May 20, 2015
Today’s joint California Assembly-Senate hearing on online poker by the Governmental Organization committees appears to have steered clear of overt vested interests to focus on information from expert witnesses. The witness list presented by chairmen Sen.Isadore Hall and Assemblyman Adam Gray includes: Anita Lee, Senior Fiscal & Policy Analyst from the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office; […]
May 20, 2015
Fans of the high stakes boom-and-bust excitement exemplified by Swedish online poker pro Viktor ‘Isildur1′ Blom have a treat in store next week, when this always exciting and entertaining nosebleed ace takes to the Twitch streaming channel. On Wednesday, May 27, Blom will stream a 10-hour session on Unibet Poker that will include a mix […]
May 19, 2015
In what appears to be a well-timed sequel to a joint California Assembly-Senate legislative hearing on internet poker scheduled for May 20, Pokerstars has organised live internet poker demonstrations in the state capital Sacramento. Pokerstars is keen to achieve licensing in any legalised online poker regime that may emerge in the state, where for the […]
May 19, 2015
A bill designed to restrict any Nevada interstate player pooling compacts to online poker, introduced to the Nevada legislature earlier this year, has failed at committee stage. It was widely believed that AB414 (see previous reports) was another attempt by land casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson to disrupt legalised online gambling, although that has not been […]
May 19, 2015
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Season 9 (APPT) has released its Manila, Philippines leg of the tour schedule, hosted at the ‘PokerStars LIVE at City of Dreams Manila’ from July 30 to August 9. “We look forward to providing players the best live poker experience across this action-packed 11-day festival,” poker room manager Gerardo “Hill” […]
May 18, 2015
Jason Mercier claimed his third Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) victory of the week Sunday, reeling in the $2,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em 4-Max competition after besting Canadian pro Ryan Franklin in the heads up. His reward this time was the biggest so far at $178,457.73 following a two-way chop with Franklin at the heads […]
May 18, 2015
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout’s latest weekly report has little to encourage operators in it, advising that online poker traffic fell across almost all operators this week by an overall 2 percent in its fifth consecutive week of decline, with little change in the leaderboard of online poker operators. On a year-on-year comparison overall […]
May 17, 2015
The inaugural main event of the first World Poker Tour Amsterdam ended in a victory for a Dutch amateur player making his debut in a major live tournament this weekend when Farid Yachou from Leeuwarden took the honours and the main prize of Euro 215,000 and a seat at the 2016 WPT World Championship. The […]
May 16, 2015
Top international poker pro Phil Ivey made an impressive comeback last week from being the biggest loser on the virtual nosebleed tables at Pokerstars and Full Tilt to the biggest weekly winner, taking a profit of $279,782 (1,476 hands in 7 sessions) on Full Tilt and $201,624 (3,293 hands in 12 sessions) on PokerStars, according […]
May 16, 2015
Canadian poker pro Shakeeb Kazemipur (20) is $180,112 wealthier this weekend after taking down the $2,500 buy-in main event of the Latin American Poker Tour Panama. The event attracted an entry field of 442 players to the Sortis Hotel in Panama City, generating a prize pool of $930,932. Final table survivors facing Kazemipur were an […]