June 13, 2012
Randy Ohel, a Las Vegas-based poker pro of some six year’s standing, has claimed his first World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet in event 22 – $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw Lowball, besting an entry field of 227 players to claim the main prize of $145,247. Runner up Benjamin Lazer made the 26-year-old pro work […]
June 13, 2012
Event 21 – $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em – is in the World Series of Poker history books after a three day battle royale involving 2,799 entrants, and the winner is Belgian pro Michael Gathy. Early Wednesday morning the Belgian player took the lion’s share of the $2,519,100 prize pool – $440,829 – after defeating Jamie […]
June 13, 2012
With 2012 only half way through, there have already been three major disasters involving online poker rooms, resulting in players suffering prejudice. Following the opprobrium attached to last year’s Full Tilt Poker debacle and the earlier hole card scandal at Absolute Poker and UBPoker, it would be surprising if players did not regard the industry […]
June 13, 2012
Major names in the gambling industry, including William Hill plc and Pinnacle Entertainment Inc will today (Wednesday) bid for the assets of Epic Poker League parent company Federated Sports and Gaming at an auction ordered by a US court. Five bidders have been approved by the court following the Chapter 11 wind up of the […]
June 13, 2012
More details are emerging on yesterday’s abrupt removal of the Californian online poker legalisation bill from the agenda of the Senate Governmental Organization Committee before it could be debated. A disappointed Sen. Rod Wright, chairman of the committee and sponsor of Senate Bill 1463, said late Tuesday night that he would continue negotiations to try […]
June 12, 2012
The legalisation of online poker in California was set back once again Tuesday when Sen. Rod Wright, sponsor of the measure and chairman of the Senate Governmental Organization Committee, pulled the bill off the committee agenda before it could be discussed. Senate Bill 1463, which would legalise and regulate online poker in California, was scheduled […]
June 12, 2012
Benjamin ‘Big Stack’ Scholl lived up to his online nickname Tuesday when he took down World Series of Poker event 20 – the $5,000 buy-in Limit Hold’em competition for his biggest career cash yet, $206,760…and his first WSOP winner’s bracelet. The 26-year-old Pennsylvanian pro bested 165 other hopefuls who entered the three day event, and […]
June 12, 2012
Australian games content developer Aristocrat Technologies is continuing to pursue online gambling opportunities in the United States with a new partnership agreement with Shuffle Master, the company announced Tuesday. Shuffle Master’s recent internet poker acquisition Ongame Network Limited will be an important element in the deal, which brings together Aristocrat’s nLive iGaming platform with the […]
June 12, 2012
A 24-year-old student from Potomac, Maryland, Clifford Goldkind, cleaned up Event 19 – $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Monday to become the latest WSOP bracelet winner, collecting a $559,514 pay check for his time and trouble. Goldkind, who only recently resumed his studies after service in the Israeli army, battled through a field of 2,302 […]
June 12, 2012
With the political temperature over online poker legalisation rising in California, the California Online Poker Association has released a strategically-timed research study showing that 76 percent of Californian respondents favour the idea of legalised online poker. COPA is a coalition of powerful land card rooms and gaming tribes that include the Morongo Band of Mission […]