After negotiating a deal that basically ensured both would receive the same payday, Ole Schemion defeated Mustapha Kanit in heads up action to take down the championship of the European Poker Tour’s €100,000 Super High Roller event on Saturday night. The final eight men presented one of the more difficult final tables that you’ll see.… Read more »
Offering her opinion from a national seat on an issue that the state is trying to figure out (the civics people in the audience will realize how that sounds), California Senator Diane Feinstein recently penned a letter to the California General Assembly in opposition to their efforts to pass effective regulation of online poker. The… Read more »
The season finale for the European Poker Tour, the Grand Final, rolled along on Friday with Day 2 action in their €100,000 Super High Roller event. After firming up the prize pool with the close of late registration to start the day, the end of the night brought the final table into clear view with… Read more »
According to reports from local news sources, the Normandie Casino – one of the original casinos in California which spread poker upon its legalization in the 1930s – will be temporarily shut down until new ownership can be found for the casino. DailyBreeze.com writer Sandy Mazza reports that the Normandie will be closing temporarily due… Read more »
The final even for the European Poker Tour, its Grand Final festivities, has begun at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco and they aren’t going small. In fact, not one but two High Roller events – the single re-entry €10,000 High Roller and the rebuy €100,000 Super High Roller – were in action on Thursday,… Read more »
I got into the poker industry and the writing part of it, specifically, by a happy accident back in 2005. In the eleven years since, I have generally been able to write what I want on my own terms. There have been those rare times, however, when I have been told to stay away from… Read more »
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) finally won. On Sunday, April 24th, the network hosted its eighth Million Dollar Sunday tournament and for the first time, the guaranteed prize pool was covered. The U.S.-facing network, which includes sites such as America’s Cardroom, Poker Host, and True Poker, launched its ambitious million-dollar guaranteed tournament back in December… Read more »
We wrote briefly earlier today about the amendments added on to California AB 2863, a bill which would legalize online poker in the state and how they were preceded by a letter to the bill’s co-author, Assemblyman Adam Gray, from a group of tribes who desperately want a “bad actor” clause included in the final… Read more »
With a hearing on Adam Gray’s California Assembly Bill 2863 looming this week, it has appeared that after years of squabbling, the various stakeholders were finally getting close to an agreement that would make online poker legal in the state. That may still be true, but last week, a couple amendments were added to the… Read more »
PokerStars proudly announced the release of “PokerStars Knockout Poker” on Friday, a new tournament variation that really is not all that new. Knockout Poker is what it sounds like: a twist on…um…knockout poker tournaments? And by twist, I mean it’s an extremely minor tweak. In Knockout Poker (excuse me, PokerStars Knockout Poker), half of a… Read more »
Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) wrapped up Sunday after a busy couple weeks at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. With three major WPT events – the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, and the WPT Tournament of Champions – strung… Read more »
Week 3 of the Global Poker League’s inaugural season is in the books and, despite some early season struggles, the New York Rounders – the preseason pick by many to be in contention for the first GPL World Championship – have surged to the top of the GPL Americas. In the GPL Eurasia, the Paris… Read more »
The first-ever final table for the Monster World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions has been set after a day of play on Saturday and it has six men that are well-qualified to be sitting in the seats. Atop the leaderboard when action resumes this afternoon is Jonathan Jaffe, but he’ll be facing some heat from… Read more »
After two tournaments that were quite popular with the tournament professionals, the World Poker Tour rolled the dice with their end-of-season event. The Monster WPT Tournament of Champions – the replacement for the WPT World Championship – started on Friday and, from first look, the change was not as successful as WPT officials might have… Read more »
Etching his name into the history books, David ‘Chino’ Rheem became only the fourth player in World Poker Tour history to take down three WPT championships (following Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno) when he was able to defeat Aditya Prasetyo in heads up play to win the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale… Read more »
As many states still struggle with the idea of regulating online gaming and/or poker within their borders, an Oklahoma Indian tribe could be moving forward with plans to open up the first international online poker room within the borders of the United States. The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma has received final clearance from the federal… Read more »
After the oddity of beginning the day with a 10-handed final table, Justin Young exorcised the demons of an earlier World Poker Tour final table loss in defeating Garrett Greer to emerge victorious in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL, last night. Instead of having the official six-handed WPT final table… Read more »
According to a brief report by TheHill.com, major players on both sides of the online gambling battle in the United States have acquired more troops. Both Sheldon Adelson’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling (CSIG) and Amaya Services Ltd., a division of PokerStars parent Amaya, have hired new lobbyists. The CSIG, funded by Las Vegas Sands… Read more »
On Wednesday, New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) Director David Rebuck issued a “Director’s Advisory Bulletin” in order to address how his department will handle online poker operators who offer their games in “grey markets.” These grey markets are jurisdictions in which online gaming is not explicitly forbidden, but also in which there is… Read more »
The second of the three big World Poker Tour events at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida will wrap up tomorrow as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale has reached its final table. Though the six-handed final table was determined on Tuesday, the players have the day off on Wednesday… Read more »
With three overlapping World Poker Tour (WPT) events being held this week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on. Right now, the focus is on the $10,000 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, which completed Day 2 on Monday… Read more »
Plenty of poker players have won more in one tournament than the state of Delaware brings in every month from online gaming, but when you rank in the bottom five in the country in terms of population, you don’t expect to be raking in billions, anyway. That said, the Blue Hen State (yes, I chose… Read more »
A decade ago, heck, even just a few years ago, did anyone ever think that the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida would at any point be the center of the poker world? Not Las Vegas, not Atlantic City, not even Hollywood, California, but Hollywood, Florida? That’s not to say that the… Read more »
The final events of the Season XIV schedule for the World Poker Tour are underway in Hollywood, FL, as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown opened its doors for Day 1 action on Friday. After the spinning turnstiles quit rotating, a previously unknown Steven Hensley emerged as the leader of a sizeable pack of… Read more »
After slumbering through the first quarter of 2016, the drive for another state to join the three United States locales that have already enacted online gaming or poker legislation grew by one with the addition of the state of Michigan. On Friday, Michigan State Senator Mike Kowall introduced his bill SB 889, or “The Lawful… Read more »
