Poker

New UK Gambling Laws Send More Online Sites Packing

The new UK gambling laws continue to claim casualties in the online gaming industry, as yet more operators have decided to leave the market. Despite the UK’s High Court postponing the introduction of the new laws until...

Ladbrokes Bails from Canadian Market as Bad Bet

Ladbrokes is best known for its sports book, but the UK-based bookmaker also runs a fairly large poker room that’s a part of the iPoker Network. That site has been available in a number of countries around the world, even...

Ultimate Poker Folds Its Hand in New Jersey

Ultimate Poker has decided not to see the river with its land-based casino partner, the Trump Taj Mahal, in New Jersey. Of course, this isn’t a huge claim to fame in 2014 in the Garden State: Atlantic City casinos have had...

Daniel Negreanu Puts Forth $1 Million PokerStars Prop Bet

Daniel Negreanu, the PokerStars pro who recently caused a stir when he claimed he could beat $25/$50 games online, is now willing to discuss the terms surrounding his $1 million prop bet. Although his initial tweet was more of a...

Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow Twitter Battle Over Prop Bet Payout

Ted Forrest, Mike Matusow and other top-tier poker pros are considered big name players, for sure: perhaps not on the level of a Daniel Negreanu or a Phil Ivey, but certainly in the public eye nonetheless. Even many casual fans...

PokerStars New Jersey Tournaments Discussed with Players

When PokerStars returns to New Jersey, which seems virtually assured at this point, there’s a good chance that they’ll immediately compete for the top spot in the state’s online poker market. It feels like...

partypoker NJ Adds NHL Devils Ken Daneyko to Team Pros

partypoker New Jersey has announced the signing of former Devils defenseman Ken Daneyko to their professional stable, adding him to the likes of Mike Sexton and Kara Scott. Daneyko played his entire NHL career with the Devils,...

partypoker GSSS Events Cancelled After Technical Snafus

The partypoker GSSS, aka the Garden State Super Series, was a chance for partypoker and the Borgata to show off their online poker room to the New Jersey market. With large guaranteed prize pools, it promised to be the most...

NY Mortician Joseph Fumando Guilty of Illegal Poker Ops

Staten Island mortician Joseph Fumando was convicted last week of running illegal Texas Hold’em games on Staten Island. The conviction came in Brooklyn Federal Court. The verdict came down after just 20 minutes of...

Eugene Katchalov to Appear in The Mole on Ukrainian TV

Poker pro Eugene Katchalov may not have played much of a role in this year’s World Series of Poker, but in the forthcoming episodes of The Mole, the Ukrainian grinder is one of the show’s stars. Back at the start of...