Capping what has been an amazing fortnight of poker, Michael Addamo outlasted a small field in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl VI to capture the championship. This comes on the heels of Addamo’s stunning run at the 2021 Poker Masters, where he went from nowhere to the overall championship after winning the final two… Read more »
Wide-ranging schedule spans two months It has been a long time since anyone has stepped foot in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for a “real” World Series of Poker. Sure, the slapdash hybrid/live “Main Event” wrapped up at the Rio at the beginning of this year, but the last time we… Read more »
Addamo having quite the September Michael Addamo really likes PokerGO’s live tournaments this year. There is just something about them that puts the Aussie in a comfort zone. Earlier this month, he won back-to-back tournaments during the Poker Masters to take home the Purple Jacket as the player of the series. And now, going into… Read more »
Need a license to get in the game The Netherlands is cleaning its online gambling house, ready to start fresh in October. After Dutch lawmakers passed the Remote Gambling Act in April, internet gambling became legal, but operators must be licensed to offer their games. As such, Dutch regulator De Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) has set a… Read more »
Strange end to the season The 2021 World Series of Poker is just two days away, but I want to talk about something else in the gambling world for a few minutes: Ghana professional soccer. That is not a sentence I ever thought I would write or say 20 years ago, but here we are.… Read more »
MGM Resorts International has announced that it has agreed to acquire the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas from Blackstone for $1.625 billion in cash. The deal is solely for the property’s operations, not the real estate itself. The purchase is part of a larger transaction in which Blackstone is selling the real estate… Read more »
It is arguably the best time of the year for the poker world. The venerable World Series of Poker is back in action in 2021 (after an online effort in summer 2020 and a poorly advised “hybrid” “Main Event” at the end of the year), but this year is going to be extremely unique compared… Read more »
The gambling world was entranced this week by the story of the man who, given a $25 free bet by the sports betting site BetMGM, decided to shoot the works and go for a 16-team parlay last weekend. The unnamed gentlemen came up a bit short in that goal, however, picking the first fifteen games… Read more »
Apparently that wasn’t DraftKings’ best offer Late Tuesday, after partypoker’s parent company Entain confirmed that DraftKings had put forth an offer to buy the UK-based gambling company, Entain pulled back the curtain further, revealing that it was already considering a second offer from DraftKings. The original offer, according to CNBC, was for $20 billion. Entain… Read more »
Stars had already paid $100 million Flutter Entertainment, parent company of online poker giant PokerStars, has settled its legal battle with the state of Kentucky, agreeing to pay $300 million in fines. It is a healthy chunk of change, but a far cry from the $1.3 billion Flutter was starting at in case that dates… Read more »
Just need all of them to win, no problem I have had a great sports year. My Milwaukee Bucks won their first NBA championship in my lifetime, my Milwaukee Brewers are on the cusp of a division title, and my college has won multiple team and individual national titles. My Green Bay Packers are one… Read more »
That’s a serious offer The financial markets were abuzz on Tuesday with the news that daily fantasy sports and sports betting giant DraftKings has made a $20 billion offer to acquire UK-based gambling company Entain. According to CNBC, the offer is in both stock and cash, but mainly the former. The Entain name in and… Read more »
Stay in on Sundays The 2021 World Series of Poker is almost here, just ten days away. But if you have felt something was missing from the gargantuan 80-plus-tournament schedule, you wouldn’t be wrong. Despite all the WSOP Online events both this and last year, there was not a single online bracelet event on this… Read more »
For someone who only stepped into a couple of events on the schedule, Michael Addamo certainly made the most of those opportunities. Addamo on Saturday won the championship of Event #11 on the 2021 Poker Masters schedule, the $50,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament, which for most would have been a great achievement. Addamo was not… Read more »
It looks as though there is going to be overtime in the 2021 Poker Masters. After Michael Addamo and Mikita Badziakouski took down the final two preliminary events on Friday and Saturday, the $100,000 Main Event of the 2021 Poker Masters was scheduled to be a one-day event. That was changed after 29 entries came… Read more »
The 2021 Poker Masters is heading into its homestretch, with the dollar value associated with the tournaments ramping up. Wednesday and Thursday final table action saw two $25,000 tournaments determine champions, with one event crowning a newcomer. It is all going down ahead of the $100,000 Main Event, which will take place over the weekend.… Read more »
Rok Gostisa won the 2021 WPT World Online Championships Main Event on Tuesday, using a huge bluff and getting some blessings from the poker gods heads-up to beat out 1,178 players and cash for $959,493. The Main Event was spread over more than two weeks using a structure we have seen more and more of… Read more »
Stephen Chidwick won his first live tournament of 2021 on Tuesday, taking the crown in the Poker Masters Event #7: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em. For outlasting 67 opponents, Chidwick added $183,600 to his more than $36 million in lifetime earnings. Chidwick entered the second day of the tournament in the chip lead with just five players… Read more »
The entertainment and poker worlds received the shocking news today that Norm Macdonald has passed away at the age of 61. The legendary comedian, actor, and avid poker player had suffered with cancer for nine years, a diagnosis he did not share with the public. Now, if this were someone else, we might say that… Read more »
With the 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas just around the corner, there was still the little matter of the WSOP Online to finish up this weekend. Highlighting the closing festivities was Aleksei “Ha KoJleHu” Vandyshev, who won the $5,000 Main Event Online Championship on GGPoker and the $2,543,073 first prize. GGPoker guaranteed… Read more »
Might as well clinch it with Aces Daniel Negreanu kept his hot summer going over the weekend, winning Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2021 Poker Masters, pocketing $178,200. With the victory, Negreanu has vaulted into the top spot on the Poker Masters leaderboard. As is the case with these high buy-in PokerGO tournaments,… Read more »
It was a big Saturday night for Brock Wilson in the PokerGO Studios. Battling through some new names that had entered the fray, Wilson would defeat Elio Fox to take the championship in Event #4, another $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event on the schedule. With his victory, Wilson would also take over the lead in… Read more »
It was a change of pace at the 2021 Poker Masters as, for the first time, a game other than No Limit Texas Hold’em hit the felt. In Event #3, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha match, Adam Hendrix would reign supreme over the 69 entries that the tournament received. In an interesting sidelight to the… Read more »
After coming up short of the final table in Event #1 of the 2021 Poker Masters, Sean Perry completed the job on Thursday afternoon. He would emerge victorious in Event #2, another $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event on the schedule, defeating Jeremy Ausmus in heads up action. The victory allowed Perry to take an early… Read more »
The battle for the Purple Jacket has begun! Wednesday marked the first final table of the 2021 Poker Masters, the “made for streaming” poker schedule created four years ago by PokerGO. While the numbers were slightly down for the first of a series of $10,000 No Limit Hold’em events (82 entries), the outcome was one… Read more »
