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POWERFEST will run more than 300 events from Sun 7th - Sun 21st May 2017 with buy-ins for all levels, starting at just $5.50 and going as high as our $25,500 Super High Roller with $2 million gtd. You can also scoop a share of $135,000 in our POWERFEST leaderboards.

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Before we go ahead and bash the casino immediately (since most of us instantly assume that when somebody wins at a casino, they will do everything to find an excuse NOT to pay the winner), let’s see what happened last week, which started Monday, May 1.

At the Beau Rivage Resort & Casino located in Biloxi, Mississippi, police were called by the casino management on a situation regarding a couple who took off with over $1,000 in winnings, which they haven’t actually won.

Turns out that the two suspects, Christopher Ray Kinney, age 45, and Gina Renee Kinney, age 48, apparently had not placed any wager into a slot machine, but instead they simply cashed in a stolen ticket. Police speculate that they are husband and wife.

Read more » Casino wants couple to return jackpot prize, says it’s not theirs

• Discover all you need to know about the power of position and how crucial it is to developing your poker skills.

• Your position in a hand as well as your opponents' position should have an immense impact on how you play that hand.

• Win more raising hands "in position" or conversely lose more playing hands "out of position".

• Getting familiar with the types of hands your opponents could be playing is a skill that will take your game to the top.

• Look into your opponents' soul, read their deepest thoughts and then call that bluff!

Read more » Hand Reading for Beginners

Last week, Max Pescatori and Todd Brunson were the talk of the poker community after news came out that they purchased the renowned Las Vegas restaurant named Roma Deli, situated a few miles west of the strip, at 5755 W Spring Mountain Road.

A 2016 Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of one WSOP bracelet, Todd Brunson is a known foodie who frequently posts photos of his meals at various restaurants on Twitter. He said he’ll have a 25% stake in the restaurant but does not share Pescatori’s ownership stake.

Massimiliano ‘Max’ Pescatori was born in Milan, Italy, so you’d bet that he knows a lot about authentic Italian-style cuisine. He is also known to be the most successful poker player in history from his home country. He has 4 WSOP bracelets and so far has won $4.2 million in live tournaments. 

Read more » Max Pescatori and Todd Brunson buys Las Vegas resto Roma Deli

PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Super High Roller was played over the weekend. The hefty buy-in of €98,500 + €1,500 attracted 61 entries (including 14 re-entries) to create a €5,948,415 prize pool.

Read more » Bryn Kenney Wins €100k Super High Roller

A friendship goes sour after this highly unusual incident at a casino in Florida.

Jan Flato, age 66, and his friend Marina Navarro, age 35, went to Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Fort Lauderdale. Jan was playing slots but wasn’t getting any wins with his $50 bets, so he asked his friend Marina to push the button for him to see if she could help change his luck.

And it sure did! The slot machine lit up with a whopping $100,000 pay line jackpot!

So what went wrong for Jan? Strange enough, it was Marina who got the money.

The casino managers, upon viewing the surveillance footage of the incident, claimed that since it was Marina who pushed the button, then the jackpot is actually hers.

Read more » One small gesture cost this man a $100K jackpot

Elderly members of the Minoru Place Seniors' Centre in Richmond, BC, Canada were prohibited from playing in that place their favorite afternoon pastime, Texas Hold'em, simply because they were playing with cash involved, which is clearly a violation of provincial gambling regulations.

Read more » Richmond officials shut down seniors’ small-stakes poker circle

Travell Thomas, age 38, who has over $500,000 in lifetime poker tournament earnings, was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison last Thursday, as punishment for orchestrating a fraudulent debt collection business out of Buffalo, New York.

Read more » Poker Pro Gets 8 Years Behind Bars For $31M Debt Collection Scam

There are very few players particpating in BankrollMob's Rake Races at Everest Poker. In the current Rake Race (April 16-30), it's right now enough to make the minimum deposit of $25 and play some hands to win a share of $1,000.

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On Wednesday, the last 4 players out of 110 entries returned to Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham to play the final day of the partypokerLIVE £10k High Roller. Czech Republic's Vojtech Ruzicka and Poland's Bartlomiej Machon started with the biggest stacks and it didn't take all that long until they were heads-up. 

Read more » partypoker: November Niner Vojtech Ruzicka Wins £10,300 High Roller in Nottingham

We are spoiling our members with yet another leaderboard! This time you can compete for €2,000 in prizes at bet-at-home poker! Get your calendars and write down the dates and times of the following freerolls:

1st €250 freeroll on Sunday 23 April at 19 GMT
2nd €250 freeroll on Sunday 30 April at 19 GMT
3rd €250 freeroll on Sunday 7 May at 19 GMT
4th €250 freeroll on Sunday 14 May at 19 GMT

Everyone is welcome to particpate in these freerolls (options for rebuy and add on) and win prizes and collect leaderboard points! The one who collects most leaderboard points will take home an extra €400!

Click here to create an account at bet-at-home poker (€1,500 welcome bonus) 

Click here to visit the dedicated leaderboard page

Amaya is looking to change the marketing strategy for PokerStars as it has recently dropped endorsement from their brand ambassadors. The company has officially stated that their brand marketing strategies will focus mainly on in-site offers.

Read more » PokerStars Drops Use of Sports Stars as Part of Marketing Strategy

888poker is giving away 15 packages worth $1,900 each to the 888Live Festival Main Event in Barcelona!

One of these packages could be yours!

Just make a deposit of $30 or more with code "Barcelona30" to gain entry to the $28,500 888Live Barcelona Festival Tournament (23/04/2017 at 18:15 GMT), where the top 15 players will win an incredible package! 

Phil Ivey opened his poker coaching site Ivey League in the beginning of 2014 and has since then produced poker training videos together with, for example, Patrik Antonius, Cole South and Griffin Benger. Last week, however, the site announced on twitter that they will no longer be posting new video content from May 1st and that they will refund yearly subscriptions.

Ivey League offered 3 types of memberships, with the most expensive one costing $75 a month.

Maurice Hawkins made it into the World Series of Poker history books on April 10th when winning the 2017 Horseshoe Council Bluffs Main Event for $97,561 and, more importantly, his 10th career WSOP Circuit gold ring!

Read more » WSOP: Record-Breaking 10th Gold Ring For Maurice Hawkins!

Daniel Weinman and another 65 World Poker Tour Champion club members enterd the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of Champions. It took three days of play to boil down the field of poker talents to the televised WPT final table, where Daniel Weinman played Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi heads-up for the title and the $381,500 first-place prize.

Read more » Daniel Weinman Defeats Michael Mizrachi To Win WPT Tournament of Champions

The first ever PokerStars Championship Main Event in Macau concluded on Sunday evening after one of the longest heads-up matches in history!

Now, the final day started with 6 players and it only took two hours before the field had been narrowed down to the final two contenders: Elliot Smith (Canada) and Tianyuan Tang (China).

Read more » 11-Hour heads-up battle to determine a winner in PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event