BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

Here's something to look forward to. Last week a trailer for the upcoming movie Mississippi Grind (involving high-stakes tournament poker) was uploaded to youtube.

The movie, which was shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is about a gambler, Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), on a losing streak who teams up with a younger charismatic poker player, Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), in an attempt change his luck. The two hit the road together and travel from town to town, casino to casino with the vision of winning back what has been lost.

Read more » Mississippi Grind Trailer Now Available

GVC Holdings Plc, without the backing of Amaya, has now offered £1 billion (about 1.55 billion US dollars) to bwin.party. According to PokerNews, the Gibraltar-based company has revealed that it has obtained a $440 million loan from Cerberus Capital Management and it is also looking to raise approximately £150 million through an equity placing of new GVC shares for cash.

PokerNews also reported that 888 shares fell 3.7 percent after the news broke of a new offer from GVC. However, GVC stocks only declined by 0.8 percent to 425 pence.

Stay tuned for more details on the battle for bwin.party.

A big congratulations to Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau, the winner of the most recent Sunday Million on PokerStars! It was the Brazilian pro's second Sunday Million title after topping a field of over 8,000 players in the same tournament in February last year ($161,879).

Read more » Guilherme "VinceVegaMFR" Cheveau Captures Second Sunday Million Title!

According to ESPN, Phil Ivey's attorneys filed a countersuit on Wednesday against Borgata, claiming that the casino had destroyed the decks of cards used when Phil Ivey won nearly $10 million playing Baccarat in 2012 while using a controversial technique called edge sorting. Borgata filed a law suit in April after learning that Ivey lost the case (worth about $12 million) against Crockfords Casino in London.

Read more » Phil Ivey Countersues Borgata Casino

On Wednesday, Full Tilt revealed that it had signed its first-ever Player Ambassador. Marc "PlayinWitDreams" Kennedy, a UK-based online grinder who has played professionally for several years winning hundreds of thousands of dollars, will help Full Tilt bring in new players by writing articles and blogs on poker and game strategy. In addition, one will be able to follow him on Twitch, a streaming site that has become very popular in the poker world in the past couple of months.

Read more » Full Tilt Signs Marc "PlayinWitDreams" Kennedy As Player Ambassador

The official schedule for PokerStars' 2015 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is out! This year's WCOOP has a $45 million guaranteed prize pool that is spread across 70 events, including highlights such as the $10 million guaranteed Main Event on September 27th and the brand-new $51,000 buy-in Super High Roller event on September 20th ($1 million guaranteed).

Read more » PokerStars: 2015 World Championship of Online Poker

On Monday, it was reported that Canadian poker pro and 2011 CPT Player of that Year Norman Overdijk, 54, had died in an tragic accident on July 18th, 2015. According to PokerNews, Overdijk and a 26-year-old passenger crashed shortly after takeoff in a two-seater paraplane somwhere in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Read more » Canadian Poker Pro Dies in Plane Crash

Are you a fan of Las Vegas and perhaps also of the National Hockey League? In that case we got some good news to share. According to cbc.ca, the city of Las Vegas handed in an official application on Monday (the last day to apply) to get its very own NHL team! Aside from Las Vegas, Quebec was the only other city to send in an application.

Read more » Las Vegas Hands In Application For Own NHL Team!

Claudio Moya, a 51-year-old businessman from Chile, is the winner of the Latin American Poker Tour Chile Main Event after four days of play, including a lengthy heads-up match against Chadi Moustapha of Lebanon. (Moya and Moustapha agreed to a two-way deal that left $15,576 in play for the winner).

Read more » LAPT8 Peru: Chilean Claudio Moya Wins The Main Event!

It ain't over 'til it's over. Just when most of us thought 888's takeover of bwin.party was secured, it is reported by seval respected newspapers that GVC Holdings is still considering making a counteroffer to acquire bwin.party. According to The Telegraph, GVC Holidings is considering a last shot at bwin.party without the backing of Amaya, the owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt. However, no figures are mentioned.

Read more » GVC To Make New Offer For bwin.party?

On Sunday, July 19, Laurent Polito took home his fourth WPT National Main Event title after besting a field of 428 entries in the WPT National Brussels Main Event. The French poker pro is the first player ever to win four WPT National Main Events. Even more impressively is that all 4 titles have been won in two years!

Read more » Laurent Polito Wins Fourth WPT National Main Event!

Season 8's Latin American Poker Tour Peru Main Event (sponsored and organized by PokerStars) is down to a final table of 8 after three intensive days of play. The 8 finalists, who have outlasted 358 entries so far, are now guaranteed to take home at least $19,060 each, and the last man standing will get $156,576!

