Three poker stories from the land of the Stars and Stripes including a friendly opening event at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open, a new job for the award-winning Donnie Peters, and an update on Gordon Vayo’s hair-pulling contest with PokerStars.
I can’t feel my heartbeat.
My hands on it, right now, and there is nothing.
I think I’m alive.
Two news stories with a PokerStars theme sliding down the veins like a little kid enjoying himself in a water park including the New Jersey Championship of Online Poker schedule, and a divorce between The Stars Group and the payment processor iDEAL.
How the world has changed.
Ashtrays on planes contain nothing but dried boogers.
Nobody listens to the Top 40 on a Sunday night.
ISLE OF MAN – Microgaming releases Sidewinder, an engaging new game exclusive featuring a fresh twist, developed by Just For The Win.
Sidewinder is a five reel online slot that includes free spins, expanding wilds and the title feature, Sidewinder, which expands the slot reel with horizontal wild reels that increase the player’s win potential by transforming the game from 243 ways up to 1125!
In the base game, the Sidewinder feature can be activated by either wild symbols or free spins. A top wild symbol activates the top horizontal reel, while a bottom wild symbol triggers the bottom reel, with both increasing the ways and allowing for additional wilds to land.
Activating one horizontal reel increases the ways to 576, and triggering both will increase the ways to 1125, expanding the player’s horizon to big rewards!
Arlie Shaban is no stranger to completing challenges. Once a contestant on Big Brother Canada, Shaban streamed 1,000 hours of poker on Twitch over the course of 125 consecutive days […]
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Anthony Stroud signed the ticket for $1.1 million to secure an Uncle Mo filly consigned as Hip 703 on behalf of Godolphin during the afternoon of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale’s third session.
Delta Prince gets his latest chance to add another top-level achievement to his family’s resume when he faces a field of eight challengers in the $800,000 Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T).
Last-out graded stakes winners Champagne Problems and Blue Prize (ARG) will look to clinch a graded double Sept. 15 in the $100,000 Locust Grove Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs, but will have to fend off a quality field to do so.
Larry Best’s OXO Equine struck late during the Sept. 12 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, knocking down a son of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah for $1.4 million.
Pennsylvania regulators have approved two more online gambling license applications while preparing to offer the few remaining licenses to out-of-state or even international operators.
Wednesday’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) saw two more of the state’s casinos – Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino and Rush Street Gaming’s SugarHouse – win the right to operate in the state’s imminent online gambling market.
Both operators sought the right to offer online slots, table games and poker, and brought the number of approved online licensees to five, following last month’s approval of the companies behind the Parx, Harrah’s and Mount Airy casinos.
Rush Street’s presentation touted its online gambling experience, having launched PlaySugarHouse across the border in New Jersey two years ago. PNG’s pitch surprised some observers by confirming its online tech will be supplied by International Game Technology rather than Scientific Games, which currently powers PNG’s social gaming site Hollywoodcasino.com.
Coverage of the 2018 Poker Masters continues with Event #3: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha going the way of Keith Lehr, with Brandon Adams making his third final table.
I like the 2018 Poker Masters.
I feel like an actor finding work in the Marvel Universe.
Writing about poker can be torturous when there is no poker. So, this morning, I say a little prayer before I send my morning smoothie into the bottom of my rank gut-biome, and thank the ARIA and Poker Central for giving me something to do.
Isaac Haxton is one of the favourites to win the 2018 Poker Masters after making three final tables, and taking down the 300-points for winning Event #4: $10,000 Short-Deck, the first time he has played the game.
When Isaac Haxton walks down the Las Vegas Strip, heading to the ARIA to go ‘to work’ every single cock like weather vane spins on its axis. Like Steffen Sontheimer, a year ago, ‘Ike’ has turned into a 1930s Frank Baum cyclone.
Haxton was in Montenegro when the Triton Poker Series cut the ribbon that connected Short-Deck to the secret card rooms in Asia, slamming champagne bottles into the heads of the first Westerners who tried it, and bubbles are still rising.
Only Haxton didn’t play.
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) can’t sit still, announcing plans to create a third European club competition in the wake of the successful debut of the UEFA Nations Cup.
Sweet 16.
Mark Hughes rounds the Barcelona keeper, but he’s gone too wide. Sparky doesn’t think so. His GPS-like goal net memory switches on, as he turns and smashes the ball into the back of the net in a split-second that sends 15,000 Man United fans into delirium, and a 16-year-old, Lee Davy, running around his bedroom kicking rolled up socks into the air.
It was the 1991 UEFA Cup Winners Cup, the first piece of European silverware for United in my lifetime, and the beginning of a golden era of football in the North West of England.
Trainer Kathleen O’Connell secured the 2,000th win of her career Sept. 12 at Delaware Park.
With the end in sight for the third session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, the energy in the pavilion picked back up when Shadwell Estate Company went to $1.2 million for a bay daughter of War Front.
Lah Ti Dar is the new William Hill St Leger (G1) favorite after trainer John Gosden confirmed Sept. 12 that the unbeaten filly will run in the final classic of the British season at Doncaster.
White Birch Farm and Three Chimneys partnered up and went to $1.1 million to purchase a Quality Road colt, the second yearling to reach the seven-figure level during the Sept. 12 third session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Curlingo, a full brother to multiple grade 1 winner Curalina, will carry the same silks his sister did after Aron Wellman stretched to $900,000 to land the colt during the Sept. 12 session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.
Atlantic City’s casino operators reported total gaming revenue up nearly one-quarter in August, driven by new verticals, new properties and a stellar showing at the gaming tables.
According to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, August’s total gaming revenue hit $303.9m, a 24.1% rise over the same month last year and over $30m higher than July 2018’s result.
Even when you strip out the nearly $9.2m contributed by the state’s new sports betting licensees and the $24.8m earned by the state’s online gambling licensees, August’s brick-and-mortar gaming revenue still came in at just under $270m, 20.7% higher than August 2017’s total.
AC’s casinos saw double-digit growth in both verticals, as slots revenue rose 18.3% to $196.4m and table games shot up nearly 28% to $75.5m. August’s gains helped compensate for the weather-related slowdowns that plagued 2018’s early months. For the year-to-date, total brick-and-mortar win is up 1.2% to $1.66b.
Local Serengeti Empress is scheduled to face 11, as 2-year-old fillies square off in Churchill Downs’ Pocahontas Stakes (G2). The $200,000 race is the first graded, two-turn stakes for the division.
After earning a graded stakes placing in New York, Tight Ten will return to the site of his easy debut victory when he faces an expected 11 other juveniles in the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes (G3) Sept. 15 at Churchill Downs.