Poker

New Jersey iGaming Revenue Report: Poker Down, Overall Gambling Up

New Jersey online poker revenue might have dropped in January, but online casino gaming continues to burgeon, according to the latest financial reports Late last week, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released...

Dan Bilzerian Shocks His Own Instagram Followers With Latest Social Media Post

Dan Bilzerian is the self-labeled “King of Instagram” and regularly posts outlandish images featuring scantily clad women, guns, stacks of money, private jets, and more scantily clad women. But on Tuesday, the...

WPT Season XIV FSN Shows to Start in February

The latest flow of action from the World Poker Tour (WPT) will find its way on to the FOX Sports Networks (FSN) later this month when footage from the Choctaw stop is shown in the US. Although Season XIV is still in full swing...

California Stakeholders Reach Shock Online Poker Compromise

California’s chances of legalizing online poker this year are spotty at best, according to experts, thanks to the inability of its various stakeholders to remotely agree on how a future market might take shape. Two coalitions,...

DFS Site FanDuel CFO Hits Back at Poker Industry, Saying Card Game Is More Luck Than Skill

One of world’s leading Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) operators, FanDuel, has hit out at the poker industry by referring to it as nothing more than gambling. With the pressure on DFS sites to either completely close their doors...

Joe Reddick Learned Game While Serving Time for Drug Trafficking

The WPT Borgata Winter Open has a new millionaire event winner, but this one has a unique story to tell when it comes to how he learned to play poker. Ex-con Joe Reddick says he mastered the subtleties of poker while doing time...

HoldemX: New Poker Variant Seeks to Engage Next Generation of Gamer  

HoldemX, a new poker variant that seeks to reinvent the game for the Millennial generation, has arrived in alpha testing form, courtesy of Mediarex, the company behind the Global Poker Index (GPI) and the forthcoming Global Poker...

Pornhub Casino Actually Benefit the Poker Industry

Pornhub, the world’s biggest adult website, has just launched an online casino and poker platform that aims to raise the stakes for male players around the world. Although the concept of strip poker and the like is nothing...

GVC Deal Prompts Partypoker to Revisit 21 Shuttered Markets

PartyPoker will now be addressing quantity, after almost three years of focusing specifically on quality, as part of its new business strategy. Back in September 2015, the bwin.party board accepted a $1.6 billion takeover bid...

Nevada Poker Downswing Offset by 2015 Casino Profits

Nevada poker is hardly on life support, but the patient isn’t making a tremendous recovery either, based on 2015 revenue intake numbers now in. Despite a boom over the summer, poker in Nevada suffered a 1.57 percent...