It seems of late that the “Gray Lady,” the venerable New York Times, has been paying a great deal of attention to the world of poker. A couple of weeks ago, the Times featured an article on “retired” poker professional Vanessa Selbst’s new life as a hedge fund manager. Now the Times is going the… Read more »
The weekend of the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s “Big 4” is upon us, coming from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. The $5000 Main Event (with a $3 million guaranteed prize pool) opened up action on Friday, with Nick Pupillo pulling out to the lead over the field and… Read more »
The world of poker is one that has been in a state of flux for some time. In its early days on the Mississippi riverboats where the game was arguably born, the 20-card pack (Aces through tens of the four suits) dictated that the game of poker was a four-player game. As the U. S.… Read more »
Brady Holiman went wire-to-wire as the chip leader at the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event Tuesday to win his first-ever WPT title as well as a first prize of nearly half a million dollars. Going into the six-handed final table, Holiman had a tremendous chip lead, more than the… Read more »
Former professional basketball player Charles Oakley pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge stemming from his arrest for cheating at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. He will not receive any jail time. Oakley played for five teams in his NBA career, but he was best known for his decade with the New York Knicks. He… Read more »
Late last week, professional poker player Phil Galfond posted another update as to the progress of his upcoming real money online poker room, Run It Once. This time, the main topic was table caps, that is, the maximum number of tables a player is allowed to have open and active at once. It seems like… Read more »
They are down to the final table in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event, as just six players remain from the original 755 player field. Going into Tuesday’s deciding day, Brady Holiman will be in Seat 1 with a significant chip lead. His 10.840 million chips are more than the next two players… Read more »
You know what’s the worst? Folding trash hole cards pre-flop only to see that you would have had the sneaky best hand and a shot to scoop a huge pot. Well, I suppose the worst is having your Aces cracked or your opponent hit a one-outer on the river, but you catch my drift. Well,… Read more »
For a good part of the past decade, there has been the occasional murmur that Caesars was looking to sell the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, the home of the World Series of Poker. Late last week, the rumors kicked up again, this time via the Las Vegas happenings blog, VitalVegas.com. On Thursday, Vital Vegas… Read more »
While it is tough to look at a tournament that generates better than a $2.5 million prize pool as anything but a success, the reality is that the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, OK, might need to be reworked. That factor doesn’t matter to those who will be moving… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has settled down in Durant, OK, for the WPT Choctaw. Over the next few days, some of poker’s best and a host of Okies (and some Texans, maybe a few Jayhawks) will battle it out for poker supremacy. Day 1A is in the books and it is Texas’ Viet Vo atop… Read more »
After a lengthy break for the World Series of Poker and a new stop for the tour in California, the World Poker Tour will head back to familiar ground beginning today. Friday marks the start of the WPT Choctaw, which has quickly become one of the more popular stops on the tournament despite only being… Read more »
After making two big announcements on Monday regarding online gambling and sports betting expansion, MGM Resorts International saved the big reveal for Tuesday: it will be the official sports betting partner of the NBA and WNBA. We are in a new era, people. Sports leagues have had a love/hate relationship with gambling essentially forever. Though… Read more »
