The start of the NFL season took center stage in the sports and gambling worlds this weekend, but there is a little-known football (American football) league launching right after the NFL’s season ends in February: the Alliance of American Football (AAF). And according to an ESPN.com report, the league has embraced gambling in a way… Read more »
The second running of the made for streaming (on PokerGO) event Poker Masters is off and running, with one tournament already in the books and a second tournament at its final table. This is just the start, however, as a week of high stakes tournament poker action awaits poker fans. David Peters Takes First $10,000… Read more »
It is often said that “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” That adage is being proven in Florida, where a referendum on the ballot come the midterm elections has brought together an odd tandem who are looking for the same outcome. Brought Together for the Same Goal The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell reported recently on how… Read more »
First reported by the UK’s Sky News Tuesday and confirmed by the involved parties Wednesday, book maker and online gambling company William Hill has inked a partnership with Eldorado Resorts to operate sports books in Eldorado casinos in the United States. The deal makes William Hill Eldorado’s sole partner for both brick-and-mortar and internet sports… Read more »
With the NFL season upon us this week, daily fantasy sports sites and participants alike are giddy for the most highly anticipated fantasy sports season on the calendar. What the DFS sites cannot afford is down time, which is exactly what happened about a month ago when DraftKings was the target of multiple Distributed Denial… Read more »
Oh wonderful. Look who’s back. On Monday, Jon Kyl, one of the men responsible for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA), was named by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey as replacement for the late John McCain in the Senate. There isn’t anything going on in the Senate when it comes to online poker,… Read more »
As they are wont to do, the good folks over at PokerFuse have combed the pre-downloaded graphics for an upcoming PokerStars update and have found that the next – and likely temporary – cash game on the world’s largest online poker site will be Six-Plus Hold’em. PokerFuse previously broke the news of Split Hold’em, Showtime… Read more »
It was a busy Sunday around the Casino Barcelona in Spain as the European Poker Tour concluded its stop on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean. In the €5000 Main Event, an online qualifier from Poland, Piotr Nurzynski, captured the championship while, on another patch of baize in the tournament arena, high stakes player Max… Read more »
According to reports from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and reporter David Ferrara, a woman who is now (naturally) a former employee of one of the top poker magazines in the world has been indicted on charges of theft. The Basics of the Case Prosecutors in Clark County announced the indictments on Thursday against Shelby McCann,… Read more »
As reported last week here at Poker News Daily, poker professional Phil Ivey and the Borgata were involved with dueling motions regarding Ivey paying back the $10.1 million he won from the casino in the now-infamous 2012 “edge sorting” case. A District Court judge has made his decision regarding the case and, unfortunately, it doesn’t… Read more »
