July 11, 2015
Geoff Freeman, the CEO of the American Gaming Association, a trade body for US gambling companies, was interviewed on the always interesting Ralston Live television show in Nevada last week, among other things explaining that a lack of consensus on federally legalised online poker was what changed the trade body’s position from for to against. […]
July 11, 2015
It looks as if Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 167 seeking to legalise online gambling in California may be joining Mike Gatto’s similarly motivated AB9 measure in limbo. Industry political observers have noted that, like Gatto’s bill, AB167 has been withdrawn from the agenda of next week’s Assembly hearing on the issue. Assemblyman Jones-Sawyer has […]
July 10, 2015
Day 2C at the World Series of Poker is in the books, with more previous champions falling but many formidable players still in contention. Former champions Jamie Gold, Robert Varkonye, Huck Seed and Peter Eastgate are all out of the competition as the starting field of 2,765 was whittled down to just 1,770 going forward […]
July 9, 2015
The largest online poker provider in the world, Pokerstars, is about to take a much tougher and more restrictive stance when it comes to third party software aids used by some players to gain an edge on their opponents. A company spokesman revealed this week that the company plans to prohibit the use of such […]
July 9, 2015
The official World Series of Poker numbers are in, revealing that 654 players survived the 1,624-player field that started Day 2A play Wednesday. Massachusetts player Amar Anand was holding the biggest stack at 603,500 when the chips were bagged; his nearest challenger, Calvin Lee has 500,700 chips. The names of more high visibility players who […]
July 9, 2015
The 1,624 survivors from starting days 1A and 1B are currently playing at the Rio in Las Vegas. At the start of the Day 2 action Wednesday William Kakon and Hamid Feiz led their fields respectively with stacks of 152,325 and 182,675 (see previous reports). The action was still raging when we went to press […]
July 9, 2015
In an interview with the publication Pokerlistings this week Full Tilt managing director Dominic Mansour confirmed he has big plans to make the network more attractive to recreational players, and that the funding needed to do this would have to come from increased rake on some games. “Whilst in the last six months we’ve taken […]
July 8, 2015
Many of poker’s biggest names were among the crowds that stood in line to register for Day 1C – the last entry day – of the World Series of Poker Main Event. It turned out to be a record Day 1C at 3,963 players, among them a large contingent of top international players, former WSOP […]
July 7, 2015
The Aria Resort and Casino provided more alternative interest in Las Vegas Monday when the $565 buy-in WPT500 Party Poker Presents tournament concluded with a win of $330,000 for Las Vegas professional player Craig Varnell. Varnell has been a busy man at the World Series of Poker at the nearby Rio this series, cashing for […]
July 7, 2015
Connor Berkowitz, a 25-year-old online poker professional who plays under the handles connisaurusrex and nyr9414, has won the inaugural Event 66: $777 buy-in Lucky Sevens No Limit Hold’em, the last of the preliminary World Series of Poker tournaments to produce a result Monday. The 4 day event attracted 4,422 entries, creating a prize pool of […]