Day 1a of the PokerStars European Poker Tour San Remo saw 438 players take their seats at the felt and at the end of the day, Leonid Bilokur has emerged as chip leader.
Two more online poker rooms are closing their doors to U.S. players in light of the recent indictments of online poker’s “Big Three.” We’ll tell you which ones, bring you some updated online poker traffic numbers, and more in tonight’s Nightly Turbo.
In the wake of the shake ups in the poker world in the United States some poker tournaments are holding forth that they will be the next big poker brand. One such poker game is the Everest Poker Tournament, being held in Monte Carlo. The event has drawn poker players to the Salle des palmiers poker room of the Sporting de Monte-Carlo club. The $1 million prize pool offered by the main event drew in 300 poker players, including poker pros like Tobias Re
On Wednesday, April 27 the latest European Poket Tour event kicked off in San Remo. The EPT event, sponsored by online poker room Poker Stars, is being held for the fourth time on the Italian Riviera. Last year there were more then twelve hundre players with a prize pool of more than eight million dollars. Last year's champion was Poker Stars poker pro Liv Boeree, who took the top prize of $1,673,433. The event will run through two starting days and then wrap up with the final day on May 3rd.
Ira Rubin, one of the 11 people indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice, was arrested on Monday, April 25, 2011 in Guatemala and has “no idea” on lawyer.
According to the preeminent online poker traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com, player numbers have fallen a sizeable 22% worldwide in the wake of the actions of Black Friday.
On Tuesday, the financial website Fortune published an article written by Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman in which he expounds upon his desire for online poker to be completely legal and fully regulated in the United States.
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