August 10, 2016
888Poker has followed Unibet in leveraging the current interest in the Olympic Games with a suitably branded competitive micro-series. The company has followed Unibet’s “Road to Rio” tourneys with the 888Poker Summer ChampionChips Series, which kicks off this Sunday and, like the Olympics in Rio, runs through to August 21. 888Poker has invested $150,000 in […]
August 9, 2016
Unibet is preparing the launch of the second version of its poker client at the Unibet Open Copenhagen tourney, after which the software will go into a closed beta period. According to a post on the Unibet Poker Community forum, Adobe Air will be replaced by a new proprietary technology built by development partner Relax […]
August 9, 2016
Hopes that California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s online poker legalisation bill AB2863 would make an early appearance on the Assembly floor when the legislature reconvened Monday were dashed when the day passed with no such activity. The bill has been bogged down by disagreements principally about “bad actor” clauses, with the Pechanga-Agua Caliente tribal coalition demanding […]
August 9, 2016
US poker pro Byron Kaverman is probably still celebrating the past weekend, when he added $502,227 to his bank balance after crushing not one but two $25,000 buy-in Aria high roller tournaments. First, on Friday he chopped the 27-entry ARIA $25,000 High Roller 38 for $226,227, in a three handed deal with Andrew Lichtenberger ($187,557) […]
August 9, 2016
Grosvenor Casinos, a subsidiary of the UK-based Rank Group, had high expectations for this year’s Goliath poker tournament but no one expected the numbers witnessed over the last week, a company statement advised Tuesday. The Goliath 2016 GBP 120 buy-in Main Event attracted a record 5,232 entries, over a thousand more than in 2015, creating […]
August 9, 2016
PokerStars has launched its final 2016 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) schedule offering twelve additional events over last year’s tournament. The online poker company will introduce Mini-WCOOP, a companion series running alongside WCOOP but with the buy-in for each Mini-WCOOP being at 1/100th that of the corresponding WCOOP event in most cases. Changes in […]
August 8, 2016
Popular Belgian poker pro and World Series of Poker finalist this year, Kenny Hallaert, has been snapped up by online gambling group Unibet as its tournament director. In a weekend tweet Hallaert declared: “Happy to announce that I will be the new Tournament Director for the @unibetopen, First event from 24/08 until 28/08 in Copenhagen.” […]
August 5, 2016
With the California legislature back at work the future of Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 2863 online poker legalisation bill is again attracting attention, with Gray’s chief of staff Trent Hager claiming that the bill will go to the Assembly floor as early as next Monday, perhaps as part of a drive to legalise daily fantasy […]
August 4, 2016
Expect a little poker action in an upcoming episode in the hit US television series Billions; news reports and tweets from Phil Hellmuth and Brandon Cantu indicate that the two poker aces have been hired to play parts in the second series of the runaway hit program, which took off soon after its premiere at […]
August 3, 2016
James “Mig.com” Mackey, a thirty-year-old online and live poker professional player from Missouri, has claimed victory in the $3,700 buy-in World Poker Tour Choctaw NLHE competition after besting a field of 1,066 in the re-entry event. The win brought Mackey a bank account boosting $681,758 in prize money, bringing his career earnings to well over […]