Lee Davy hands you a review of the 27th day of the 46th Annual World Series of Poker, including news of a victory for Travis Baker in the Seniors Championships, Barny Boatman leading the final 24 players in the Extended Play event, and Scott Seiver looking to go wire-to-wire in the Poker Players Championship.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) can be a dream, and it can be a nightmare. It can produced tears of joy, and tears of absolute misery. It can energize you, and it can turn you into a George Romero zombie. The contrast is stark; it’s tough; it’s poker.

Take Tony Cousineau for example. He first cashed in the WSOP in 1999. 71 cashes later and he still doesn’t know what it feels like to have that piece of gold draped around his wrist. The same is true of Tom McCormick. He first cashed in 1992, and 50 WSOP cashes later, still has not won a bracelet.

Then you have people like Travis Baker. The 50-year old construction worker, from Oklahoma, first entered a WSOP event in 2007. He came nowhere. Eight years later, he decided to give it another shot. He went on to defeat 4,193 players to win the $613,466 first prize, the Golden Eagle trophy, and of course the WSOP bracelet.

Online gaming software supplier GameAccount Network (GAN) is celebrating the successful launch of its new Casual Mobile Gaming platform.

GAN says the mobile launch is “distinct” from its other free-play and real-money offerings and will serve as a “powerful complement” to its existing product range. The mobile product was 18 months in the development stage and the first title Foxwoods Solitaire is available now for Android and iOS devices, with further releases planned for later this year.

GAN is well known for its Simulated Gaming offering, which is either providing or preparing to provide free-play online casino content to brick-and-mortar operators like Pennsylvania’s Parx Casino, Connecticut’s Foxwoods Resort Casino, New York’s Empire City Casino and most recently Maryland Live! All Simulated Gaming licensees will have access to the new mobile titles.

GAN says the initial response to their Casual Mobile Gaming soft-launch in Q1 has exceeded expectations, with average revenue per daily average user at a respectable $0.24. GAN CEO Dermot Smufit said Simulated Gaming clients could now tap into an existing $3b market in the US “with a proven upgrade path to real money regulated gaming in the event suitable legislation passes in their state.”

Canada’s Intertain Group has acquired the rights to the Parlay Group’s bingo software and the Bingo.ca domain in preparation for the launch of a Canadian-facing free-play online bingo offering.

Intertain says it struck an all-cash C$2.8m deal to acquire Parlay’s bingo software source code. Intertain will also have access to the Ontario-based Parlay’s back office system and HTML5 mobile bingo products, and Intertain has also licensed casino, mini and side games.

Intertain CEO John Kennedy Fitzgerald said it had long been his plan to “eventually own a proprietary bingo platform to provide [Intertain] with options and flexibility for our current and future business.” Fitzgerald said Intertain’s Vera&John online casino brand would ‘immediately” integrate the bingo platform and side games into its existing platform.

Intertain has been on a bingo buying binge, acquiring Mandalay Media’s UK-facing Costa Bingo operation last summer, followed by the addition of the Jackpotjoy and Botemania brands this February. Intertain appears determined to follow the ‘if it’s for sale, we want it’ course set by fellow Canucks Amaya Gaming, which owns a minority stake in Intertain and gave birth to Intertain via the late-2013 sale of its WagerLogic division.