June 8, 2016
Illinois poker pro Kyle Julius (29) is among the first to bag a World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet this year after scoring a vistory worth $142,972 in the $1,000 buy-in Top Up Turbo no-limit hold’em event, in which 667 entries were recorded. WSOP organisers developed an innovative live-and-online format for the event, which allowed […]
June 8, 2016
New amendments to California Assembly Bill AB2863 revealed this week show that legislators are still working hard to broker some sort of compromise that will appease tribal groups, cardrooms and other interested parties in the search for intrastate legalisation of online poker. Detailing the latest changes, the usually reliable publication Online Poker Report notes that […]
June 7, 2016
Poker pro Robert Mizrachi (37) is off to a great start in this years’ World Series of Poker, emerging victorious in the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud Championship to take home his fourth WSOP winners’ bracelet and the main prize of $242,662. Mizrachi bested 87 other entrants on his way, many of them household names […]
June 7, 2016
Microgaming’s popular Blazing Cannon mini-game will return to the Microgaming Poker Network’s (MPN) Blaze Poker tables later this week in celebration of the UEFA EURO 2016. The MPN will be running a special Football Edition of Blazing Cannon throughout the month-long tournament giving players a chance to collect cash prizes of up to EURO 100 […]
June 7, 2016
Russian-based software provider Connective Games has launched Windfall Tournaments, initially with operators Pokerdom and Aconcagua. An adaptation to sit-and-go’s, Windfall is a Hyperturbo SNG for 3 players with a randomly determined jackpot prize before the first hand is played. The prizes can be up to 2,500 times the original buy in amount. “The beauty of […]
June 6, 2016
The first major disappointment has been reported from this year’s World Series of Poker in Las Vegas with the news that despite six starter flights and an increased winner’s reward the much-publicised Colossus II event failed to beat last year’s entry of 22,374. After starting two heats every day for three days the organisers report […]
June 6, 2016
The independent online poker monitor Poker Scout has released its report for the month of May, noting that there was a significant decline in cash game activity , with seven of the sector’s top ten sites experiencing negative results. The pattern was repeated in the legally-hobbled US market where both legal and illegal operators suffered, […]
June 3, 2016
The first event in this year’s World Series of Poker festival has been completed at the Rio in Las Vegas, with Chris ‘CJ’ Sand (45) claiming the honours and the $75,157 first prize after besting a field of 730 other hopefuls. Sand works for the sportsbook division of Caesars Palace, and the win gives him […]
June 3, 2016
German professional poker player Rainer Kempe is probably still celebrating his epic $5 million win in the just-completed $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl competition after besting a formidable field that included some of the planet’s top professional players. 49 players anted up the massive buy-in to compete in the event, which played down to […]
June 3, 2016
With Sen. John Bonacic’s online poker legalisation bill making progress in the New York state Legislature’s committee stages (see previous reports), the US land gambling giant MGM Resorts International has come out in support. The Nevada-based group commented Thursday that the Bonacic measure recognises that millions of New Yorkers play online poker on unregulated and […]