West Virginia’s sports bettors will have to wait several more weeks until they’re able to place a mobile wager with DraftKings and its local casino partner.

In late May, the West Virginia Lottery – which oversees all gaming activity in the state – said that it had successfully completed testing of DraftKings’ mobile betting app. The Lottery office suggested the app would likely soft-launch the following week. Fast forward to this week, and the state’s sports bettors are still waiting.

On Wednesday, Lottery director John Myers told the WV Metro News that the launch would be delayed “several more weeks” in order for the state to resolve some lingering issues over the location of two DraftKings’ data servers: one to process actual wagering data and the other to oversee customers’ digital wallets.

Myers said the betting server was already in place at DraftKings’ local casino partner, Penn National Gaming’s Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. But the wallet server was currently situated in New Jersey, where DraftKings launched its first US sports betting operation last summer. DraftKings needs to “split two functions that are on that server,” and that would take time.

Three stories with more than a passing reference to the World Series of Poker including a new attendance record, someone trying to get rid of a bracelet, and a bracelet winner going all Rambo on us.

An avalanche of people the likes of which the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has never seen before has knocked every door from their hinges in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino as the BIG 50 exceeds expectations.

Speaking to Forbes in May, Seth Palansky and the crew believed the $500 buy-in (first entry, rake-free), 50,000 starting stack, 50-minute -levels, $5m GTD, $1m GTD to the winner, barnstormer of an event would top 10,000 entrants.

It’s done more than that.

Three stories from the virtual rail including another win for Andras Nemeth, an overlay in the Sunday Million, and an obituary for Redbet Poker.

Did you know that an asteroid the size of Big Ben has just whizzed past Earth at 16,000 mph? NASA named it ‘Asteroid 2019 LA’, and perhaps that should be Andras Nemeth’s new partypoker pseudonym when it changes on June 17, because he’s playing like an asteroid rushing through space at 16,000 mph.

Playing under his Pocketfives nickname ‘probirs’, the Hungarian star defeated 248-entrants in the $530 buy-in, $100,000 Guaranteed Sunday 500 on PokerStars earning $23,843, and also finished 3/30 in the $5,000 buy-in, $100,000 Guaranteed Sunday Blade for $24,197 in another likely profitable Sunday.

The win sends his gross online profit howling to the $12,791,773 mark, and Nemeth sits #2 in the PocketFives World Rankings, behind the siren, Niklas “lena900” Åstedt.

Dan Zack wins a bracelet in event #6: $2,500 Limit Mixed Triple Draw, and Alex Epstein wins the inaugural Short-Deck bracelet.

Dan Zack rhymes with ‘quack’, a noise made by a duck. A duck is a common name given to the waterfowl family known as Anatidae. Waterfowl are members of the avian dinosaurs, better-known as ‘birds’.

One species of bird lays eggs in smaller birds nests. When the chick hatches, it pushes out the other eggs, or step brothers and sisters, leaving itself as the sole heir to the throne. This remarkable bird is called a cuckoo, and that’s how Dan Zack felt after making eight World Series of Poker (WSOP) final tables without winning a bracelet.

All that changed, yesterday, when Zack took down Event #6: $2,500 Limit Mixed Triple Draw.

World Poker Tour tales from two continents as Erkut Yilmaz wins the World Poker Tour Season XVII Player of the Year, and Ken Chan takes down WPT New Zealand.

[Image credit: World Poker Tour via flickr]

Eight players could have been named The World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XVII Hublot Player of the Year as the $10,000 buy-in WPT ARIA Summer Championships began, and by the end of Day 1, three remained, hoping to raise a teacup full of champagne, or a flute of tea depending on their taste.

Erkut Yilmaz was the man in the Apache Attack Helicopter; Jake Schwartz and Anthony Zinno were wearing wings pieced together by Icarus. Schwartz needed to finish fourth or higher to gazump Yilmaz, and Zinno had to win the thing to beat them both and become the first player to be bestowed twice.

Three stories from the virtual rail including another win for Andras Nemeth, an overlay in the Sunday Million, and an obituary for Redbet Poker.

Did you know that an asteroid the size of Big Ben has just whizzed past Earth at 16,000 mph? NASA named it ‘Asteroid 2019 LA’, and perhaps that should be Andras Nemeth‘s new partypoker pseudonym when it changes on June 17, because he’s playing like an asteroid rushing through space at 16,000 mph.

Playing under his Pocketfives nickname ‘probirs’, the Hungarian star defeated 248-entrants in the $530 buy-in, $100,000 Guaranteed Sunday 500 on PokerStars earning $23,843, and also finished 3/30 in the $5,000 buy-in, $100,000 Guaranteed Sunday Blade for $24,197 in another likely profitable Sunday.

The win sends his gross online profit howling to the $12,791,773 mark, and Nemeth sits #2 in the PocketFives World Rankings, behind the siren, Niklas “lena900” Åstedt.