After two weeks of action in the Global Poker League, the GPL Americas and the GPL Eurasia both have surprise leaders atop the tables. In the Americas, the Montreal Nationals have seized the lead from the preseason pick to win the conference in the New York Rounders, while the Eurasia’s still have the intriguing battle… Read more »
In an ingenious move that might not gain any traction – but it doesn’t hurt to try – a poker fan has started a petition asking officials at the World Series of Poker to eliminate the rake on the WSOP Championship Event. In addition to this elimination of rake, the petition is also asking for… Read more »
In what will certainly prove to be a fruitless effort, a petition has been started on the website change.org to try to get World Series of Poker officials to make substantive changes to the WSOP Main Event in order to reward players with more spoils. The petition, posted by David Bass, creator of Any Two… Read more »
According to OnlinePokerReport.com, the California Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee will be holding a hearing on online poker bill AB 2863 next Wednesday, April 20th. The bill, championed by California Assemblyman Adam Gray, aims to legalize and regulate internet poker California, the biggest prize for the online poker in the United States. Today, the PokerStars… Read more »
It is spring time and while that can often mean a decrease in online poker players as people begin to enjoy the outdoors, it also means that it is about time for the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Now in its eighth year, SCOOP was once merely second-banana to the World Championship of… Read more »
These sorts of stories seem to play out way too often. Online poker room goes out of business, customers are left holding the bag. In the ongoing case of Europoker.com, though, the story is slightly different. Europoker’s ownership actually has the ability to pay out player deposits; it is the extra goodies that are at… Read more »
Week 2 of the 2016 Global Poker League begins today with another four six-handed Sit-and-Go’s on tap. As will be the case every week of the regular season, the Eurasia Conference will go first with tourneys at noon ET and 1:40pm ET, followed by the Americas Conference at 3:30pm ET and 5:10pm ET. The New… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XIV is coming to an end, but with that end comes the beginning of a tweak to the way major tournaments might be run in the future. Today, famed tournament director Matt Savage announced via Twitter that the season-concluding WPT Tournament of Champions will institute a “shot clock,” limiting… Read more »
As the two major tournament circuits in the world prepare for their season finales ahead of the start of the World Series of Poker at the end of May, Aussie Millions champion Ari Engel is continuing to hold the lead over the field in the CardPlayer Magazine Player of the Year race. While he has… Read more »
After the inaugural week of action on the Global Poker League, one conference has it preseason favorite not unexpectedly sitting atop its standings with a couple of surprises in pursuit. In the other conference, a team that wasn’t heavily favored to do much in this inaugural season of the GPL has stunned many by jumping… Read more »
As the date approaches for the first rendition of this version of the World Poker Tour’s Tournament of Champions, the tour officially announced on Tuesday that more prizes had been added to the awards that will be handed out in the event. Monster, the official headphones and speakers of the WPT, announced that they would… Read more »
The first day of action is in the books for the Global Poker League and, for the most part, the day has to be viewed as a solid start for the burgeoning poker-as-sports organization. While there were some very good things that came out of the day’s proceedings, there were definitely some things that needed… Read more »
According to press reports from North of the Border, the Canadian province of Quebec is looking at a bill that would, for the most part, eradicate any online gaming from the region, save for the state-sponsored sites that the government operates. Several outlets, including Huffington Post Canada and its writer Giuseppe Valiante, have publicized a… Read more »
In preparation for the fifteenth annual awards ceremonies, the powers that be with the Global Poker Index have announced the nominees for the 2016 GPI European Poker Awards. Much like their counterpart in the United States that honors the best in the Americas, the European Poker Awards looks to honor the best in European poker… Read more »
As they prepare for Opening Day of their inaugural season, several of the managers of the Global Poker League franchises have decided to announce the players who will be their “wild cards” for the upcoming season. In some cases, the managers have decided to call their own number (AKA put their own name in as… Read more »
For those that were looking for a big blockbuster expose of the A-listers from Hollywood that frequented the biggest poker games around in the early Ought’s, you’re going to be disappointed. According to the screenwriter and director, he’s not going to “name names,” so to speak. According to several outlets, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is hard… Read more »
When a player wins the World Series of Poker Championship Event and becomes the de facto World Champion of the game of poker, he (or perhaps one day she) also becomes an ambassador of sorts for the sport. Not only for the year following but pretty much for the rest of their involvement in the… Read more »
This weekend marks the end of the college basketball season and with it, the end of college sports contests on daily fantasy sports (DFS) sites DraftKings and FanDuel. The two DFS leaders announced Thursday that after Monday’s championship game of the men’s NCAA basketball tournament, they will cease offering contests on college sports. Gambling on… Read more »
In the world of poker, many of its best players have been able to develop their talents – or transfer their abilities – from the world of role playing games, or RPGs, to the green baize. Through playing such games as Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Hearthstone and a litany of other strategic endeavors,… Read more »
