April 28, 2017
The entire WSOP.com – Nevada online poker offering this year is themed around a good old-fashioned rock and roll festival, the organisers have announced in a press statement. WSOP.com Nevada celebrates its fourth year running parallel to the World Series of Poker; participants this summer are competing for more than $2.5 million in guarantees and […]
April 28, 2017
German poker ace Ole Schemion is off to a great start at the currently running PokerStars Championship Presented by Monte-Carlo Casino festival, taking down the Euro 10,300 Opening No-Limit Hold’em event for Euro 274,750 and his ninth spade trophy. Monte Carlo must be one of Schemion’s favourite stamping grounds; it was here that he took […]
April 28, 2017
The China Daily newspaper carried an illustrated story this week on the invention of a new game combining the popularity of mahjong and poker. Poker Mahjong is the patented brainchild of a Chinese advertising designer in the Chongqing municipality in Southwest China, who wanted to be able to carry around mahjong tiles so that he […]
April 27, 2017
This year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is just around the corner, commencing on April 30 with PokerStars’ biggest ever-online series guarantee of $55 million. SCOOP has teamed up with PokerStars Makes Millionaires to guarantee that two players will walk away from the series as millionaires. The first week of the series (April 30 […]
April 27, 2017
Playtech’s iPoker Network has advised its licensees that it will no longer support operations in Poland, adding to the growing exodus of online gambling companies discouraged by a restrictive regulatory regime that permits online casino and poker activity only through the Totalizator Sportowy monopoly and limited sports betting, and a punitively high tax rate of […]
April 27, 2017
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians – one of two powerful tribal groups in an influential California online poker legalisation coalition that includes cardrooms and online poker provider Pokerstars, has announced its withdrawal from the alliance. Other members of the alliance included PokerStars, Morongo tribal interests and the Commerce Club, Hawaiian Gardens and Bicycle […]
April 25, 2017
North Carolina nail technician, Vanessa Truong, outplayed a field of 1,164 in the World Series of Poker Harrah’s Cherokee Circuit $1,675 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, to win $318,646 and her first WSOP gold ring. Truong went into heads play with Daniel Pearlman having knocked out six, of the eight, players at the final table. She […]
April 25, 2017
Several US industry observers have commented on the apparent lack of activity so far this year regarding online poker legalisation initiatives, and Online Poker Report offered a possible reason following an interview with Rep. Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a long-time driver of legalisation proposals in the state over the past decade. Jones-Sawyer said that he would not […]
April 24, 2017
The weekend saw the conclusion of the GBP 5,300 buy-in Party Poker Live Millions Dawn Til Dusk main event, with Argentinian outsider Maria Lampropulos taking the honours and the GBP 1 million main prize in an exciting finish, watched by boyfriend and coach Ivan Luca. The mixed online and live event attracted 8,500 entries, creating […]
April 21, 2017
888Poker clearly found its sponsorship last year of the Poker Central Super High Roller Bowl valuable, because it has signed up again as the presenting sponsor for the third edition of the competition, scheduled to run between May 28-31 at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The timing places the tournament just ahead […]