On October 21st, a twoplustwo forum member by the name of “FarseerFinland” discovered a collusion ring at a high-stakes multi-table tournament that he was participating in at PartyPoker. He started a post on the forum titled “Huge collusion ring in High Stakes MTTs at PartyPoker” which detailed his findings, provided proofs and also asked the […]
It’s Official. Pennsylvania becomes the fourth state in the country to legalize online gambling, including online poker after Governor Tom Wolf signed off on an expansive gaming expansion package that will also address the state’s budget crisis. This newest development comes just days after the gaming bill, named H 271, was passed by both the […]
(Photo Credit: Partypoker)With more than 800 gaming industry’s leaders and professionals in attendance at this year’s EGR Operator Awards in London on October 26 – the equivalent of the Oscars in the eGaming world – the room was filled with oohs and aahs as Partypoker was named the Poker Operator of the Year, ending the […]
Finally, it’s been more than four and a half years since a State had legalized iGaming. Now, Pennsylvania is poised to become the fourth State to legalize online poker and gambling behind Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey. The newest development came after the lawmakers from both the House and the Senate signed off on a […]
German dominance in the upper echelon of the poker scene continues as Dietrich Fast takes the win at PokerStars’ first flagship event at the 2017 Asia Championship of Poker for $2.1 million in Macau. Dietrich Fast defeated a playing field of 79 entries in the HK$800,000 Super High Roller to win his biggest live tournament […]
Poker as an Olympic sport is closer to reality than ever before and could debut at the 2024 Olympics. The Timeless Question – Is Poker a Sport? For many years, many non-traditional sports around the world have been questioned whether or not they meet the criteria for being called a “sport”. The criteria for a […]
Stephen Paddock was a highly intelligent retired accountant who loved gambling so much that he’d often played lengthy sessions, sometimes for as long as twenty hours a day, on his favorite casino game of choice – Video Poker. Paddock chose this particular casino game as it gives players the best odds of winning and he […]
Millionaire Dan Bilzerian, known for his outrageous non-stop partying life via his Instagram account with 23 million followers, was caught up in Las Vegas shooting – the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Never one to be short of women or guns around him, Bilzerian regularly posts pictures of himself in the wilderness with […]
(Credit: Photo courtesy of Steven van Zadelhoff) The 2017 World Championship of Online Poker came to an end on Tuesday with Dutch pro, Steven van Zadelhoff, who goes by the name “SCZFF” online, got his big breakthrough by winning the $5,200 buy-in Main Event. The WCOOP Main Event had a guaranteed $10 million guarantee which […]
The second day of the Poker Masters Event #5 $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em came to a close, and all eyes were on chip leader Fedor Holz, for a while that is. But then all attention was drawn to an off-table heads-up battle between two poker giants, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. There was a total of […]
(Credit: Image courtesy of playNJ.com) August proves to be another strong-performing month for New Jersey online gambling as it brings in $21.3 million in combined gross revenue, a 32.4{c118e36310c7bc75bef8f724f80ee0a52cfaf44be22f7e80906142f4c81518da} increase from $16.1 million in the same month a year before. This makes it the sixth straight month that the garden state has seen monthly revenue […]
As the catastrophic Cat 5 Hurricane Irma makes its way across the Florida Keys and towards the southern counties of Florida, 5.6 million visitors and residents are ordered to leave the state in the biggest ever evacuation in US history, resulting in closure of all non-essential facilities including poker rooms all the way up until […]