Read more » LAPT8 Peru: Final Table Is Set

In 2012, James Countryman was employed as a dealer at the Motor City Casino in Detroit, Michigan. One day James and his sister, India Countryman, scammed the casino out of approximately $4,700 at a roulette table by placing a bet on the winning number after the wheel had stopped spinning.

Read more » Siblings Put On Three-year Probation For Cheating At Roulette

In the beginning of this month a player from Nottinghamshire, UK hit a massive £3.78 Million jackpot on bgo. The winner, a regular bgo player under the alias ‘Hilton', played Beach Life (a progressive slot) for £10 per spin when the gigantic jackpot triggered (the second biggest Beach Life jackpot in history)...

Read more » BGO Casino Player Wins £3.78 Million Jackpot!

On Thursday last week, PokerStars Blog revealed that this year's World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will have a $51,000 buy-in Super High Roller event! There have been some $25,000 events in the past, but now WCOOP is going for the biggest ever with this upcoming Super High Roller event!

Read more » PokerStars: WCOOP To Host $51,000 buy-in Super High Roller!

On Friday, July 17, it was announced that bwin.party Group had been sold to 888 Holdings. The deal, worth 1.4 billion U.S. Dollars, happened after weeks of negotiations in which 888 and GVC (backed by Amaya - the owner of Full Tilt and PokerStars) were fighting to buy the company.

Read more » 888 Buys bwin.party For $1.4 Billion!

$5 million spread across 100 events with buy-ins ranging from $0.11 to $22. How does that sound to you? If the answer is GREAT, then you just have to participate in MicroMillions 11 on PokerStars! The 11th edition of MicroMillions, the richest low-stakes tournaments in poker, kicked off yesterday and is running until July 26.

Read more » PokerStars: MicroMillions 11 Underway

Antonio 'The Magician' Esfandiari is one of the poker world's most well-known player. He has become a big name in poker thanks to many things, however, he's perhaps best known for his appearances on TV show High Stakes Poker and for winning the $1 million buy-in WSOP event BIG ONE for ONE DROP in 2012.

Read more » VIDEO: Antonio Esfandiari on Poker Life Podcast

Unless you've been hiding under a rock lately, you probably know that Daniel Negreanu fell only two positions short of making the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table (November Nine).

Read more » Daniel Negreanu: "My goal was to win the tournament not make the final 9"

This year's final table (November Nine) broadcast will expand from two to three days. Coverage starts on Sunday, November 8th at 5:30 pm PST and continues until four players remain.

Read more » ESPN Broadcast of the 2015 WSOP and November Nine

From July 5 to July 15 a field of 6,240 players has been reduced to a final table of nine players, who will return to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on November 8 and battle it out for the world champion title, a gold bracelet and the top prize of $7,680,021! The 2015 November Nine will be broadcasted live on ESPN.

Read more » WSOP: This Is 2015 November Nine

The 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event final table (November Nine) is set after the seventh day of play concluded with nine players. Joseph McKeehen, who started Day 7 with close to 12 million in chips, will lead the way to the final table with a monster stack of 63,100,000! That is more than double what McKeehen's closest opponent, Zvi Stern, managed to accumulate.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: November Nine Is Set!

Hand #119:

Joe McKeehen raised to 800,000 on the button and Daniel Negreanu called. The flop came out AK10 and Negreanu checked. McKeehen bet 700,000 and Negreanu moved all in for 5.8 million. McKeehen, with over 50 million in chips, called.

Negreanu tabled A4 (top pair) and McKeehen J3 (straight and flush draw). The 3 on the turn gave McKeehen further outs. Negreanu now needed to dodge diamonds, Queens, Jacks, and threes in order to take home the pot and stay alive in the tournament. 

The dealer burned another card and dealt the river: Q, giving McKeehen a straight and the pot. Daniel Negreanu received $526,000 for his 11th place finish. Close, but no cigar. Negreanu will be missed by many of his fans on this year's final table.

Update: 

Daniel Negreanu thanks everyone for all the support

The 2015 November Nine is getting closer and closer as another day of play has come to an end. The final 27 players will be led into Day 7 by Thomas Kearney with 14,400,000 in chips. Kearney, who resides in Las Vegas, is closely followed by Mozheng Guan with 14,230,000.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: Day 6 Ends With 27 Survivors - Daniel Negreanu In 9th Place!

The 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event's Day 5 kicked off at noon on Sunday in the Amazon Room. 237 players took seat but only 69 remained after five two-hour levels of play. This means that the remaining players have so far survived 50 hours of poker (25 levels).

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: Belgian Pro Pierre Neuville Leads Final 69; Daniel Negreanu Still Alive