Financial

Poker Players Cure MTT Boredom with Grinder Gadget

Finding a way to push through the monotony of a live tournament when all you’re seeing is bad cards can be tough. Fortunately, modern technology is on hand to help players push through the boredom barrier and the latest...

Poker Player Alex Jacob Winning on Jeopardy

Jeopardy is one of the world’s most popular game shows, and now a professional poker player has proven that he can hang with the trivia experts and geniuses among the show’s contestants. Alex Jacob, winner of the 2006 United...

AMF Investigation into Amaya Continues, Computers and Documents Confiscated

Amaya Inc. and its employees are still being investigated by the Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF), the financial regulatory body in Quebec, for supposed misconduct ahead of the $4.9 billion takeover of PokerStars and the...

Ioannis Triantafyllakis Wins the 2015 Irish Poker Open

The 2015 Irish Poker Open, Europe’s longest running live poker event, reached its final table on Sunday night after welcoming 321 players over the Easter weekend. Generating a prizepool in excess of €1,000,000...

Lock Poker Reportedly Reaches One Year Without Processing One Withdrawal

Lock Poker has become, quite possibly, the least trusted name in online poker. That would have been hard to believe just a few years ago, considering the Absolute Poker “super user” scandal was still fresh in the minds of the...

Sweden Cracking Down On Unlicensed Internet Gambling Companies

Sweden is one of the more tightly controlled online poker markets in the European Union, as the national government really only allows Internet gaming through one licensed firm: the state-backed Svenska Spel. That hasn’t...

Nevada Poker Revenues Down In February

Nevada poker revenues were down about 8 percent year over year in February, continuing a trend of diminishing take from poker tables in Las Vegas and throughout the state. Last February, the state brought in about $9.27 million...

Morgan Stanley Slashes US iGaming Market Value

Despite a relatively buoyant market in New Jersey and lots of potential for growth across the country as a whole in the next five years, Morgan Stanley has cut its financial projection for the US iGaming market by just under 50...

Amaya Reports Strong Earnings, Says PokerStars Will Enter New Jersey In Fall

Amaya made a variety of announcements during an earnings call Tuesday morning, covering topics ranging from the introduction of sports betting to their poker products to when PokerStars is likely to arrive in the state of New...

Possible Tax Ramifications from UK Poker Study That Says It’s Game of Skill

A UK poker study says that poker is a game of skill, but that may prove to be an unlucky finding for professional British players currently used to walking away scot-free from the taxman. Poker players have long been waging a...