Well, that was your first mistake This is a lesson about not letting anyone use your online gambling accounts, or anything connected to your financial accounts, for that matter. As reported by the Naples Daily News, Andrew Moste filed a lawsuit in Collier County (Florida) Circuit Court earlier this year against Oakes Farms, company owner… Read more »
Blindsided Lots of us have lost our jobs at some point in our lives. Heck, it goes without saying in 2020. It’s awful. And when companies merge, even in the most prosperous of times, layoffs are usually expected because of job redundancies. But when it happens, the least we want is to be treated with… Read more »
Next stop: King’s Casino The final table of the “International Bracket” of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event on GGPoker has been determined, with nine of the original 674 players still standing. Leading the way is Brazil’s Brunno Botteon with 10,317,743 chips. Nobody is within 4,000,000 of him. So ends the online portion… Read more »
Quick way to become publicly traded Online payment processing company Paysafe Group has agreed to a merger with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. II (FTAC). As a result, Paysafe will become a publicly traded company. The deal values Paysafe at $9 billion. FTAC is led by billionaire Bill Foley, hence… Read more »
When you already have one of the most popular players in the game today, what else do you need for your online poker site? Apparently, the management behind GGPoker didn’t feel that having Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu on their team was enough. Thus, GGPoker announced on Thursday the signing of…well, let’s just call… Read more »
When Caesars Entertainment and the World Series of Poker postponed the 2020 WSOP, one of the things that also seemed to be postponed was the induction of new members of the Poker Hall of Fame. Usually held simultaneously beside the final table of the $10,000 Championship Event, the WSOP looked to be bypassing that during… Read more »
Shareholders happy, employees out of work Despite all the problems this year, 2020 has been great for online gambling companies because everyone has spent much more time at home. But while things have been lucrative for companies, hundreds of employees of NetEnt are about to find themselves unemployed. On Tuesday, online gaming company Evolution, which… Read more »
Three-day test before full launch BetMGM is in the midst of an online casino soft launch in Pennsylvania. Running Tuesday through Thursday, it is a test run, with limited hours and limited games to be sure everything works and looks good for state regulators. Assuming the soft launch finishes without any major hiccups, the full… Read more »
Make your voice heard The World Series of Poker has opened the public nomination process for the 2020 Poker Hall of Fame class. It is only open until December 11, so submit your nominations quickly if you want a say in one of the few good moments of this trash heap of a year. As… Read more »
International players kick it off The $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of three starting flights on GGPoker. 246 players signed up for Day 1A of the “International Bracket,” with just 62 moving on to Day 2. Julian “VWgunther” Menhardt emerged as the chip leader with… Read more »
Lawmakers speed up approval I’m not making any promises, but there is as chance – a chance – that online gambling could go live in Michigan this month. Tuesday morning, the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules voted to forego the 15-day period during which it can evaluate the new online gaming regulations, effectively… Read more »
Yes, we’re looking ahead to next year, too We have one month before we are out of this piece of crap year. I mean, nothing much is going to change on January 1, but still, psychologically, it will be nice to rip up the calendar, burn it, and then shoot its ashes into orbit. partypoker… Read more »
