In February, ESPN and Poker Central announced that they were renewing their partnership to broadcast coverage of the 2018 World Series of Poker. They promised to air “start to finish everyday coverage” of the WSOP Main Event from July 2nd through July 14th. At the time, only ESPN’s television schedule was released, with the promise… Read more »
Last week, Irish bookmaker and online gaming company Paddy Power Betfair agreed to acquire one of the two leading daily fantasy sports sites, FanDuel, in what appears to be Paddy Power’s effort to strengthen its footprint in the soon-to-be expanded United States sports betting market. Paddy Power likely isn’t all that interested in getting into… Read more »
If you are in a casino in Las Vegas right now and are wondering why the place is half empty – beyond the fact that it’s a Wednesday afternoon – it’s because today is arguably the best day of the poker year: the first day of the World Series of Poker. Okay, yesterday was technically… Read more »
Swedish online gambling company, Cherry AB, announced last week that Anders Holmgren has been terminated from his position as Chief Executive Officer after being arrested for “severe insider trading.” Gunner Lind, the chairman of the Cherry Audit Committee, has been named acting CEO. Holmgren’s firing was announced Friday after a series of press releases informing… Read more »
With the 2018 World Series of Poker about to begin, what better time for the WSOP to release the schedule for the upcoming 2018-2019 WSOP Circuit season? It will be the most expansive season ever for the now fifteen-year old tour, with 28 stops, ending in the Global Casino Championship. Though the 2018-2018 WSOP Circuit… Read more »
Registration opens and live satellites begin for the 2018 World Series of Poker, but before that, the World Poker Tour needed to wrap up its sixteenth season. And so it did Sunday, as Matthew Waxman won the WPT Tournament of Champions. The WPT Tournament of Champions began in 2016 as an invitation-only tournament, a departure… Read more »
The final event of the Season XVI schedule for the World Poker Tour is underway as the WPT Tournament of Champions kicked off action at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday. The third running of the tournament was expected to be a bigger affair than its two predecessors and the players didn’t… Read more »
After facing the slings and arrows of the poker community – especially over the past year as he captured the 2017 World Series of Poker’s Player of the Year award – poker professional Chris Ferguson has issues what he believes was an apology for his actions with Full Tilt Poker and “Black Friday.” In a… Read more »
Etching his name into the history books, Darren Elias made history last night in defeating Kitty Kuo to capture his fourth ever World Poker Tour championship in winning the WPT Bobby Baldwin Classic. It seemed as if it were almost predestined for Elias to rewrite the record books on Wednesday. He sat on nearly half… Read more »
Last week, we talked about PokerStars getting rid of the goofy Split Hold’em, a game in which two different sets of community cards were dealt and how Poker Industry PRO discovered table graphics which indicated some new games were coming. And sure enough, PokerStars announced on Wednesday that one of those games has arrived: Showtime… Read more »
On Wednesday, PokerStars announced that Portugal has merged its online poker player pool with those of Spain and France. PokerStars is currently the only site on which players from all three countries can compete against each other. The three countries were formerly ring-fenced from the rest of the world, meaning that poker players could only… Read more »
Big-time poker is coming at us fast and furious right now. The final table of the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) Bobby Baldwin Classic is here, then it will be the WPT Tournament of Champions, followed by the World Series of Poker. But before we get too far ahead of ourselves (then again, we’re talking… Read more »
Have you ever heard of the Boomtown Casino Hotel in Reno, Nevada? Well, the casino execs probably wish you hadn’t right about now because they are in some shit. On May 15th, the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) filed a complaint against Boomtown’s parent company, BCH Gaming Reno, LLC for putting affiliate links on its… Read more »
We have entered the most exciting time on the poker calendar! The World Series of Poker begins next week, but before that, the sixteenth season of the World Poker Tour will draw to a close. The WPT Tournament of Champions begins in a couple days and right now, the final open event of the season… Read more »
The National Football League (NFL) has long tried to keep itself at arm length from sports betting. Everyone knows sports betting helps the league, but the league itself has never wanted to admit it publicly. With the reversal of PASPA by the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the NFL still hasn’t admitted to liking sports… Read more »
Citizens of the States of America can have the tendency to think that they’re the only country that matters. This creates a bit of animosity, especially when the international community is called the “rest of the world.” With this in mind – and with the World Series of Poker around the corner – we here… Read more »
With his absence being one of the biggest mysteries over the past couple of years in tournament poker, one of the legends in the game, poker professional Phil Ivey, has stated that he plans to participate in this year’s World Series of Poker. In an interview with Frank Op de Woerd and Laura Cornelius of… Read more »
As the Grateful Dead once said, “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” Then again, you could say that about pretty much every season of the World Poker Tour! Over the next week, the WPT will wrap up its Season XVI schedule with two tournament stops at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced Wednesday that it is continuing to increase its presence in Asia, returning to both Japan and Korea with WPT Japan and WPT Korea at Paradise City, respectively. Both tour stops will take place in September. “The World Poker Tour is thrilled to announce WPT Japan and WPT Korea as part… Read more »
So this week has been an exciting one in the gambling world, hasn’t it? The United States Supreme Court deemed the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) unconstitutional, making it permissible for states to legalize and regulate sports betting. A handful of states, including the state we have to thank for this… Read more »
PokerStars removed the new cash game Split Hold’em from its lobby this week, but according to Poker Industry PRO (pay wall), it will soon be replaced with another new game type. Split Hold’em was well received by players, but it must not have generated the rake that PokerStars wanted, or else it would still be… Read more »
Last week’s big news in poker circles was the lawsuit filed by professional poker player Gordon Vayo against PokerStars in U.S. District Court. We covered it, every poker media outlet covered it (mainstream news site, Forbes, covered it before everyone), and the poker internet message forums are talking about it. On Monday morning, The Stars… Read more »
It was a day that everyone assume was coming, but until this morning, there was always going to be at least some doubt. In a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state of New Jersey and against the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NCAA, striking down the Professional and… Read more »
With the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl only a couple of weeks away, Poker Central – through their streaming outlet PokerGO – is airing a new documentary filmed in partnership with CakeWorks. The seven-part series is called “INSIDERS: Super High Roller Bowl 2018” and focuses on three participants in this year’s festivities at ARIA in… Read more »
After more than a week with little to no information or developments in the case, popular high stakes poker player/businessman Bill Perkins is dipping into his own pocket to offer a little incentive for information. Perkins, who routinely is found in some of the biggest High Roller tournaments around the world and in the biggest… Read more »
