Bests a field of 100 that included Isaac Haxton and Daniel Negreanu UK online and live poker pro Elior Sion (26) has scored his biggest win yet - $1,395,767 - taking down the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. To do so, the quiet-spoken Brit had to best a stellar field of...
Wide publicity and resistance from fellow lawmakers may have caused a rethink Reports earlier this week that Pennsylvania Republican Representative Charlie Dent was planning to attach Restoration of America's Wire Act language to a major but unrelated spending bill alerted both the public and the political establishment to yet another "stealth" attempt to engineer an online gambling ban in the...
To take down Event 19: THE GIANT - $365 No-Limit Hold'em A Las Vegas poker shift manager has outplayed a field of 10,015 to claim the 2017 WSOP Event 19, The Giant - $365 No-Limit Hold'em for a $291,240 payday and his first WSOP bracelet. 56-year-old Dieter Dechant ticked winning a WSOP bracelet off his bucket list after defeating Hrair...
Political columnist details the influence wielded by anti-online gambling activist Sheldon Adelson In a scathing op-ed in the Washington Examiner this week, political columnist Eric Peters detailed how land casino mogul Sheldon Adelson uses his billions to wield political and media clout to achieve his personal agendas. Among these is his antipathy to legalised and regulated online gambling, and Peters...
Bill H6948 signed off by state governor Danell Malloy Connecticut has joined Mississippi in passing legislation preparing for legalised sports betting in the state, conditional on the striking down or repeal of existing federal laws which ban betting in all but four US states. The contentious federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is under attack from all sides -...
US poker pro scores his first WSOP bracelet and $1,289,074 in $25,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller Congenial Florida poker pro James Calderaro (51) scored his biggest ever pay-day over the weekend, claiming his first WSOP bracelet and $1,289,074 in the $25,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed High Roller. A popular WSOP veteran, Calderaro bested a field of 205 players,...
Final scheduled events complete as the Main Event starts with a bang It's been a brisk weekend in Las Vegas, where the last few scheduled events in the enlarged program (73 events this year) were coming to a close as Day 1 entries for the Main Event topped 795 players - an increase on the corresponding entries last year of...
2,164 entrants bring the total for the first two entry days to 2,959 It's starting to look as if this year's World Series of Poker Main Event will be the most popular in years; total entries from only the first two starting flights stands at 2,959 after Day 1 B official figures were released, showing that 2,164 entries - the...
$268,555 pay-day for Sebastian Langrock in NLHE-PLO 8-handed Mixed competition This year's World Series of Poker schedule of competitions has almost completed, with the main event due to kick off on July 8; among the last few contests was Event 64, the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed Mix, in which Austrian poker pro Sebastian Langrock scored a bracelet and...
Poker pro Heidi May wins her first bracelet Four-year Australian poker pro Heidi May (27) has clinched by far her biggest win yet - and her first WSOP bracelet - following victory in the $10,000 buy-in Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship, claiming the main prize of $135,098. May, who hails from Tasmania, mainly plays online tournaments and high stakes cash games,...
