BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

Today is the beginning of WSOPE which is the European version of The World Series of Poker. The first event is a NL Holdem event with a buy in of £1575. This series is going to go on until the 2nd October and before the main event get started at the 27th of September another two events will be played. Read more » 2008 WSOPE Starts Today

22 year old Vivek Rajkumar defeated Sang Kim heads up and became $1.4 million richer in the 2008 Borgata poker open in Atlantic City. Sang Kim received $750.000 for his second place and Dan Heimiller got $387.000 for third place.

Read more » Vivek Rajkumar wins the 2008 WPT Borgata Poker Open

The Swedish Ice Hokey pro Mats Sundin (Sudden) has just announced at a press conference that he has signed a contract with PokerStars and will now be their Ambassador for the next 2 years. The money he will make from this deal will partly go to charities. But Mats has promised that 100% of the winnings from different tournaments he will be playing in will only go to charities and nothing else.

"I'm very proud and happy to be the Ambassador for PokerStars. This will mean that I can fulfill my personal wish to raise money for charity organizations around the world. The excitement and challenge of playing poker and raising money for charity is for me a winning combination", Says Mats.

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An Englishman by the name of David Cain has announced that he intends to break the record of the longest poker session ever played. The current record holder is the journalist Larry Olmsted who played poker for 72 hours straight back in 2004.  Read more » Poker Marathon in England

BankrollMob will be hosting a $3000 freeroll tournament at PokerStars on october 5th 13:00PM EST (20:00 CET), for all BankrollMob members who currently does not have a PokerStars account.

Signup at PokerStars using this link and you will qualify to play in our exclusive $3000 freeroll and you will get 100% up to $50 on your first deposit using bonuscode First2008. If you signed up by clicking on the banner to the left, you will also be qualified.Read more » BankollMob hosts $3000 freeroll at PokerStars

Michael Phelps recently went on a trip to Las Vegas with some of his friends to stay at a huge suite at the Palms Hotel & Casino. During his stay he contacted Doyle Brunson and asked to meet up with the poker legend. They met up at the Palms and according to Doyle the swimmer was very enthusiastic and eager to learn more about poker, he asked a lot of questions and showed a huge interest in poker. Rumour has it that Phelps said that the only things that interest him are to eat, swim and to play poker.Read more » Michael Phelps met up with Poker Legend

The poker star Scotty Nguyen became the 2008 champion at the WSOP H.O.R.S.E event; he has earlier won titles in both WSOP Main Event and World Poker Tour. When the TV broadcast of this event came out it shows a drunk and trash talking Scotty at the final table. There has been a lot of talk about how this event played out and the part that Scotty played in it.

During the final table Scotty is acting really inappropriate towards the other players at the tables but also towards the staff and waitresses. He is also showing his cards to the audience behind him during one hand which is really out of line. 

After getting loads of mails from his fans complaining about his behaviour he has decided to make a reply to all his fans on his website.Read more » Scotty Nguyen's Letter to the Fans

The world's largest poker site, PokerStars now joins FullTilt as one of the only major poker sites to provide their customer with a downloadable Mac-compatible software. PokerStars has had a beta version with minor limitations for Mac users available on their website since the end of 2007. But now, over 1 year after they first started working on the Mac version, the IT development team together with Mac users playing at PokerStars has finalized a complete Mac version which includes the same functions as the windows-compatible software.

The new Mac software is downloadable and specifically created for the latest Mac operating system while it includes compatibility with older Mac OS versions as well. The success is already a fact as the lunch of the new software occurred just in time for "2008 World Championship of online poker" at PokerStars.

Visit PokerStars.com to download the new full version of the Mac client.

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On the 11^th of September 2008 Running Aces Harness Park in Columbus (Minnesota) will host the 10^th Annual Trent Tucker Celebrity Tournament.  Celebrities like Michael Jordan, Patrick Wing, Flip Saunders (former Minnesota Timberwolves) and many more are taking part this year. There will also be poker pros like Marcel Luske, also known as "The flying Dutchman" and Johnny Chan playing in this year's charity tournament.

Read more » Annual Trent Trucker Celebrity Tournament

Brian Townsend is one of the writers at Cardrunners that have reached "Red Pro Status" at Full Tilt Poker. He is also known under the alias "sbrugby" at Full Tilt. He has been dominating the games with the highest limits on the net. During his time at Cardrunners he got a contract with Full Tilt Poker to become one of their sponsored pros. Just like all the other pros at Full Tilt he had to start playing with his real name as his alias which is flagged in red in the poker lobby when he sits at the tables. Brian Townsend is now admitting that he has not been following this rule, he has also been playing under the alias "Stellarnebula" during his time as a pro at Full Tilt Poker. He also admits that he has been doing the same thing at PokerStars by using the alias "Markersmark66" instead of his real account which is "aba20".

Read more » Sbrugby no longer a Full Tilt Poker Pro

A brand new season of the EPT (European Poker Tour) started yesterday. The first event is held in Barcelona and after day 1A we have already seen a few poker pros being sent to the rails.
Here are some of the bigger names that busted out after day 1A:

Dave “DevilFish” Ulliot
David Williams
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi
Greg “Fossilman” Raymer
Annette Obrestad
Vicky Coren
Vanessa Rousso

Day 1B begins today at 3 PM CET.

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