The Solver Era Whether you like it or not, we are in the “Solver Era” of poker. The majority of elite players lean into solver solutions as the mainstay of their study, interpreting heuristics which have been made clearer, crisper and more expeditious by our silicon overlords. players have always been heavily motivated to stay…
Read more The global IT outage that has affected banks, airports, hospitals, and thousands upon thousands of businesses has largely spared Las Vegas casinos. Reports from the gambling capital of the world are largely positive, at least when it comes to casinos. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Green Valley Ranch appears to be the only area…
Read more In April last year, the English Premier League agreed to impose a voluntary ban on front-of-shirt sponsorship deals with gambling companies. The move had been a long time coming, with gambling critics calling for a ban for years. EPL teams have more front-of-shirt gambling sponsors than they did for the previous season We are just…
Read more With the World Series of Poker wrapping up in Las Vegas, Caesars has taken the opportunity to announce the dates for the second WSOP Paradise, which will run December 6-19 at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The highlight will be the $50m guaranteed $25,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Championship, the largest guaranteed prize pool in…
Read more Finance community takes notice Montenegro has caught the undivided attention of the global financial community after it altered a gambling law to effectively ban electronic payments. ban all digital payment/banking methods, including Apple Pay, PayPal Las Vegas-based iGaming industry insiders earlier this week revealed the “the troubling development” that has seen the Montenegro Ministry of…
Read more Another two platforms have made their way onto the Australian Communication and Media Authority (ACMA) list of gambling sites that are illegally targeting people in the country. Wanted Win and Richard Casino are the latest brands to land on the block list that the ACMA sends internet service providers. Neither operator has the necessary license…
Read more In the spotlight again Greyhound Racing New South Wales (GRNSW) is facing the heat yet again. The group, the biggest greyhound racing body in Australia, pledged it would right its wrongs in 2015 after an investigation revealed the preventable deaths of as many as 17,000 young dogs per year. left to rot in metal cages…
Read more Ukraine’s gambling regulator, the Commission for the Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries (KRAIL), has blocked 11 more online casino sites. The body claims these sites were operating in the country without a license. Among a string of relatively unknown sites, the list of blocked operators also included Stake and Roobet – two of the most…
Read more The SkyCity Entertainment Group has reached a settlement with the Secretary for Internal Affairs in New Zealand over a complaint that it allowed a patron to gamble continuously and lose significant sums of money. The agreement, signed Thursday, means SkyCity will have to close the gaming floor of its flagship property in Auckland for five…
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“What in the world just happened?” On Day 8 of the 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event, there were two big hands everybody was talking about: Kristen Foxen’s elimination with K-Q and Jonathan Tamayo’s quick pre-flop fold with Queens. The latter was on the final table bubble with a $200,000 pay jump from 10th…
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