Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Leaves PokerStars Team Pro

Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Leaves PokerStars Team Pro

by January 27, 2018

French poker pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has reportedly left PokerStars Team Pro, poker news outlet PokerFuse reported citing unnamed industry sources. The Frenchman thus became the fourth sponsored professional to leave the poker operator’s cluster of stars, who are pr ...

Biggest Aussie Millions Winners over the Years

Biggest Aussie Millions Winners over the Years

by January 26, 2018

The Aussie Millions Poker Championship is probably the biggest live festival to be taking place in the Southern Hemisphere on an annual basis. Over the years, the event has gained global popularity with the number and diversity of poker events it features and has attracted some o ...

Darryll Fish Wins “Extra Special” WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Title

Darryll Fish Wins “Extra Special” WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Title

by January 25, 2018

Darryll Fish took down the latest WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $3,500 Championship after what could easily be called an epic heads-up battle against Aleksandr Shevelev. Fish, a WPT regular and a frequent visitor of the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood Florida, captured his f ...

Third Time Not the Charm: MGM China Delays Cotai Strip Casino Opening Once Again

Third Time Not the Charm: MGM China Delays Cotai Strip Casino Opening Once Again

by January 25, 2018

MGM China Holdings, subsidiary of Las Vegas casino giant MGM Resorts International, said in a Thursday filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it would delay the opening of MGM Cotai for a fourth time.The $3.4-billion integrated resort, MGM’s first on the Cotai Strip, wa ...

Aleksandr Shevelev Leads WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Final Table

Aleksandr Shevelev Leads WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Final Table

by January 24, 2018

The official six-handed final table of this year’s WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship was set last night, and it will be Russian player Aleksandr Shevelev who will lead the pack of six into today’s final day of action.The player emerged the chip leader for a second con ...

First Gambling Expansion Plans Creep Into Florida Legislature as Session Begins

First Gambling Expansion Plans Creep Into Florida Legislature as Session Begins

by January 24, 2018

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran refused to provide his own predictions on whether his home state would succeed in passing a sweeping gambling reform during this year’s legislative session, which convened on January 9 and ends on March 9, local news outlet Florida Politics ...

MassGaming Collaborates with Casino Operators to Develop Responsible Gambling Tools

MassGaming Collaborates with Casino Operators to Develop Responsible Gambling Tools

by January 23, 2018

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has agreed to collaborate with Las Vegas casino giants MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts on devising responsible gambling systems for patrons at the two companies’ casinos in the state.Said systems will allow casino players to set ...

Aleksandr Shevelev Tops Leaderboard after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 3

Aleksandr Shevelev Tops Leaderboard after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 3

by January 23, 2018

Russia’s Aleksandr Shevelev topped the leaderboard after Day 3 of the ongoing WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship. The player will lead 14 survivors into Day 4 with a chip stack of 3.965 million.Shevelev climbed to the top of the chip stacks chart for Day 3 mainly thank ...

Ben Yu Leads after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 2

Ben Yu Leads after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 2

by January 22, 2018

Ben Yu was the player to collect the largest chip stack at the end of Day 2 of the ongoing WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship. The player, a WPT regular, bagged and tagged 1.382 million last night to top the chip counts leaderboard heading into Day 3.Yu has more than $ ...

Poker Tournaments Starting January 22-28

Poker Tournaments Starting January 22-28

by January 22, 2018

London, Las Vegas, and Macau will be the most exciting destinations where poker festivals are set to kick off in over the course of the next few days. Emblematic casinos will offer fans of the game the chance to take part in tournaments of different kind and to win a portion of m ...

Joseph Couden Leads 343 Hopefuls into WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 2

Joseph Couden Leads 343 Hopefuls into WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 2

by January 21, 2018

Day 1B of the ongoing WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship repeated the success of the first starting flight of the $3,500 buy-in tournament. A total of 464 entries joined the event on Day 1A on Friday, and 447 more entered it on Day 1B, played on Saturday at the host venue S ...

Brad Albrinck Leads after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 1A

Brad Albrinck Leads after WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship Day 1A

by January 20, 2018

The WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship completed its Day 1A on Friday night after ten one-hour levels were played at the host venue, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The first day of action was utter success, as it saw 464 entries buy into the to ...

Stefan Schillhabel Tops 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open $50,000 Super High Roller

Stefan Schillhabel Tops 2018 Lucky Hearts Poker Open $50,000 Super High Roller

by January 19, 2018

Stefan Schillhabel, a proud representative of Germany’s finest poker talent, last night bested some of the world’s most seasoned poker pros to collect a six-figure payout of $493,000 and a shiny trophy. To be more specific, Schillhabel emerged the victor from the $50,000 Super Hi ...

Report Predicts Upstate New York Casino Revenue Struggles

Report Predicts Upstate New York Casino Revenue Struggles

by January 19, 2018

A gambling expert predicted back in 2014 that New York’s first commercial Las Vegas-style casinos would miss the ambitious gross gaming revenue projections they had put forward in a bid to convince state lawmakers and gambling regulators to award them the necessary gaming license ...

Michael Scott Wins WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley Casino $365 Monster Stack

Michael Scott Wins WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley Casino $365 Monster Stack

by January 18, 2018

Michael Scott, a medical consultant from Elk Grove, California, locked last night a first WSOP Circuit title and a first WSOP Circuit cash after besting a 376-strong field in the WSOP Circuit Thunder Valley $365 Monster Stack event. The player scooped a $24,812 portion of the pri ...