An exciting weekend of college basketball across the States of America has brought the Final Four to Phoenix, AZ. The 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has reached the end of its monthlong saga, with history potentially on the line for one of the teams and Cinderella dreams still alive for others. It will all start… Read more »
While the overall finish might have been anticlimactic, the Championship Event of the 2024 PGT PLO Series turned out to be an exciting one. Seth Davies was able to hold off the Event #8 champion, Eelis Parssinen, to take down the $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship Event. The runner-up in the tournament, Samuli Sipila, may… Read more »
There are only three tournaments left in the 2024 PokerGO Tour PLO Series, and Finland’s Samuli Sipila has put a hammerlock on the festivities. Not only did he win his second tournament of the series last night in the PokerGO Studios at ARIA Las Vegas, but he also took over the top slot on the… Read more »
What’s in a name? In an interesting move that reeks of “corporate speak,” gambling company 888 Holdings announced this week that it intends to change its name to “evoke.” That’s the word evoke, all lowercase. The announcement was quiet – 888 didn’t send out a big press release about it or anything – simply mentioned… Read more »
Yesterday, I said I would be shocked if Yunkyu Song didn’t win the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event, so…consider me shocked. Song went into the six-handed final table with three-fifths of the chips in play, looking like he would roll to victory. But poker is a funny thing; it takes just… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is set and, like yesterday, it is Yunkyu Song sitting pretty as the chip leader. And boy, is he sitting pretty. Song has 13.525 million chips going into the six-handed final table. The other five players have 9.375 million…COMBINED. Heck, only two… Read more »
Coincidence? Hot on the heels of the Shohei Otani scandal involving his interpreter allegedly stealing millions from him to pay off gambling debts comes another developing scandal in the NBA. According to ESPN’s David Purdum, Brian Windhorst, and Adrian Wojnarowski, Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter is under investigation for a possible connection to multiple betting… Read more »
Tipico is far from the biggest name in the US sportsbook market; in fact, I would wager (see what I did there?) that most people have never heard of the company. Despite lagging in market share, however, the operator has achieved that its bigger rivals have not: it has become the first US sportsbook to… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is in the books, as Yunkyu Song leads the remaining 32 players. At 2.010 million chips, he is the only player going into Day 3 with more than 2 million. Casey Sandretto, though, is not far behind, bagging 1.895 million at the end… Read more »
Omaholics around the world have been reveling in the 2024 PokerGO Tour PLO Series that kicked off late last week. After booking their first two champions on Thursday and Friday, the PGT has continued onward with its celebration of the four-card game. Saturday saw a Poker Hall of Famer continue what has been an excellent… Read more »
The 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has not skimped on excitement this March. In one of the most tumultuous First Rounds in recent memory, several of the “blue bloods” – teams that are considered elite – are out of the tournament. What it means for the average Joe is that there are ZERO perfect brackets… Read more »
With the number of poker tournaments in the world today, it seems as though certain players are winning constantly. When a player can win a tournament in back-to-back years, however, that is something worth noting. That happened in Event #2, the $7500 Pot Limit Omaha Bounty tournament, at the 2024 PokerGO Tour PLO Series on… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour is back in action at ARIA in Las Vegas, but this time around it isn’t for anything remotely related to Texas Hold’em. This time around it is all about the Omaha version of the game, as the 2024 PGT Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Series kicks off a festival of tournaments (and the… Read more »
Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton reminded people that professional athletes are human, not just entertainers and stat generators. Athletes have always been under the microscope, but Haliburton pointed out that the spread of sports betting in the United States has also been a problem for them. In a media gaggle on Tuesday, The Athletic’s James… Read more »
Not as much fun in the sun As the weather gets warmer in the United States, people are looking for their next vacation destination. On of those, particularly for adults on the east coast, has long been Atlantic City. Though Las Vegas has more glitz and casino glamor, Atlantic City has gambling plus the Boardwalk… Read more »
Putting the clamps on ads As legal sports betting has spread throughout the United States, sports betting advertising has become more ubiquitous. Rep. Paul Tonko (D – NY) wants to put a stop to much of it plus implement a slew of other restrictions on sports betting. Working with members of the Northeastern University’s Public… Read more »
I have an obscene number of hours on the absolutely delightful poker roguelike deck building game Balatro since it was released on February 20, 2024, and it looks like I’m not the only one. On Monday, the game announced that it hit the lofty milestone of 1 million copies sold. Balatro is a runaway smash… Read more »
NCAA’s March Madness is the talk of the sports world right now. With the First Four games starting tonight, basketball fans and betting fans are abuzz with an exciting few weeks of college hoops about to tip off. But let’s not forget the NBA, which is in the home stretch of the regular season. Just… Read more »
At least we know the dates While the schedule is not yet complete, PokerStars has announced that the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) will run May 5-29, 2024. The 16th edition of one of the biggest online tournament events of the year will “cover all the bases of tournament poker, with multiple poker variants,… Read more »
Selection Sunday is out of the way and the 68 teams that are going to play for the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament championship have been determined. If you’re listening to the cacophony of voices from the talking heads on ESPN, then you’ve seen that they are choosing chalk. As seasoned viewers of college basketball,… Read more »
The purpose of government is to do the best things for as many people as possible. This can run from making decisions on taxation to something as simple as whether they can play online casino games and poker. In Ontario, there could be a bit of buyer’s remorse as they are potentially looking at rejoining… Read more »
For many in the world of poker, it is possible to rack up a monster debt in a short amount of time (most people, however, don’t). This extends from those who scrape together a couple of buy-ins for a tournament to those who have massive bankrolls – or do they (this is the Tom Dwan… Read more »
In the race for the 2024 Poker Player of the Year, the two major ranking systems have seen a complete changeover. A few weeks ago, the PokerGO Tour’s events – and their champions – dominated the standings. As we get ready to complete the first quarter of 2024, another tournament schedule on the international circuit… Read more »
In an age where poker sponsorships are extremely hard to come by, getting one from one of the major online sites is a pretty rare achievement. When you perform well in the tournament arena – and have a history of excellence in the game – that makes the sponsorship somewhat easier to get. It seems… Read more »
A member of the Iowa House of Representatives is pushing to rescind part of the state’s gambling laws that would require casinos to maintain lists of people who are barred from sports betting. The rule was put in place in 2019 when sports betting became legal in the state, but does not have to be… Read more »
