Poker

Aria Super High Roller Bowl Title, and $5 Million, Goes to Rainer Kempe

The 2016 Aria Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas has now concluded with a new champion crowned. That man is none other than Germany’s Rainer Kempe, who defeated his countryman Fedor Holz in an intense heads-up match. Kempe’s...

Aria Super High Roller Bowl Reaches Final Table After Exciting Day Three

Day Three of the Aria Super High Roller Bowl features some exciting and gut-wrenching moments. After three days of competition, this $300,000 buy-in Las Vegas poker tournament is down to its final seven players. Those players are...

Poland Online Poker Legislation Drafted by Country’s Ministry of Finance

Poland online poker could soon become free of exclusion after the Polish Ministry of Finance (MF) revealed numerous amendments to the country’s current Gambling Act, one of which would liberalize interactive poker in the...

47th WSOP Preview:  Getting You Ready for an Exciting Summer

The 47th WSOP starts on June 1 with the $565 casino employees event. Only those working in a casino are eligible to enroll in that tournament. But, for the rest of you, Colossus II, also a $565 buy-in, will be your first...

Online Poker Exposing Secrets of the Machiavellian Mind

Online poker players could provide the answers to how and why we deceive people according to university researchers. The human trait of being deceptive is one that’s intrigued psychologists, writers and artists ever since...

No More Poker for Professional Skier Petter Northug

Petter Northug, one of Norway’s top professional skiers, has revealed that he’s not allowed to play poker anymore because of his sponsor. Known to some as the “bad boy of skiing,” Northug has long been a...

RAWA Defeated as UIGEA Author Attempts Backdoor Maneuver 

The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA), the bill that seeks to prohibit online gambling in the US at a federal level, and would trammel individual states’ rights to regulate online poker if they chose to do so, has once...

Pennsylvania Online Poker Legislation Gets Another Shot, But Gets Shot Down

Pennsylvania online poker is once again off the table, after lawmakers in the State House voted against two separate bills that sought to expand gambling and legalize Internet wagering this week. On May 24, an amendment to HB...

Treasure Island to Launch New Online Poker Room in Vegas

Las Vegas casino Treasure Island is set to launch a self-branded subscription poker site, but it won’t be using 888’s software. Back in 2013 Treasure Island and 888 formed a partnership that was eventually deemed...

Normandie Casino Card Club Closing After 69 Iconic Years Due to Money Laundering

The Normandie Casino in Gardena, California, will close its doors in the coming months almost 70 years after it first opened. On April 24, 2016, the California Gambling Control Commission (CGCC) ordered the revocation of...