Checking in on the Little Kings and Queens saga

Among the stories overwhelmed in recent weeks by the 2022 World Series of Poker and other major series in Las Vegas is an event of closer interest to our Georgia readers, the raid and shuttering of the Little Kings and Queens poker club in Buford, Georgia. The club had been in operation for more than …

The World Series of COVID-19

It’s been a bad, bad start to the 2022 World Series of Poker when it comes to COVID-19, as in the first couple of weeks, dozens of well-known players have come down with the virus. That’s probably just the tip of the virtual iceberg, and it’s likely that hundreds of players, staff, and affiliated media …

Bracelet winner Cory Zeidman pleads not guilty to sports-betting tout fraud charges

Sports betting touts and tout services have a way of finding their way into the news for all of the wrong reasons. They’re all hype, all garbage, and yet most find a way to stand just inside the borders of legality. Not so, allegedly, for New York native and current Florida resident Cory Zeidman, who …

Phil Ivey’s joint files for bankruptcy protection

If it’s a legal story of any sort involving Phil Ivey, you know it’s going to be complex and likely to span several years. That’s the case with Ivey’s investment into one of the many Las Vegas cannabis-dispensary startups that hit the ground running in 2014, but encountered several business difficulties over the ensuing years. …

Deconstructing the Bryn Kenney situation

It’s been a whirlwind of late in the ultra-high-stakes poker world, where the allegations of cheating both live and online have been thick and woolly and the bad blood has quickly risen to the surface. There’s no deeper a bucket of said bad blood than between one of the world’s most accomplished players, Bryn Kenney, …

ACR acknowledges handful of player accounts were hacked, funds stolen

Americas Cardroom has confirmed that an unknown but purportedly small number of its online players had their accounts accessed and the majority of their existing account balances withdrawn and transferred to third parties via cryptocurrency transactions, often Bitcoin-based. The exact number of accounts affected by the hacking, which ACR has stated was done externally (and …

Michigan joins MSIGA, player pooling in near future

There’s some good news on the U.S. regulated online-poker scene, where the Multi-State Internet Gaming Association, LLC (MSIGA), has announced that Michigan has been accepted into the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (also MSIGA). Though a hard join date was not announced, adding Michigan to the three existing MSIGA states — Delaware, Nevada, and New Jersey …

Dan Bilzerian still employed by GGPoker (at least technically…)

Surprise, surprise! Among one of the stories that emerged earlier this month — on March 8th, International Women’s Day, to be precise — was that notorious mysogynist Dan Bilzerian had been disappeared from GGPoker’s online site. Bilzerian’s seeming departure from GGPoker wasn’t really unexpected. He’d been such an utter disgrace as a brand ambassador, literally …

A dealer shortage at the WSOP? Borgata blunder shows demand for labor remains high

There have been a couple of stories recently involving the need for poker dealers that illustrate that the pandemic-induced dealer shortage that at times hampered last year’s World Series of Poker may be still be in effect. It’s hard to find good workers for specialized tasks, and when the entire industry is shelved for an …

Poker cheating on a live stream is really, really stupid

It’s taken me a few days to get my head fully around the cheating episode that unfolded during an episode of the “Hustler Casino Live” poker livestreamed cash game a week or so ago. One would think that in this day and age, poker players would know better than to cheat in front of the …