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Canadian poker player “a.urli” wins special edition Sunday Million for just shy of a million dollars

March 20th was all about the 10th anniversary of the prestigious Sunday Million on PokerStars The 45,353 individual entries and 9,706 re-entries created a total prize pool of $11,011,80000 In the end, aurli managed to take home the biggest chunk of that price money, bagging $970,000 after a 4-way deal     After a little over 13 hours..
10 years ago

Virginia first state to officially legalize Daily Fantasy Sports

Where states like New York, Illinois and Nevada are having trouble to legalize DFS, Virginia is welcoming betting sites like DraftKings and FanDuel     Virginia signed into law the Fantasy Contests Act, a bill blueprinting how DFS sites can operate legally in the state It is the first acceptance in the USA of the industry after months..
10 years ago

Dietrich Fast wins WPT LA Classic for just over $1 million

After six days of poker German poker pro Dietrich Fast beat Mike Shariati heads-up at the final table of the LA Poker Classic, earning himself his first WPT title and the first price money of $1,000,800 Mike Shariati, who won a WPT Event in August of last year, was just shy of winning his second WPT title as he couldn't close the deal in heads-up..
10 years ago

pH Miners launches powerful miners for Bitcoin and Litecoin

pH Miners Inc has announced the launch of two powerful miners for leading cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Litecoin Users of the brand new product will easily process transactions and track the release of new cryptocurrencies With the cryptocurrencies quickly gaining ground as being reliable alternatives to real money, they are used more and more..
10 years ago

Atlantic City will re-open their most expensive casino this summer

Revel casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was one of four casinos to close in 2014 due to bankruptcy and a tate takeover of its finances Florida businessman Glenn Straub, who bought the casino last year, announced that part of the property will again be open for business this summer     Revel had cost $24 billion which makes it the..
10 years ago

20-year-old Dzmitry Urbanovich adds EPT Dublin win to his impressive resume

Polish poker pro Dzmitry “Dima” Urbanovich is taking the world by storm In July 2013 Dima scored his first live cash in the Czech Republik for $525, and ever since he has won $4,828,346 in 49 different events Needless to say: This kid is going places Two of the more notable names along Dima at the final table were Rhys Jones and Kully Sidhu,..
10 years ago

PokerStars and Full Tilt will merge this spring

Just hours ago PokerStars came with a notable press release The report stated that Full Tilt will annex with PokerStars this spring Amaya Gaming Group (AGG), PokerStars and Full Tilt's parent company, said that the Full Tilt brand will keep existing, but players will soon be able to have one single account compatible with both platforms Rafi..
10 years ago

Bitcoin needs major redesign to support wanted number of transactions

A new analysis of the Bitcoin software concludes that Bitcoin needs a complete redesign to support the number of transactions needed to become widely used     Ballots in the Bitcoin community are contemplating proposals to adjust the software The main reason of the adjustments would be to increase the amount of transactions, which are..
10 years ago

Existing casinos in Maine try to keep the competition at bay

Las Vegas multimillionaire Shawn Scott, who is trying to build a new casino between Portland and New Hampshire, is getting some resistance from Bangor and Oxford, the only two existing casinos in Maine     Opposition from the state's two casinos and the organization of akin lobbyists protected them from competition for years Bangor..
10 years ago

Why sports betting in the USA should be legal

Sports betting is huge in the USA Approximately $42 billion were betted during the last Super Bowl However, American Gaming Association stated that $41 billion of those bets were placed illegal New Jersey and many other states want to make sports betting legal, in which case the government will profit as well     New Jersey want to..
10 years ago

Armed casino robbery in southern France

Four gunmen stormed the Pasino casino in Aix-en-Provence, a city in the southern part of France This happened last Fridaynight, the four men are still fugitive     At the time of the robbery there were an estimated 700 people in the Pasino, when the men wielding Kalashnikovs fired warning shots before running to the cashier With the..
10 years ago

Scrutiny of DFS continues to aggravate

DFS continues to be under attack by more and more intense state scrutiny Leading companies in the DFS industry, DraftKings and FanDuel, are on the defensive after taking some serious hits to their business in the last couple of weeks     ESPN and DrafKings revealed the ending of an exclusive advertising deal this week, whilst FanDuel..
10 years ago

Former Bitcoin developers launched Decred, the latest in altcoins

CEO Jake Yocom-Piatt announced that Company 0 launched Decred widely on Monday, Feb 8th It's the latest alternative coin, and like many others wishing to one day be as big as Bitcoin is today     Tuesday the brandnew cryptocurrency was given a value of $127 With Bitcoin's value at $373 at that time, Decred still has a long way to go,..
10 years ago

DraftKings launches DFS in the United Kingdom

After delays for almost a year, there is good news for UK-based fans of DFS DraftKings Inc finally accepts wagers from players in the UK New players will be able to play against existing customers in the States and Canada     Soccer will be the most popular sport, but fanciers of other sports can play Fantasy Basketball, Football,..
10 years ago

The European Commission wants to end anonymous trading in cryptocurrencies

Yesterday the EC published an “Action Plan to strengthen the fight against the financing of terrorism” which states that criminals are quick to seek out new ways of moving money that offer lower risk of detection The action plan doesn't offer evidence of terrorism being financed by cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, it does feel better to..
10 years ago

Aussie Millions: Fabian Quoss wins AU$100.000 Challenge, Steve O’Dwyer wins AU$250.000 Challenge

They get more and more popular: the poker tournaments with massive buy-ins The so-called Super High Rollers attract more players every year, with buy-ins going up to as high as $1 million At this year's Aussie Millions the players with the big pockets had two tournaments to look forward to: the AU$100000 Challenge and the LK Boutique AU$250000..
10 years ago

Record amount of bets on Super Bowl, most of which illegal

Allegedly $42 billion of bets will be placed on the 50th Super Bowl on Feb 7th, and almost 97% of those bets will be illegal This is a growth of 8% over last year's $39 billion and shows the impact of the illegal betting market, which is almost 35 times the size of the legal market, according to the American Gaming Association..
10 years ago

FortuneJack Launched Bitcoin Poker Platform

FortuneJack Bitcoin Casino, on of the biggest Bitcoin Gambling sites, recently launched their Bitcoin Poker platform With daily freerolls, interesting rakeback deals and inviting first deposit bonuses FortuneJack is really building its careers FortuneJack offers weekly promotions and rewards with a 100% deposit bonus up to 3 Bitcoins The biggest..
10 years ago

Canadian Ari Engel wins Aussie Millions Main Event

732 players paid $10600 AUD for the 2016 Aussie Millions main event, which made it the fourth largest turnout of the event The final table featured three Aussie's, but the homeplayers wouldn't make it into the top three, as the Americans Tony Dunst and Samantha Abernathy finished in second and third   On the final day Engel held a massive..
10 years ago

Runner-up in PokerStars’ TCOOP-08 accused of being a bot

In TCOOP event 08, $82 NL Hold'em (Turbo, Big Antes, Optional Re-Entry) with a guaranteed pricepool of $200K, a strange situation occured when coming down to the final two players Sweden's “LuckboxStami” and Russia's “IvanHaldi” were the final players battling it out for the first place price of $48042 and the..
10 years ago