April 13, 2017
The Swedish Poker-SM Online Championship Series (PSMO) next month is to be sponsored by 888Poker, with the online poker provider running satellites for seats in the main event of the Championship. A press release from 888 this week advises that the organisers expect entries for the main event to double this year to around 250 […]
April 12, 2017
PokerStars will reach a new social audience with the launch of its social poker game, Jackpot Poker, on online gaming platform, Steam. The game offers players fast, fun-to-play Spin and Go tournaments, casino style slots, and Texas Hold’em and Omaha poker games backed by a host of social elements including leaderboards, bragging rights and virtual […]
April 12, 2017
Seasoned poker pro Ari Engel won his first MSPT title taking down the MSPT Potawatomi Season 8 $1,100 Main Event in Wisconsin. Outplaying an entry field of 495, the eight time WSOP Circuit ring winner added the title and a first prize of $114,876 to his wallet after besting Carlos Monteiro in heads up play. […]
April 12, 2017
US poker pro Maurice Hawkins has broken the record for most World Series of Poker Circuit wins with his tenth victory, achieved at the $1,675 buy-in NLHE 2017 Horseshoe Council Bluffs Main Event, where he claimed the winner’s spoils of $97,561, a WSOPC ring, and the record, boosting his career tournament earnings to more than […]
April 12, 2017
Dublin-based mobile casino social games developer KamaGames announced the addition of Omaha Poker to its Pokerist offering Wednesday, where it will join the company’s Texas Poker, Roulette, Baccarat and Blackjack products. The new game features a tutorial for players; although similar to Texas Hold’em, the game differs in that each player is dealt four cards […]
April 11, 2017
The internet was buzzing over the past 36 hours with the story of an unfortunate passenger who refused to give up his seat on an overbooked flight awaiting take-off from Chicago. Dr. David Dao, a paying passenger resident in Kentucky who had checked in and boarded, was among several passengers in a similar situation who […]
April 11, 2017
The long running saga that saw Absolute Poker and UltimateBet players victims of the Black Friday clamp down appears to be making some progress with a press statement from Garden City Group advising it will accept remission claims. Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has retained […]
April 11, 2017
PokerStars Live has released the schedule for its fourth Championship to be held in Monaco at the Monte Carlo Casino between April 25 and May 5, 2017. PokerStars expects the event to be “one of the most prestigious tournaments this year” and is anticipating thousands of participants in which Euro 30 million in prize money […]
April 11, 2017
Bloomberg reports Carengie Mellon University’s updated Artificial Intelligence Poker programme, Lengpuashi, has thumped a group of Chinese investors during an exhibition in Hainan. Alan Du, a World Series of Poker bracelet winner and venture capitalist, led a six member team to play 36,000 hands over five days against Lengpuashi a.k.a cold poker master. Following Lengpuashi […]
April 11, 2017
West Palm Beach poker pro, Maurice Hawkins, won the 2017 Horseshoe Council Bluffs Main Event for $97,561 but more notably took home his record-breaking 10th career WSOP Circuit gold ring. Six of Hawkins’ rings have been won in the past two seasons on the circuit and he now tops the all-time gold rings leaderboard, overtaking […]