Shahade will give away a Platinum pass
Summary: Pokerstars and Jen Shahade have launched a contest to find a hand that sticks out in a player’s poker career. The winner of the Poker Stars Player’s NL Hold….
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There is a live satellite at Resorts World Las Vegas
Summary: The last chance to win one of the final $30,000 Platinum Pass packages that include a $25,000 seat at the PokerStars Players Championship main event will take place in….
As fake-account scandal grabs mainstream notice, more pros acknowledge checking-account thefts
Summary: Several poker players have been victims of an identity-theft and banking- fraud scheme targeting pro poker players. Dozens of fraudulent accounts were set up via BetMGM’s online funds services….
Poker pros are victims of a bank-fraud scheme
Summary: A coordinated scheme in which an identity thief and fraudster were able to access and steal up to $10,000 each from numerous American poker pros’ checking accounts has come….
The FTX collapse has links to online-poker cheating scandals
Summary: FTX’s Chief Regulatory Officer Daniel Friedberg was involved in the coverup of the UltimateBet cheating scandal. Friedberg, who served as FTX’s General Counsel before taking on the company’s regulatory….
Stars and Paddy Power are sponsors of the Irish Poker Open
Summary: The Irish Poker Open will have a new corporate sponsor in place in the form of both PokerStars and Paddy Power Poker. Ireland’s famed poker series will be hosted….
The return of high-stakes poker tournaments is announced by Borgata
Summary: Atlantic City’s Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa will host a tournament with a five-figure buy-in for the first time since the coronaviruses epidemic. “The Return: A Borgata Championship event”….
The opening appellate brief was filed to the Ninth Circuit
Summary: The founder of the Poker League of Nations has filed an appeal against a lower-court ruling that dismissed the action and ordered the parties involved into arbitration. Chris Moneymaker’s….
The UKGC slapped GGPoker with a fine
Summary: The parent company of online gambling site GGPoker has been fined by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission for “social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures”. GGPoker failed to identify and….
There is a launch date on Meta Quest Pro
Summary: The world’s largest online poker site, PokerStars, has launched a virtual-reality game on Meta’s Quest Pro virtual-reality headset. The game features a fully immersive virtual reality experience, partial immersion….
More than $200,000 seized
Summary: The owner of the Social Club in Texas, US, Joe Vongkaysone, faces multiple charges, including participating in organised criminal activity, keeping a gambling place, and promoting illegal gambling. The….
Rene Nezhoda won his first major live tournament
Summary: One of the stars of A&E’s ‘Storage Wars’ won his first live poker tournament on Saturday. He won the main event of the Americas Cardroom Enjoy Poker Tour in….
The WCOOP Take 2 is upcoming by PokerStars
Summary: The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) was hit by a distributed denial of service attack in late September. The three sets of championship events, each of which runs….
Amazon was added as a second defendant in the lawsuit
Summary: The law firm representing Poker League of Nations founder Chris Moneymaker in his lawsuit against PayPal has added Amazon as a defendant. Moneymaker’s account was taken from by PayPal….
Authorities raided a Fort Worth poker club
Summary: The Social Lounge, a poker club in Texas, US, was raided by local police on Sunday. The final day of a $100,000 guaranteed tournament was the scene of the….
The Super High Roller Bowl VII triumph was celebrated by Daniel Negreanu
Summary: Poker player Daniel Negreanu won the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) event in Las Vegas on Friday, taking his career live-tournament earnings to over $49.5 million, where he is….
The WPT World Championship main will award over 500 seat packages through satellites
Summary: Over 500 seats into the $10,400 main event will be awarded through numerous online and live channels, as announced by the World Poker Tour. The winner of the WPT….
PartyPoker has canceled the UK Millions Festival
Summary: The Festival was scheduled to take place from November 30 to December 6, 2022. The last PartyPoker LIVE offering in the UK for the year of 2022, was to….
The World Championship of Online Poker will be held in November following attacks
Summary: The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) has announced a new series of events for those who were forced to cancel due to last weekend’s massive attack against the….
The canceled WCOOP mains for November have been confirmed by PokerStars.com
Summary: The World Championship of Online Poker main events, including the $10,300 NLHE High Roller World Championship, were among dozens of tournaments that PokerStars was forced to cancel after the….