General Poker News
BORGATA POKER OPEN On September 8, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa will put on the Borgata Poker Open. The series features 22 events in all and starts things off with the $560 buy-in Borgata 2 Million. The World Poker Tour joins in for the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event which starts on September 20…
With Stakeholders Still At Odds, California Legislature Running Out Of Time For Online Poker Thanks to a late push from a super-coalition of stakeholders, the California legislature continues to contemplate online poker legalization. However, with several issues still to be ironed out, and just a couple of weeks remaining on the legislative calendar, legislators are running…
WSOP 2015: Electrical Engineer Wins Over $1.2 Million in Millionaire Maker Event The World Series of Poker makes a dream come true for Adrian Buckley. Adrian Buckley, an electrical engineer from Westminster, Colorado, outlasted a 7,275 player field to win $1,277,193 and his first World Series of Poker bracelet. In fact, winning the Millionaire Maker…
CONNOR DRINAN EXPOSES POSSIBLE CHEATING AT THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER Connor Drinan, who reached mainstream fame last year by having his pocket aces cracked by pocket aces in the Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in tournament, has made headlines again, this time for exposing the possible cheating ways of Valeriu Coca. The…
World Series of Poker Makes History with the “Colossus” The big news from this weekend’s play at the 2015 World Series of Poker has to be the record breaking achievements of Event #5, The Colossus, which recorded 22,374 entries. The previous record was set by the 2006 WSOP Main Event with 8,773 entries. The WSOP…
Improving Your Poker Game: Pre-Flop Hand Reading Understanding hand ranges helps you figure out what might be sitting in your opponent’s hand, and keeping track of hand combinations lets you calculate the various probabilities when playing poker games. Remember that you’re not playing against robots or computers like it sometimes happens when you’re in the…
The top soccer player in the world joins a growing list of sports superstars that are being used to expand the fan base of online poker. Cristiano Ronaldo, considered by many to be the best soccer player/footballer in the world, has signed a deal to promote the largest online poker site in the world, PokerStars.…
What You Need to Know about Playing Online Poker at the World Series of Poker Free Wi-Fi access for players on newly installed infrastructure will facilitate the play of online poker at the 2015 WSOP. For the first time ever, players will be able to play online poker from their mobile devices while playing live…
Lawmakers should ignore the industry squabbling and focus on protecting consumers State lawmakers are debating again whether to allow licensed gambling operations in California to launch online poker sites. And as usual, the bills’ sponsors are having trouble getting those in the gambling business to agree on who, if anyone, should be allowed to run…
Scientific study indicates online gambling may have lower rate of problem gambling. In a new paper, Dr. Sally Gainsbury explores the relationship between online gambling and the newly defined medical condition of “disordered gambling.” She concludes that “internet gambling does not cause gambling problems in, and of, itself,” debunking the arguments presented by the Coalition…