Baazi Games is one of the country’s leading online game start-ups, comprised of four local game brands (BallBaazi.com, PokerBaazi.com, MapBaazi.com and Baazi Mobile Gaming) which will host the second edition of India’s largest online poker tournament – National Series of Poker. The tournament series offers both new and experienced poker players an equal chance to […]
A professional card player who won over $1.5 million in World Series of Poker events alone was charged with conducting an illegal gambling business in his home state of California “involving the supply, operation and maintenance of video slot machines and apparatus” and laundering the profits using chips from a legit casino near him, according […]
We’re thrilled to be licensed…and can’t wait to hit the market when it officially opens.Global online gaming giant 888 Assets – the parent company of 888poker, casino and sports – will be be ready with a full list of online games in Ontario next monthincluding online pokerrevealed the company. In a press release on Thursday, […]
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Schedule is officially released, giving gamers a glimpse of the 88 event wristbands which will take place this summer at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Whether you’re looking to play a $500 No-limit Hold’em tournament or a $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship, […]
Twenty years ago, a television producer Steve Lipscomb presented to the American public a poker tournament show called World Tour of Poker (WPT). Two decades later, the WPT is still thriving and remains a fixture in the poker community. In 2002, Lipscomb hired poker pros Mike Sexton and Vince Van Pattentennis star and actor’s son […]
A new trial date has been set for a man accused of killing a former professional poker player whose burnt remains were found at a state recreation area in White Lake Township in 2020. In Oakland County and elsewhere, trials have been suspended due to restrictions imposed by reported COVID-19 infection rates. Among them is […]
On January 29, 2021, PokerStars was cleared to launch online poker in Michigan – the first operator to receive state regulatory approval. When the first virtual hands were dealt, Michigan became the fifth US state to regulate online poker and the third for PokerStars. A year later, the market has grown considerably. There are now […]
62 tables less than before the pandemic Encore Boston Harbor, one of only two resort-style casinos in Massachusetts, finally reopened its poker room on Monday, January 31. It’s been a long wait for impatient poker players, as casinos across the state closed – along with most casinos in the US – in March 2020 at […]
Live poker tournaments in Europe are on the rise as several operators have resumed operations. Among them is the Irish Poker Open (Initial Public Offering) in Dublin, which announced the return of the popular festival which kicks off in April. Hosting the poker event in person suddenly became possible following the government removal of most […]
In Washington Square Park, they don’t accept raffles. The first time I sat down at a black marble table to play one of Manhattan’s famous chess hustlers, I resisted the attack and simplified into a theoretically drawn endgame, just how close the two players were to each other. usually shook hands. But the time left […]
Poker players are going crazy for ClubESOP, a new subscription site that offers 100% legal online poker. As long as users are 18, they can compete and win prizes. Best of all, there is no buy-in, no deposit, no rake, and no risk to players as the site operates under raffle rules. Players register for […]
High Roller events suit him perfectly For someone who said he hasn’t played many high roller poker tournaments, Michael Wang certainly looked like a high-stakes veteran, winning the $15,000 PokerGO Stairway to Millions #5 event on Monday. for $219,300. And because he finished in the money, he automatically qualified for the next tournament, the $25,000 […]
This week, Patrick Leonard is on his fifth career trip to the top of the online poker rankings. (photo: partypoker) It’s another trip to the top of the online poker rankings for UK online pro Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard, who, thanks to a dominant end of 2021 and an early start to the new year, is […]
January 5, 2022 (PRESS RELEASE) — Choctaw Casino Resort – Durant will host the World Series of Poker Tournament from Wednesday January 5 to Saturday January 23, 2022. WSOP partner, this marks 11 consecutive seasons that the circuit has been held at the Choctaw Casino Resort – Durant. This year’s series includes 69 main events […]
January 5, 2022 (PRESS RELEASE) — Choctaw Casino Resort – Durant will host the World Series of Poker Tournament from Wednesday January 5 to Saturday January 23, 2022. WSOP partner, this marks 11 consecutive seasons that the circuit has been held at the Choctaw Casino Resort – Durant. This year’s series includes 69 main events […]
