Phil Galfond Wins Against "ActionFreak"
Phil Galfond won his second "Galfond Challenge on Tuesday afternoon after he held off a late charge from "ActionFreak". The Challenge between Galfond and "ActionFreak" was a total of 15,000 $150/$...
Time Running Out For "ActionFreak" in "Galfond Challenge"
The first "Galfond Challenge" between Phil Galfond and "VeniVidi" had everything. Galfond getting smoked early. Galfond temporarily pausing the "Challenge" to reflect on his play and deciding whether ...
Las Vegas Casinos Could Return on June 4th
It's a big weekend for Las Vegas area casinos. Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has said that if there isn't a spike of COVID-19 cases over the Memorial Day weekend, Phase 2 of the state's re-opening...
Publicly Traded Online Gambling Companies' Shares Fully Recover From Coronavirus Swoon
At the height of the Coronavirus meltdown, things were looking pretty dire for some of the world's largest online gambling firms. After all, with the sports world being paused, these firms were go...
Massive Twitch.tv Poker Numbers This Past Week as "EasyWithAces", Lex Veldhuis Make Deep Runs
This past week has been extremely busy in the Twitch.tv Poker world, as Pokerstars is in the middle of their massive SCOOP series. As if that weren't enough, partypoker and ACR have also hosted big ev...
Where Are They Now? Joe Hachem
The poker world is filled with cautionary tales, though Joe Hachem is not one of them. In 2005, Joe Hachem outlasted thousands of other players to take down the World Series of Poker main event fo...
2020 SCOOP Extended Until May 31st
Many online poker players across the world are currently trapped indoors as their countries battle the Coronavirus outbreak. This has resulted in massive fields for online poker tournaments, no ma...
10 Years Ago This Week: Douglas Rennick Pleads Guilty, Helping to Set Stage for "Black Friday"
In May of 2010, 35 year-old Douglas Rennick stood up in a Manhattan courtroom and pled guilty to violating the Wire Act. Rennick admitted to processing more than $350 million in payments for the l...
Phil Galfond Heavily Favored To Win All Remaining "Galfond Challenge" Matches
When Phil Galfond was down nearly a million Euros to "VeniVidi", his other opponents in the "Galfond Challenge" must have been salivating at the prospects of playing him. After all, "VeniVidi" was...
Phil Galfond Wins "Mini Galfond Challenge" Against Daniel "Jungleman" Cates
Things are going really well for Phil Galfond right now. He recently came back to defeat "VeniVidi" in the first Galfond Challenge. He is currently leading Bill Perkins in the second "Galfond ...
partypoker Bans Number of Cash Game Leaderboard Cheaters
Earlier this week, partypoker's Rob Yong had a few pieces of news regarding the site's Cash Game Leaderboard promotion. To start, Yong revealed that the popular Cash Game Leaderboard promotion has...
Pokerstars/Flutter Transaction To Set Close on Tuesday
On Tuesday, May 5th, Pokerstars (trading under The Stars Group) will officially combine with Flutter Entertainment plc. The result? An online gaming giant, valued in the many billions of dollars, ...
Phil Galfond Jumps Out To 300k Lead in Third Galfond Challenge
A few things are jumping out after the first 2,006 hands of the third "Galfond Challenge": 1) "ActionFreak" is a much more aggressive player than "VeniVidi" 2) The swings in the third "Galfond C...
Opinion: Impact of Virus Will Likely Quicken Passing of Online Gambling Bills in US States
As of this moment, 17 US states have legalized sports betting, while another five states have sports betting bills that have been recently passed into law. 4 US states currently offer legal online...
Super High Roller Bowl To Be Moved Online to partypoker
Following the overwhelming success of the "Poker Masters Online" (total prize pool of $35.4 million compared to a guaranteed prize pool of $16.5 million), Poker Central announced earlier today that th...
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