Wynn Resorts has settled a pair of class action lawsuits with current and former table game dealers at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore. The lawsuits, which date back to 2013 and 2018, claim that the company unjustly took a share of the dealers’ tips. In the settlement, reached with a mediator from the 9th U.S.… Read more »
This has been a weird, unpredictable college basketball season, but what has been predictable is that Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale placed yet another whopper of a bet. And with just four teams remaining in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, he has a chance to win big. The furniture store owner known for making massive bets… Read more »
Look, I don’t know what the World Poker Tour is actually worth, but Allied Esports Entertainment is certainly wringing all it can out of it. On Tuesday, the company announced that it once again going with Element Partners after amending its stock purchase agreement with the equity fund. Element has now agreed to buy Allied’s… Read more »
GGPoker is coming for PokerStars GGPoker has made a lot of moves in the last couple years to establish itself as one of the premier online poker networks and this latest is certainly one of them. Just days after top dog PokerStars released its schedule for the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), GGPoker has… Read more »
Just when you think a case is over, it comes roaring back to life. This time, however, we are not talking about the Mike Postle situation. The Kentucky Supreme Court denied a motion on Thursday from Flutter Entertainment regarding their court case that dates to 2015. The motion would have opened the case for reexamination… Read more »
After the “lost year” that 2020 was for tournament poker, 2021 is not exactly roaring off to a great start, either. So far in 2021, there have been a few World Poker Tour events that have gone off and some smaller events in Las Vegas and Sochi…and that has been it. Still, if we are… Read more »
Many during the COVID lockdown, when it comes to their poker viewing and streaming options, have reached that signpost on the internet that says, “Don’t you have something better to do?” Poker options have been especially sparse as the usual outlets have been bereft of programming. That, in this case, is a good thing because… Read more »
$100 million in guarantees Might as well make it a PokerStars new trifecta today. The Stars three-hit combo, if you will. On Tuesday, the world’s largest poker room announces the schedule for one of the world’s largest online poker festivals, the 2021 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). This year’s SCOOP will run April… Read more »
COVID-19 continues to have a say Major live poker tournaments have started returning to casinos, particularly in the United States, but we now have the first significant, confirmed casualty of 2021. On Wednesday, PokerStars announced that the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) has been canceled. Technically, it is “postponed,” but seeing as it… Read more »
She played her game on and off the felt If there was ever a reason for Vanessa Kade to get drunk live on Twitch, that reason presented itself Tuesday night. After months of standing up to poker’s good old boys club and losing a healthy income stream in the process, Kade won the PokerStars Sunday… Read more »
Healthy competition Michigan has its second online poker room, as BetMGM launched its site on Monday. It sounded like there was a possibility that the switch wouldn’t be flipped until later in the week, but sure enough, the tables opened and Michiganders can now enjoy another online poker option. As one would expect, the tables… Read more »
Looks like the sale to Element is back on Something fascinating happened on Monday. I was proven wrong. I know, I know, impossible, but it happened. Last week, when Bally’s Corporation made a new offer to Allied Esports Entertainment for the World Poker Tour and Allied announced that it was considering it, I wrote that… Read more »
Many would call it perfect timing. Right before the start of the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Thursday – commonly called “March Madness” – the two casinos operated by the Cherokee tribes in North Carolina opened live sports betting. The two new outlets bring live sports betting to casinos that, only a decade ago,… Read more »
Just when it begins to drift out of the public consciousness, the Mike Postle case makes a comeback. In a California courtroom on Thursday, disgraced poker player Mike Postle asked for and received a continuation on his $300 million-plus lawsuit against many of the top names in the poker industry. The decision by the judge… Read more »
The world of tournament poker has been in a slumber for the past year-plus. Slowly, however, tournaments are coming back to life. The World Poker Tour is running some live events in Florida and Nevada (next stop is the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL, for the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in April),… Read more »
After maintaining a “radio silence” after the signing of a new ambassador and the resulting controversies that has resulted from it, GGPoker has finally responded on a multitude of issues. In one situation, it blames the female in the case for the issues that have arisen and, in another, it continues to back their ambassador… Read more »
Small fine for a small mistake Casinos keep track of every little thing. Everything. Casinos are all about numbers, whether it comes to money or the games themselves, so everything is about counting. Nothing goes unnoticed, uncounted, uncatalogued. That’s why the failure to spot one single playing card at a casino in Deadwood, South Dakota… Read more »
No workarounds needed It is starting to get easier to download real money gambling apps to Android devices. Recently, BetMGM became the first real money online poker app to make an appearance in the Google Play store, simplifying the process for poker players in New Jersey to hit the felt on their mobile devices. It… Read more »
Stock exchange for soccer stars British legislators are looking to roll some heads in the ongoing saga of the soccer betting exchange Football Index and its parent company, BetIndex Limited. Members of Parliament are looking squarely at the UK Gambling Commission and, of course, BetIndex itself. Football Index is a European soccer betting site that… Read more »
Wagers are pouring in The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments return in a few days after being canceled last year only about a week before they were to begin. Nearly everything in the world was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic – and we aren’t in the clear yet – but it was the… Read more »
When you have two invitations to the prom When Element Partners agreed to acquire the World Poker Tour from Allied Esports in January, the companies said that they expected the deal to close later that month or in early February. Element is probably kicking itself right now that it didn’t happen, as Bally’s not only… Read more »
Dollar signs in their eyes Flutter Entertainment confirmed rumors Monday that it is considering an initial public offering for sports betting and daily fantasy sports arm FanDuel. Other than that, Flutter, which also owns PokerStars and several other big gaming brands, did not say much. The company’s stock price closed up nearly 6 percent on… Read more »
It was set to be one of the most anticipated poker events of 2021, at least this far. However, it seems that the poker world is going to have to wait a couple more weeks for it. It was announced this afternoon that the battle between 15-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and fellow Poker… Read more »
In what has probably been the longest poker tournament in the history of the game, Markus Gonsalves captured his first major championship in taking down the long-delayed 2020 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Championship. In winning the tournament, Gonsalves put his name on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions’ Cup and took home a payday of… Read more »
Legislators in the state of Texas, long known as the home of Texas Hold’em, have filed paperwork in the state capitol of Austin that would open the state for casino gaming and sports betting. This move comes directly on the heels of surveys that say the people are wanting such options, but there are concerns… Read more »
