This week Phil Ivey’s battle against Crockfords Casino is set to resume. A UK judge granted the poker pro an appeal and affirmed this case could set an important legal precedent. Back in 2012, Ivey won £7.8 million ($11.2 million) inside London’s Crockfords Casino, but lost his claim to the amount. Despite that, the player […]
The second week of the Global Poker League is starting, after a controversial first week that included major computerized misdeal, viewers’ confusion over the Cube concept and some players indifference. With new faces at the tables and new matches week two will hopefully make a better impression. So far, after three online play day Bryn […]
Just over a week ago PokerStars New Jersey was first launched and the site is already dominating the traffic in New Jersey. 888Poker and WSOP.com probably already feel the effects of competing against the leader of the online poker industry. On March 21, PokerStars took the lead after just one day over cash game traffic […]
Antonio Esfandiari has earned probably more than $26 million in different tournaments during his career, but his latest win on the WSOP Circuit in Los Angeles against Jamie Gold must be a career highlight. Esfandiari attended this year’s $1,675 WSOP Circuit event in LA, despite calling the entry fee ($10,000) his bread and butter. Final […]
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 […]
