Poker

Pennsylvania Anti-Online Gambling Bill Introduced

  Pennsylvania anti-online gambling advocates are finally having their voices heard as a new bill has been introduced that seeks to ban all online gambling including poker. House Bill 1013, primarily sponsored by State Rep....

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Scraps $10 Million Guarantee for 2015

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) is scaling back its guarantees for 2015. That probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise: after the SHRPO Main Event easily surpassed a $10 million guarantee in 2013, it failed to come...

bwin.party and Sportech Fully Licensed by NJ DGE

One of Europe’s largest online poker and casino operators, bwin.party, has just been granted a full gaming license by New Jersey’s Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE). Despite being operational within the Garden...

Fox’s Hit TV Show Bones Airs Poker-Focused Episode

Bones, the popular Fox TV hit series about a forensic anthropologist who can deduce crime clues from victims’ bones, is going to have a special guest star in the form of the former vampire-loving hunk from Buffy the...

Michelle Chin Becomes First Woman to Win WSOP Circuit Main Event

Michelle Chin won the 2015 Horseshoe Council Bluffs $1,675 Main Event on Monday, becoming the first woman to win a World Series of Poker Circuit main event in the process. That ended a streak of 156 WSOP Circuit main events...

Nanjing Millions Shutdown is Now Criminal Investigation

The shutdown of the Nanjing Millions poker tournament has become national news in China, and appears to be headed towards a criminal investigation after reports in Chinese media that hosting the tournament was a “criminal...

Former WSOP Champ Jonathan Duhamel and PokerStars Break Up After Long Bromance

The World Series of Poker Main Event 2010 champion, Jonathan Duhamel, has parted ways with his longtime sponsor, PokerStars. The reason for the split is as yet unknown. The lone statement given to PokerNews by PokerStars’...

New Online Gaming Merchant Codes Could Strengthen iPoker

Gaming merchant codes have long hindered the regulated Internet poker market, but that trend might soon change thanks to the issuing of three new processing codes. Since Nevada legalized online casinos back in 2013, financial...

Lock Poker Ceases Operations as Players Lose Millions 

Lock Poker has apparently thrown away its key, taking its software offline three days after the network disconnected and leaving millions of dollars in player account balances hanging in a perpetual state of unsettlement....

Harry Reid Supports RAWA Regardless of Poker Carve Out

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, the man who once supported online poker in the US, is now in favor of the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA). The 75-year-old, who is stepping down from his political post, has...