If you want to watch the Tropicana implosion in person or online, we have the information to help you do so! And with police blocking streets, no public viewing area, and Las Vegas hotel room prices skyrocketing it won’t be easy! [embedded content] What left of Tropicana Las Vegas will be coming down in the
Month: October 2024
We’ve been following the renovations at the Rio Las Vegas for quite a while. And now, the property has announced that the initial phase of the upgrades has been completed. This is an ongoing project which began back in 2023, and may take another year or two for completion. In fact, we visited the resort
Ten years ago, sports leagues hated gambling. Five years ago, leagues embraced gambling Now, DraftKings and FanDuel are being sued by one of the leagues players union. Strange days indeed, as John Lennon once wrote. So what’s the issue? As is the case so many times it all boils down to money. Not so peculiar,
Date Event Buy-in Start Time Registration Ends 08-Nov Event 1: Vietnam National Cup – Flight A – VND 5,000,000,000 GTD VND 9,000,000 (~USD 369) 11:00 AM 4:30 PM Event 2: PL Omaha Hi-Lo – 5 Card (Big O) VND 9,000,000 (~USD 369) 3:30 PM 7:20 PM Event 3: Single Day High Roller –
Oct 03, 2024 3 min read Action is on a player, and they move all in. Or do they? In fact, they’ve left 1-2 big blinds behind, or sometimes a solitary chip. It’s becoming increasingly more popular — but why? In a GTO Wizard video, they take a look at this “Fake All-In” trend and
Oct 03, 2024 4 min read As we enter the last quarter of the year, it’s time to take a look at how the Global Poker Index world rankings are looking, as well as who is in with a chance of winning 2024 Player of the Year honors come the end of it. September was
Oct 03, 2024 3 min read PokerNews ambassador Keith “whoopsboom” Becker is one step closer to winning a trip to NAPT Las Vegas after the Pennsylvania streamer won a $100 Path to NAPT satellite to earn a PokerStars Silver Power Pass to NAPT. The satellite, a $100 buy-in event on PokerStars PA and step four
Oct 03, 2024 5 min read In 2008, Obama was battling McCain for the leaderboard of the free world, Robert Downey Jr. first donned the Iron Man suit, and French poker pro Patrick Bueno found himself under the bright lights of the final table in one of the most prestigious tournaments on the calendar. Bueno
Oct 03, 2024 3 min read A poker player has entered a guilty plea in connection to basketball player Jontay Porter’s lifetime ban from the NBA for betting on games. Long Phi Pham (“Bruce”), who claims to be a poker pro, was arrested at JFK airport and charged with wire fraud conspiracy, a federal crime,
Oct 04, 2024 5 min read The latest bracelet from the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has found a new home—on the wrist of Darius Neagoe. Neagoe emerged victorious over a field of 458 entrants in Event #11: €1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Bounty Hunter to take home his first WSOP bracelet. Romania’s Neagoe snagged
Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level. In the 18th episode, Connor speaks with author Maria Konnikova about her family leaving Russia to come to
Oct 04, 2024 Guests: Jamie Kerstetter In the 859th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by WPT Global, Chad Holloway and Kyna England are joined by Jamie Kerstetter at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about the WPT World Championship, which isn’t featuring a guarantee this year but instead is offering
Oct 04, 2024 5 min read After the success of the SCOOP League earlier in the year, the inaugural WCOOP league expanded to six teams and once again pitted PokerStars Ambassadors against one another with over the course of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Now after four long weeks of competition, Team peace&loove
As we draw to the end of our live news stream this Tuesday, here’s a look at what’s been keeping us busy: Qatar Airways has announced it intends to buy a 25% stake in Virgin Australia from its current owner Bain Capital. Julian Assange made his first public statement since release, where he claimed he
She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night. With a family fortune of £7.5bn, she pays her taxes and donates to charity. But is there a wider human cost to her huge success? By Rob Davies Any motorist or dog-walker traversing
View image in fullscreen ‘A target on their back’: college athletes face wave of abuse amid gambling boom Some states are moving to ban ‘proposition bets’, a type of side wager, but big firms are lobbying against it College athletes are facing “significant abuse” amid a surge in harassment unleashed by America’s gambling boom, according
View image in fullscreen Denise Coates’ charity may have saved Bet365 more in tax than it has given to good causes Exclusive: Guardian analysis suggests foundation has reduced gambling group’s tax bill by as much as £140m A charity set up by the billionaire boss of Bet365, Denise Coates, may have saved her online gambling