Ringit platform integrated with Lottomatica in time for Euro 2016 football finale Seattle-based social and sports games developer iPro has announced an agreement with IGT which will see its real-time sports gaming platform, ringit!, on the IGT-owned Lottomatica Italian sports betting platform for 2016's UEFA Euro Cup finale. Fans will be invited to win cash in ringit! by predicting what...
Doubts cast on study that purported to show Californians don't want legalised online poker The online publication Flushdraw took a closer look at the recently released Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) poll, which purported to show that Californians are not in favour of legalised online poker, and expressed reservations over the accuracy of the findings. InfoPowa readers will...
Poker pro becomes only the second Belgian to join the three-bracelet club Poker pro Michael Gathy became only the second Belgian to win three World Series of Poker bracelets in his victory this week when he defeated Adrien Allain of France in the $5,000 buy-in Six-Max NLHE event to claim the top prize of $560,843. The 27-year-old Belgian ace survived...
Danzer in second Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship victory German poker pro George Danzer (33) has reprised his previous WSOP season victory in the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split-8 or Better Championship event at the World Series of Poker, claiming his fourth winner's bracelet and the main prize of $338,646. The event pulled in 136...
Main event champ McKeehan starts strong but finishes fourth The $3,000 buy-in Six-Handed Limit Hold'em event at the World Series of Poker has been won by relative unknown Rafael Lebron despite some heavyweight competition that included last year's WSOP main event champ Joe McKeehan, who started strong but only managed a fourth place finish. Also in the field was triple...
Glu Mobile the developer The latest social game in the Glu Mobile Dash series features famously irritable international chef Gordon Ramsay and challenges players to start off flipping burgers at a cafe in San Francisco, playing through different levels and earning cash which can be used to upgrade equipment and improve performance under the watchful eye of the notoriously abrasive...
Authorities have broken up a global sports gambling ring, leading to the arrest of four men The New York newspaper Metro reported Thursday that Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson has issued a statement detailing the arrest and arraignment in Brooklyn of four men on charges of enterprise corruption, first-degree promoting gambling, second-degree possession of gambling records and fifth-degree conspiracy. The...
And look who finished fourth on the final table... Aussie poker pro Martin Kozlov earned an impressive $655,709 over the weekend in winning the $10,000 buy-in Six Max NLHE event at the World Series of Poker, claiming his first bracelet... and in the process knocking out five-bracelet holder Chris "Jesus" Ferguson amid some raucous railbird behaviour from both pro and...
Big $1.12 million pay day for Dr. Mitchell Towner A young and relatively inexperienced (in poker) finance professor from the University of Arizona, Dr. Mitchell Towner is $1.12 million wealthier after besting a mammoth field of 6,927 to win his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the main prize in the $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack NLHE event. The massive...
22-year-old Phil McAllister bests 400 rivals to win $267,720 Another World Series of Poker bracelet has gone to the UK following 22-year-old Brit pro Phil "Grindation" McAllister's victory in the $3,000 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em competition at the Rio in Las Vegas. The win adds another $267,720 to the $356,020 the young online and live tourney pro earned earlier this year...