The 2017 WSOP Sydney International Circuit Event begins on the 28th of November. The last year’s edition of the event had witnessed some of the largest tournament fields ever and also the biggest prize pools.

The Mumbai All Stars team has been crowned the winner of the first poker league championship in India, Match Indian Poker League (Match IPL). The winning team will head to Oxford in England to represent India during next month’s Poker Nations Cup.

Nathan Blair took the Poker world by storm at inaugural Global Poker Eagle Cup, winning six tournaments – including 6-max, Rebuy and Ante Up events. Grabbing the top spot on the leaderboard at the event, Blair won a package of $5,000 which included $3,500 in live tournament entries and $1,500 in travel and accommodation. He has decided to use the package at The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC).

The PokerStars is a festival that comprises a series of poker tournaments organised around the world in the manner of a poker holiday to exchange poker culture and celebrate the unity of poker diversified across the globe. The PokerStars Festival is the flagship sponsored event of PokerStars. Every year there are a multiple series of poker tournaments organised in various cities across the world.

Israel Tax Authority (ITA) is making it mandatory for their country’s professional poker players to fill in a tax of 35% on their winnings overseas. Israel’s jurisdiction doesn’t allow private online gambling sectors are running in the country but only the government running gambling sites in selected cities of the country. Betting on sports and lottery is legalized in the country, and they have gained quite a customer base across the country over the years.

On Monday, Pennsylvania officially became the fourth state in the US to regulate online poker. As expected, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed the online poker bill on Monday.

The EGR Operator Awards which honors the best B2C operators in the business took place on last Thursday at Grosvenor House in London. Hundreds of gambling industry professional turned up for this prestigious award event. ‘Partypoker’ won the biggest award - ‘Poker Operator of the Year’.

This year has been very significant for the State of Pennsylvania over the legalization of online poker and casino gambling. As per reports, the State’s Senate has passed the bill that legalizes online poker and online casino games throughout the Pennsylvania state.

American poker star Phil Ivey has lost his case and has been sued after the Crockfords Club owners have claimed the technique used by the player to be illegitimate. He has lost his court bid to recover £7.7m of winnings from the London casino.

After being recognized for the first time by an international sporting body, Pole dancing and Poker could become Olympic sports events in future. Both the activities have been given “observer status”.

New Jersey has signed an interstate compact with Delaware and Nevada to share online poker player pools. Delaware and Nevada have already a deal in place to share player pools but the new agreement will open the doors for New Jersey punters too. This new agreement allows the punters in New Jersey to take part in it.

Stephen Paddock, the man behind the biggest mass shooting in the modern US history once claimed to be the biggest video poker player in the world. In an interview in 2013 he claimed to be ‘the biggest video poker player in the world’ and called himself ‘the creature of night’.

The German poker pro and high roller poker specialist, Fedor Holz, who has accumulated more than $24.4 million in tournament earnings mainly from high roller events, won another high roller event few hours ago. The German poker player won the partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Austria €2,200 High Roller for a first-place prize of €34,000. Moreover, the poker world has grown accustomed to seeing Holz in the fields of higher buy-in events this latest victory was once again the result of perfect combo of terrific poker skills combined with great composure. Holz scooped the title after 14 hours of quality poker action. The title ended in a nail biting heads-up battle against Jan-Peter Jachtmann. Jachtmann is partypoker brand ambassador and fellow countryman. Above all, five of all the six paid places in the event were occupied by German players. This indicates towards the establishment of Germany as the Poker world’s new super power.

Mathew Huge who was found dead in his Rio hotel during last year’s WSOP died a natural death. As per the coroner, the promising young poker player died from natural causes and was not a victim of foul play, as it was believed initially.

Stephen Paddock, 64-year-old, was a multimillionaire real-estate investor who had a penchant for guns and high-stakes video poker. His father was a notorious fugitive bank robber. Stephan lived in a Nevada retirement community and seemed to live a comfortable life with his live-in girlfriend. He had two ex-wives and was a one-time accountant. Police says that Stephen has killed approx 59 concert-goers on Sunday and injured more than 500 people.

A pool of 149 players registered for the PokerStars’ 2017 World Championship of Online Poker $25,000 no-limit hold’em high roller. The event came with a guaranteed $3 million and a pool prize of over $650,000.

Jeff Birt won $81k in the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT), and the event turned out to be huge in the past nine years.

It's a pokerless atmosphere in Puerto Rico since it was hit by Hurricane Maria due to which 20 casinos on the island territory remain closed. These casinos were bread and butter to nearly 3.5 million US citizens.

Hawaii has the strictest gambling laws in the country, and the police in the island state are firming the enforcement in the state.

PokerStars New Jersey Championships of Online Poker (NJCOOP) is set to return to New Jersey in over a week this year, after a vibrant inaugural last year.