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A woman from Bakersfield, California almost collapsed upon realizing she's started 2019 half-a-million dollars richer after luckily hitting the grand jackpot prize on a slot machine.

Read more » Woman almost collapses after Winning over $500,000 on Slot Machine

Natural8 is one of the major player in Asia and Europe, offering poker, casino and sports. It prides itself as the best poker room on the GGNetwork, as well as the best online poker in Asia, where poker is booming.

Read more » Introducing Natural8

In 2017, an A.I. bot called Libratus, made headlines as it managed to beat some of the most accomplished poker players in the world in a game of no-limit Texas hold'em. Recently, the A.I. bot is making headlines again as it had been signed-up and the team that manages it to work for the military.

Read more » A.I. Libratus that beat poker pros will be tested by the Pentagon for Military Applications

On Thursday night (January 17), Television Hall of Fame member Betty White celebrated her 97th birthday with cake and played poker with her buddies. Betty, who has the longest television career of any female entertainer, regularly plays poker with her friends in Los Angeles.

Read more » TV Star Betty White Celebrated 97th Birthday with Cake and Poker

Manny Pacquiao has successfully defended his WBA welterweight title on Saturday, January 19, defeating Adrien Broner via unanimous decision at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

The 40-year-old Pacquiao earned the 61st victory of his amazing career with a display of dominance, showing glimpses of speed seen in his younger days as he outboxed a challenger who mainly spent most of his time on the ring fighting defensively and was limited to throw only counter punches.

Read more » Manny Pacquiao wins against Adrien Broner to retain WBA World Title

Gavin Smith, age 50, passed away while he was sleeping last Monday (January 14). The cause of his death is still not determined. He is survived by his two young sons.

The next day after he was found dead, one of his close friends Josh Arieh opened up a GoFundMe page so that the poker community could help support Gavin Smith's children. In just 4 short days, 445 people donated to the cause, raising $67,504 out of the $100,000 goal.

Read more » Doyle Brunson gets flak for questioning Fundraiser for late Gavin Smith

Canadian poker pro Gavin Smith, who possesses a pleasant, friendly and energetic personality and is highly popular especially during the poker boom era, has passed away unexpectedly whilst sleeping on Monday, January 14. The cause of death is still unknown. He was 50 years old.

Read more » Poker Pro Gavin Smith Passes Away at 50

The second $25,000 Single-Day High Roller event of the 2019 PCA was held last Sunday, January 13, which attracted a total of 47 player entries that garnered a prize pool worth $1,128,470.

Read more » 2019 PCA $25,000 Single-Day High Roller II won by Justin Bonomo for $383,650

SwC Poker is a well established, low rake, highly trusted Bitcoin poker room. Launched from the ashes of SealsWithClubs in early 2015, SwC Poker is one of the few "Pure Bitcoin" poker sites, which means all deposits, play, and withdrawals are in Bitcoin. "No banking, only Bitcoin" is the slogan. Each Bitcoin is divided into 1,000,000 chips so the site can spread a wide range of table limits. SwC Poker boasts that it has the lowest rake in the industry, something they say is made possible because they only use Bitcoin and don't pay any banking fees.

Read more » Introducing SwC Poker

The Circa Resort & Casino, a whole new integrated sportsbook resort to be opened in downtown Las Vegas, is expected to become a prime destination very soon.

Derek Stevens, along with his brother Greg, has been creating a lot of fuss and excitement since they bought a stake in the Golden Gate on Fremont Street back in October 2006. The announcement was made last Thursday at the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center, right after Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman's State of the City address.

Read more » Derek Stevens announces Circa Resort & Casino in Downtown Las Vegas to open in 2020

After three grueling days of high-stakes poker gaming, the 30-year-old Canadian poker pro Sam Greenwood managed to outlast a player field of 61 to win the trophy and a sweet first place cash prize worth $1,775,460.

Since introducing the tournament back in 2011, the annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) hosted the Super High Roller NLHE event with a $100,000 buy-in and this year it attracted a total of 61 entrants, which accumulated a $5,918,220 prize pool. The biggest player field for this particular event was 66 entries back in 2015, so this makes it the second-biggest turnout in PCA history.

