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“We are upping the ante this year, in addition to all our preliminary events we will feature three championship events,” said Poker Room Manager Kevin Castora. “This will include a $1,500 PLO championship, the $550 Heads-Up Championship with best two …
Just over 36 hours after the first card was dealt in the 2015 World Series of Poker $111,111 One Drop High Roller event the final river card came off the deck. As that rectangle of plastic hit the felt Jonathan Duhamel embraced runner-up Bill Klein …
Texas Congressman Joe Barton has opted to introduce a new online gaming bill in his latest attempt to legalise internet gambling at federal level. The Internet Poker Freedom Act (2015) would establish a programme for the licensing of internet poker by …
At the beginning of 2015, 888poker decided to reshape its approach to live poker. Only six months after the adoption of a new ambitious strategy focused on low buy-in events and local poker communities, the poker room is already calling their effort "a …
However, all that seems to be changing on at least one continent. Thanks in part, to the notorious high stakes cash games in Macau, Asia is now an emerging hotbed of poker action with tournaments and players popping up in a variety of locations.
Next week on Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsey Graham, sponsor of one of two bills in Congress seeking to ban online poker, will hold a hearing entitled “Cyber Crime: Modernizing our Legal Framework for the Information Age”, and it could feature some remarks …
One of the new events for the 2015 World Series of Poker was the $1,500 buy-in 50/50 no-limit hold'em tournament. The event featured a unique format where half of the field finished in the money, collecting a minimum of $1,000. It wasn't until the …
The relationship between football and poker has been a long-standing and sometimes confusing one. Though there have been plenty of suggestions as to why footballers are so attracted to the card game, less thought has gone into a consideration of the …
2015 is proving to be a great year for the iBus Media's business-to-business (B2B) portal Poker Affiliate World (PAW) as the site reported a remarkable growth in the second quarter (Q2) of 2015. Between April and June, the affiliate marketplace managed …
Russian President Vladimir Putin is probing and testing in his new-cold-war initiatives. He has annexed Crimea, kidnapped an Estonian counter-intelligence agent, and in a unique expression of chutzpah, challenged America's right to investigate and …
Ji, 52, last week won a tournament at the 46th annual World Series of Poker, the game's most significant and lucrative event, and pocketed $231,102 at The Rio in Las Vegas. In addition to the considerable prize money Ji seized by winning the Pot-Limit …
On Monday in the Rio Convention Center, several professional poker players were in serious contention to eventually match, or surpass, the record for most cashes in a single summer at the World Series of Poker. Mike Leah and Mark Radoja each had nine, …
But a funny thing happened on the way to state-by-state expansion: the online poker arguments have fallen by the wayside – even the PPA, strong supporters of poker carveouts over the years, is now sees comprehensive gambling legalization as the best …
The 26-year-old poker pro from Baltimore, MD also earned 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his second title and fifth final table score of the year, moving him into ninth place in the overall POY standings with 2,488 …
Joe Barton (R-TX) re-introduced his proposal, dubbed “The Internet Poker Freedom Act,” on Thursday, just days after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced his legislation aiming to “restore” America's 1961 Wire Act and ban most forms of Internet gaming.
Online poker players, sports bettors, and all sorts of “digital nomads” have been traipsing the globe since laptops became a thing. However, the question of where to live can be pretty overwhelming for most. The world's first and only relocation …
The 2015 World Series of Poker is playing host to the second running of the $111,111 One Drop High Roller. Registration closed at approximately 9:00 PM local time, and the official numbers were as follows: a total of 135 entries were made in this …
After beating a field of 684 entries, Keven Stammen has been crowned the winner of the Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event at the M Resort. Stammen beat Joe Serock heads up to take home the $347,052 first-place prize after a tough final …
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