3704 stories by Philip Conneller
Rivers Casino Opens First New York Sports Book, State Rep. Gary Pretlow Promises Mobile Next Year
Sports betting came to New York State on Tuesday – or at least one tiny corner of it. First-into-the-market kudos goes to Rivers Casino near Schenectady, which opened its sports book six years after New York voters approved sports betting via public...
Hossein Ensan of Germany Wins World Series of Poker and $10 Million First Prize
Hossein Ensan is the new WSOP Champion. At around 1:29 am PT Wednesday morning, the Iranian-born German’s pocket kings survived a check-raise river jam from his opponent, “Super” Dario Sammartino, who held a flush draw and inside straight draw, and the Rio...
North Carolina Passes Tribal Sports Betting Bill, Odds Good on Governor’s Signature
North Carolina is a governor’s signature away from legal sports betting -- albeit strictly of the in-person variety and only on tribal lands. On Monday, the North Carolina House emphatically endorsed a bill that would allow the state’s sole tribal operator, the...
WSOP Final Table: Three Remain as Americans Crash Out, Champion Crowned in Las Vegas Tonight
German poker pro Hossein Ensan will begin Tuesday night’s WSOP finale with the commanding chip lead he has managed to preserve since the cards went in the air on the final table on Sunday night. Tonight, the three remaining players will become...
Online Casino Gaming Has Lift Off in Pennsylvania Through Hollywood and Parx, Poker and Blackjack Have to Wait
Almost two years after Pennsylvania passed sweeping gambling reforms that legalized online gaming, poker and sports betting, the first licensed and regulated real-money online casinos opened for business in Pennsylvania Monday – kind of. After months of rigorous product testing by the...
Macau Junket Suncity ‘Deeply Sorry’ for Offending Chinese Government
Playboy CEO of leading Macau junket Suncity Group Alvin Chau appeared rattled by the recent focus on his company by Chinese state media as he addressed a press conference at the Mandarin Oriental Macau over the weekend. Last week, a financial paper...
WSOP Final Table: Las Vegas Shooting Survivor Garry Gates Closes Gap on Chip Leader Hossein Ensan
Five players will retake their seats at WSOP Main Event final table at the Rio Las Vegas when play resumes tonight. Among them is Garry Gates, a poker journalist and survivor of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting. Gates has become a...
England Celebrates Cricket World Cup Win on Controversial Tie Breaker, Aussie Bookie Returns Bets on New Zealand
Cricket is a game that famously perplexes Americans for its ability to go on for days and still end in a draw. But while the Cricket World Cup matches are brief, relatively speaking -- a series of one-day games -- rarely has...
WSOP Main Event Reaches Final Table, Nine to Play for $10 Million Top Prize
From 8,568, just nine remain. The final table at the World Series of Poker's Main Event gets underway on Sunday in Las Vegas, as four Americans, a Canadian, a German, an Italian, a Serbian, and one short-stacked Brit will play for poker’s...
Burgeoning Philippines Online Gambling Industry to Be Moved Into ‘Hubs’ to Help Ease Social Tensions
The Philippines’ “POGO boom” continues to know no bounds, as Bloomberg reports two online gaming hubs are under construction around Manila that will house the tens of thousands of workers serving the Philippines online gambling industry. POGO stands for “Philippine Offshore Gaming...
