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With the passing of the legendary Doyle Brunson earlier this year, perhaps our yearly tradition takes on more poignancy… As has become tradition here on Poker News Daily (and it has been for this writer since he penned it back in 2005), it is time to celebrate the holiday season. With that in mind, we… Read more »
Can’t we all just get along? There are places in life where you have a lot of people in close proximity to each other. There are also places were people have a lot of money on the line. A live poker tournament is at the intersection of the Venn diagram, which can sometimes lead to… Read more »
Former EPT Prague champ Jordan Saccucci, a prime suspect in an Ontario burglary spree, somehow thought it was as good idea to show up to WSOP Paradise over the weekend. He played in Day 1B of the Main Event. Saccucci did not make it through to Day 2, not because he was knocked out by… Read more »
After taking the week off last week, it was time to get back on the horse. One of the things that occurs during a long NFL season is that you begin to get a bit burned out. You’re not making the right decisions (as witnessed by the 2-4 record for Week 11 and Week 12)… Read more »
NOTE: This article was originally published on Tuesday, December 5, but was inadvertently deleted after some IT migration. The latest scandal in the poker world involves Nik Airball, Wesley Fei, and Ye “Mars” Shen, all of whom play on the Hustler Casino Live stream. Over the weekend, Airball and Fei accused Mars of introducing marked… Read more »
In an elaborate ceremony featuring many sports legends and tribal representatives, the Seminole Indians of Florida threw the switch on their live sports book in Tampa on Friday. At noon, the first bet was received in the live book (more on this in a moment), but there was plenty of action around the Hard Rock… Read more »
Lifelong fraudster Well here’s something weird. You probably don’t remember the saga of PokerTribe.com or PokerTribes.com, depending on the iteration of the site, and neither did I, really, so don’t worry about it. The short version is that several years ago, the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma were trying to launch a poker site… Read more »
When you mix millions of dollars with poker players who seek the limelight, you are bound to have a poker scandal at some point. So it’s poker scandal time. On Sunday, high stakes cash game live stream personality Nik Airball tweeted that he found out that someone he considered a “close friend” had cheating him… Read more »
EPT Prague is coming up in a week, but if there was any sort of celebration of last year’s winner planned, it looks like those plans will have to be nixed. On Tuesday, the Halton (Ontario) Regional Police announced that 2022 EPT Prague Main Event champ Jordan Saccucci is one of four men wanted in… Read more »
In stunning news out of the NBA, Mark Cuban is selling a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to Miriam Adelson, wife of the late Sheldon Adelson, and the Adelson family. Adelson, who is the controlling shareholder of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., is selling about $2 billion of Sands stock to fund the purchase.… Read more »
Gather around, kids, as we look back to a day in poker when – SHOCKER! – you only got one shot at a poker tournament. Yes, there were those days when you laid down your buy-in and, through your guile, luck, or fortune, played your way either to a big stack or down to the… Read more »
With Thanksgiving weekend behind us, the NFL Week Twelve schedule is a bit of an abbreviated one. That doesn’t leave many betting choices for the punters to make, something you always desire when looking at a slate of games. Injuries have also begun to take their toll and influence the betting lines. Quick…with Bengals QB… Read more »
There’s an old saying, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying,” so maybe I have to give Brazilian poker pro Rafael Caiaffa some credit for trying. But I probably won’t. This week, Caiaffa was banned from the Latin American Poker Tour’s (LAPT) BSOP Millions for trying to sneak chips onto his stack that were not… Read more »
There is an old joke among comedians. FIRST COMEDIAN: “What’s the most important thing in comedy?” SECOND COMEDIAN: “Wh—” FIRST COMEDIAN: “TIMING!” The same thing is true with many things in life, but perhaps none more important than sports betting. Picking up key bits of information – an injury, a coaching change, something that can… Read more »
The games are beginning to garner more importance in the National Football League as we have passed the Week Ten mark. Every game now seems to have some sort of impact on the pursuit of the playoff race and, especially with the weather becoming cooler in the North, defenses are beginning to flex their muscles.… Read more »
We’re by the halfway pole with this Sunday’s 2023 NFL Week Ten schedule and, as such, we’ve got enough information to be able to make some designations. Who are the real contenders, the ones that we could easily see in the Super Bowl come 2024? Who are those that don’t quite reach that level? And… Read more »
We’ve reached the halfway point of the 2023 NFL season, and it has certainly been an entertaining one. Of course, we have some of the usual suspects that have risen to the top – Kansas City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco most notably – but there have been some surprises, also. Who would have conceived that… Read more »
If you have spent any time betting on sports, you have come to realize that it isn’t easy. You’re constantly trying to find the edge, that bit of information, that allows you to make a move that other bettors don’t. There’s a reason that it is called “grinding,” because you are literally trying to move… Read more »
When it comes to pretty much anything in life, the more information that you have, the better decisions you will make. This is especially true when it comes to sports betting and, in particular, the National Football League. One of those informational factors is injuries. Especially when dealing with concussions, which can take some time… Read more »
It is something that usually happens at least once in any sports season. There is that day when, as Dr. Peter Venkman put it in Ghostbusters regarding the pending arrival of Gozer the Gozerian, “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together…Mass hysteria!” That was Week Seven in a nutshell for the National Football League in… Read more »
There are times, especially in the world of gambling, when you really wonder if you know what you’re doing. You move all in with your middle pair of sevens against an A-J off suit…and the opponent rivers a Broadway straight. In poker, and in gambling too, you can often make the correct move, the ones… Read more »
Long-time VIP A high roller is suing MGM Resorts International, claiming he was drugged while playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in December 2020. A real estate executive and former sports agent from Brea, California, Dwight Manley believes someone put ketamine in his drink while he was gambling in the casino’s private high… Read more »
When it comes to sports betting, part of the trick is knowing when to break away from the pack – or the favorites – and pick up on the underdogs – otherwise known as the contrarian bet. Picking out these times to take the contrarian play is key to being able to maximize a play.… Read more »
It is one of the keys to any athletic endeavor…momentum. When you get on a roll, you do your best to stay on that roll. In the National Football League, that can be seen in teams who get off to a great start and try to carry that momentum deeper into the season. Such momentum… Read more »
Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale is at it again. The Houston furniture store owner has millions upon millions of dollars riding on the Houston Astros to win the World Series. According to the Astros diehard, he stands to win over $70 million should the ‘Stros win it for the second year in a row. A complete… Read more »
