Richard Lyndaker, a popular online poker legend, has passed away. According to a post on a popular a poker forum, Lyndaker accidentally overdosed on prescribed pain medication he was using for pain associated with a recent soccer injury he sustained. The poster said that the overdose was confirmed by the coroner’s report, and that he died sometime between Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30. He was 33 years old. If you need help with for issues with opioids, please contact the National Helpline for Substance Abuse : 1-800-662-HELP (4357). It’s free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service…

The Stars Group today announced that it entered into an agreement with Penn National Gaming that grants it options to operate online betting and gaming in states where Penn currently owns or operates casino properties. The agreement covers nine states, which, when combined with The Stars Group’s existing market access deals, gives The Stars Group access in up to 20 states. Unless otherwise noted, all dollar ($) amounts are in U.S. dollars. The agreement grants The Stars Group the option to own, operate and brand real-money online sports betting, poker and casino offerings in each of the applicable states subject…

This week’s gambling news discusses the recent launch of internet betting in the Keystone State, along with the conspicuous absence of Pennsylvania online poker. What operators are interested in the market? And when will online poker go live in the state? Also, an update on the expansion of sports betting in America, and the hold up for online gambling in Michigan. Hello friends… on our last program we spoke about online gambling going live in Pennsylvania when three internet casinos opened their virtual doors in the state. A week later, Churchill Downs has become the fourth to start taking customers……

It’s been almost two years since Internet gambling was approved in the Keystone State, approving casino games and Pennsylvania online poker. Now, casinos have gone live on the web and are accepting players… but poker is no where to be found. There are 7 casinos in the state which have been granted Gaming Certificates by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board in order to have online poker. But players in the state were sadly disappointed that no operator launched a poker site during the first week of operations, raising doubts whether the activity would go live at all. So what gives?…

We have a new WSOP winner! Hossein Ensan took down the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event last week in Las Vegas and earned himself the bracelet… not to mention $10 million. “I must go to sleep and wake up, and then maybe I know I have the bracelet,” Ensan told ESPN. “Maybe it’s a dream. I don’t know.” The 55 year old Ensan, the oldest player to win the event in 20 years, beat out 8,568 other players in the second-largest Main Event field of all time. More on the new WSOP winner and the rest of the…

The 50th annual WSOP Main Event is on day six at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, and as of this morning there are only 106 players left after nearly 250 players were eliminated yesterday. The WSOP Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in poker tournament, this year with 8,569 entries creating a $80,548,600 prize pool. The top 15 percent of the field divvy up the prize money with the winner’s share $10 million. Play is expected to go until 2 a.m. today and the field is expected to end with the final three tables of players, each vying for the…