April 22, 2014
Poker activist Curtis Woodard is a persistent man determined to legalise online poker in his home state of Washington, which has arguably the most draconian anti-online gambling laws in the Union, allowing it to prosecute its own citizens for even playing. This week he told the publication Bluff that despite two previous failed attempts, he […]
April 22, 2014
Breaking a decade-long tradition of holding its prestigious championship event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the World Poker Tour has moved the epic competition to the Borgata in New Jersey, where online gambling was legalised late last year, and Borgata leads the field. On Monday the $15,000 buy-in competition, which carries a $5 million […]
April 21, 2014
German poker pro Ole Schemion demonstrated his skill and determination again over the weekend in powering to victory in the Euro 10,300 buy-in EPT San Remo High Roller, besting an entry field of 104 other hopefuls to claim the winner’s check for Euro 265,000. The three-hour final table was an action-packed affair in which Schemion […]
April 21, 2014
The UK journalist and poker tournament ace Victoria Coren Mitchell made history over the weekend, securing her second and record European Poker Tour main event victory in the Euro 4,900 main event in San Remo. Her first victory in the event was in the third season of the EPT in London. Coren Mitchell started the […]
April 18, 2014
Canadian Eric Afriat has survived an entry field of 1,795 to claim the honours and the $1.09 million top prize in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. Afriat was around the middle of the pack when the final table kicked off, but with skilled and disciplined play he fought through to a heads up […]
April 17, 2014
The online poker market leader Pokerstars has released its schedule for the 2014 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), announcing that the series will run from May 4 to May 18 with tournament guarantees of $40 million. “For the first time ever, there will be three events every day of the championship, re-entry tournaments, and […]
April 17, 2014
One of the leaders in the dedicated French online poker market, Winamax, is about to branch out into sports betting as part of an initiative to diversify its business. Poker players have always had an affinity with sports gambling, and the cross-marketing opportunities of such a move are clear. In the French context, online sports […]
April 16, 2014
Dutch entrepreneur and Satoshi Poker founder Bart van Oort is offering Satoshi Poker.org for sale via a 48-hour auction after just one year of operation. van Oort is touting the sale of the Bitcoin-only poker domain on bitcointalk.org saying he no longer has the time or personal stability to move the business forward to its […]
April 16, 2014
Borgata’s edge sorting cheating litigation against international poker ace Phil Ivey (see previous reports) has been sent back to the company by U.S. District Court Judge Noel Hillman because it does not adequately specify the state domiciles of Ivey and his alleged accomplice, Cheng Yin Sun. Meanwhile, the respected online gambling legal expert, Professor I.Nelson […]
April 16, 2014
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest weekly assessment of the international industry reports that online poker traffic has declined for the ninth straight week and was down 1 percent last week. “That’s the 12th decrease out of the last 13 weeks, making for a pretty awful three-month stretch,” the independent monitor notes. “Among the […]