Just a day after its defunct Bodog.com domain was seized by US federal authorities, it has been announced that Bodog founder Calvin Ayre, along with three other company officials, has been charged with operating an illegal gambling business and conspiring to commit money laundering. The accused, Ayre along with James Philip, David Ferguson and Derrick [...]
The US Department of Homeland Security has seized the Bodog.com domain name, nearly a year after it went after the domains of other poker companies including PokerStars, Full Tilt and DoylesRoom. Unlike those instances, however, the move is almost entirely cosmetic, as the domain was used only as a forwarding site to Bodog’s current home [...]
Last Friday saw the introduction of legislation in California aimed at paving the way for internet poker to take place among its residents. California is the latest state to attempt to introduce intra-state online gaming regulation, following on from efforts in Nevada, New Jersey and Iowa. The proposals would see operators granted ten year licences [...]
Online high-stakes poker player Phil Galfond has put his New York apartment up for sale after moving to Canada to continue playing the game. Galfond, who won a WSOP bracelet in a Pot Limit Omaha event in 2008, is seeking just under $4 million for the swish pad. Just a few buy-ins then… The apartment [...]
Mickey Petersen sealed the EPT Copenhagen after defeating Pierre Neuville in a marathon heads up battle. The two battled for six hours before the Dane finally came through when his A5 stayed ahead of Neuville’s A4 in a pre-flop all-in. In truth Petersen had dominated the heads up, time and again reducing his opponent to [...]
The Copenhagen leg of the European Poker Tour is set to conclude today, with the final eight players returning to play to a conclusion. The winner is set to pick up just over 2.5 million Danish Krone (around £286,000). Norwegian Aage Ravn leads the way at the final table; the 26-year old IT consultant has [...]
Day 3 at the Copenhagen leg of the European Poker Tour saw the remaining field of seventy-two players reduced to twenty-four, with the money bubble bursting along the way. Belgian businessman Pierre Neuville finished the day atop the leaderboard, bagging 780,000 chips to top the stacks of Alexander Manson (730,000) and Aage Ravn (691,000). Neuville [...]
Day 2 of the Copenhagen leg of the European Poker Tour saw Melanie Weisner seize the overall lead late on when she turned the nut straight and manage to induce a call from a flopped two-pair to take her stack up to 368,200. She was one of only three players to finish above the 300,000 [...]
A total of 299 players entered the Copenhagen leg of the European Poker Tour across the two opening days, with Day 1A entrant Steve O’Dwyer, runner up in the London leg of the tour, heading into Day 2 with the biggest chip stack. O’Dwyer’s closing total of 190,975 saw him finish well ahead of Lauri [...]
While the push for intra-state gambling in the United States has been most evident in Nevada in recent, with the state having already received thirteen applications for online gaming licences, other states have also been examining the possibilities of enacting legislation permitting the activity. The focus yesterday was on Iowa, where Iowa’s Senate Study Bill [...]
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