Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has announced the upcoming Borgata Summer Poker Open, an Atlatnic City-based live poker option scheduled for July 9. With the official schedule yet to be fully announced, the Buy-in for the open will cost potential entrants $600. The event is coming just after the World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1, offering an opportunity to players who have changed their mind about the WSOP bracelets to have a poker outlet. The Bortaga Summer Poker Open will offer $500,000 guarantee and the event will take place between July 9 – 13. A Championship event will…

Online poker was the biggest winner in this week’s Wire Act decision. The judge in the U.S. District Court case of New Hampshire vs. the Department of Justice ruled that the Interstate Wire Act applies only to “activities associated with sports gambling” and not to the interstate sale of online lottery tickets. This decision seems to kill the DOJ’s recent re-interpretation that the act somehow applies to all online gambling. Here is a closer look at how Monday’s federal court decision affects online poker, sports gambling and fantasy sports. For online poker, the court decision represents just about the greatest…

On May 31, 2019 Twitch streamer and content creator Jaime Staples broke the news that several of his gambling content YouTube videos were removed from his channels overnight. At first, two videos were missing related to his My Ultimate Sweat Challenge where he was giving away a seat into the PokerStars Players’ Championship in the Bahamas in January of 2019. This number ballooned to a staggering 150 videos out of around 1,000 total in just a couple of days. Staples currently has one ‘strike’ from YouTube against his channel. “The strike means you can’t upload (videos) for a week, and…

The 2019 WSOP is underway, and while Hold ‘Em is the classic game people think of, it’s not the only one that’s played. There are several different poker events, and each one has its own quirks. Texas Hold ‘Em, of course, has two pocket cards and a board comprised of five community cards, but there are several offshoots. Among those offshoots at Omaha and Hi-Lo 8 or better, games that play with the classic conventions. Then, there are sub-games of Hold ‘Em, such as limit vs. no-limit. Before we get to the games If you’ve watched movies in which poker…

A PartyPoker Nevada return looks to be in the cards as their parent company, GVC Holdings, received the state gaming commissioners approval on their license application today The online gaming portion of GVC’s application hints at the fact that the gambling giant could be gearing up to introduce its PartyPoker brand to the Silver State’s regulated market. PartyPoker was forced to leave the United States back in 2006 when the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was passed. However, a romance for PartyPoker Nevada will most likely not be a smooth ride. WSOP’s online poker site has cemented itself in the…

The owner of PartyPoker, GVC Holdings, has confirmed that its Fraud Team closed 277 PartyPoker bots accounts between December 2018 and March 2019, leading to nearly $735,000 in associated funds being returned to players. The bots are computer programs that are created to play against human opponents or other pieces of software, giving some players an unfair advantage. PartyPoker said that its specialist Poker Fraud Team, comprising a collection of former poker professionals who are equipped with the necessary knowledge and expertise to investigate suspicious activities, had been a key driver in the clampdown. Since the start of December, more…