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In 2012, former Full Tilt Poker owner Howard Lederer revealed to PokerNews that former Full Tilt Poker Pro Erick Lindgren owed the company $2 million dollars. Lederer said that Lindgren received a double-credited $2 million loan in April 2011 by mistake, but the two-time WPT and WSOP champion never gave the extra $2 million received. 

Read more » Erick Lindgren In Trouble Over $2.5 Million Debt

Georgios Kapalas is the chip leader with 1,398,000 among the final 36 players of the EPT Deauville Main Event. The Greek pro missed this tournament for the first time ever last year when his fellow countryman Sotirios Koutoupas bested a field of 671 players (and denied Eugene Katchalov the triple crown heads-up) for €614,000. Now, Kapalas sits in a great spot to take Greece back-to-back titles in Deauville!

Read more » EPT Deauville: Day 3 Is Over - 36 Players Remaining

The schedule for the 46th annual World Series of Poker was released on Monday. The tournament series will run from May 27 to July 14 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The schedule contains a record 68 bracelet events and nearly $200 million in guaranteed prize money.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Schedule Announced

Another day of poker has come to an end in Deuville, France. There are 138 players (of 592 entries) left with the chance of winning an EPT title along with the top prize of €543,700. Irishman Alex Tikhoniouk will lead the remaining player field to Day 3 with 312,600 in chips.

Read more » EPT Deauville: 138 Players Move One Step Closer To The €543,700 First-Place Prize

On Monday, there was a pretty interesting article in The Daily Mail on a family of four in the UK that quit their jobs to become professional poker players. The family members told the British newspaper that they take part in three competitions a week, and they claim the secret to their success is a mathematical formula.

Read more » Four Of A Kind: Family All Quit Their Jobs To Play Poker

Both opening flights of the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event have finished. Day 2 kicks off today at 12:00 CET and around 360 players (of 591 entries) will be returning to the poker tables - plus any latecomers as the registration is open until the cards are back in the air.

Read more » 2015 EPT Deauville

Incredible! Phil Ivey has just won his third $250,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions! In 2012, he bested a field of 16 entries for AU$2 million, two years later he outlasted 46 entries to claim a AU$4 million first-place prize, and this time he defeated a field of 25 entries over two days of play to lay hands on AU$2.2 million!

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: Phil Ivey Wins Yet Another $250,000 Challenge!

The $250,000 Challenge is currently underway and there are only three players remaining of twenty-five entries: Doug Polk, Mike McDonald and Phil Ivey, who is in the big lead with 3.7 million chips to McDonald's 1.6 and Polk's 795k. Believe it or not but Ivey won this event both in 2012 and 2014. Now, he has a fantastic opportunity of winning a third title! Pretty amazing when you think about it.

The next player to hit the rail with take home AU$1,041,400, second place pays AU$1,592,500, and the last man standing will get just about AU$2.2 million! Check back in a few hours for a final table recap!

It has been a very thrilling weekend in the land down under. Let's get to it right away. On Saturday, after a couple of days break, the final 8 players of 70 entries returned the Exhibition Hall at Crown Melbourne to play the final table of the $100,000 Challenge event.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: Richard Yong Wins The $100k Challenge; Local Wins The Main Event After Heads-Up Deal

The Main Event has been narrowed down from 668 entries to 30 players after 3 intensive days of play at Crown Melbourne. Raiden Kan finished Day 3 with the chip lead (1,775,000), but all eyes will be on defending champion Ami Barer (443k) and two-time AU$250k Challenge winner Phil Ivey (439k) when Day 4 kicks off.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: 30 Players Left, Including Phil Ivey and Ami Barer

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

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Another three players entered the Main Event just before the start of Day 2. This means that this year's Main Event drew a field of 648 entries that created a AU$6,480,000 prize pool, of which the top 72 finishers will receive a share (the winner will get AU$1.6 million).

