NPR – After losing the bet, he had to change his name to one just shy of the 100-character limit for new names in New Zealand. The incident came to light recently because his passport expired… …he’s a 22-year-old from New Zealand who lost a poker bet a few years ago. He wagered his name. And after losing, he had to change his name to one just shy of the hundred-character limit for new names in New Zealand; this came to light recently because his passport expired. His full legal name, a mouthful, wait for it: Full Metal Havok More…

Borgata Poker, powered by PartyPoker, has announced the inaugural New Jersey Online Poker Championship, a 10-tournament series scheduled to kick off in April. The series is tentatively scheduled for April 19-27, with $500,000 in guarantees, including a $200,000 main event with a $50,000 first-place prize. The first event will be a $50,000 freeroll. The other nine events will have buy-ins ranging from $50 to $200. The series is open to poker players in New Jersey with a Borgata Poker account. If you are ready to play, but don’t have a Borgata Poker account, click the banner below. New player sign…

Card Player – More than $1,000,000 is waiting to be won by players taking their seats in the Latin Series of Poker Millions main event March 8-15 in Panama City, Panama at Majestic Casino inside the Hard Rock Megalopolis. A truly revolutionary international poker concept, the LSOP is unique in that instead of requiring a full field of players to come to Panama City in hopes of winning big, multiple Day 1s were held throughout Latin America in the weeks leading up to the final days of play. This means players did not have to put up the money for…

Sacramento Business Journal – State lawmakers have introduced competing legislation to legalize online poker. California has seen several attempts to legalize the game over the last five years, but the state’s powerful tribes opposed the legislation out of fear that online gaming would encroach on their brick-and-mortar casinos. The bills never made it out of committee. But in a development that is similar to the anti-marijuana lobby’s can’t-beat-them-then-join-them attitude, the tribes are coming around, said one Capitol staffer. It isn’t difficult to sign up for online poker today — the U.S. has seen a proliferation of illegal digital gaming from…

Poker News – On November 23, 2013, partypoker returned to the United States with their launch in New Jersey. Now, just four months later, the site is already closing in on the 30,000,000th hand mark. To celebrate the landmark, NJ.partypoker.com will be giving away more than $40,000 to players across the Garden State. Starting on hand 25,000,000, partypoker will be counting down five million hands to that epic 30,000,000th deal. Along the way, the winner of each milestone hand (25,000,000-29,900,000) bags $1,000 while everyone else at the table gets $100 each. The winner of the 30,000,000th hand gets $10,000 with…

Nevada’s first online poker site made a big announcement Thursday. The Ultimate Poker deal will allow it to expand its customer base in the Silver State. The online firm, owned by Station Casinos, has struck a partnership to be the official online poker site for the company that owns Reno’s Peppermill Hotel Casino, as well as four other carpet joints in the northern part of Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Station Casinos itself owns 17 casinos in Nevada. By adding more brick-and-mortar properties into the mix, customers will have more options for cashing out and depositing, as well as…