The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival officially began this weekend at the Playground Poker Club, where players compete for a potential $1 million cash prize. The tournament marks Full Tilt Poker’s first sponsorship of a poker tournament in Montreal, which is counting on the city’s reputation as one of Canada’s most tourist-oriented destinations to bring…
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Runner, Runner, the highly anticipated online poker movie starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, is scheduled to debut in Canada and the US on October 4. While moviegoers will be most excited to see the two stars, poker fans should keep their eyes open to cameos from some of the world’s most famous players –…
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Superbowl XLVIII, scheduled for February 2 2014, will be the first NFL championship played in New Jersey. But fans of the game will likely be unable to place legal bets on the outcome as US federal court judges struck down an appeal from the Garden State to authorize sportsbetting. The panel of judges voted 2…
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The lives of two Ontarians were changed in the past week due to Lotto Max, the Canadian lottery that replaced Lotto Super 7. Both winners won life-changing jackpots from the lottery draw, and immediately announced their retirement from their jobs. One jackpot was valued at $15 million, and was won by Delmer Hartwig who lives…
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The final chapter of the Black Friday poker scandal is finally coming to an end. Garden City Group, the settlement administrator tasked with repaying account funds to US Full Tilt Poker players, officially began the repayment process this week. GCG informed players on September 16 that the repayment process will at last begin. The administrator…
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Despite the passing of Michael Jackson in 2009, the King of Pop continues to connect with fans around the world. But one fan’s undying love for the fallen king was rewarded handsomely at Fallsview Casino in Niagara Falls, when she won over $1.8 million on the ‘Michael Jackson King of Pop’ slot machine. Kathryn Stokes…
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Caesars Entertainment, the world’s largest gaming company with over 50 hotels and casinos based in dozens of countries, will officially enter Nevada’s online poker market on September 19. The company expects to generate over $400 million through its online poker domain by 2017, and is negotiating interstate betting arrangements with New Jersey and Delaware regulators.…
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In the wake of match-fixing charges regarding European soccer earlier this summer, revelations of similar criminal involvement in Australian soccer are the continuation of a pattern. Six people connected to the Victorian Premier League were charged this weekend for conspiring with criminal gangs in Asia to influence the outcome of soccer games. Declan Hill, a…
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888 is getting a new partner in Nevada to help enter the online poker market within the state’s jurisdiction. 888 will partner with Golden Gaming to market the Treasure Island Casino’s online poker room to Golden Gaming customers across Nevada in what the Nevada Gaming Control Commission calls “a good example of new ideas coming…
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Rumours are floating around that Google could become the next operator of an online gambling domain. The search engine giant is reportedly interested in purchasing bwin.party before the online gambling firm is scheduled to go live with internet casino games in New Jersey by the end of November. However, industry analysts dismiss the speculation as…
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