January 03, 2022 Matthew pitt Are you planning to enter the world of online poker in 2022? The start of a new year gives us a new slate to work on and now is the perfect time to embark on a new poker adventure. 2022 is shaping up to be an incredible year for online […]
Turning Stone Resort Casino announced in November that it would become New York State’s first-ever satellite host for the World Series of Poker and would also welcome a WSOP Circuit cease operations from March 17 to 28, 2022. This would make Turning Stone the first and only casino in New York to host WSOP events. […]
CASTLETON – A single wind turbine, a few explosions, dead deer and a good day at the poker table made headlines in Castleton in 2021. First, the story of the Grandpa’s Knob community wind project. This involves not only Castleton, but Hubbardton, Pittsford, West Rutland, Proctor and, more recently, Rutland Town. It all started in […]
Top line: “On Sunday January 3, the World Series of Poker crowned a winner of the annual $ 10,000 Main Event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Key points to remember: On Sunday January 3, the World Series of Poker crowned a flagship annual Main Event winner at $ 10,000. The […]
When the pandemic began, Victoria Livschitz, a resident and entrepreneur of Flathead Valley, began to regularly watch poker games to pass the time, which ultimately rekindled an old hobby she never took too much in. serious. But midlife strengthened her dedication to the game, and she won $ 30,000 at the World Series of Poker […]
Ali Imsirovic parted ways to win the first PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate Player of the year. The 26-year-old has won a record 14 tournament titles this year, making a total of 34 qualifying wins on the high-stakes live tour for a total of $ 6,028,321 in winnings. “It still sounds pretty surreal, to […]
He started playing in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. His game was Seven-Card Stud, in which four cards are face up and three face down, or hole cards, and only the holder of the hand can see them. Watching a poker tournament on television, he realized that the excitement he felt while playing was not […]
There have been many stories of rags for riches in poker. The biggest of these is one everyone knows all too well in poker, and it’s the story of Chris Moneymaker who turned an online satellite into $ 2.5 million and a gold bracelet when ‘he won the main event of the 2003 World Series […]
After weeks of debating whether or not he should do it, Michael Graydon posted a simple appeal to his few hundred followers on Twitter on October 27. “In March of this year, I was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer,” the 40-year-old wrote from his home in Moody, Alabama. “Due to the location of my tumor, […]
Posted on: Dec 16, 2021, 4:51 a.m. Last update on: December 16, 2021, 6:08 a.m. Philippe conneller Read more Henry Orenstein, the inventor who gave the world Transformers toys and televised poker, has died at the age of 98. Henry Orenstein: Holocaust survivor, toy entrepreneur, poker legend. He was pictured above for a Newsweek article […]
Over the past 20 years, poker has grown from being a simple gambling activity to being one of the most popular games in the world and a hobby enjoyed around the world. Today, poker is arguably the most played card game in the world, and since the mid-2000s it has become a cultural phenomenon and […]
Michael Graydon, a father of two from Birmingham, Alabama, was recently diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, but he didn’t let his diagnosis stop him from achieving his goals. Since receiving his diagnosis, he has been invited to the World Series of Poker Main Event to compete alongside some of the greatest poker players alive […]
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) online winter circuit returns this weekend to GGPoker, with 18 ring tournaments up for grabs. These dozens and a half of ring events come with over $ 26 million in guaranteed prize pools. The overall figure, however, is $ 100 million. This is the amount of guaranteed prizes on […]
Think outside the box when it comes to gifting the poker player of your life. The holidays are here and that means it’s time, once again, to pick out some choice items that will make the perfect gift for the poker players in your life. After the trash year that 2020 was, 2021 has turned […]
Koray Aldemir, a 31-year-old German professional poker player, emerged from a starting field of 6,650 to become the new World Series of Poker Main Event champion and win an $ 8 million first prize. Aldemir outlasted American amateur George Holmes in an epic 6.5-hour heads-up session in which he briefly gave up a significant lead, […]
Paulo Joanello beat a field of 1,501 total entries to win the 2021 World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in Fifty Stack no-limit hold’em event, winning $321,917 top prize and its first WSOP gold bracelet. The Brazilian player celebrated the victory in front of a crowd of supporters. WSOP Social media ‘czar’ Kevin Mathers captured the […]
