July 3, 2015
Thanks to legalisation and the presence in Nevada of licensed and regulated online poker websites, this week has seen the start of the first ever World Series of Poker internet competition, with the winner qualifying for a WSOP winner’s bracelet. In a way, it represents a coming of age development for online poker, and one […]
July 3, 2015
California has one less online gambling legalisation proposal this week following the suspension Thursday of Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s AB9 bill in the Assembly. That leaves Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s AB 167 and Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB 431 proposals still alive, with the latter looking like the lead runner and already through two Assembly committees. Gatto announced […]
July 2, 2015
Boston lawyer-turned eight-year professional poker player, Anthony Zinno (33) continued his impressive red hot run of successes at the World Series of Poker Wednesday with a storming win in Event 60 – a $25,000 buy-in High Roller Pot Limit Omaha competition contested by a slew of top players. It was Zinno’s fifth cash – all […]
July 2, 2015
Takahiro Nakai, a 36-year-old hi-tech specialist and amateur poker fan from Osaka, Japan has achieved his first World Series of Poker bracelet on his first WSOP final table on his first visit to Las Vegas to play in the prestigious international poker tournament. Nakai plays mainly on the internet, where he has honed his poker […]
July 1, 2015
Poker fans have been distracted from the World Series of Poker this week by the livestreamed Aria Super High Roller Cash Game, a $250,000 buy-in, invitation only competition that is being contested by some of the world’s best known players. It’s high roller territory, with blinds of $400/$800 with a $200 ante, providing riveting viewing […]
June 30, 2015
2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel (27) has won another multi-million dollar poker tournament, besting the creme de la creme of international poker players in the $111,111 buy-in One Drop High Roller – event 58 at the 2015 World Series of Poker. Highly skilled and motivated professionals like Phil Hellmuth (who […]
June 30, 2015
The inaugural $1,500 buy-in DraftKings 50/50 NLHE competition (event 55 on the World Series of Poker schedule) has ended appropriately with a win for Las Vegas-based professional sports gambler Brandon Wittmeyer (31). Sponsored by the market leading DraftKings daily fantasy sports provider, the event was unusual in that it enabled fifty percent of entrants to […]
June 29, 2015
Kevin Stammen from Ohio took down the $2,500 buy-in 2015 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event at the M Resort Spa and Casino in Las Vegas pocketing a first prize of $ 347 045. Stammen outlasted a field of 684 entrants over three days, besting Joe Serock in brief heads-up play. Final table results […]
June 29, 2015
31-year-old Danish online poker pro Alexander Petersen topped a field of 387 to win his first World Series Of Poker gold bracelet, a hefty $927655 pay check and the 2015 $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship Title. Petersen bested Jason Mercier in heads-up play reversing a seemingly dire starting 3-1 chip count. This marks Petersen’s first […]
June 29, 2015
NYX Gaming Group has integrated casino free rounds as a prize within its Ongame Poker Network client along with “Instant Rewards” technology following the introduction of its NYX OGS casino product within the company’s NYX Poker client. NYX’s integrated achievements system, Instant Rewards, provides for rewards triggered by the action at a table, while its […]