Daniel Daniyar Joins WPT Champions Club with 2017 WPT Amsterdam Main Event Victory

by May 14, 2017

Six players were seated around a poker table at the beginning of Day 4 of the WPT Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event, all sharing a common goal to get the lion’s share of the prize pool and to enter the WPT Champions Club in style.In the end, it was Daniel Daniyar from Kazakhs ...

Jan Jansma Leads Pack of Six into 2017 WPT Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event Final Table

by May 13, 2017

Located in the entertainment area of Amsterdam and facing one of the Dutch capital’s many canals, Holland Casino is a favorite meeting spot for casino enthusiasts. And the gambling venue has been host to the WPT Amsterdam festival for the past several days.The major pok ...

GIG Online Casino Brands Quit Australia

by May 12, 2017

GIG Affiliates, the affiliate program of online gambling company Gaming Innovation Group, today announced that its iGaming brands will no longer be available to Australian players.The announcement about GIG leaving the Australian market came shortly after the country’s gover ...

Tabcorp Blasts Australian Competition Watchdog for Siding with Tatts Merger Opposers

by May 12, 2017

Australian gambling operator Tabcorp accused openly the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of siding with opponents of its proposed A$11-billion merger with fellow gambling company Tatts Group.Tabcorp representatives spoke before the Federal Court of Austr ...

Jean-Pascal Savard Wins partypoker Million North America C$5,300 Main Event

by May 11, 2017

Canadian Jean-Pascal Savard won the recently completed partypoker Million North America C$5,300 Main Event for his career’s largest cash of C$956,050 and the partypoker trophy. The player bested a 1,168-person field to lock the prestigious title.Main Event play took place in ...

Melco Resorts & Entertainment to Pursue Uniqueness in Japan’s Casino Market

by May 11, 2017

Casino developer and operator Melco Resorts & Entertainment will be chasing after innovation and uniqueness, if it wins a casino license in Japan, CFO Geoffrey Davis said during a Wednesday presentation at the Japan Gaming Congress.Organized by Clarion Events, the event ...

Thijs Menco Wins WPTDeepStacks Amsterdam €1,500 Main Event

by May 10, 2017

The first WPTDeepStacks on Dutch soil kicked off with flying colors and was completed with a €1,500 Main Event that drew 243 entries. It saw local recreational player Thijs Menco win it for the lion’s share of the prize pool.The tournament’s final table was played on Monday a ...

Why Le Pen’s Defeat Is Good for European Online Poker

by May 10, 2017

Many feared that the French presidential election would be the next big event to hit the global political scene with a massive earthquake. And such a political tremor would have come at a time when we are still struggling with the aftershocks of last summer’s Brexit vote and last ...

Senate Committee Vote Offers Ray of Hope for New York Online Poker Effort

by May 10, 2017

An online poker bill will be considered in the New York State Senate, after it passed its final committee hurdle on Tuesday. Introduced in January, S 3898 calls for the legalization of online poker as a game of skill.Members of the Senate’s Finance Committee passed the propo ...

Mike Cordell Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore $1,675 Main Event

by May 9, 2017

Mike Cordell, a poker pro from Little Rock, Arizona, scooped the Main Event title at Horseshoe Baltimore, the penultimate stop on the 2016/17 WSOP Circuit Schedule. The player added a $148,171 payout to his poker bankroll and his third gold ring.Cordell was the last man stan ...

Crown Resorts Sells Final Stake in Melco Joint Casino Venture

by May 9, 2017

Casino developers and operators Melco Resorts & Entertainment, recently rebranded from Melco Crown, and Crown Resorts announced today that they will part ways after a decade of collaboration.The joint venture will be put an end to with Crown selling the final portion of ...

What Has Made Portugal’s Market Less Attractive than Expected?

by May 8, 2017

Portugal’s regulated online gambling market is among Europe’s youngest ones. It was in April 2015 when the country’s government introduced a new gambling regulatory regime that made it possible for international operators to apply for a license from the local regulator Serviço de ...

Who Won 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo’s High Roller Events?

by May 7, 2017

The PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo was a highly anticipated event for several reasons. In the first place, it was the first PokerStars Championship festival to take place in Europe. And it was the event to represent the successor of the extremely popular European Poker Tour ...

Raffaele Sorrentino Wins 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event

by May 6, 2017

If the European Poker Tour still existed, Italian poker pro Raffaele Sorrentino would have been its 2017 Grand Final Main Event Champion. Last night, the player scooped the Main Event title of the first PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo festival after seven days of play and dom ...

Australian Government to Ban Gambling Ads during Sports Events Coverage

by May 6, 2017

The Australian government is planning to impose a ban on gambling ads during sports events broadcasts as part of a sweeping media reform package, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told New York reporters minutes before he took off from the US on Friday.The reform will ban all g ...