Monthly Archives: March 2015

Global Poker Masters: Timeline Announced and Bet365 are Taking Bets

The Global Poker Index has released the full schedule of the upcoming 2015 Global Poker Masters, and Bet365 are offering odds on which nation will win poker’s World Cup competition.

The clock is ticking.

In 11-days time the very best poker players in the world will gather in Malta to eat rabbit, get wet, and compete in poker’s first World Cup competition. I am, of course, talking about the 2015 Global Poker Masters, and the man behind it all has just released the final schedule.

The event will take place over two days: 21 – 22 March, with the action forming part of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Malta. Interesting parties, who are not in Malta, needn’t fret as all the action will be streamed live on Twitch, in five different languages.

GPI European Poker Awards Nominees Announced

The nominations have been announced for the European Poker Awards, which, for the first time in its history, will be held outside France. The 14th European Poker Awards, newly acquired by Alex Dreyfus and the Global Poker Index, will be held on March 25 at the Hilton Hotel in St Julian’s, Malta. Dreyfus bought the […]

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Big Keno spending = big community aid? Hardly

Milap Patel, an employee at Jimmy’s Convenience Store on Pleasant Street in Dracut, sees a steady stream of Keno customers who watch the games play out on the screens behind him. Despite being the state’s fifth biggest Keno hot spot with $11.2 million in sales, Dracut received just over $3 million in total community support from the Lottery.

RAWA Supporter Sen. Graham Has Never Sent An Email

The more information about the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) and its supporters that comes to light, the more ridiculous the Sheldon Adelson-backed bill becomes. For many in the poker industry the legitimacy of an anti-igaming bill backed by a billionaire casino owner is shaky at best, but now it’s emerged that one of […]

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Seals With Clubs Announces Cashout Deadline

Seals With Clubs (SwC), the suddenly-defunct bitcoin-only only poker website, has announced that all its players must cash out their balances by May 5, 2015, or they will be lost. SwC was the biggest bitcoin poker operator on the market until it suddenly went offline on February 11, citing a “hardware failure,” which it quickly […]

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Treasurer Deb Goldberg: Baker budget cuts will hurt Lottery games

State Treasurer Deb Goldberg said budget cuts by Gov. Charlie Baker will stifle state Lottery plans to put out new games and will force it to reduce revenue projections as it girds to compete with a new slots parlor opening in Plainville this summer and resort casinos in the years ahead. In an in-studio appearance on Boston Herald Radio “Morning Meeting,” Goldberg said Baker’s $1.7 million reduction to Lottery’s “9c” funds “directly impacted our ability to put out some new games that would have maintained or increased our revneues during this fiscal year.”