Poker
April 17th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesThe World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced a multi-year deal with the largest poker website in India, Adda52.com. The site, which offers online poker games legally certified by iTech Labs, will become an official partner of the WPT...
Players
April 12th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesDoug Polk, the high stakes cash game specialist, has proved his MTT mettle by winning PokerStars’ recent Kilimanjaro event for $162,951. Despite PokerStars’ Mountain Series generating less interest than its flagship...
Poker
April 9th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesPremiership soccer players are struggling to perform on the pitch because of poker games before a match; that’s according to Graeme Law of the University of Chester. Speaking at the British Sociological Association’s...
Poker
April 6th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesAmaya is one of numerous online gambling enterprises being potentially linked to suspicious companies based offshore in safe tax havens spread across the Caribbean. The so-called Panama Papers can trace at least one business in...
Poker
April 4th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesDespite recent issues Amaya has been granted an extension on its New Jersey iGaming license by the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE). On September 15, 2015, Amaya was finally granted a transactional waiver by New...
Poker
April 3rd, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesThe Global Poker League (GPL) is set to get underway on April 5 and after 19 weeks of action the inaugural tournament series will conclude with a finale inside London’s SSE Arena, Wembley. Announcing the latest details of...
Players
March 30th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesPoker pro Terrance Chan recently took part in his sixth mixed martial arts (MMA) bout and came through the experience without a single cut. Competing at 125 pounds under the Underground Battle MMA banner (which is part of World...
Poker
March 29th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesAmaya CEO David Baazov is taking an indefinite paid leave of absence from the company he founded in 2004 as a financial investigation into his possible role in an alleged insider trading scheme lingers. “Mr. Baazov is...
Poker
March 27th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesSportAccord, the international body tasked with uniting Olympic and non-Olympic sports, looks set to accept the International Federation of Poker’s (IFP) Match Poker variant as a sport. While some players may still argue...
Rumors
March 19th, 2016 | by
Kaycee JamesPoker player and convicted murderer Joran van der Sloot has been caught on camera apparently confessing to a second murder, that of 18-year-old American, Natalee Holloway. He has long been a prime suspect in the disappearance of...
