BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

A professional poker player with a past history of fraud convictions at USA airports that spanned 13 states is facing charges once again after he was arrested on Saturday at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Police said Michael Borovetz, age 44, had a pretty believable ‘sob story'. His modus operandi was to approach travelers and get them to believe his "sad story in an attempt to get money, while promising to pay it back", according to a news report released Tuesday from the Wayne County Airport Authority.

As soon as he received the money, the poor victims will never see nor hear from him again.

Read more » Poker Pro Michael Borovetz arrested again at Detroit Airport for Scamming Travelers

888poker has a new member to their Team888 roster, 26-year-old Russian poker pro Daria "Scarlett_D" Feshchenko.

Daria is a philologist and orientalist, who studied the Indonesian language at the University of Moscow. Also, she was a model who won many titles such as ""Miss Bikini Eurasia" and "Miss Personality" at Miss Tourism Universe.

Read more » 888poker announces their Newest Addition to their Ambassador Team - Daria Feshchenko

On August 8, Thursday, the last day of the Triton Poker SHR Series London 2019, Justin Bonomo defeated a field of 108 players to take home the trophy of Event 7 - Triton London £100,000 ($125,900) buy-in Short Deck Main Event.

Read more » Triton Poker London £100k Short Deck Main Event won by Justin Bonomo for £2,670,000; Plans to Retire Soon?

The 888poker WPTDeepStacks Portugal Main Event has a $1,350 buy-in and a guaranteed €250,000 prize pool. For those who don't have that kind of buy in onhand, worry not because 888poker has something great for you - get the chance to qualify for the Main Event by entering a series of satellites with buy-ins starting at just 1 penny!

888poker is joining forces with WPT DeepStacks once again to give players this incredible Portuguese event.

Read more » 888poker Promo - Qualify to the WPTDeepStacks Portugal Main Event for just One Penny!

888poker has announced the return of their ChampionChips Series, featuring smaller buy-ins and bigger prize pools. It runs for a whole week this August.

888poker ChampionChips Series

• 18 Events
• Smaller buy-ins, bigger prizes!
• Schedule: August 4 to 11, 2019

Players looking for a poker series this summer that could give them value for money but with bigger guarantees, then this one's for you!

Read more » ChampionChips Series returns to 888poker this Summer 2019

In the first weekend of August, a champion has been crowned in what could be called the highest buy-in ever in poker tournament history.

Triton Million - A Helping Hand for Charity

• Schedule: August 1 to 3, 2019
• Buy-in: £1 million + £50,000 entry fee (approx. US$ 1.3 million)
• Venue: Grand Ballroom of Park Lane Hilton in London

In a recent video on Instagram, Finnish poker legend Patrik Antonius opened up about the rough time he's currently going through while in Las Vegas playing the biggest cash games.

Read more » A Nightmare For Patrik Antonius

American poker legend Phil Ivey has been under the gun in the recent years due to legal battles he's gotten himself into for using a controversial method called ‘edge sorting' to win massive amounts at the casino game Baccarat.

In February, a New Jersey federal judge gave Borgata Hotel and Casino the green light to go after Ivey's assets in Nevada in an attempt to collect the approx. $10 million they claim Ivey and his accomplice Cheng Yin "Kelly" Sun associate owe them.

Read more » Borgata Goes After Phil Ivey's 2019 WSOP Earnings

The latest participating duo at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series 2019 London has been announced this Thursday, July 25, and it is Antanas "Tony G"Guoga who in turn invited German poker legend Fedor Holz.

Read more » partypoker ambassador Fedor Holz Selling 20% of Triton Poker £1M Action

BankrollMob.com has a $1700 Sochi Package to give away this month! 

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A brand new poker-playing bot was developed by the same group of researchers who presented Libratus back in 2017, and this time, it had successfully defeated a team of top poker players in a 6-handed NLHE game.

Facebook worked with researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University spearheaded by CMU professor Tuomas Sandholm and his graduate student Noam Brown, who scheduled a showdown featuring the latest version of the AI poker supercomputer called "Pluribus" versus some of the top poker players in the industry, and the results, published earlier this month in the journal Science, were remarkable. The bot managed to beat down its opponents, something no other AI before has achieved (previous AI programs can only win at a two-player poker game). It is expected that the outcome of this project shall have major implications on AI research and the game of poker itself.

Read more » AI Poker Bot Pluribus Beats Top Pros in Multiplayer NLHE, Costs only $144 to Run

Gus Hansen is one of the few high-stakes poker pros who give us a glimpse of what goes on behind the doors of Bobby's Room at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Even though he failed to cash a significant amount that befits a super high-stakes player during the 50th year anniversary of the WSOP (he won $20,200 for placing 689th at the 2019 WSOP Event #73: $10,000 Main Event), Hansen was able to accumulate a stack that reached seven figures at Bobby's Room, which he proceeded to cash out.

Read more » Gus Hansen cashes out Seven-Figure Stack at Bobby's Room

BankrollMob.com has a $1700 Sochi Package to give away this month! 

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Robert Alexander, a US tech entrepreneur and owner of sweepstakes-based online gaming company Kizzang, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for embezzling company funds to fuel his lavish gambling activity.

He also scammed people, including poker player Patrik Antonius who loaned him $700,000.

Read more » Millionaire Grand Theft Auto Distributor used Company Funds to Gamble, Scammed Patrik Antonius out of $700,000

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After 10 grueling days of around 12 hours per day of play, a winner has now emerged in Event #73: $10,000 NLHE Main Event - World Championship of the 2019 WSOP at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

With a buy-in of $10,000 and the player entries reaching 8,569 in total, the entire prizepool built up $80,548,600, with the last man standing to get the lion's share of a whopping $10 million!

Read more » 2019 WSOP Event #73: $10,000 Main Event won by Hossein Ensan for $10 Million