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On Wednesday, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) introduced online poker legislation in the state’s General Assembly. The bill, known by the nomenclature Assembly Bill (AB) 9 or the name “The Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015,” is being pushed as a bill under “urgency.” This means that, if two-thirds of the Assembly and… Read more »
When United States law enforcement cracked down on internet poker in 2011 with the “Black Friday” indictments, many players who made a living playing the online game were faced with a conundrum. Would they move to another country to continue to pursue their livelihood or ply their trade in the live arena? For many the… Read more »
Let’s give this another try. On Monday, California Assemblyman Mike Gatto introduced Assembly Bill 9, the Internet Poker Consumer Protection Act of 2015 in yet another effort to get online poker legalized and regulated in the Golden State. Legislators have attempted to get the game going in the state for years, but bickering amongst the… Read more »
Things happen in online poker. It’s just a fact of life. Tables freeze, players get disconnected, servers crash. It is not a frequent occurrence, but it is just natural that technological problems can happen in a game that takes place on the internet. And it’s not like issues don’t come up in live games –… Read more »
By far one of the highlights of the 2014 poker year was the battle at the World Series of Poker Championship Event final table. Taking us inside what it was like to be a part of that event, All In Magazine has issued a documentary that concentrates on the historic run of Mark Newhouse to… Read more »
Continuing a downward swing in what should be a time of growth, all three of the states that regulate online gaming and poker – Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey – instead saw their monthly revenues continue to drop. In Delaware, the online poker segment of their full casino gaming industry only pulled in $28,509 for… Read more »
Last night saw the end of the festivities at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, prior to the start of the Thanksgiving holiday as poker pro Jonathan Jaffee earned the championship of the World Poker Tour partypoker.net WPT Montreal. Jaffee, who had dominated the three days of play leading up to this final table,… Read more »
With the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow in the United States, six people, in particular, have a lot for which to be thankful. At least 90,000 things, that is (I’m so witty). The final table of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event was determined Tuesday and today, the six remaining players will battle it… Read more »
It was a quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event Monday – an unusual occurrence in a major tournament – as the field was whittled down to just 18 players from the 49 that began Day 3. Jonathan Jaffe emerged as the chip leader with 2.5 million chips, one of four… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has an up and down schedule. Parts of it are slow, with wide gaps between events. Those would be the down parts of the schedule (see how this works?). Right now, we’re in an upswing, with events coming back-to-back and overlapping. While the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event was… Read more »
It’s official: Atlantic City will be losing its fifth casino of 2014. First reported by the USA Today, Trump Entertainment Resorts has filed a revised reorganization plan in bankruptcy court, indicating that its Board of Directors has approved the closure of the Trump Taj Mahal casino on December 12th. It has been known for a… Read more »
According to a tweet from the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Monday evening, there will be no online poker hearing in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during the lame duck session. Sheldon Adelson’s internet gambling-killing Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) bill would have likely been the top subject of discussion. The PPA does warn its… Read more »
When the World Series of Poker (WSOP) decided the shift the timing of the $10,000 Main Event final table to November in 2008, the move brought with it much skepticism. Players and fans alike criticized the strategy, many believing it harmed the integrity of the tournament, as the four month layoff potentially allowed any skill… Read more »
After coming close twice this year, poker professional Dylan Wilkerson broke through in Johannesburg, South Africa, this afternoon in taking down the World Poker Tour Emperors Palace Poker Classic. The 166 player field had been whittled down to 17 players by the start of action on Sunday afternoon (early morning in the U. S.) with… Read more »
After closing down its operations in the state of New Jersey just a couple of months ago, the parent company of Nevada’s Ultimate Poker, Ultimate Gaming, has decided to close its operations in Nevada effective immediately. “As has been the case in other jurisdictions, online poker revenues in Nevada have fallen far short of original… Read more »
Martin Jacobson’s run at the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was at the same time stunningly unlikely and not at all surprising. The Swedish poker pro overcame long odds to even make it to the second day of the November Nine, but after treating viewers and (to their… Read more »
We were supposed to have just two players left to battle heads-up for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship on Tuesday, but after twelve hours of play Monday and on into Tuesday morning, it was time to call it quits with three players remaining. It will be an all-European fight to the… Read more »
Mark Newhouse accomplished what many in the poker world consider the greatest poker accomplishment of all time: he made back-to-back World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tables in fields with over 6,000 players. Dan Harrington did it ten years ago, but the fields were much smaller (though not tiny) back then. And Johnny… Read more »
The final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event finally gets underway tonight with the first of two days of action. The broadcast will begin on ESPN2 at 8:00pm ET semi-live with just a 30-minute delay and will continue until just two players remain. Those two will return to the Rio… Read more »
It has all come down to this. The 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event’s “November Nine” are all settled in Las Vegas preparing for the resumption of festivities that will, on Tuesday night, crown the next World Champion. But just how will it play out? Let’s take a look into the Poker News Daily… Read more »
Overcoming daunting odds, Darren Elias made World Poker Tour history in coming from behind to win the WPT Caribbean in St. Maarten Friday evening. At the start of action on Friday, Elias was in second place but that wasn’t much consolation. With his 495K in chips, Elias was almost four times behind chip leader Christophe… Read more »
We said yesterday that the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event was a small tournament and perhaps surprisingly, the second starting flight was not much bigger than the first. On Tuesday, just 61 players paid the $3,500 to try to earn a WPT title, almost exactly the same as the 57 that played… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN) announced on Friday that it has mutually parted ways with the 5Dimes Group. The Group, better known for its online sports betting than for internet poker, includes the sites 5Dimes.eu, Sportbet.com, IslandCasino.com, and Vietbet.eu. In a press release, an EPN spokesperson said, “We are happy with where the Network is… Read more »
While the New Jersey poker community waits with bated breath, the new Amaya Gaming-led PokerStars seems to be taking their time in making their grand entrance into the Atlantic City online gaming and poker industry. In September following the completion of the sale of the #1 online poker site in the industry to Amaya Gaming,… Read more »
As we prepare to head into the final two months of 2014, Dan Colman is looking to make a sweep of the major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world – unless there is a repeat of a similar situation that occurred last year. On the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year… Read more »
