June 12, 2016
Ryan “Protentialmn” Laplante (26) a professional US online and live tourney poker player and tutor, has taken down the largest non-Hold’em tourney yet in the $565 buy-in World Series of Poker Pot-Limit Omaha event, winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and a hefty $190,328 main prize. The event attracted a record 2,483 entries, many from […]
June 12, 2016
Memories – not all of them pleasant – returned for some poker players at the World Series of Poker over the weekend when former Full Tilt Poker director Howard “The Professor” Lederer made his first appearance at a major poker event for some years. Earlier in the week former fellow director Chris “Jesus” Ferguson also […]
June 11, 2016
Seattle No Limit Hold’em specialist pro Ian Johns (31) has claimed the $212,604 main prize and his second WSOP bracelet after winning the $1,500 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament, played over three days and nights at the World Series of Poker this week…the biggest live tournament win of his career to date. Married and with three children, […]
June 11, 2016
Despite the patient efforts of Assemblyman Adam Gray in trying to broker a difficult compromise among interested parties in the California online poker legalisation issue (see previous reports), the future of his bill AB 2863 appears to be in peril again following statements by a powerful tribal allowance Friday expressing continued opposition. The sticking points […]
June 10, 2016
Swedish poker player and writer Peter Eichhardt (50) has scored his first World Series of Poker bracelet and a $438,417 pay day in the first of several $1,500 buy-in NLHE events at the Rio in Las Vegas. 2,016 entries were recorded for the event, building a prize pool worth $2.72 million; Eichhardt’s big win completely […]
June 10, 2016
Young Florida actuary Alan Percal (23) bested some of the best when he won the $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the World Series of Poker Thursday, surviving a talented field that included names like Oliver Busquet, Alexandre Luneau and Brian Rast to claim his first gold winner’s bracelet. Percal’s reward for the feat […]
June 9, 2016
In its latest press release the nascent World Poker Fund Holdings claims that its 30-day Celebrity World.com Beta-test results substantially outshine those of PartyPoker, FullTiltPoker, BoDog and Poker Stars in Visitor Engagement Data. The social gaming company claims that initial user data and revenue figures for CelebrityWorld.com in its first 30 days in beta show […]
June 9, 2016
High profile live and online poker pro Ryan D’Angelo (30) is celebrating his first World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet after besting an entry field of 279 in the $1500 buy-in 2-7 No Limit Draw Lowball event to claim the main prize of $92,338. Entering the last day of play with the chip lead D’Angelo […]
June 9, 2016
Wednesday’s gathering of the Michigan Senate’s Regulatory Reform Committee wasted little time in voting forward to the Senate floor a bill authored by Sen. Mike Kowall and proposing the intrastate legalisation of online poker. SB 889 has seen remarkably quick progress since it was introduced in April this year by the Senator, advancing despite allegations […]
June 8, 2016
In a heartening rags to riches story, poker player and part-time taxi driver Benjamin Keeline (30) has taken down the WSOP $565 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament, a.k.a. “Colossus II”. Against incredible odds, he emerged victorious besting a massive field of 21,613. Keeline, by his own admission, was flat broke before the tournament but made an […]