June 4, 2015
Four Republican senators in Pennsylvania, led by state Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, are preparing to introduce legislation to allow Internet gambling, according to the publication Philly.com. The forthcoming bill was advertised Wednesday in a memo to fellow senators advising that the new measure will permit existing Pennsylvania casinos to offer Internet gambling. Players […]
June 4, 2015
The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, a member of a strong tribal alliance seeking to dominate the debate on internet poker legalisation in California, went on the attack against Pokerstars this week in a radio advertisement that will do little to further the cause of legalisation in the state. The advertisement singles out Pokerstars and […]
June 4, 2015
It’s taken six days of hard, take-no-prisoners poker to whittle a record field of 22,374 entries in the $565 buy-in Colossus event at the World Series of Poker down to just one man, and on Wednesday that man was 25-year-old Houston, Texas grinder Cord Garcia. At $638,880 the pay day – and his maiden winner’s […]
June 3, 2015
Los Angeles professional player Tuan Le (37) has done it again; for the second year running he has taken down the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in triple draw deuce-to-seven lowball championship in Las Vegas, besting a field of 109 players to claim his second WSOP winner’s bracelet and prize money of $322,756. In defending […]
June 3, 2015
Unibet has selected the 60,000-seat Celtic Park stadium for its Unibet Open poker festival this year, the first time in the nine year history of the live-streamed event that it will visit Scotland. Built 123 years ago, the famous stadium has seen many epic games between top football teams, with the best known the regular […]
June 2, 2015
Two Chinese survivors clashed in the heads up of the HK$100,000 buy-in Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Macau High Roller Monday after surviving an aggressive field of 73 other combative competitors. Chinese pros Liang Yu and Shunu Zang – both talented and experienced players – mixed it up on the final day of the event, with Zang […]
June 2, 2015
The World Series of Poker experiment with the Hyper Hold’em format of fast-action poker appears to have gone down well with the 1,436 players who entered Event 6, which was done and dusted in just 2 days with Minnesota’s John Reading (26) earning the fastest $252,068 he’s likely to see in a while. The twenty […]
June 2, 2015
Pennsylvanian Senator Sean Wiley’s draft proposal on gambling (see previous report) includes provisions for the regulation and licensing of online gambling, more details on which have become available this week. Wiley is focused on internet poker, and online casino gaming is excluded from his legalisation drive, which envisages fully regulated and licensed online poker available […]
June 1, 2015
Thrill Poker is live with Microgaming Poker; the first operator to go live on the new MPN India. Established in 2013, Thrill Poker.com is regarded as one of the top providers of online poker to the Indian market. Its team boasts a cumulative 45 years of experience in the online gaming and lotteries business in […]
June 1, 2015
The weekend saw the conclusion of the 2015 PokerStars.net Asia-Pacific Poker Tour Macau main event, which was won by Hong Kong player Yat Wai Cheng for the US equivalent of $325,000. The five day event pulled in 493 players, which distilled to a final table of seven, led by Cheng pretty much throughout. When Filipino […]