 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic en route to taking down the prestigious title. There Can Be Only One… Linde had been cruising leading up to the final table of the event,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is down to the penultimate day after taking the final 45 players down to the final six in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event. It will be a stacked – and deeply stacked – final table led by Milos Skrbic and Dylan Linde, who have to fight off several… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s final stop for the 2018 calendar year is inching closer to its conclusion. After setting a record for the largest ever $10,000 tournament in its history, the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic popped the money bubble on Thursday and brought the field closer to crowning a champion on Saturday night.… Read more »
It is over. The controversial prop bet between Rich Alati and Rory Young has ended ten days early. If you are thinking that it’s too bad for Alati that he made it two-thirds of the way through his 30-day term of pitch-black solitary confinement only to lose, you would be wrong. It was Young, the… Read more »
The world of poker woke up on Wednesday to the tremendously saddening news that one of the true legends of the game, Norwegian Thor Hansen, had passed away after battling cancer for several years. Hansen was 71 years old and passed at some point on the evening or morning of December 4 or December 5.… Read more »
We all love poker, right? I mean, I’m writing articles for a poker news site (though I frequently branch out into non-poker news) and you are reading a poker news site at this very moment. Heck, I’ve been writing for this site since day one, thirteen years ago, so I must think poker is pretty… Read more »
Any football fan (American football, that is) knows that the University of Alabama is a juggernaut. Going into the season the Crimson Tide were listed as about 2-to-1 favorites to win the national championship and from the pre-season through November, bettors wagered on them to win it all, risking money on a relatively poor payout… Read more »
Life just got a bit more difficult for online poker operators in the state of Pennsylvania. After a meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board on Wednesday, the online poker behemoth PokerStars was cleared for authorization in the Keystone State. Not only will PokerStars be able to offer their popular online poker software, they will… Read more »
The Stars Group and Eldorado Resorts, Inc. have agreed to a 20-year deal in which The Stars Group – parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt – will be able to operate sports betting sites in the United States under Eldorado’s gaming license. The agreement applies to thirteen states in which Eldorado operates: Colorado, Florida,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is back down in Hollywood, Florida, as poker players took to the felts after Thanksgiving for the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open. The Main Event is already nearing its end as just 14 players remain from the original field of 898 entries. James Rann is the chip leader after… Read more »
As they say in horse racing, the wire is in sight. There are about five men battling it out for the right to call themselves the Player of the Year, but two of them right now are defending those positions. On one list, Jake Schindler is battling to hold onto his edge, while Alex Foxen… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) has released part of the second half of the Season XVII WPT Main Tour schedule, in other words, part of the 2019 portion of this season. A total of ten tour stops have been announced, including the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions, which will be held June 1st through June… Read more »
You hear it frequently…“a chip and a chair are all you need.” Former World Champion Jack Strauss famously put this axiom to the test back when he won the World Series of Poker Championship Event in 1982 by actually coming back from a singular chip to take the victory. While it might not be as… Read more »
The long running battle between the online behemoth PokerStars and 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event runner-up Gordon Vayo has apparently reached its end. With a hearing looming, Vayo has voluntarily dropped his lawsuit against the online poker site, but PokerStars isn’t done yet with the battle. According to court documents, PokerStars will be… Read more »
Penn National Gaming and VICI Properties announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to acquire the operations and real property of the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit, Michigan for about $1 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the middle of next year. Two-Pronged Financial Deal Penn National bought the operations part of… Read more »
While the States of America recently went through elections – some of which had to do with gaming in the different states – many countries around the world have also taken a different tack with regards to poker. While those in the U. S. may believe that they have the market cornered on “misery” regarding… Read more »
Back in the good old days, the days when I could play on the corrupt UltimateBet from the United States, I loved playing off the beaten path games. Crazy Pineapple was my favorite, a game in which you are dealt three hole cards and discard one after the flop. I was pretty darn good at… Read more »
There are many tough things about being a new parent. The stress of not knowing what in the hell you are doing, the sleepless nights, lack of time to cook a proper meal, and, of course, kids are expensive! Patrick Serda certainly knows this, but as the father of a five-week old, he shouldn’t have… Read more »
Denying the chance at history for a former World Champion, the United Kingdom’s Jack Sinclair wrote his own chapter in poker’s annals by becoming the second ever British champion by winning the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe Championship Event on Friday night. Possibilities at History from the Start At the start of action from… Read more »
All week they’ve been battling, but the end is coming for the 2018 World Series of Poker €10,000 Main Event. At the start of Day 5, a chance at history exists as former World Champion Ryan Riess is still in contention; if he were to win, he would become only the second player to ever… Read more »
Day 3 has come and gone at the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event and only about a tenth of the original field – 50 players – remain. Lording over the surviving players is 2013 WSOP Main Event champion Ryan Riess, who is trying to become the second player in history to… Read more »
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event is in full swing at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, as Day 2 came to a close last night. With just 534 entries, it is not nearly the spectacle of the traditional Main Event in Las Vegas, but it is still a great European celebration… Read more »
It may seem surprising but poker – and especially the World Series of Poker – hasn’t always been the cultural milestone that it is nowadays. Only a couple of decades ago, the world of poker and the people around it was still considered second-class citizens, at best. A new podcast from ESPN’s award winning “30… Read more »
