BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

Amaya Gaming, PokerStars' parent company, has announced its plan to rebrand to "The Stars Group Inc, due to a very successful first quarter of 2017. It has also announced their intention to relocate to Toronto from Montreal. Both of these decisions shall be subject to shareholders' approval next month.

Read more » Amaya Inc. to rebrand as “The Stars Group Inc.”

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A man got lucky while playing on his favorite slot machine at a casino in England, winning a jackpot prize of over £18,000. Christopher Holder, age 48, resident of Cumbria, is elated and still astonished at his awesome luck when he played the Cleopatra slot machine at the Grosvenor Casino located in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

Read more » Man wins £18,000 jackpot on UK slot machine

Before we go ahead and bash the casino immediately (since most of us instantly assume that when somebody wins at a casino, they will do everything to find an excuse NOT to pay the winner), let’s see what happened last week, which started Monday, May 1.

At the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino located in Biloxi, Mississippi, police were called by the casino management on a situation regarding a couple who took off with over $1,000 in winnings, which they haven’t actually won.

Turns out that the two suspects, Christopher Ray Kinney, age 45, and Gina Renee Kinney, age 48, apparently had not placed any wager into a slot machine, but instead they simply cashed in a stolen ticket. Police speculate that they are husband and wife.

Read more » Casino wants couple to return jackpot prize, says it’s not theirs

Admiral, a sports betting subsidiary of Novomatic, has just opened the largest betting shop in Europe called the "Admiral Arena Prater", which is located in Vienna's ‘Viennese Prater' amusement park.

Novomatic (creator of Book of Ra, Lucky Lady's Charm and many more popular slots) management states that its Arena Prater Sportsbar shall be providing the ‘next level in sports betting and entertainment'.

Read more » Novomatic opens ‘Admiral Arena Prater’, Europe’s largest betting shop

• Discover all you need to know about the power of position and how crucial it is to developing your poker skills.

• Your position in a hand as well as your opponents' position should have an immense impact on how you play that hand.

• Win more raising hands "in position" or conversely lose more playing hands "out of position".

• Getting familiar with the types of hands your opponents could be playing is a skill that will take your game to the top.

• Look into your opponents' soul, read their deepest thoughts and then call that bluff!

Read more » Hand Reading for Beginners

Last week, Max Pescatori and Todd Brunson were the talk of the poker community after news came out that they purchased the renowned Las Vegas restaurant named Roma Deli, situated a few miles west of the strip, at 5755 W Spring Mountain Road.

A 2016 Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of one WSOP bracelet, Todd Brunson is a known foodie who frequently posts photos of his meals at various restaurants on Twitter. He said he’ll have a 25% stake in the restaurant but does not share Pescatori’s ownership stake.

Massimiliano ‘Max’ Pescatori was born in Milan, Italy, so you’d bet that he knows a lot about authentic Italian-style cuisine. He is also known to be the most successful poker player in history from his home country. He has 4 WSOP bracelets and so far has won $4.2 million in live tournaments. 

Read more » Max Pescatori and Todd Brunson buys Las Vegas resto Roma Deli

Another casino has to pay up tens of thousands of dollars as their punishment for allowing an underage gambler into their premises.

The underage gambler, Rose Jacqueline Bach, age 20, resident of South Plainfield, New Jersey, was found at 1:10am, Sunday, April 30, by the Pennsylvania State Police on the gaming floor of Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem.

Read more » Sands Casino fined almost $40K for underage gambling

A Rangers fan was apparently in a rush that time so he placed his goal bet within 10 seconds only, but it made him a winner! Alan Thomson, age 28, who works at Tunnock's and makes their famous teacakes and caramel logs for a living, placed a 20,000 - 1 accumulator bet on 15 English football matches.

Amazingly, he won a sweet £50,000 just from a £2.50 bet at his local bookmaker.

Read more » Man wins £50,000 after picking 15 games at random just for a £2.50 bet

PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Super High Roller was played over the weekend. The hefty buy-in of €98,500 + €1,500 attracted 61 entries (including 14 re-entries) to create a €5,948,415 prize pool.

Read more » Bryn Kenney Wins €100k Super High Roller

Allowing minors within casino premises can become a pricey ordeal for the casino management. As punishment for permitting a minor to enter the casino and drink at the venue using a fake ID, The Star casino has been fined a total of $3,300.

Read more » Casino fined over $3,000 for "minor" problem

Real Madrid will take on Atletico Madrid in the first semi-final of the Champions League tonight. It will be the fourth successive season the two Madrid clubs face each other in the Champions League (1 draw and 3 wins for Real Madrid).

Read more » Champions League Semi-Final Tonight!

Seven Chinese citizens were arrested in Macau, as they were accused of operating a sophisticated but lucrative illegal betting scheme which involved high-stakes baccarat and WeChat, the highly popular Chinese social messaging service.

Read more » Macau Betting Scheme using WeChat busted

A friendship goes sour after this highly unusual incident at a casino in Florida.

Jan Flato, age 66, and his friend Marina Navarro, age 35, went to Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Fort Lauderdale. Jan was playing slots but wasn’t getting any wins with his $50 bets, so he asked his friend Marina to push the button for him to see if she could help change his luck.

And it sure did! The slot machine lit up with a whopping $100,000 pay line jackpot!

So what went wrong for Jan? Strange enough, it was Marina who got the money.

The casino managers, upon viewing the surveillance footage of the incident, claimed that since it was Marina who pushed the button, then the jackpot is actually hers.

Read more » One small gesture cost this man a $100K jackpot

Elderly members of the Minoru Place Seniors' Centre in Richmond, BC, Canada were prohibited from playing in that place their favorite afternoon pastime, Texas Hold'em, simply because they were playing with cash involved, which is clearly a violation of provincial gambling regulations.

Read more » Richmond officials shut down seniors’ small-stakes poker circle

Travell Thomas, age 38, who has over $500,000 in lifetime poker tournament earnings, was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison last Thursday, as punishment for orchestrating a fraudulent debt collection business out of Buffalo, New York.

Read more » Poker Pro Gets 8 Years Behind Bars For $31M Debt Collection Scam

A technical issue at Swedish state-owned casinos, Casino Cosmopol, led to several slot machines paying out way too much winnings than they should have. Aftonbladet.se, Sweden's biggest news site, reports that one player won more than 600,000 SEK (approx. 62,000 EURO) within a month.

Read more » Technical Issue at Swedish Casinos - Slots Paid Out Hundreds of Thousands of Euro!

There are very few players particpating in BankrollMob's Rake Races at Everest Poker. In the current Rake Race (April 16-30), it's right now enough to make the minimum deposit of $25 and play some hands to win a share of $1,000.

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Rock the reels in our 'Guns N' Roses' slot and you could be packing your bags for Dublin to see the Gunners live at their upcoming 'Not in this Lifetime...' show.

Live like a true Rockstar and enjoy early entry to the venue, 'Golden Circle' standing tickets, a designated check in point, a limited edition VIP Guns 'N Roses gift pack and so much more:

• Standard return flights for two from Europe to Dublin
• Private return airport transfers
• 4 nights' accommodation at the 4* Hilton, Dublin (including breakfast)
• Private return transfers to the event
• 2 x VIP tickets to the Guns N' Roses ‘Not in This Lifetime' show at Slane Castle on 27th of May