May 9, 2018
Poker Pro Gordon Vayo filed a lawsuit against PokerStars parent company Rational Entertainment Enterprises Ltd late last week for allegedly retaining his 2017 Spring Championship of Online Poker Tournament (SCOOP) winnings of $700,000. The suit filed in the District Court for the Central District of California claims Vayo was denied the winnings as PokerStars claimed he violated U.S. law and their terms and conditions by […]
May 9, 2018
Danny McDonagh has been appointed Live Executive Tournament Director by PokerStars. McDonagh has a long history with the online poker operator, joining in 2007 as Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Tournament Director and, over nine years, rising to Director of Live Operations – Asia Pacific, President of the APPT and the Commissioner of the Australia New Zealand […]
May 8, 2018
Larry Greenberg has been crowned winner of the inaugural WPT Bellagio Elite Poker Championship after defeating Danny Qutami in heads up play. Greenberg outplayed a field of 126 entries to claim his first WPT title and $378,879 in prize money which includes a $15,000 seat to the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions. The win marks […]
May 5, 2018
Last week’s confirmed news that the Chinese government plans to ban social poker apps and the promotion thereof on social channels on June 1 (see previous reports) has prompted media speculation that the forthcoming ban has impacted Macau operations. The reports have conflated news of the ban with announcements that the City of Dreams and […]
May 5, 2018
Online and live tourney professional player Justin Bonomo is the talk of the town in Monte Carlo having scored a total of over $1.2 million in a week at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT pokerfest. Over the week, Bonomo earned Euro 401,000 for a fifth place finish in the Euro 1,000 Super High Roller, […]
May 5, 2018
A change of plans by Julien Perouse resulted in French driving instructor and online grinder Nicholas Dumont playing in his stead in the Euro 5,300 buy-in PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Main Event, and it turned out to be bonanza for both: Dumont won the Euro 712,000 main prize and a $30,000 PokerStars Platinum Pass […]
May 5, 2018
PokerStars tenth annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) starts this Sunday and runs for 15 days, with the online poker provider promising the biggest yet guarantee for any PokerStars series with a $65 million overall guarantee as well as $150,000 in Platinum Passes to the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) in The […]
May 3, 2018
Poker pro Justin Bonomo is enjoying a lucrative visit to Monte Carlo, having cashed three times for a total of a million dollars at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT pokerfest. He earned Euro 401,000 for a fifth place finish in the Euro 1,000 Super High Roller, following that with a fourth place, Euro 228,000 […]
May 2, 2018
Relative newcomer GGPoker is welcoming players from shared GG Network operator Poker Players International (PPI Poker) after announcing a merger and migrating accounts, along with balance and statuses, late last week. A customer advisory reads “We’ve joined forces with PPI Poker, and we’re delighted to welcome all PPI players to the GGPoker experience. According to […]
May 2, 2018
The World Series of Poker’s digital poker platform WSOP.com officially launched its shared liquidity software Tuesday catering to players in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey. Offering a bigger selection of cash games and tournaments along with larger prize pools, is described as a ‘game changer’ by WSOP.com’s head of online poker, Bill Rini who hopes […]