April 16, 2014
Jason Sandling took the title, his first ring, the largest cash of his career and a seat to the National Championship when he bested 665 entrants in the World Series of Poker Circuit $1,675 Main Event held at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina. Final Table Payouts finished up: 1. Jason Sandling $204 487 2. William […]
April 15, 2014
The latest Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) concluding tournaments over the weekend led the way in big-money pay-outs this weekend, with the $635 buy-in 25th FTOPS main event pulling in a slew of respected players among the entry field of 2,557 chasing top rewards flowing from a prize pool of $1,534,000. Niall “Firaldo87” Farrell, […]
April 15, 2014
The French online gambling regulator ARJEL’s latest industry numbers show that declines in cash game traffic in the heavily taxed and ring-fenced online market contributed to the erosion in poker overall despite more positive indicators on the tournament play side. The market has been fading for the past two to three years and shows little […]
April 15, 2014
The Euro 700 buy-in Italian Poker Tour San Remo main event has been decided, with Alessandro de Fenza fighting off tough competition from 1,123 other hopefuls to claim the honours and Euro 105,600 after a 3-way chop late in the game. The tournament – with a prize pool of Euro 763,196 – attracted players from […]
April 14, 2014
The $560 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Reentry event at the World Poker Tour Borgata Spring Open live tournament has been won by New York grinder Carlos Alvarado, who bested a massive field of 2,500 to take home $127,652 following a four-way chop in the final stages of the game. The event carried a $1 million guaranteed […]
April 12, 2014
International live and online poker ace Phil Ivey again faces a legal tussle with a land casino – this time in the United States – following the federal filing of litigation by Atlantic City’s Borgata land casino, which alleges that the famous poker pro and a Mandarin-speaking associate exploited a defect in cards that enabled […]
April 11, 2014
It’s been a good week at the Full Tilt Poker high stakes tables for Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, who managed to overcome an expensive downswing in the preceding week (see previous report) into just over a million in profit by late Thursday, leaving him in the red for the year to date by just $70,000. Taking […]
April 11, 2014
With the anti-online gambling temperature in Washington DC rising following Sheldon Adelson’s drive to get all internet gambling federally banned, the Poker Players Alliance is once again marshalling its troops to head off the threat of possible Congressional action on the Chaffetz-Graham bills (see previous reports). In a new video, executive director John Pappas details […]
April 10, 2014
Fans of the free-to-download app Fresh Deck Poker will be pleased to hear that developer Idle Gaming has carried out a major revamp of the product, introducing a fresh layout, intuitive navigation and a new soundtrack, among other features. Included in the update Fresh Deck Poker: Reloaded is a new “Rebuy Sit-N-Gos” game mode, which […]
April 9, 2014
Texas poker fan and former professional player Nath Pizzolatto has written an impressive op-ed piece for the Houston publication Chron this week that is well worth a read. The article discusses the impact of current attempts by land casino baron Sheldon Adelson to get online poker federally banned, the undue influence of big money on […]