Over a thousand professional poker players plan to host a 72-hour strike, on PokerStars, in protest against the changes to rake and playing conditions in 2016, but will it make a difference?
The trade union guy walks into the office.
“Not driving today Bernard?” asks the shed driver.
The funny thing about trade unionists from the train drivers union ASLEF is they hated driving trains.
FIFPro has announced a 55 player shortlist for the 2015 FIFPro World XI and Wayne Rooney, John Terry and Gareth Bale are the only British-born players that make the cut.
As I watched Jamie Vardy make Ashley Young look like a mug before slotting the ball past David De Gea to score a record breaking 11 consecutive times in the Premier League, I felt a stifled sense of English pride.
It’s a feeling that comes along as often as the breaking of dry twigs in a Floridian swamp. I felt it in 1990 before Stuart Pearce, and Chris Waddle made me feel like a part of me was missing, and I felt it in 1996 when it was Gareth Southgate’s turn to make me cry.
The English national side may have qualified for Euro 2016 with the only 100% record in the competition. Our game may be bristling with youth and vitality. But it’s not a view shared by the rest of the world.
FIFPro has announced a 55 player shortlist for the 2015 FIFPro World XI and Wayne Rooney, John Terry and Gareth Bale are the only British-born players that make the cut.
As I watched Jamie Vardy make Ashley Young look like a mug before slotting the ball past David De Gea to score a record breaking 11 consecutive times in the Premier League, I felt a stifled sense of English pride.
It’s a feeling that comes along as often as the breaking of dry twigs in a Floridian swamp. I felt it in 1990 before Stuart Pearce, and Chris Waddle made me feel like a part of me was missing, and I felt it in 1996 when it was Gareth Southgate’s turn to make me cry.
The English national side may have qualified for Euro 2016 with the only 100% record in the competition. Our game may be bristling with youth and vitality. But it’s not a view shared by the rest of the world.
At the conclusion of its second fall season since the closure of Hollywood Park, Del Mar saw a decrease in daily average handle for the five-week stand when compared with last fall’s four-week slate.
At the conclusion of its second fall season since the closure of Hollywood Park, Del Mar saw a decrease in daily average handle for the five-week stand when compared with last fall’s four-week slate.
The Texas Lottery reports that a Port Arthur convenience store sold a winning Powerball ticket in Saturday night’s drawing. The ticket was sold at the Fastlane in the 3600 block of Highway 73 and is worth $1,000,000 for matching 5 out of 5 numbers.
The Texas Lottery reports that a Port Arthur convenience store sold a winning Powerball ticket in Saturday night’s drawing. The ticket was sold at the Fastlane in the 3600 block of Highway 73 and is worth $1,000,000 for matching 5 out of 5 numbers.
Hearthstone creators Blizzard Entertainment has increased the guaranteed prize pool for the 2016 World Championships to $1 million.
When Daniel Negreanu and Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier were both asked, after their 2015 BlizzCon Exhibition match, whether they would appear in the Hearthstone World Championships, money was a deciding factor in Negreanu’s submissive response.
Blizzard Entertainment would like to change that.
The Hearthstone founders have announced plans to increase the World Championship guaranteed prize pool from $250,000 to $1 million. That could guarantee the winner $400,000. A professional Hearthstone player’s costs are much lower than a professional poker player. The bridge between the two is closing.
92% of former US-based Full Tilt Poker players are wearing smiles where groans once roamed after players started surfacing on 2+2 to tell people that the money had started to land in their bank accounts.
Former US based players on Full Tilt Poker have been leaping out of their hammocks as money they never thought they would see again started raining into their bank accounts these past few days.
In October, Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director, John Pappas, informed the poker world that agreement had been reached with the United States Department of Justice’s Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (AFMLS) to release a further $5.7m to an estimated 2,000 people. That money has been reaching bank accounts all over the states these past few days.
Trawling through the FTP Remissions Issues Thread on 2+2, it seems there was no forewarning over the arrival of funds. There was no e-mail, no phone call, and no package via carrier pigeon. You either got lucky, or you didn’t.
Dressed in Hermes rallied down the center of the Del Mar turf course and overtook front-runner Collected to win the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 2-year-olds Nov. 29.
Dressed in Hermes rallied down the center of the Del Mar turf course and overtook front-runner Collected to win the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 2-year-olds Nov. 29.
The mutuel field was the 3-5 favorite when in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Nov. 29, and unbeaten Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner Nyquist was the 9-1 second choice.
The mutuel field was the 3-5 favorite when in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager closed Nov. 29, and unbeaten Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner Nyquist was the 9-1 second choice.
Marie Holmes, age 26, a single mother of four young children, snagged North Carolina’s biggest lottery jackpot in March – and took a lump sum payment of $127 million from the Powerball win. “The first thing she promised was to tithe – or give a tenth of her winnings to charity,” a press release from Ruth Sheehan with the Francis Law Firm said.
Marie Holmes, age 26, a single mother of four young children, snagged North Carolina’s biggest lottery jackpot in March – and took a lump sum payment of $127 million from the Powerball win. “The first thing she promised was to tithe – or give a tenth of her winnings to charity,” a press release from Ruth Sheehan with the Francis Law Firm said.
Nearly three decades of service in the Del Mar stewards’ booth will come to an end for steward Tom Ward after the final race Nov. 29 at the California racetrack.
Nearly three decades of service in the Del Mar stewards’ booth will come to an end for steward Tom Ward after the final race Nov. 29 at the California racetrack.
Dressed in Hermes rallied down the center of the Del Mar turf course and overtook front-runner Collected to win the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 2-year-olds Nov. 29 at Del Mar.
Dressed in Hermes rallied down the center of the Del Mar turf course and overtook front-runner Collected to win the $100,000 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 2-year-olds Nov. 29 at Del Mar.
Stephen Chesney and Cory Hoffman’s Melmich left no doubt Nov. 29 at Woodbine, smashing the course record for 1 3/4 miles by nearly two seconds in the $150,000 Valedictory Stakes (Can-III)