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: Approx. 125 Players Advance To Day 3 Of The Main Event

Day 1c of the 2015 Aussie Millions AU$10,600 Main Event drew a field of 356 players, which means that the total field of this year is 642 (26 less than last year). However, registration is open until Day 2 so the final number will be announced in tomorrow's update here on Bankrollmob.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millons: All Starting Days Completed

On Tuesday, it was announced on World Series of Poker's website that the Main Event's $10,000,000 guarantee, which was introduced in 2014, will be removed. The main reason for this change is that the steep payout structure of last year's Main Event received a lot of critisim from the poker community.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Main Event's $10 Million First-Place Prize To Be Removed

The second (of three) Day 1 flight drew a field of 173 players (10 less than Day 1a), and approximately 91 remained after seven 90-minute levels of poker. Ian Wassell finished the day at the top of the chip counts with 229,500.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions Main Event: "jungleman" Finished Day 1B In Second Place

The $100k buy-in event is down to 8 players after 2 intensive days of play. Germany's Ole Schemion will lead the remaining 8 players into Saturday's final table with 1,888,000 in chips - about 700k more than his closest opponent, Jason Mo.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: $100k Challenger Final Table Set, Ole Schemion In The Lead

Main Event

On Sunday, the first starting day of three kicked off at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. 183 players bought in for $10,600 each (8 more than Day 1a of last year's Main Event) and 97 players were still sitting at the tables after seven 90-minutes levels of play.

Read more » 2015 Aussie Millions: Main Event and $100k Challenge Updates

On Saturday, poker pro Kyle Loman tweeted about a massive game taking place in Bobby's Room at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Todd Brunson, son of poker legend Doyle Brunson, and Andy Beal, a Texas billionaire who made his fortune through real estate and banking, played heads-up limit hold'em with $50,000/$100,000 blinds. The two bought in for $5 million each and Brunson had all the chips in play at the end of the game. 

Read more » Todd Brunson Wins $5 Million From Texas Billionaire Andy Beal

When you are thinking of an online casino the first thing that should come to mind is trust and a solid reputation. Omni Casino is at the top of the list when it comes to trust and reputation. They have been in the business for 17 years. And in the online casino business they are the ones with the solid reputation. And let's face it reputation is gold in the casino industry.
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The 2015 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) began yesterday and will continue running until February 1st. A total prize pool of $15,000,000 is spread across 50 faced-paced events, including the $2 million guarantee Main Event on February 1 (the winner will get at least $300,000). TCOOP features events that are different from any other PokerStars tournament schedule, and there are satellites to all events from as little as $0.11 or 1 FPP!

Click here to check out the 2015 TCOOP schedule. The best of luck to those who participate! 

Money and fame can bring out the worst in people. Luckily, there are those who can handle both superbly in the poker world as we know it. Faraz Jaka is a living proof of that!

Read more » The Homeless Poker Millionaire

Mississippi Grind is the name of an upcoming gambling movie (involving high-stakes tournament poker) starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn. The movie, which is written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 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 and casino to casino with the vision of winning back what has been lost. 

Read more » New Gambling Movie In The Works

In case you missed it, another two $1.2 million Spin & Go's were played over the weekend on PokerStars. On Saturday, ‘Tornado111' of the Czech Republic bested newann and RusGreen for the $1 million first-place prize. The way Tornado111 won the 10 million to 3 odds Spin & Go has shocked many. Well, watch the video for yourselves here and let us know what you think.

Read more » Two More $1M Spin & Go Winners Have Been Crowned

Casino Fantasia is a great new online casino that just launched this year and offers some fantastic games from the gaming giants Novomatic. They offer a great welcome bonus and more than enough payment methods to keep even the pickiest players happy. This Casino definitely has a lot of potential to be the next big thing in the gaming world.

Read more » New Casino Partner: Casino Fantasia

In 2011, Darren "Dooschcom" Woods won a bracelet at the World Series of Poker and was at the top of his career. Besides the prestigious WSOP title, Woods had won millions of dollars playing online and was consider to be one of the best limit cash game players in the world. However, what many didn't know was that the Brit cheated by playing on multiple accounts and colluding with other players.

Read more » Poker Pro Sentenced To Prison