by Brian Pempus | Published: Mar 23, '18
Depression and anxiety have forced James Packer away from his casino empire. According to a report from The Guardian, a spokesperson for Packer, who has a net worth of $4 billion, said that he has left the board of Australia-based Crown Resorts due to “ …
by Erik Fast | Published: May 22, '17
“May all your cards be live and all your pots be monsters!” Mike Sexton has uttered this, his famous catch phrase, for the last time on the World Poker Tour. Sexton has been the face and voice of the WPT since its inception 15 years ago, but on Monday, …
by Brian Pempus | Published: Feb 16, '16
A man from Biloxi, Mississippi ran bad when his casino player’s card helped put him behind bars. According to sunherald.com, Edward Parker Eldridge, 61, was given eight years Thursday for a 2014 burglary where he decided it was a good idea to make …
by Brian Pempus | Published: Sep 24, '15
Vanessa Rousso entered Wednesday’s finale of the 17th season of Big Brother with a 50-50 chance to be able to pick who got evicted in third place, but she ended up hitting the rail in third herself and left with no money. The winner received $500,000, …
by Brian Pempus | Published: Dec 03, '14
Late last month, poker pro and two-time European Poker Tour champion Victoria Coren announced that she was walking away from her sponsorship deal with PokerStars. Coren wrote in her blog that she couldn’t participate in the direction the company was …
by Brendan Murray | Published: Mar 19, '13
Tony G, the mercurial Lituanian-Australian poker pro and business man, is no longer sponsored by Party Poker. G, who owns online betting site TonyBet.com, said in a blog post, “The time has come to take a massive step in a new direction. Towards the …
by Brendan Murray | Published: Dec 19, '12
bwin.com poker players are now part of the Party Poker player pool after the sites merged liquidity on the back of bwin.party’s sale of the Ongame Network. A blog at bwin.com, which now offers late registration, Fast Forward Poker, and custom avatars, …
by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Oct 11, '12
Online poker site, FeltStars.eu is closing its doors and leaving the world of online poker. The Merge Gaming Network site has placed an announcement on its homepage thanking players and assuring them that the network still holds all the site’s funds and …
by Brian Pempus | Published: Aug 15, '12
Swedish cash game player Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom is no longer listed as a sponsored pro for PokerStars, the largest online site in the world. Earlier this year, Blom won back-to-back titles in one of the site’s marque tournament series. In January, he won …
by Brendan Murray | Published: Apr 18, '12
Gutshot.com, the online poker room born out of London’s ill-fated Gutshot Poker Club in the late noughties, has left the iPoker network and joined two new networks – Merge and the little known Enet. The move comes ahead of the rumoured liquidity split in …
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