Read more » 2019 PCA $100,000 Super High Roller won by Sam Greenwood for $1,775,460

On January 9 Wednesday evening, poker player Maria Ho returned to mainstream TV on the game show Deal or No Deal on CNBC.

Her appearance in the Deal or No Deal show was not as a contestant, but instead she came there to support the contestant.

Read more » Maria Ho appeared in Deal or No Deal as Special Guest to Help Poker Fan Contestant

This year we continued the Lottery tradition from previous years, where you could win MobPoints, MobDraw tickets and MobSafe shots. The way to get tickets to the lottery, would be if you won a prize in the Christmas Calendar that you were unable to use/accept, for one reason or another (for example country restrictions).

Example: If you won a freeroll entry worth $15 you would get 15 tickets for the lottery if you decided to claim lottery tickets, instead of the actual prize. 

The lottery in 2018 had the following prizes available:

• 2 x 4,000 MobPoints
• 3 x 3,000 MobPoints
• 5 x 2,000 MobPoints
• 15 x 500 MobDraw tickets
• 10 x 100 MobSafe "shots"
• 15 x 50 MobSafe "shots"

And today, we ran the "randomizer" and found the winners to the prizes above. Basically, the more tickets you had, the bigger chances of winning.Read more » Christmas Calendar 2018: Lottery Winners and '50+ door' freeroll info

A Philippine court has ordered the arrest of Kazuo Okada, a Japanese billionaire casino mogul, who has been charged three counts of fraud while he was CEO of Tiger Resorts.

Okada, age 76, a man who first made his huge fortune in the 1990s as a supplier of pachinko machines to Japan and eventually made a big early investment into Wynn Resorts, has been accused to have siphoned $3.16 million from Tiger Resorts during his term as chief executive.

Read more » Japanese Billionaire Casino CEO Faces Arrest on Fraud Charges

The 85-year-old poker legend Doyle Brunson shall make his comeback to the screens as the host who other poker players must beat in a new show named Dolly's Game, a mixed-game show created by Poker Central.

Shot at the PokerGo Studio located inside the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, viewers could expect to see a group of interesting high-stakes challengers vying to defeat the most influential force in the poker world. The first episode has already been aired on January 7 on the PokerGO streaming service.

Read more » Doyle Brunson to Host New Mixed Game Show "Dolly's Game" on PokerGo

New Year brings about new beginnings and a hopeful outlook in life for the future. For Daniel ‘KidPoker' Negreanu, he finally decided that the beginning of 2019 is the best time to start a wedded life for him with past girlfriend Amanda Leatherman.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu got engaged to Poker Host Amanda Leatherman

Alex Foxen has been known to be a successful poker pro both in the online and live circuit since 2012 - his first recorded achievement in the Hendon mob showing a 1st place finish in the WSOP Circuit $355 NLHE in New Orleans for $22,421.

Read more » Alex Foxen wins 2018 GPI POY award, girlfriend Kristen Bicknell wins Female GPI POY for 2nd time

Before 2018 ended, poker pro Dan ‘Jungleman' Cates called out Tom ‘durrrr' Dwan through Twitter, asking the high-stakes poker pro when to resume their long-stagnant "Durrrr Challenge".

Of course, given that the former Full Tilt Poker ambassador has not touched his Twitter account since July 2018, many are not expecting him to answer so soon. Those who follow him would believe that Dwan is entirely not interested in completing this challenge that started back in 2010.

Read more » Dan ‘Jungleman' Cates calls out Tom Dwan on resuming the ‘durrrr Challenge'

The year 2018 closes with Justin Bonomo sitting on the throne as the biggest winner in the world of tournament poker. Thanks to his incredibly successful run in 2018, he became the poker player with the most wins who earned over $25 million in 12 months, plus he was able to secure a spot in the Poker Hall of Fame 2026 (the year he reaches the age requirement).

Read more » Justin Bonomo is the Biggest Tournament Winner in 2018

Just 1 more day and the year of 2018 will end.

Here's a curtain call for BankrollMob's 5 most read and 5 most commented news articles in 2018:

Read more » 5 Most Read/Commented BankrollMob News Articles of 2018