April 11, 2013
A 22-year-old poker player from Laval in the Canadian province of Quebec, Chanracy Khun, has emerged victorious from the eleventh World Poker Tour Barcelona – his first major live tournament, and his biggest career earning yet. Khun started the action several days ago as part of a field of 249 hopefuls, and survived to start […]
April 10, 2013
The Cyprus banking crisis, and the consequent rocketing value of the Bitcoin virtually currency (see previous report) has boosted one player’s fortunes dramatically. The publication Card Player reports that the player, a member of the Switch Poker site who has asked to remain anonymous, squirreled away his winnings by converting them to Bitcoins, over the […]
April 10, 2013
Poker professional Phil Ivey has won his ninth World Series of Poker bracelet in Melbourne at the WSOP Asia Pacific event held at the Crown Entertainment Complex. A three-hour long heads-up in the APAC $2200 Mixed Game event between Ivey and Brandon Wong that lasted 178 hands saw Ivey emerge victorious becoming fourth, tied with […]
April 9, 2013
The Caesars Entertainment and 888 online poker alliance took a step closer to legalised online gambling in the state of Nevada this week by appealing for volunteers resident in the state and aged at least 21 years to come forward and assist it in a beta-testing program designed around its World Series of Poker real-money […]
April 9, 2013
Bryan Piccioli, at 24 years already a seasoned online and tournament poker pro from New York state, has claimed the record for the first World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet to be awarded on Australian soil. The young American, who started playing in 2004 and has well over $5 million in online career earnings to […]
April 8, 2013
A 51-year old East Falmouth man reportedly walked away with a 10 million dollar prize after being randomly chosen from 68 000 other Massachusetts State Lottery instant ticket winners. The offer ran for seven and a half years before it reached a sales target of 80.6 million scratch tickets effectively ending the game and starting […]
April 7, 2013
Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene showed that you can’t keep a good poker player down as the week ended, fighting back from a $1.7 million loss in a single session earlier in the week against Viktor “Isildur1” Blom (see previous report) to recoup $1.5 million in another nosebleed engagement with the Swede. Reporting on the comeback, the […]
April 5, 2013
Insane amounts of money again changed hands on the online high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker Thursday as Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Ben ‘Bttech86’ Tollerene slugged it out in a Cap PLO session that lasted 5hr 40minutes across 4 virtual tables. The High Stakes Data Base reports that after initially dominating the contest, Blom […]
April 5, 2013
A little behind some of its competitors, Playtech’s iPoker Network has announced that it plans to introduce anonymous tables as an “added feature” next week. Games up to $100/$200 will be spread for the initial launch, in addition to low-stakes full ring tables. Those sitting at such tables will have their screen names masked from […]
April 4, 2013
Nevada Republican Congressman and co-chair of Congressional Gaming Caucus, Rep. Joe Heck, briefed a joint session of the Nevada Legislature Wednesday, revealing that efforts to put together a federal online poker legalisation measure are still on-going. In a wide-ranging brief covering a variety of industries where Nevada is trying to gain an edge, Heck stressed […]