A decade apart Abraham Korotki clinched his second World Series of Poker (WSOP) ring after winning the Harrah's Atlantic City Circuit Stop main event, this week. Korotki bested a field of 341 to win the $1,675 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event for $117,645. His first win in 2006, which also took place at an Atlantic City stop, saw him take home...
2013 issue finalised at last Kelly Mathis, a Florida lawyer charged with heading a $300 million nation-wide gambling ring titled Allied Veterans of the World back in 2013 (see previous InfoPowa reports) is now free of the matter following a decision by the state Attorney General to abandon further litigation. Originally convicted of 103 counts of racketeering, possessing slot machines...
GAN-powered social casino site just the beginning? The recent launch of the GAN-powered TEN social casino website has renewed speculation that Florida property development mogul Glenn Straub - the businessman who bought the failed Revel Casino in Atlantic City for a relative song several years ago - may have wider online gambling ambitions. TEN already holds a New Jersey Division...
House Public Safety and Security Committee kills HB967 but observers expect further efforts to legalise will be made The Connecticut Lottery Corporation's bid to obtain legislative permission to sell a wide range of non-instant games online died without a vote in the state House Public Safety and Security Committee this week when members killed off HB967...but the lottery's interim president,...
Anti-online gambling owner of Las Vegas Sands is #20 on world list, but top of the gambling industry moguls The Forbes annual list of the world's wealthiest people released this week shows that arch-online gambling foe Sheldon Adelson remains in the top twenty, positioned at number 20 with a fortune of $30.4 billion. In gambling industry terms, it appears that...
Dentale's criticism backfires An ongoing and much publicised Twitter feud between US professional poker players Cate Hall and Mike Dentale culminated in a live poker battle this week watched by around 20,000 poker fans using the Twitch livestream feed. The feud started when Mike Dentale was critical of Cate Hall's poker tactics in a major live tournament and she responded,...
And first circuit ring Dylan Wilkerson has won the WSOP Circuit main event at Bicycle Casino coming out on top of a 705-entry field and a tough final table. Wilkerson boosted his live tournament earnings to over $2 million following the win in which he pocketed $216,790 and his first circuit ring. "The final table was really tough and had...
Second interactive gambling bill filed this month West Virginia lawmakers filed a second interactive gambling bill, HB 3067, this week seeking to legalise Internet gaming, managed and licensed through existing authorized gaming facilities in West Virginia. InfoPowa readers will recall the introduction to the West Virginia House of HB2751 "Legalising Sport Pool Betting" earlier this month (see previous InfoPowa reports)...
Commissioner says he is prepared to back AGA efforts to widen sports betting legalisation The American Gaming Association's drive for a wider legalised sports betting regime in the US than is presently the case under the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act received a boost this week when Don Garber, the commissioner heading the Major League Soccer organisation came...
Jeff Sessions requests the resignation of 46 US Attorneys... but is Preet Bharara among them? US president Donald Trump's recently appointed US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has followed US new administration tradition by asking 46 US Attorneys to hand in their resignations, triggering wide speculation in the industry on the possible implications and consequences of new enforcement chiefs at state...
