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PokerNews Banned from Covering the PokerNews MSPT at the Venetian
Despite being title sponsors of the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour, reporters were denied access to the ninth stop in one of Adelson’s casinos.
- The MSPT cites both PokerNews and the Venetian as partners of the tour on their website and the Main Event was scheduled to be covered on PokerNews.
- Reporters ejected from casino because the site is affiliated with online poker.
- The Las Vegas Sands owner has funded massive lobbying efforts to further his personal political agenda.
Ring Games Come to Full Tilt Mobile Apps
6 max NLHE and 6 Max PLO cash games now available on Android and iOS apps.
- Full Tilt’s Rush mobile app went fully live in February, and now ring games have been added in both real money and play money formats.
- The available structures are 6 max No Limit Hold’em and 6 max Pot Limit Omaha at real money stake levels from $0.01/$0.02 through to $5/$10. The play money equivalents are 1/2 to 250k/500k.
Justin Bonomo Wins Bracelet Number One
The $1,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event provided Bonomo with his first WSOP win.
- A summary of the tournament action from the day’s play at the World Series of Poker 2014.
Former Payment Processor Daniel Tzvetkoff Avoids Additional Jail Time
Former Australian payment processor and Black Friday informant Daniel Tzvetkoff has been sentenced to time served and fined $13 million.
- Tzvetkoff pled guilty to conspiracy and a single count of operating an illegal gambling business.
- US District Judge Lewis Kaplan decided to comply with the pleas of Tzvetkoff’s lawyer, who argued that his client had already served sufficient time behind bars.
PokerStars WCOOP Main Event to Boast $10 Million Guaranteed Prize Pool
$40,000,000 will be guaranteed overall in the online championship series.
- The PokerStars WCOOP has been one of the largest online poker tournament series available worldwide since its inception in 2002 and, along with its Spring sibling SCOOP, is the biggest online tourney series on the planet.
- WCOOP tournaments usually number around 65, and have historically had buy-ins ranging from $100+9 to $5,000+200.
- The May SCOOP series also had $40 million guaranteed across 135 events, with a spread of low, medium and high buy-in events.
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Off Topic – Drone Bartenders Descend on Las Vegas
Drone bartenders deliver 4lb. bottles of Champagne to the masses at Club Marquee in Las Vegas.
Kevin “Kevmath” Mathers Battles His First Group Of Challengers
Another summer, another season of Stump The Kevmath. If Nolan Dalla is poker’s unofficial historian, then Kevin Mathers (aka Kevmath) is poker’s unofficial Minister of Information. Half-man, half-immortal, Kevmath is the go to guy on Twitter for questions about poker that Google just won’t answer.
PokerStars EPT 10 London Main Event – Episode 8
The champion is crowned. It’s here, the final episode of the poker highlight reel that is the PokerStars European Poker Tour Season 10 London broadcast. Hole cards and commentary from James and Joe on all the action hands that led to the finale of the EPTLive produced product.
Justin Bonomo’s Bridal Shower – It’s Victory In Event #11 For WSOP Gold
The thrill of the hunt is over for Justin Bonomo. For now.
Phil Laak Crushes Scott Seiver’s Soul At Premiere League 7
Enjoy.
Mike “Timex” McDonald Gets a “Time-Out” from PokerStars
Playing online poker from the US is no joking matter. Canadian poker pro Mike “Timex” McDonald had his PokerStars account temporarily banned earlier this week for apparently “joking” about playing real money online poker on PokerStars from the United States.
Matt Glantz and Tom Schneider Debate The WSOP Tournament Buy-In Strategy
This year features more $10K and $1500 events than last. While the World Series of Poker has gotten off to a fast and fun start this year one of the conversation pieces hitting the hallways of the Rio has been the polarized buy-ins of the majority of events in 2014.
WSOP.com Turns Up The Heat In The Rio
More players, larger guarantees on tap for the legal online site. Charts don’t lie and from the looks of it, the action on WSOP.com just keeps heating up as the World Series of Poker moves deeper into week two. Why wouldn’t it? While you are in Nevada, as long as you have a cell phone, you can play online – from your room, on stage in the Pavilion, hell – right AT THE TABLE – wherever you are in Nevada you can grind and get some.
Daniel, Jason, Brian and Others Prepare for $10K Lowball Bracelet Battle
Abe Mosseri just happy to be here. Let’s not all sit here and pretend that we’re giant fans of 2-7 No-Limit Draw Lowball. We’re not. Hell, most of us don’t even know how to play it, we’d be asking the guy on our left if he “has any 4’s.”
The PokerDB Relaunches In U.S. To Let You Know Exactly Where You Stand
Online MTT tracker resurfaces with stats for legal US sites. Slowly but surely, the US market is coming back to life. State by state, online poker legalization is being discussed and now that the WSOP is here, there’s a small, but significant, surge in people taking to the legal US online felt.
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PokerStars Runs Three-Day VIP Store “Flash Sale”
Significant discounts available on selected apparel and accessories. PokerStars is running a VIP Flash Sale from now through June 8.
The Second Anniversary of Spanish Regulation: A Market Snapshot
The picture remains bleak even though the Spanish economy has started to recover form the fiscal crisis. Today marks the second anniversary of nationally regulated online poker in Spain.
Regulation in Review: US
A review of the latest developments in gaming regulation in the US. This week: Pennsylvania, California, a new Federal Bill and more. Tzvetkoff Off with Time Served
The Deal
Promotional highlights of the week, including PKR, 888poker, PokerStars, partypoker, DraftKings, Ultimate Poker,and WPN. PKR World Cup Carnival Leads Players Towards Sports Betting
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: 06/04/2014 Poker Action Line Poker Action Line
Paul Ratchford, author of the new book “Exploitive NLHE”, talks about poker instruction and how grasping certain concepts can make you a better player. BIG Dave and Joe also recap the early events of the 2014 WSOP, including a bracelet win for Vanessa Selbst, and the nearly 8000 player turnout for the Milly Maker.
Podcast: The Chirp Herm Show – Ben 'NeverScaredB’ Wilinofsky The Chirp Herm Show
On this episode of The Chirp Herm Show, Mark talks with online MTT crusher Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky about current trends in poker, the mental challanges that poker presents and who the best tournament players in the world are.
Podcast: Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM #36 – 6/4/14 The Mark Hoke Show
It’s the Mark Hoke Show on KLAV 1230 AM Las Vegas! Guests include Bluff Magazine’s Kevin Mathers, WSOP Millionaire Maker winner Jonathan Dimmig, WSOP.com’s Jess Welman and Joe Pane!
Podcast: WSOP recap Ante Up! Pokercast
We recap the interesting stories thus far at the WSOP, plus we discuss Lee Childs’ legal victory and complete an O’Mally’s Move.
Podcast: The Poker Edge: 6/5/14 ESPN: The Poker Edge
Andrew Feldman is joined by Jonathan Dimmig who turned $1,500 into $1.3 million at the WSOP yesterday and the WSOP’s Managing Editor Jess Welman recaps the latest winners.
Training Video: Winter Sunday Live Sweat with bigdogpckt5s Tournament Poker Edge
The bigdog is back as he fires up the recorder for a Sunday Funday live sweat. He plays the majors in a four part series.
Training Video: The Big Stack: Staying in the Present Drag The Bar
Christy introduces you to his SRSR method of ensuring every post-flop decision is made as methodically and accurately as possible. The ultimate goal is to ensure that, once you have accumulated the big stack, you don’t start taking outcomes for granted.
Watch the chips fly in this swingy 6-max marathon!
