Natalie Saul, a 37-year-old mother-of-one from Wansworth, South London, stole £350,000 from her technology firm primarily to feed an online poker addiction. According to DailyMail, Saul created over 400 fake invoices to get money from the software company between March 2015 and December 2016. She lost over £250,000 playing online poker during that time.
It wasn't long ago since we learned that Aussie poker pro Matthew Kirk had filed a lawsuit for over $3 million in unpaid loans made to King's Casino owner and EPT winner Leon Tsoukernik in a heads-up poker game at the Aria Resort and Casino (Las Vegas) in May (click here to read the full story).
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The size of the bet is believed to be the biggest ever made so far on this fight, and the boxing event is expected to be Las Vegas' largest show in recent years. The affluent entrepreneurs and ex-owners of the Sacramento Kings have publicly revealed their extraordinary bet last Sunday, two days right after they placed their wager at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
On August 5 at around 11 a.m., a peculiar incident got a man shot by Las Vegas cops just outside a church filled with children. The man was identified to be 25-year-old Jason Funke, from Minnetonka, Minnesota, who happens to be the 490th finisher in the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event that just concluded last month.
A Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex called it quits even though his scheme of 8 years hacking into slot machines and making millions is still thriving. According to him, even though his firm is successful, has grown tired of having to deal with payroll, hiring, and management headaches. What he wants to deal with now is an exit strategy. However, since his business is not exactly everything legal, he could not easily liquidate what he owns.
Molly's Game, based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents, is hitting the big screen in November this year. The official trailer was released only 2 days ago but already has over 1.8 million views!
Perhaps you read the book (also titled Molly's Game)? What do you think of Jessica Chastain as Molly Bloom? We want to here what you think about this upcoming poker movie!
The all-new Poker After Dark show started on Monday August 14th and it seems like poker legend Tom "durrrr" Dwan is already on fire, as he has created some excitement already after winning a $700,000 pot against Antonio Esfandiari on the first day of play.
You can catch all of the all-new Poker After Dark action exclusively on PokerGO. Subscribers can also view the past seasons they missed via the on-demand library.
On August 3rd, the American Gaming Association released documentation for a new code of conduct for responsible (casino) gambling to the West Coast region and a panel of industry representatives explained how they would like customers to have fun without falling into the dangerous clutches of compulsive gambling obsession.
On Wednesday night, Dan "jungleman12" Cates made a surprising announcement while he was on Doug Polk's podcast regarding his tribulation that started back in 2010 with fellow pro poker player Tom "durrrr" Dwan.
For a good few hours on August 2 Wednesday, 888poker players were greeted with a surprise appearance of Flopomania in the real-money cash game lobby of the site. There was no prior announcement by 888poker about their newest game, and they never put up an introductory page of it on their site. Out of the blue, it popped up, with low to micro stakes game available.
What would you do if you have robbed a casino and discovered you have cash-out tickets that you can exchange for real money? Would you come back to the same casino again? Well, most with common sense know that it's better not to, but the call of temptation to trick the casino and get away with it is too strong for these greedy robbers, we suppose.
The winner of the 2017 High Roller for One Drop victor Doug Polk shall be facing off against the world's all-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth for a massive $200,000 on the 4th week of August at the Rivers Casino located just outside of Albany, New York.
Surely if you have aspirations to become a police officer someday, then snatching away $125,000 worth of casino chips in full view of CCTV cameras isn't exactly the best way to get closer to your goals.
A man from Florida who has been freed on bail on a manslaughter charge with a deadly weapon had actually participated in this year's WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, and got lucky to have won and collect more than $100K.
Sooner or later, technological advancements are going to change everything about the world we live in. Mobile gaming certainly changed the way online casino gamblers accessed their favorite online gambling sites. For a while, online gamblers were satisfied to have the ability to play online slots or blackjack from anywhere at any time.
On August 31 Monday, King's Casino announced that it has increased the guaranteed prize pool for the €10,350 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event which is scheduled on November 4 to 10. The guarantee was amped up from €4M to €5M, with the emerging winner to take home at least €1M!
On May 29, 1989, Stanley Fujitake, a regular at the California Hotel and Casino located at downtown Las Vegas, became a legendary name after he sat at a craps table, dropped $5 on the pass line, and picked up the dice. Nobody, not even him, had any idea that what happens next will influence the creation of a club acknowledging awesomely-blessed craps players, as Fujitake managed to roll for 3 hours and 6 minutes (a total of 118 rolls) before finally "crapping out." With Fujitake and almost all of the other people maxing out their bets during his epic streak, the casino lost over $1 million during that time.