Archive for May, 2010

Last year, former American professional basketball player Antoine Walker (33) looked liked he was determined to get his life back in order after agreeing to pay back around $1 million to three Las Vegas casinos he owed money. Back then, Antoine Walker narrowly... 

According to a recent report, a man has been permanently banned from all future World Series of Poker competitions, after he was caught helping himself to someone else’s chips during Event 4 of this year’s competition. The incident, which is alleged... 

Hoai Pham (43) has won Event #1 of the WSOP 2010, after defeating a field of 721 players over two days to collect a WSOP bracelet and the $71,424 first place prize. As the action got started at the $500 Buy-In NLHE Casino Employee Event, all the competitors were... 

Tom Dwan has just got all the extra incentive he needs to take down a WSOP event this summer, after arranging a whole host of prop bets with fellow pros. No one is doubting Tom “Durrrr” Dwan’s cash poker skills as he daily continues to demonstrate... 

Poker babe Lacey Jones has just announced she is leaving Absolute Poker, after having joined the site around 10 months earlier. The 31 year old Texan born beauty is known as much for her stunning looks as she is for her poker skills and has been very much involved... 

Today, the 41st annual WSOP 2010 gets underway at Harrah’s Rio Casino in Las Vegas. In the meantime the poker world is eagerly anticipating who will be the stars of the game who manage to capture some of the 57 prestigious bracelets on offer. When it comes... 

An unemployed man has been celebrating his good fortune after hitting a $1.3 million progressive jackpot at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, last week. Originally from the Virgin Islands, Cory McAlpin (29) enjoys visiting the Hard Rock casino two... 

The Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore was the scene of an opportunistic cheating scam, when a casino patron cashed out S$630 of a fellow customer’s slot win, after he had walked away from the machine. The incident took place on February 16, when the victim... 

UK resident Augustin Dago has recently received an 18 month prison sentence after authorities uncovered his attempt to defraud casinos by producing his own fake chips. The 20-year-old fraudster naively thought he was on to a sure thing after contacting several... 

British e-gaming operator Sportingbet plc have just announced their Q3 trading results showing a marked rise in both the company’s net gaming revenue (NGR) and operating profits. Sportingbet’s NGR reached £55.7m in Q3, up an impressive 30% from the...