Over the weekend, “ElkY”, also known as Bertrand Grospellier, won his first Hearthstone tournament. ElkY started his career as a professional StarCraft player and even became famous in South Korea, in mid-November the player signed for esports outfit Team Liquid, a Dutch-based company. Since ElkY left the world of esports and professional video gaming to […]
On Monday, the 2016 Irish Poker Open ended and Ireland’s own Daniel Wilson ended up in first place. Wilson gained approximately $168,000; a bit more or a bit less depending on the euro’s conversion rates to dollar in any given day. In 2016 there were 802 entrants, a big increased from the 321 of 2015 […]
The Quebec securities regulator has hit the CEO of Amaya David Baazov, with insider trading charges. The Quebec Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) charged Baazov and other individuals with 23 different charges, including five personal charges to Baazov. According to AMF the charges are related to the financial trading that occurred before the purchase of […]
In the early hours of Monday morning the PokerStars Sunday Million came to its conclusion and the Canadian “a.urli” earned the top prize of $970,000. In this edition, PokerStars Sunday Million celebrated its tenth anniversary and to celebrate they increased their guaranteed prize to $10 million. In total 45.353 entered the tournament and 9.706 exercised […]
On the very first day of PokerStars’ launch in New Jersey, it appears they have already vaulted over its competitors. On Monday morning the site went fully live, after a period of a soft-launch, when the traffic was limited at 500 players a day. But since last Monday things changed. According to Flushdraw.net there were […]
The original conviction involving five accused of bot ring was overturned by Sweden’s court of appeals. Svenska Spel, the monopolized Swedish online gaming company, announced in February 2013 that the company had suspended 14 accounts, suspected of employing poker bots. At the time, the company reported that the accounts had won approximately US$ 280k in […]
There were quite a few presidential candidates anti-online gambling, at the beginning of the presidential race in 2016, especially Republicans. Roughly 33% of the candidates, both Republicans and Democrats, seemed to support a federal online gambling ban, although some candidates more than others. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were for instance […]
The police have raided an Indian poker room during its inaugural poker tournament, the motives are still unknown. Due to the incident the poker series was cancelled with 60 of the 75 players remaining. The tournament never resumed. After the Bengaluru High Court ruled that poker was not a standard form of gambling, but a […]
Thanks to a schedule packed with seventy nine separate events, the European Poker Tour Grand Final is set to be a record breaker in 2016. This week the EPT schedule for 2016 broke on the PokerStars website. Between April 26 and May 6, the Grand Final of the EPT will take place at the Monte […]
The GPL’s Twitch channel broadcasted live the order for the Global Poker League Draft on Tuesday, 16, afternoon. Besides drafts order, Global Poker League announced that they decided to expand the number of players per franchise, now each franchise will be able to choose seven players. Each manager will be able to choose four players […]
