BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

For poker players and fans out there, bad beat jackpots are quite the rare occurrence, but it does happen. But what if you're supposed to win money from a bad beat jackpot and the casino refuses to pay you? This is the dilemma that a certain poker player was in, and this happened back in December 2017.

Read more » Bad Beat Jackpot Winner Avi Shamir to receive $62K Reward as Affirmed by NGCB

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Phil Hellmuth is famous for winning 14 WSOP bracelets so far and has over $22 million in live tournament earnings under his belt, but one Uber driver thinks he's obnoxious and cheap.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth ‘obnoxious and cheap', says Uber driver

British poker pro Stephen "stevie444" Chidwick is definitely on a roll at the US Poker Open as he took down his second US Poker Open high roller event in just two days to pocket another six-figure payout and stick his name at the top spot in the US Poker Champion leaderboard.

Read more » Stephen Chidwick wins Back-to-Back at US Poker Open

The 2018 US Poker Open - Event #1 $10,000 NLHE has been taken down by American poker pro Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, earning him a massive $190,400 payday.

Read more » Justin Bonomo wins First Event at the US Poker Open

Not that it's supposed to be a secret, but on the final weekend of January Tom "durrrr" Dwan shared via his Twitter account that he is currently in Australia, where he's been spending quality time with his soon-to-be wife.

Read more » Tom Dwan and Soon-to-be Wife Spends Quality Time in Australia

The US Poker Open is scheduled to start February 1 Thursday and ends on February 11 Sunday at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. The player who manages to win the most money during the series shall be crowned the US Poker Open Champion and will also receive the US Poker Open Cup.

Read more » US Poker Open: Schedule + Daniel Negreanu's $50K Side Bet on Winning the Cup

January 1, 2018 is the 20th anniversary of online poker, ever since Planet Poker became the very first virtual card room to host real-money games. Planet Poker ran online poker games at approximately nine months before the film Rounders launched in movie theaters. If you have played at Planet Poker in the past, you will surely feel those nostalgic, and for sure you have been one of those who patiently played online poker via dial-up modems!

Read more » Online Poker's 20th Anniversary

From January 18 to 28, 888poker has presented their XL Blizzard Series, regarded to be one of their best online series to date.

What makes the XL Blizzard Series a very nice one to go to is because it is nicely split between three various buy-in levels in order to give everyone a chance to play in a splendidly structured tournament and to compete for a massive first place reward.

Read more » 888poker XL Blizzard Main Event won by ‘Pepepepepe.' for $183,867

888poker reveals to players their location stops comprising its 2018 888poker LIVE tour, starting with London and concluding the year in Lisbon.

According to 888poker's eMagazine, there are a total of eight stops. The year's events starts off with their 888LIVE 2018 Kickoff, a £120,000 guaranteed tournament in which the buy-in is £440, scheduled to take place at Aspers Casino in London from February 8 to 11.

Read more » 888poker announces Location Stops for its 2018 LIVE Tour

The PokerStars Festival London continues, with the Main Event looming close and the High Roller playing down to a winner, who will also get to be crowned as the newest Platinum Pass winner.

Read more » PokerStars Championship Cash Challenge (videos)

At the beginning of this week, poker legend Gus Hansen has posted clips of himself via Instagram that showed he was just outside the premises of a Copenhagen courthouse, to which he meant to sue his former pal and business partner, musician Rasmus Nøhr, for a total of 896,000 Kroner (approx. $150,000).

Read more » Poker Legend Gus Hansen Sues Former Friend

BreakoutPoker.com is a proud partner within the GG Network, one of the top ranked poker networks online. Featuring licensed and regulated poker games and tournaments, along with a mix of special game features and structures, Breakout Poker is proud to accept the BRK coin for both deposits and withdrawals, along with standard international currencies, and most other major cryptocurrencies.

Read more » Introducing Breakout Poker

In most circumstances, if you lose a hand with quads, you'd be so downtrodden that you would secretly swear to yourself to never play poker ever again. However, for a small group on that fateful Tuesday (January 16), it was certainly a magical day - they experienced something so rare in the world of poker that for sure it calls for a bottle of Dom Perignon.

Read more » Record Breaking Bad Beat Poker Jackpot Won at Detroit Casino

Hedge fund manager and poker player Bill Perkins is well-known in the poker community as a lover of extreme prop bets, and one of his lucrative schemes this time (which could be one of his best wagers yet) is the one he made with brothers Jaime and Matthew Staples on March 26, 2017 at 5pm. These three people, along with Jeff Gross and a few other friends, hatched the interesting and (probably life-changing for Jaime and Matt) bet just so they could spice up their already baller-like Twitch-streaming on a yacht.

Read more » Bill Perkins' 1-Year Weight Loss Prop Bet - Jaime and Matt Staples still 30+ Pounds away from winning $150,000

It's being called one of the greatest hands in the history of poker, and the ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle' star Kevin Hart is the main character in this awesome poker play.

Read more » Kevin Hart wins €40K Pot, Returns €15K to Opponent out of Pity

Earlier this week, German poker pro Ole Schemion won the first-ever World Poker Tour European Championship Main Event for to secure his first WPT title, €218,435 in prize money and a $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions ticket. 

Read more » Ole Schemion Wins WPT European Championship