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YouTube star Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson broadcast live high-stakes poker action with the hole cards presented to viewers. The American channel MrBeast has 69.2 million subscribers and is the 11th most subscribed channel on YouTube. His videos usually center on expensive stunts. Not previously known as an avid poker player, Donaldson has recently been featured playing […]
As part of a mild hazing, a rookie center from the NBA was given the responsibility of bringing the poker chips on every road trip. When he forgot them, the veterans of the team kept bluffing him. James Wiseman, a 20-year-old in his first season with the Golden State Warriors, said The undefeated that he […]
If you can earn millions of dollars in a career doing anything, there has to be an element of skill involved. If it was all luck, our perception of the world would be challenged, working hard to succeed would mean nothing. Bill Gates, a stroke of luck? Impossible. The famous poker players we’re going to […]
Getty Image / Handout I’ve always been very intrigued by that opening poker scene in Ocean 11 where Brad Pitt teaches Topher Grace and other celebrities how to play high stakes poker. There was such a sense of reality brought to this scene that I knew there had to be a much deeper story. Turns […]
March 18, 2020 Latest Poker News “Rounders” co-writer Brian Koppelman isn’t letting the coronavirus slow down his weekly poker game. Just as working from home is becoming the American norm, the New York film producer is using some of the same online tools for remote offices to keep his home game together. “Rounders” co-writer Brian […]
June 28, 2019 Jason glatzer Have you had the virus to improve your poker game by watching the success of many others during this year 50th Annual World Series of Poker? While we can’t promise you WSOP Gold, you can earn a WSOP Virtual Bracelet while improving your game for free with the WSOP Social […]
The World Series of Poker begins Thursday, and while Texas Hold ‘Em is the classic game people think of, it’s not the only one played. There are several different poker events out there, and each one has its own quirks. Texas Hold ‘Em, of course, has two hole cards and a five-card community board, but […]
The Chinese government scored another victory Monday to gain more control over people’s privacy when tech giant Tencent announced it would shut down a popular poker app. The ad was not out of left field. The move follows reports in April that China no longer considers poker a competitive mental sport. Beijing reportedly said it […]
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares of Chinese companies offering online and mobile poker games have lost up to a fifth of their value over the past week, following reports in local media that the government would ban all poker-related apps from June 1. FILE PHOTO – A man looks at his mobile phone screen in […]
Czech casino owner Leon Tsoukernik says Aria’s poker staff doused him with alcohol, costing him $3 million in a high-stakes poker match against an Australian professional, according to court documents recently filed by Tsoukernik. Poker pro Matthew Kirk has filed a lawsuit against Tsoukernik after the two played an early morning one-on-one match ahead of […]
A $3 million trade at an Aria poker table is now at the center of a lawsuit filed in Clark County Court. In late May, Australian poker pro Matthew Kirk, known for his unorthodox play, passed $500,000 and $1 million in chip raises to Czech casino owner and entrepreneur Leon Tsoukernik. At least two other […]
September 01, 2016 Ashley adams There are generally two formats that you can stream for your home poker game: a tournament or a cash game. Let’s take a look at each of them and give us some food for thought to decide which one you want to have. Tournaments vs Cash Games A home poker […]
According to Molly Bloom, who has been dubbed the “Poker Princess” for hosting high-stakes underground games that catered to celebrities, actor Tobey Maguire is terrible to have at your home poker game. the New York Post reported that in an excerpt from her new book (“Molly’s Game”) published by vanity loungeBloom said Maguire once asked […]
A home poker game can get a little stale if your group plays the same format week after week. But there’s no reason you can’t spice things up once in a while by adding a theme or changing the game’s format. If your home game needs a little more oomph, here are 10 ways to […]
The legendary Johnny Chan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johnny_Chan.jpg LAS VEGAS (AP) — A never-before-seen $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker this year will generate the biggest prize in poker history at more than $12 million — and potentially more if played. other players enter. Series officials planned to announce Thursday that 30 players have […]