May 07, 2024 Welcome back to PokerNews for day two of our daily coverage of the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars. As the tournaments unfold, we’ll continue to deliver the freshest updates, tracking the progress of PokerStars Ambassadors and keeping a close eye on the thrilling SCOOP League action, where poker
Month: May 2024
Wynn Resorts, Limited, a leading name in luxury hospitality, has revealed exclusive glimpses of its upcoming beachfront resort, Wynn Al Marjan Island, taking shape in the captivating landscape of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Embracing the first beachfront oasis: a visionary project in collaboration The resort marks a significant milestone for the company as
May 07, 2024 Lightening has struck twice for Chris Johnson, who can now call himself a two-time Grosvenor UK poker Tour (GUKPT) Main Event champion. Johnson triumphed in the GUKPT Leeds Main Event in September 2022, taking home a career-best £73,070. Fas-forward to May 2024, and Johnson was the last player standing in the GUKPT
May 06, 2024 Day 3 in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship on Monday began with 35 players, but only six of them still have a shot at the $361,600 first place prize. One of those individuals — Eric Afriat — has an opportunity to make history. There won’t be a Day
May 06, 2024 High Stakes Poker Season 12, which airs on PokerGO, continued Monday night with the penultimate episode of the season. It was a continuation of last week’s $1,000/$2,000 game featuring Santhosh Suvarna and Andrew Robl, who two weeks earlier squared off in a $992,000 pot, the largest in High Stakes Poker history. The
It’s no secret that online slots are hugely popular worldwide, but did you know they are especially favored in the UK where revenues from digital slot machine games have more than doubled in the seven years since 2016? These revenues have reached a record £3.2bn, accounting for nearly 30 percent of all income not related
Voters in Missouri will get a chance to expand land-based gambling this year after supporters of adding a casino at Lake of the Ozarks submitted more than 320,000 signatures this weekend to put the question on the ballot in November. Through an effort being bankrolled by a lake-area business venture and casino giant Bally’s, organizers said
Macau ferry operator TurboJET has expressed its intention to collaborate with casino operators in non-gaming areas, such as concerts, to attract travelers from Hong Kong. Talking to Macao Daily News, Wong Man-chung, a spokesperson for the company, said TurboJET was operating at half its pre-Covid capacity due to a combination of factors including a shortage
Arcade and restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s has announced plans to introduce gambling elements into its establishments. Instead of the traditional model where players earn tickets redeemable for prizes, under this new modality, customers would have the opportunity to wager real money on select games, such as Skee-Ball and billiards. Partnering with Lucra, a software company
A new analysis by the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) shows that 27 out of 31 European countries employ some form of multi-licensing for online gambling, with an overwhelming majority implementing a full multi-licensing approach. In recent years, Europe has experienced a remarkable transformation in online gambling regulation. Just fifteen years ago, most European
May 06, 2024 The final day of the $1,100 Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty, running at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and Casino in Northern Cyprus as part of the 2024 Mediterranean Poker Party, has now concluded. It took more than 18 hours of grinding on Day 2 for Aleksey Savenkov to emerge as the winner,
May 06, 2024 Known as one of the best in the world during the 2000s, Erick Lindgren is back in the spotlight with a deep run in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship. On a Day 3 break Monday afternoon, with 23 players remaining out of 606, “E-Dawg” spoke with PokerNews to
A coalition comprising several Missouri pro sports franchises has submitted over 340,000 petition signatures to the secretary of state’s office in an effort to put the legalization of sports gambling on the November ballot. After repeated setbacks in their gambling expansion efforts at the General Assembly, the teams united under the Winning for Missouri Education
Melco Resorts and Entertainment has made a turnaround in its financial performance for the first quarter of 2024 with a net income $15.2 million, a significant improvement from the net loss of $156.6 million recorded in the fourth quarter of 2023. Total operating revenues for the quarter reached $1.11 billion, marking a 55 percent year-on-year increase, Macau
May 06, 2024 Last week, a video surfaced apparently showing a false shuffle taking place at Legends Poker Room in Houston. On Monday, a known card sharp who co-founded the Hollywood high-stakes poker game that inspired the book and movie, Molly’s Game, released a video exposing how he claims the dealer cheated, and provided some
May 06, 2024 Poker At The Lodge ran three live streams over the weekend—two $5/$10 cash game streams and a tournament stream. The two cash streams stood out with some massive hands despite the relatively low stakes. These big hands included a massive three-way pre-flop cooler and a hand where “Hai” made a $7,000 bluff
Another Kentucky Derby has come and gone, with Churchill Downs, the famous racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky, revealing the statistics: a crowd of 156,710 fans descended upon the venue on Derby day, eager to witness their favorites in action and place their bets. The bets placed during the event reached $446 million, underscoring the popularity of
During the five-day Golden Week holiday spanning from May 1 to May 5, 2024, Macau experienced a significant revenue surge. Reports indicate that gaming operators raked in an estimated gross gaming revenue of approximately MOP$4.55 billion, equivalent to an impressive US$565 million per day throughout the festivities. High-profile players: The analysts from JP Morgan predicted
Date Time (ET) Event Buy-in Guarantee Sun 12 May 5:15 p.m. XL Spring #01 – $1,200 Micro Opening Ceremony 11 $11 $1,200 6:30 p.m. XL Spring #02 – $30,000 Opening Ceremony $109 $30,000 7:00 p.m. XL Spring – $10,000 Sunday High Roller $525 $10,000 7:00 p.m. XL Spring #03 – $5,000 Mini
Date Time ET Tournament Name GC Buyin Guarantee Sun 05 May 2024 2:00 PM Rattlesnake Opening GC 2,000,000 Freeroll [Turbo] 0 N/A Mon 06 May 2024 7:30 PM GPC Rattlesnake 01-L: NLHE GC 4,000,000 Guaranteed 11,000 4,000,000 Mon 06 May 2024 8:30 PM GPC Rattlesnake 01-M: NLHE GC 10,000,000 Guaranteed 33,000