'Short slate' is the term daily fantasy sports (DFS) players use to describe this weekend's set of games to select players from in NFL contests. We normally have between 13 and 16 games being played which really increases our options in terms of …
carbonicon Online poker players who frequent Carbon Poker will be happy to hear the online poker site is offering their popular online poker series once again this February. The Carbon Online Poker Series will take place started in February and will …
Having given up his full-time occupation as a poker player, Aguiar is now director of customer experience at leading DFS site DraftKings, possibly explaining why he has found such a compelling connection between the two seemingly unrelated activities.
It's official. Dan “jungleman12” Cates finished as 2014's biggest online winner with $2,805,751 in winnings on Full Tilt Poker. Cates actually won more than that as he managed to win $631,288 on PokerStars to bring his total winnings up to $3,437,039 …
Currently, Bluff Magazine, the Global Poker Index, and CardPlayer Magazine are doing an excellent job at ranking poker players, but Poker News Daily feels that one big win can drastically alter the results. Daniel Colman is definitely a great player …
Ari Engel Cleaning Up At The Tournament Poker Tables Ari Engel's Orthodox rabbi father may not have initially approved his son's decision to become a full-time poker pro, a career for the most part indistinguishable from gambling as far as the …
Bitnplay is a new European Bitcoin site, hoping to make a splash in the fledgling e-currency poker market when it goes live on February 1. Bitnplay offers a way for players to avoid the standard issues with funding online gaming accounts, a typical …
A new year is upon us, and with it comes the usual activity of making resolutions — for life and for poker. Many life resolutions fall by the wayside pretty quickly, particularly if they involve food (i.e., consuming less of) or exercise (i.e., doing …
On New Year's Eve 2014, a man was, not surprisingly, injured playing “bull poker,” which involves a group of people seated at a poker table in the middle of a bull fighting ring, according to reporting from koin.com. The game is apparently won by the …
Each year the staff at PokerNews picks what we feel are the top stories of the year in the poker world based upon a vote of each of the staff members. For a little more than a week, we've been counting down those stories and today our No. 2 story of …
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently in the process of establishing links among high-roller junkets in Macau, high-stakes poker games, and online sports betting. In July, the FBI conducted a raid on luxury villas at Caesars Palace, a …
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Over the years, PokerStars has experienced plenty of changes, from the explosive growth of its early days — fueled by online satellite entries to the World Series of Poker and a man called Chris Moneymaker — to its historic purchase of fallen rival …
End 2014 Top 5 in the Global Poker Index- I remained in the top 5 for most of the year, but failing to put up any points at the WSOP APAC saw me fall from the top 10 and finish the year ranked 47th. It will be difficult for me to maintain a high …
My stance on the $500 buy in colossal event at this WSOP isn't a popular one, but I wanted to shed some light on the reasons why it concerns me, and to do that I need to take you on my journey with the WSOP which started back in 1996. In 96', there was …
An average of 19,000 players is well more than than the rest of the industry's other top ten poker rooms and networks combined. 888poker is holding down 2nd place, with 2,400 ring game players, while the iPoker Network claims 3rd by averaging 2,000 …
Happy 2015 New Year Tweets From The Poker Pros. January 1st, 2015 Author: M. Rhodes. Happy 2015 New Year Tweets From The Poker Pros Here's a selection of some of the best New Year best wishes tweets coming from the pros over the festive period:.
Although Ari Engel is unemployed and homeless, he is not to be pitied as he has earned $5 million during the last decade playing poker. Bluff Magazine has ranked 31-year-old Engle in the 23th place. He is one of the best poker pros in the world. Engel …