April 7, 2016
Poker fans in New Jersey are in for a special treat next (May) month when Pokerstars launches a New Jersey-dedicated version of its popular Spring Championship of Online Poker. A company representative on the 2plus2 poker forum revealed this week that a draft schedule has been drawn up proposing 27 prize pool guaranteed tournaments with […]
April 6, 2016
Professional poker player Jay Sharon and seven other men have been arrested in New York and Las Vegas for charges surrounding the operation of a $3.5 million-a-year illegal sports betting ring, reports in the publication MetroUS indicate. The publication quotes a press statement from the Queen Attorney General, Richard A. Brown, revealing that a joint […]
April 5, 2016
New Yorker Joseph Cappello bested a field of 894 in the $1.5 million guaranteed WSOP Circuit Main Event at Horseshoe Baltimore this week. After nine-hours of play Cappello emerged victorious coming out of heads play against Matt Bond with a $292,500 pay check and his first WSOP Circuit Ring. “This [circuit ring] means a lot. […]
April 5, 2016
Cash game traffic numbers from New Jersey show that the second week of Pokerstars operations in the Garden State has again yielding encouraging results, with the online poker giant maintaining its lead in the dedicated market and averaging 160 ring game players a day according to statistics from the Pokerscout independent online poker monitor. Over […]
April 4, 2016
Celebrities Soulja Boy, De Anthoney Thomas and Kyle Massey have joined former WSOP main event champion Jamie Gold’s World Poker Fund Holdings as partners in the launch of its first celeb social casino website, titled CelebrityWorld.com. The $3.4 billion global social casino market has been growing rapidly and is expected to exceed $4.4 billion by […]
April 3, 2016
GVC Holdings’ PartyPoker operation in New Jersey has announced the launch of a new product branded Sit & Go Hero, which uses a lottery-style format for S&G competitions. A statement from PartyPoker this week explained that the company planned to put a new twist on the traditional S&G jackpot format in order to develop a […]
April 3, 2016
Alex Dreyfus’ Global Poker League has published the schedule for its first international season, which begins on April 4, outlining the route that the 12 international teams comprising top global players will take to ultimate victory in a grand finale to be held at London’s Wembley Arena November 22 and 23 this year. Our readers […]
April 2, 2016
Russian poker pro Alexander “joiso” Kostritsyn has had an up-and-down few weeks on the nosebleed tables at Pokerstars but last week it all came together as he ended 6,513 hands of high stakes action with an impressive profit of $652,845 after besting some of the top players online. The other big winner over the week […]
March 30, 2016
Top international poker pro Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari has added a World Series of Poker Circuit gold winner’s ring to his bulging tournament trophy cabinet, along with $226,785 in prize money after besting a field of 756 entrants to win the $1,675 buy-in 2016 WSOP Circuit Bicycle Casino main event in Los Angeles. Esfandiari faced […]
March 30, 2016
The widely respected and highly professional president of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, Danny McDonagh, is leaving the Macau-based job to return to his native Australia “for family reasons” and departs his post tomorrow (Thursday). “I’m returning to Australia for family reasons. I’m also contemplating a career break,” he told local reporters. McDonagh’s association with […]