Phil Hellmuth makes his impression felt at the 46th Annual World Series of Poker, with his 14th bracelet win, John Gale nets his second, and a whole host of other stars are within touching distance of a piece of gold.

His first 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets were won in No-Limit Hold’em contests. His credentials were questioned. Could he only win bracelets in one discipline? Would he ever be considered as one of the pound for pound best players in the world?

Those questions were thrown in the direction of Phil Hellmuth.

He reacted perfectly.

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Angela Rich has become the first woman to win a Mid Stakes Poker Tour (MSPT) Main Event, after ending the event with the most chips, after the final four players decided to chop up the remaining prize money.

This is my last rant about the Venetian. I am done talking about it, because it’s quite obvious that the poker community doesn’t give a shit.

25-year old Angelina Rich decided to take a trip around America in a camper van. One of her stops was Las Vegas, when she decided to play in the $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Mid Stakes Poker Tour (MSPT) Main Event.

Tuesday saw Pennsylvania welcome its fifth online gambling bill, which proposes a hefty 54% tax on gross gaming revenue.

SB 900 was filed by Senator Kim Ward, with Joseph Scarnati, Robert Tomlinson and Elder Vogel listed as co-sponsors. While Pennsylvania has already welcomed four online gambling bills – three in favor, one opposed – SB 900 is the first to emerge from the Senate. This is either progress or a sign that senators were tired of the House sucking up all that lobbying cash.

SB 900, which contains a raft of proposals aimed at boosting the state’s overall gaming industry, allows for both online poker and casino games. As with the state’s other online bills, only the state’s existing casino licensees would be eligible to offer online gambling.

The bill doesn’t contain any explicit ‘bad actor’ prohibitions among its criteria for a licensee’s online technology partner. However, applicants would have to provide a “fictitious, brand or trade name” that they intend to use for their online operations, and said name must be “predominantly the same name that is utilized by the licensed gaming entity,” which appears to limit the use of established online brands.

Police in Thailand have uncovered still more illegal online sports betting operations being run by South Korean nationals.

On Tuesday, the Bangkok Post reported the arrest of six South Korean nationals for running two separate online sports betting operations out of Bangkok apartments. In the first case, police arrested three men and confiscated seven computers, ten phones, five bankbooks and 16 “one-time-password-authentication devices for transactions with foreign banks.”

In the second raid, three different South Koreans were arrested, while police confiscated eight computers, 10 phones and numerous bankbooks. The raids follow a flurry of similar actions in Bangkok and Phuket last week, all of which involved South Koreans setting up Korean-language websites catering to sports bettors back home.

Police still aren’t clear if all these boiler room operations are connected, although the alleged mastermind behind some of the Phuket busts is believed to still be somewhere in Thailand. Meanwhile, those police who have yet to be reassigned are preparing to deport the arrested South Koreans and have relayed info on the identities of the rings’ betting clientele to South Korean authorities.