Online poker room Lock Poker has added a new poker player as a sponsored pro. Casey "Bigdogpckt5s" Jarzabek is the latest poker pro to find a home in an online poker room. Online poker rooms have been in the news in the last month for firing poker pros in conjunction with the US government crackdown on online poker, so the news that one online poker room is hiring suggests possible good things for the industry. The LockPRO team has sixteen members, and the LockPRO ELITE has twelve.
On Monday, more indictments were handed out to gambling websites, this time by the U.S. Attorney of Maryland. As part of the indictments, eleven bank accounts and ten domains were seized; in addition, three people were indicted.
The latest World Series of Poker Circuit event has its champion. The Southern Regional WSOPC champion is A.J. Jejelowo. The local poker player earned the top prize of $235,956. All nine members of the final table will appear in the National Championship, part of a group of 100 who will compete May 27 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV. The other top finishers in this event were Gary Friedlander for $145,442, Harry Cullen for $95,214, Allie Prescott for $66,202, Scott Lipshutz for $48,673, Allen Kessler for $37,736, Matthew Waxman for $30,794, Kunal Patel for $26,401 and Jeremy Gaubert for $12,000.
Indicted payment processor Bradley Franzen pleaded guilty on Monday. We’ll tell you more about that, and the problems PokerStars could face in Australia in this edition of the Nightly Turbo.
PokerNews takes a look back at Season 7 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour.
The World Poker Tour Season IX Celebrity Invitational featured a final table that included Dinara Khaziyeva, Damon Schramm, George Rechnitzer, Dan Heimiller, Davidi Kitai, and Almira Skripchenko.
In the High Stakes Poker season finale, Johnny Chan cleaned house, and Daniel Negreanu finally booked a winning session.
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