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 »
After several prosperous years in a partnership, two-time European Poker Tour champion Victoria Coren-Mitchell announced yesterday that she had terminated her sponsorship deal with the #1 online poker site in the industry, PokerStars. Last Friday, PokerStars’ ownership, Amaya Gaming, announced that they would be expanding their poker client to include a full range of online… 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 »
Today is the one-year anniversary of the launch of New Jersey’s regulated online gambling industry. It has significantly underperformed expectations, as it was projected to generate $1 billion in revenue but instead has only hit about one-tenth of that number. Nevertheless, it has still helped some of the casinos in Atlantic City and the state… Read more »
The deal had been known about for around a week, but yesterday NYX Gaming Group officially announced that it has acquired the Ongame Network from Amaya Gaming. This marks the second transfer of Ongame in two years. No specific dollar amount was given in the press release, but the purchase prices is said to be… 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 »
The remaining players in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event can see the prize. There are just 49 players left after Sunday’s Day 2, so a final table appearance and possible title is clearly possible for most of them. Maduka Meragal will enter Monday’s action at the Playground Poker Club with the chip… Read more »
The New Jersey intrastate online casino created in a joint venture between the Pala Interactive and Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has begun beta testing making it the first tribal internet casino to go live in the Garden State. The partnership between Pala Interactive and the Borgata was given the thumbs-up by the… Read more »
Starting January 1st, Playtech’s iPoker Network will implement a new method of attributing rake to each of its member rooms. Originally reported by PokerTube.com, the new method is called “Source Based Rake” (SBR) and is aimed at encouraging skins to recruit recreational players. Traditionally, the iPoker Network, as well as all other online poker networks,… 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 »
For years, the professional sports leagues in the United States, as well as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), have lived a life of hypocrisy, opposing legalized sports betting at every turn, despite the fact that sports betting has clearly increased interest in their games and increased the size of the leagues’ wallets. Somehow, though,… 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 »
While watching this year’s World Series of Poker Championship Event final table, I noticed something that has become commonplace, the practice of min-raising. It wasn’t like I was noticing a new phenomenon, however, as it has been something that has been trending in big-stack poker tournaments for some time. What was a bit of a… Read more »
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, all three of the states that have regulated online gaming and/or poker – Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware – have or will pass their first year anniversaries. Of late, however, none of these markets has been the revenue driver that their respective states had hoped for. Delaware, the smallest… 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 »
It’s been a couple of days since Sweden’s Martin Jacobson took down the 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event and the $10 million first prize that went along with it (I believe that Martin is still celebrating it somewhere on planet Earth). Simply put, it was one of the more impressive displays of poker… Read more »
The person running the World Series of Poker’s Twitter account last night might as well have been channeling Kanye West when he tweeted a major announcement about next year’s WSOP schedule. He might as well have been telling Martin Jacobson, “I’m really happy for you and imma let you finish, but the WSOP Europe is… Read more »
If you are a company offering an online poker service, it might be a good idea, you know, just saying, to make sure your computer systems are setup properly. Caesars Interactive Entertainment recently learned this lesson the hard way, getting hit with a $10,000 fine by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) for… 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 »
