The long awaited dream of PokerStars in Pennsylvania is finally becoming a reality! The Gaming Control Board signed off on two more interactive gaming petitions during a Wednesday meeting in Harrisburg, and PokerStars is one of them. PokerStars received authorization to offer its full suite of online gambling products, while with Mohegan Sun Pocono is also conditionally approved for online slots and table games. Mohegan withdrew the poker portion of its application. PokerStars’ parent company The Stars Group will serve Pennsylvania under the license of Mount Airy. The two first disclosed their relationship in August, also confirming plans to offer…

Hell Club offers popular trick taking card game Oh Hell in a fascinating new gambling model – Oh Hell Stackpot. The game rules are essentially the same – you guess how many tricks you can take with your given hand, and then try to take that exact amount of tricks. No more, no less. If you succeed you win money. If you fail, your entry bet will stack in a table pot together with the entry bets of all other losers, which will be used to increase the win bonus for next hand. The Stackpot concept not only eliminates some…

Israel poker is currently illegal. Those caught playing in a poker game face up to a year in prison for the first offense, and those caught organizing a game could be locked up for as many as three. A new bill introduced by Likud party member Sharren Haskel, however, is looking to change that. The bill follows a recent ruling by Israel Supreme Court Judge Neal Hendel, who stated in his decision that poker was a game of skill. “The fact that the players go to contests and tournaments year after year strengthens the conclusion that it is not a…

Oh Hell is a simple but sophisticated trick taking game where you are supposed to guess how many tricks you can take with your given hand, and then try to take exactly that many tricks. If you do, you score. If you don’t, you bust. The Stackpot concept replaces the scoring with a monetary reward system, where you bet an ante based on the number of tricks, and if you don’t bust, you win your ante back, plus a bonus based on how many tricks you took. All the players that bust (at least one every hand) will lose their…

The 18 Las Vegas poker rooms on the Strip took in $8.6 million worth of rake from their cash games in July this year. That’s according to Nevada state figures. The revenue was off slightly from the $8.9 million raked in July 2017. June of this year saw Strip-area poker revenue of $14.1 million, up more than six percent year-over-year. June’s statewide total of about $17.5 million nearly broke the single-month record. Over the 12 months prior to Aug. 1, 2018, the Strip-area poker rooms took in $79.5 million, up more than two percent compared to the same period a…

Poker players will have one less option in Las Vegas, Nevada as casino officials have confirmed to USPoker that the Treasure Island poker room has closed. Offering cash games and regular tournaments, the Treasure Island featured seven tables and spread no-limit hold’em, limit hold’em, and mixed games. There had been rumors in recents days on social media about the rooms closing, but officials with the company released the following statement on Tuesday. The casino closed the Treasure Island poker room officially on Tuesday and removed the poker section from its website. Casino management haven’t decided what will replace the poker…

Phil Hellmuth is a polarizing figure in the poker world, he recently courted his share of controversy at the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and people celebrate when he is eliminated from the Main Event, but nobody can argue that Hellmuth isn’t one of the greatest tournament poker players of all time. The Poker Hall of Famer added another line to his lengthy resume Wednesday night when he won his fifteenth career WSOP bracelet, coming from behind to win Event #71: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em with 30 minute levels. This victory extends Hellmuth’s WSOP bracelet record; he now has 50…

Organizers of the 2018 World Series of Poker have announced that this year’s main event is the second biggest of all time with a huge field of 7,874 players taking their seat at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas this week. The impressive figure comfortably beats the 7,221 who took part last year and is eclipsed only by the famous 2006 event which saw Jamie Gold defeat a monster field of 8,773 players. The 2018 WSOP main event kicked off on Monday with the 7,874 entries creating a prize pool of more than US$74 million, including US$8.8…