Claim that a Republican Representative is planning to attach an amendment to a 1,000+ page spending bill that Congress must pass before the end of September Michelle Minton of the Competitive Enterprise Institute warned in a tweet over the weekend that Pennsylvania Republican Representative Charlie Dent is planning a new initiative to have Congress ban all US online gambling, with...
From $10,000 Tag Team Championship Event The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has donated one of two "unawarded" WSOP bracelets from the inaugural $10,000 Tag Team Championship event to Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a non-profit charity co-founded by poker pro's Igor Kurganov and Liv Boeree. Kurganov and Boeree won WSOP 2017 Event #2, but having only two tag-team members...
Some compromises reported as legislators try to find common ground by Monday deadline Local Pennsylvanian media outlets reported over the weekend that state legislators are hard at work in a bid to meet a Monday deadline on the submission of concrete funding proposals for the state's $32 billion budget agreed last week (see previous InfoPowa report). Most of the debate...
Prop sheet includes high profile poker pros and athletes Nevada daily fantasy sports operator USFantasy Sports (USF) has opened a prop-bets market on the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for the first time. Until the cards hit the felt on July 8, 2017, bettors can wager on successful poker professionals such as Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Jason...
Budget funding package still not finalised as lawmakers go into recess until next week It looks as if the gambling expansion debate in Pennsylvania is set to drag on until at least next week following a tweet Wednesday in which the usually well-informed analyst Chris Krafcik advised: "PA pols delay #gaming/#igaming talks. House, Senate on recess; House not expected back...
Senate bill S.203 is back, but the many vested interests may make this one a long haul Reports from Michigan are that S.203, an online gambling bill introduced to the Senate in March this year, has resurfaced with some changes after a period in which it appeared to languish after passing the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee (see previous InfoPowa reports)....
Daily fantasy sports companies abandon project in the face of objections by the FTC Reports earlier this week that DraftKings and FanDuel were reconsidering their positions regarding a merger following objections from anti-trust regulators were confirmed Thursday when both companies announced that they have decided to abandon the project. DraftKings issued a press statement advising: "We believe it is in...
Brit recreational player says its all about perseverance One of the World Series of Poker Main Event players eliminated during the first days of the competition budgeted just $50 for his bid to play halfway across the world in the $10,000 buy-in tournament. Starting with a $1 buy-in online satellite, Londoner Phil Brockwell (30) used his budget to grind his...
Big names fall as entry days complete and fields get set to combine on Day 3 The Day 1 and 2 entry fields of this year's World Series of Poker Main Event have almost run their course, and excitement is now building for Day 3, when the survivors of the original 7,221 entrants gather for the first time to play...
Glenn Straub paid $82 million for a casino resort that had been built just three years before for $2.4 billion... now he could be set to accrue more profits Back in 2012 the spectacular Revel casino and resort opened its luxurious doors in Atlantic City on the completion of a $2.4 billion project. Three years later, having failed commercially, the...
