Ivey comes back to the pack, Liporace leads WSOP Main Event
Phil Ivey came back to the pack Thursday during the $10,000 buy-in No-limit Texas Hold ’em World Championship at the World Series of Poker at the Rio Convention Center. Ivey finished with 552,500 chips after starting Day 3 as the…
Vohra patiently builds top-10 stack on WSOP Day 3
Raj Vohra started Day 3 of the Main Event in 36th place with 306,400 tournament chips, during the 2014 World Series of Poker at the Rio hotel-casino on Thursday, July 10, 2014. The $10,000 No-Limit Hold եm World Championship runs…
Daniel Colman wins One Drop for $15 million
Daniel Negreanu finishes second, now all-time tournament earnings leader LAS VEGAS — Daniel Colman let his poker play speak for itself. Colman, a 23-year-old professional online poker player from Holden, Mass. (though he has lived in Montreal and Rio de…
How lottery legend Joan Ginther likely used odds, Uncle Sam to win millions.
Basic gambling principles go a long way toward explaining why Joan Ginther bet enormous sums on high-priced scratch-off games. Read more at Peter Mucha, Philly.com Joan Ginther wasn’t necessarily lottery loco. Maybe it wasn’t a case of dumb luck, but…
Ivey wins historic 10th WSOP bracelet, highly publicized side bet
Phil Ivey won the $1,500 buy-in Eight-Game Mix event in front of a large crowd at the Rio Convention Center late Friday, besting 484 other players to earn his 10th WSOP gold bracelet and ensure he and his friend will…
Businessman not revealing biggest hand from Big One
By DAVID SCHOEN LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL John Morgan refuses to tell anyone what he had. He even joked that a former president of the United States wouldn’t be able to get it out of him. “If I’m not going to…
Eight players have shot at $1.5 million on final day of Poker Players Championship
Poker players compete in the $50,000 World Series of Poker’s Players’ Championship at the Rio Wednesday, June 25, 2014. The final table will begin on Thursday. By Case Keefer Las Vegas Sun Combination of new and old standouts advance to…
Andrew Wiggins Seen by Oddsmakers as NBA’s Top Draft Pick Over Parker
(Bloomberg) — Andrew Wiggins is favored by oddsmakers to be the first pick in the National Basketball Association draft even though analysts consider Jabari Parker more likely to have an immediate impact and former University of Kansas teammate Joel Embiid…
PA horse racing industry in jeopardy of a catastrophic shutdown, report
Madison Russ, Special to the Philadelphia Business Journal Pennsylvania may soon need to hold their horses—literally. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale warned last week that Pennsylvania’s billion-dollar horse racing industry is in jeopardy due to the diversion of funds and declining…
Mourning the Passing of Keno and Keno Men
Commentaries by By Ken Adams, Editor of CDC Gaming Report and long time reporter on the casino industry. Casino gaming is a mature industry, long past its youth. The last members of its pioneering generation are disappearing all too quickly….