Before you read this, please be sure you are sitting down. What you are about to learn is so shocking that you might need some time to recover. Researchers from UNLV and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have found that sports bettors are more likely to binge drink than non-gamblers or those who partake in different types of gambling. I know it’s unbelievable, but researchers surveyed more than 4,000 people and…there you have it. The trend held the same whether or not the sports bettor was male or female. Joshua Grubbs, an associate professor at UNM and investigator at the Center on Alcohol ..read more

The inaugural Texas Poker Open Main Event is in the books and the honor of being the tournament’s first-ever winner belongs to Ren Lin, who earned $400,000 for his achievement. Lin nabbed 400 PokerGO Tour points for the victory, which, when the leader board is updated, should put him just on the outside of the top 20 for this season. It is his third career PokerGO Tour (PGT) title and 38th career cash. Lin now has over $11 million in lifetime live tournament earnings and $5.3 million on the Tour. Going into Monday’s action, Lin wasn’t in great shape, holding one of the smaller stacks of the 15 ..read more

In what seems like just an awful, awful idea and just a cynical money grab, Dave & Buster’s has announced that it will soon offer customers the ability to place bets on games. The restaurant-arcade giant will seemingly get around gambling laws because the wagers will be on “skill” games, not games of chance. Dave & Buster’s will not be the house or operate the gambling in any way. “Gamification” software company Lucra will provide the betting technology, which will be accessed through the D&B app. The idea is to allow people – adults 18 and over – to bet a few bucks with their frie ..read more

All signs point to yes? No official announcement has been made, but it sounds like WSOP.com might soon be linking players Michigan with those already playing on its shared liquidity platform in Nevada and New Jersey. Though all three states, along with West Virginia and Delaware, are in the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA) and thus can have their players share virtual poker tables, WSOP.com players in Michigan are currently separated from their counterparts in Nevada and New Jersey because they use a different version of the software platform. According to a report from Pokerfuse ..read more

Casinos are often known for the varied entertainment options they have. Sometimes they are concerts, but sometimes they are sporting events like boxing or Mixed Martial Arts. In Delaware, that “fight night” attitude spilled over into the casino itself as a fight in a poker room resulted in one of the pugilists being arrested for felony assault. Bad Things Happen After Midnight According to the Delaware State Police, officers were called to the Delaware Park Casino at around 2:30 in the morning. The report was about a fight at the poker room but, once they responded to the call, DSP officers di ..read more

Yes, we are a month away from the 2024 World Series of Poker. There are probably thousands of poker players, however, who will not be able to make it to Las Vegas for the festivities, especially those outside of the States. PokerStars is looking out for these players in announcing four different tournaments that will rove across the European continent at the close of the WSOP to give all poker players a chance at a “moment in the sun.” Action Begins in Germany The Eureka Poker Tour is one of the regional circuits that is sponsored by PokerStars, and they will be the first to add to the storied ..read more

With the end of the 2024 U. S. Poker Open last week, the 2024 PokerGO Tour season seemed to be at a good point to examine the standings. After a couple of tournament series off because they were not his games (Omaha and the Mixed Game series), David Coleman dropped out of the lead in the race for the top slot in the Overall Championship. The 2024 USPO turned out to be just the tonic that Coleman needed, however, to get himself back into the top slot on the PGT Overall Championship leaderboard. Ho Hum…Another Win Coleman has been the player that has lit up the scoreboard over the first four mon ..read more

The 2024 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship is down to just six players. Leading the final table is Dylan Smith, who bagged up 28.400 million chips at the end of Tuesday night. The chip leader going into the past two days, Josh Reichard, is second with 20.575 million chips. There is quite a gap between Reichard and the rest of the final table. Aaron Kulpin is the short stack with 4.925 million chips, but the rest of the pack is bunched up. Landon Tice has 13.700 million, Alex Queen has 13.450 million, and Jesse Lonis has 12.350 million chips. Smith began Day 4 with about 5 mill ..read more

Josh Reichard has a gigantic chip lead after Day 3 of the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship, as just 16 players remain. On Tuesday, the tournament will play down to the six-handed televised final table. Going into Day 4, despite Reichard’s lead, it looks like it could be a two-man race for the title between him and Alex Queen, who has 14.250 million chips. The chip counts are so spread out at the top of the leaderboard that there is about the same gap between Reichard and Queen as there is between Queen and the third place player, Wasim Assaf. From Assa ..read more

Two starting flights and Day 2 are all in the books at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship in Hollywood, Florida and just 101 players remain out of the original 1,869 entries. Leading the way heading into Day 3 is Josh Reichard, who holds 3.1 million chips. Though Reichard is the only player to finish Day 2 above the 3 million-chip mark, it’s as pretty good race at the top of the leaderboard. Close behind Reichard is Michael Rocco with 2.975 million chips, followed by Matthew Higgins with 2.765 million and Jackob Datashvili with 2.730 million. After those ..read more