Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates has declared his intention to appear at the Microgaming Poker Network’s Poker Tour stop at Tbilisi, and 138.com open an online poker site on the same site.

What value does the appearance of a major poker personality bring to an event?

The Microgaming Poker Network Poker Tour (MPNPT) is about to find out. Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates is heading to Tbilisi.

The MPNPT has partnered with the online gaming giant Adjarabet to bring live poker to the Georgian capital 28th – 31st May. The star attraction of the three-day festival is a $550 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Main Event, with a $400,000 guarantee, a sum of money that Cates can win in a single session of online cash games.

Moroccan born, Farid Yachou, has won the World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event after beating, Steve Warburton, in heads-up action, to take the first prize of $239,559, and a seat in the WPT World Championships.

Farid Yachou is a World Poker Tour (WPT) champion.

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The investigation into alleged profit skimming at San Jose cardroom Casino M8trix appears to have prompted the resignation of an executive director at the California Gambling Control Commission.

On Thursday, Commission executive director Tina Littleton (pictured) announced she would be stepping down at the end of this month. Littleton, who has held the director role for the past four years, released a statement on Friday saying she was “ready to pursue other opportunities.” However, Litleton plans to stay on with the Commission as a staff services manager.

Littleton is in a common-law relationship with James Parker, a former state Department of Justice special agent. Parker has been accused of sharing information on the profit skimming investigation with Robert Lytle, the former head of the state’s Bureau of Gambling Control (BGC). Parker was also a former employee of Lytle’s gaming consulting firm.

Lytle has been accused of ordering BGC employees to curtail their investigations into alleged shenanigans at Casino M8trix when it was still known as Garden City Casino. Lytle became Garden City’s compliance officer mere days after resigning from the BGC in 2007.