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Gaming magnate James Packer has been involved in an altercation with a security guard, Dr Iskandar Chaban, who failed to recognize him at his own casino. The confrontation occurred when the 60-year-old security guard attempted to block Mr. Packer's entry to the main gaming floor of the casino.

Read more » James Packer in Altercation with Security Guard at Melbourne's Crown Casino

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All new players are greeted with a 100% up to €100 Deposit Bonus. Whether you play casino games or bet on sport events, it is totally up to you how you use your bonus! 

Read more » New Gambling Site on the Block! Please Welcome Mr. Ringo!

Match fixing is not uncommon in any game where sports betting are made, even in the prestigious world of professional tennis. Since 2007, the Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) has flagged at least 16 players within the top 50 rankings repeatedly over the suspicion of having thrown matches.

Read more » Eight Players in Australian Open Draw Suspected of Match Fixing

In 2015, the first ever Super High Roller Bowl attracted a field of 43 players despite its massive buy-in of $500,000 (Brian Rast received more than $7.5 million for winning the tournament). The team behind the SHRB has now announced that this year's edition will have a buy-in of $300,000 and feature seven 7-handed tables with a 49-seats cap - with 14 seats being reserved by Aria for non-professional.

Read more » 2016 Super High Roller Bowl Announced

A couple from Tennessee showed up on Friday (January 15, 2016), declaring that they have in possession one of the three winning tickets for last week's U.S. Powerball lottery, with the jackpot prize amounting to $1.58 billion.

Read more » Tennessee Couple Wins $528.8 Million On Powerball

The 2016 PCA Main Event concluded last Friday at the Atlantis Resort in Paradise Island in the Bahamas! In total, the tournament attracted 928 entrants who battled it out for several days until only one player remained, Mike Watson.

Read more » PCA 2016: Mike Watson Wins The Main Event

Leonardo Pires, the hyper-aggressive Brazilian who led the tournament for three consecutive days, didn't make it to the PCA Main Event final table. Despite the fact that Pires entered Day 5 with more than 25% of the chips in play, he still ended up hitting the rail already in 13th place for $45,860.

Read more » PCA 2016 Main Event: Mike Watson Leads Final 6; Pires Didn't Make The Final Table

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Russian Government to force bookmakers to become sponsors of sporting events that involves Russian teams and athletes taking part in the event. The law is likely to be presented during the middle of this year.

Read more » Vladimir Putin Forces Bookies to Sponsor Russian Sporting Events

Toh Hock Thiam, a 54-year-old Singaporean male was charged in court on January 2, 2016 due to possession and use of counterfeit casino chips.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) stated in a news release, "Toh was believed to be the boss of a syndicate that is responsible for the counterfeit casino chips in Singapore and for that he was arrested in Malaysia on December 31, 2015."

Read more » Suspected Boss of Fake Casino Chip Syndicate Arrested in Singapore

Another day of play concluded last night on Paradise Island, and amazingly enough Brazil's Leonardo Pires finished as the chip leader for a third consecutive day! Pires will lead the 19 remaining players into Day 5 with a stack worth more than 4.5 million or 187 big blinds! That's about twice the stack size of his closets opponent!

Read more » 2016 PCA Main Event: 19 Players Left - Pires Still Out In Front!

A massive field of 928 players entered this year's PCA Main Event! After three days of play, however, there are only 73 remaining players who have the chance of becoming the champion of this prestigious tournament. The chip leader as the tournament is heading into Day 4 is Leonardo Pires with 2 million in chips - about 700k more than his closest opponent.

Read more » 2016 PCA: Brazil's Leonardo Pires Leads For Second Day In A Row

After several months of being put under surveillance, a croupier working at the Cromwell Mint Casino in London has been arrested for thievery when he was caught red-handed stealing poker chips worth thousands of pounds.

Read more » Poker Chips Worth Thousands Of Pounds Stolen By Croupier

The Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR), the government branch that performs regulatory functions for liquor and gambling, has imposed a betting ban on UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship). Despite having attracted massive viewers and punters globally, Aussie's Victorian State gambling regulatory body has banned Tabcorp, a sports betting firm, from taking bets in the recent UFC event in Melbourne.

Read more » UFC Betting Banned by Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulatory Body

Steve O'Dwyer has been on fire in the past two years or so. Little did it surprise anyone when he claimed yet another big title this weekend on Paradise Island. This time the 33-year-old American-Irishman added another $945,495 to his already massive bankroll by besting a field of 58 players (+ 22 re-entries) in the $50,000 buy-in Single Day High Roller!

Read more » PCA 2016: Steve O'Dwyer Wins $50k Single-Day High Roller

On Friday, Bryn Kenney entered his third PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller final table (there have only been six $100k PCA Super High Rollers).

Kenney had the chip lead when the cards were in the air and, after several hours of play, he had made it to heads-up against Joe McKeehan, the winner of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Read more » 2016 PCA: Bryn Kenney Wins The Super High Roller For $1,687,800
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This year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller attracted a field of 58 entries, which created a massive $5.6 million prize pool! Now, the tournament, which started on Wednesday, is down to its final 6 competitors after 2 intensive days of play.

Read more » 2016 PCA: 6 Players Remain In The $100,000 Buy-In Tournament

The 13th edition of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) kicked off yesterday with the €100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event. 43 players entered the event but just 32 remained after 8 one-hour levels of play.

Read more » PCA 2016: Talal Shakerchi Leads Super High Roller

This may be one of the worst tough luck gambling stories of 2015. An elderly couple in the UK claim that they missed out on a lottery jackpot worth £35 million just before Christmas due to a faulty app. 

Read more » UK Couple Missed Out On £35 Million Lotto Jackpot

A seemingly ordinary shopping trip to find a charity gift for her kids' school led to this Irish housewife being £100,000 richer on a National Lottery scratchcard a week before Christmas.

Read more » £100K Scratchcard Jackpot won by Housewife who initially went to buy Charity Gifts

Better late than never (as the saying goes), here are 5 of the most read poker news/articles of 2015! Enjoy!

• Russian Wins $1 million in $5 Spin & Go!
• Interview With Sofia Lövgren
• PokerStars And Vanessa Rousso Part Ways
• Borgata Cheater Sentenced To 5 Years Behind Bars
• Phil Ivey Countersues Borgata Casino

Three British gamblers were jailed after being caught cheating at Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. Their cunning stunt allowed them to pocket £2.9 million simply by switching ten-euro tokens with 1,000-euro chips. Their simple yet effective scam even left the local authorities impressed.

Read more » British Gamblers Jailed for Cheating at Casino de Monte-Carlo

An Australian charity loses its license to operate due to the allegation that the owner has been using the donations for online gambling.

Help Save Furry Ones, the name of the cat shelter in Australia, was founded in 2011 by Nicky Hocking. Hocking was actually a former pole dancer who is a confessed cat lady as well. Her charity takes in stray and unwanted kittens.

Read more » Cat Shelter Accused of Using Donations for Online Gambling

We would like to thank all our members, affiliates and partners for yet another successful year. Although we are more than happy with the outcome of 2015, our aim is to make 2016 even better by, for example, adding even more free bonuses, freerolls and leaderboards!

We hope you will join us on this journey (2016 to start with) and perhaps also help us become even bigger and better by referring friends, requesting bonuses, posting in the forum, making deposits on sites we promote etc. All of you play an important role as the story of BankrollMob.com unfolds!

Have a great new year's eve and see you in 2016!

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