There are just a couple days left in the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event and as has been the case all week, it is Leonardo Pires leading the field. Pires was the chip leader after Sunday’s Day 2, lost the lead for a while on Monday but ended with a dominant chip stack… Read more »
The California State Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee was expected to hold a hearing on three internet gambling bills last Wednesday and the hearing did go off as planned. To the disappointment of online poker supporters, though, only the daily fantasy sports (DFS) bill was discussed. That bill, AB 1437, which would legalize and regulate… Read more »
The poker got back to normal Monday at the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as there were no reported incidents of anybody expelling bodily waste at the tables. Instead, it was all business (though who is to say trying to win a pricey prop bet isn’t serious business?) as the field continued to… Read more »
Daily fantasy sports (DFS) leaders DraftKings and FanDuel can continue to operate in the state of New York for at least half a year, as a four-judge state appellate panel issued a permanent stay Monday against an injunction issued against the sites. That injunction was levied a month ago by New York Supreme Court Judge… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event took place Sunday and like any live tournament, some people were eliminated, others built their chips stacks and all in all, much poker was played. But let’s forget about all of that for now and talk about what really happened on Sunday: Antonio Esfandiari… Read more »
After making the final table of this same event twice previously (in 2011 and last year), Bryn Kenney finally found “third time lucky” as he maintained his lead he brought in to the final table to the end of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s $100,000 Super High Roller event. Kenney had a minimal lead, his 3.82… Read more »
While most people visit the sun and surf of Paradise Island in the Bahamas for those basic necessities of life – sun and surf – the folks who have invaded that tropical locale this week aren’t there to get a nice winter tan. The 13th Annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is in full swing with the… Read more »
If it is the first week of the calendar year, it means that the crème of the tournament poker world has flocked to the sunny climes of Paradise Island in the Bahamas for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. This year’s event, the thirteenth running of the tournament, will have something for everyone as 104 different tournaments… Read more »
2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Greg “Fossilman” Raymer is looking to make 2016 a banner year at the poker tables. And if you want, you can place a bet on him and sweat him the entire way. Raymer has posted a staking package on the site YouStake.com in which he seeks at… Read more »
It looks like New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has three-bet daily fantasy sports (DFS) leaders DraftKings and FanDuel and is putting their tournament lives at risk. Less than two months after filing numerous complaints against the two companies, including charges of illegal gambling and advertising fraud, the AG has amended the complaint in an… Read more »
The fifth annual PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is almost here and as such, PokerStars has announced the full schedule for the year’s first major online tournament series. Like last year, the 2016 TCOOP will 50 events and $15 million in total guaranteed prize pools. The TCOOP is slated for January 21st through… Read more »
Another month, another player boycott of PokerStars. As a follow-up to the December protest of PokerStars’ VIP program changes, another boycott is currently underway. This one is more ambitious, too, slated for the entire first week of January, from the first through the seventh. As before, players are showing their discontent with the adjustments PokerStars… Read more »
How was your holiday season? Good? Get some nice gifts? Yeah? Nice! Even if you are thrilled with that $200 Kylo Ren lightsaber, your holiday pales in comparison to that of one Fedor Holz. The 22-year old German entered his Christmas break with a win in the final World Poker Tour (WPT) Alpha8 event of… Read more »
It looks like the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission (MSLC) may be taking the “if you can’t be ‘em, join ‘em” stance when it comes to online gaming. In late December, the MSLC issued a Request for Information (RFI), inviting (preferably) qualified companies to submit proposals with ideas for how the Lottery can increase its presence… Read more »
In further backlash against policies implemented last year, poker professional Isaac Haxton has decided to turn down the renewal of his PokerStars sponsorship for 2016, citing the company’s treatment of players as the reason. Haxton, who was a part of Team PokerStars Online, was offered the same deal for the upcoming year that he had… Read more »
For most of 2015, California was at the forefront of the movement to regulate online gaming and/or poker in the United States. The problem was that was the furthest it ever got in the Golden State – discussion – as only one bill passed out of committee and it was little more than a placeholder… Read more »
