Another live tournament series is taking shape, though those of you who like to regularly drop $5,000 to $10,000 on buy-ins need not worry about scraping up some more cash. This one is for low rollers. Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn poker club has teamed up with partypoker to launch the Grand Prix Poker Tour, a… Read more »
Tonight’s the night, sports fans. One of the landmark days of the fall. This evening, we get to watch the season’s first broadcast of Monday Night Foot…wait. Let’s flip the channel up one notch. Ok, there it is. Tonight, September 14th, marks the first episode of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event on… Read more »
The poker community is well aware of the potential future of poker under the dreams of Mediarex Sports and Entertainment’s (formerly Zokay Entertainment) Chief Executive Officer and founder Alexandre Dreyfus. The dream of Dreyfus – to “sportify” the game of poker rather than leave it in its current state – is one of the major… Read more »
After a great deal of outrage from many in the poker community regarding the conduct of the event, the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering has announced they are investigating the Hialeah Park Casino over a poker tournament it conducted in late August. According to Nick Sortal of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, gaming officials in Florida were… Read more »
If it wasn’t for the factor that there is a poker player involved in the proceedings, the number of people in the poker community watching the CBS reality show Big Brother would probably be much smaller than its current levels. With poker professional Vanessa Rousso in the final five players in the competition, rumors are… Read more »
Way too much in the area of “water works” for this week’s episode. If you don’t like a load of false drama, this wasn’t the week you wanted to be watching. Fortunately, we here at Poker News Daily did the job for you. It has all come down to this. With only two weeks to… Read more »
What was trumpeted as the latest and best attempt to persuade a state legislature towards passing online gaming and/or poker regulations took place in Albany, NY, yesterday. The hearing by the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee in the state capitol wasn’t widely attended, however, by neither the constituents nor the legislators that the hearing… Read more »
Two men were arrested last Wednesday in Weston, Florida for allegedly running an illegal gambling operation. Michael Kieran McGuinness, 60, and Daniel Frederick Husley, 38 were led out of the Smoke on the Water Cigar Bar in zip-tie cuffs in the midst of what appeared to be a poker event. The arrests were the result… Read more »
The ten finalists for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame class were announced by the World Series of Poker yesterday after a public nomination period and a vetting process conducted by the PHOF Governing Council. Six of the nominees have been on this list before, while four (yes, I just checked, the math works out)… Read more »
Back in June, we reported that MPN (Microgaming Poker Network) was going to implement a feature to help its casual players, the ability to change one’s screen name. The feature was supposed to be added in July, but because of some technical issues, it was delayed. It wasn’t forgotten, though, as according to Pokerfuse, alias… Read more »
If you live in these United States of America at the present moment, you probably don’t care, but if you live in, say, Canada, Mexico, numerous European nations, or any of a multitude of other locales, you may be interested to know that the 14th annual PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway.… Read more »
It’s not quite the interstate gaming arrangement we were looking for, but it’s a start. On Thursday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced that it has approved deal in which Scientific Games will operate an online gambling product from Atlantic City, but for Delaware players only. The New Jersey DGE issued the following… Read more »
In an earnings call in April, Amaya Gaming CEO David Baazov said that he wanted his company to go live with a daily fantasy sports (DFS) product by the time the NFL season started. Mission accomplished. On Friday, PokerStars’ parent company officially launched StarsDraft.com in the United States, just in time for the NFL season,… Read more »
One of the best ways for charitable organizations to raise funds is to throw a “Casino Night” or, more recently, a charitable poker tournament. The funds raised by such activities are a boon for the charitable cause and they provide a return to the participants, usually in the form of prizes but sometimes in cash.… Read more »
After battling from the brink of elimination, Mike Shariati stunned Freddy Deeb early Saturday morning to capture the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker Main Event at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, FL. As he had for the prior two day, Aaron Kweskin came to the six-handed WPT final table with… Read more »
One of those double eviction nights, so we here at Poker News Daily will bypass our usual public service announcement and state you should have seen this episode! Just a couple of weeks ago on the hook for being tossed out of the game, poker professional Vanessa Rousso has made a startling recovery on the… Read more »
Day 3 for the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, is in the books with Aaron Kweskin at the head of the final 15 players left. Perhaps more impressive than Kweskin’s run to the top is the presence of actor Bill Fagerbakke, known for his portrayal of… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event, plus some late entrants, came together in a single field for the first time on Tuesday for Day 2 of the tournament at the “legendary” (HA! I crack me up.) Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California.… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is known for hosting one of the most popular poker tournament series on the internet, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). Many an online pro has made their mark winning FTOPS events and the rewards have been lucrative. Starting in September, Full Tilt is changing things up a bit, introducing a… Read more »
All three starting flights are in the books at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event and now it is on to Tuesday’s Day 2. David McCaw dominated Day 1C on Monday, opening up a nearly 100,000 chip lead on his nearest competitor. He is also the overall Day 1 chip… Read more »
The battle for bwin.party, parent company of partypoker, continues. On Tuesday, bwin.party confirmed that it has received another acquisition proposal from 888 Holdings, though it has not revealed any of the proposal’s details. The brief announcement is as follows: Further to its announcement on 27 August regarding a proposal from GVC Holdings PLC (‘GVC’), the… Read more »
