June 21, 2016
31-year-old Seattle cash game poker pro and tutor Ian Johns has earned himself $290,635 and his third World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet after besting a field of 110 to win the $10,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em event and the lion’s share of a $1,034,000 prize pool. His achievement was made all the more impressive by […]
June 21, 2016
The chief tribal opponents of current online poker legislative proposals in California have resorted to a resident telephone poll in their latest attack, hiring an independent firm which delivered the sort of results they presumably wanted. The Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, the Barona Band of Mission Indians […]
June 21, 2016
Johnny Craig (54), a Texas restauranteur and 25-year military vet with several Afghanistan and Iraq tours under his belt, survived a record 4,499-strong entry field and a tough heads up Monday to claim his first World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and a first prize of $538,204 in the $1,000 buy-in NoLimit Hold’em Seniors No-Limit […]
June 20, 2016
The dramatic news over the weekend that daily fantasy sports had been legalised in a last-gasp legislative effort in New York (see previous reports) focuses the spotlight on internet poker, which passed in the state Senate but did not make it through the Assembly due an inability by proposer Rep. Gary Pretlow to garner sufficient […]
June 19, 2016
US poker pro Jason Mercier moved up the rankings…and closer to scoring big time on some heavy prop bets…over the weekend when he claimed his second bracelet this World Series of Poker season – and his career fifth in the coveted jewellery – by taking down the $10,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. Championship event after cutting through […]
June 18, 2016
New York poker pro Calvin Lee (28) made himself a cool $531,577 Friday when he claimed the main prize and his first gold winner’s bracelet at the World Series of Poker, besting a field of 1,029 in the $3,000 buy-in Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em event. Due to rather cautious action in general and the large field, […]
June 18, 2016
Californian businessman and enthusiastic amateur poker player Danny Le (49) is wealthier by $188,815 after claiming the first prize in the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold’em tournament at the World Series of Poker. And he has earned his first gold winner’s bracelet, motivating him to further improve his game. The win was the biggest Le has […]
June 17, 2016
Online poker legalisation supporters remained on tenterhooks late Thursday, waiting hopefully for news that somehow New York Assembly lawmakers had managed to vote for regulated and licensed online poker, emulating their opposite numbers in the Senate earlier this week (see previous reports). In the meantime, observers pointed out that the last chance saloon could be […]
June 17, 2016
The Pokerstars blog has added its voice to that of Twitch caster Jason Somerville and others in urging US players to support the Poker Players Alliance #Fight4Poker campaign. The campaign, which can be accessed here: https://theppa.org/fight4poker/ urges players to contact their political representatives to appeal for the legalisation of online poker in order to maintain […]
June 16, 2016
Online and live tourney poker pro Jason Mercier has been thwarted in an attempt to win his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet by high stakes cash game poker pro Ray Dehkharghani (45). Claiming his first WSOP gold bracelet, Dehkharghani stopped Mercier’s advance toward a fourth and back-to-back bracelet in its tracks in the heads […]