BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

Did you know that many States all over the USA are actually implementing this card program? The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is apparently using a rather unorthodox way to try to have inmates provide information related to unsolved murders as well as other violent crimes within the state.

Read more » Colorado prison inmates may hold key to help solve cold cases, just by playing poker

partypoker ambassador and WPT commentator Mike Sexton made it to the final table of the WPT L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 Main Event on Wednesday evening after five days of play.

Read more » Mike Sexton On WPT L.A. Poker Classic Final Table

BankrollMob's Spring Leaderboard ($9,000 in prizes) at 888poker begins tonight with the first tournament (45 in total). Everyone's welcome to participate and fight for the top prize of $750!

Scott Tom has lived as a fugitive from the US justice. After almost six years, the 37-year old has voluntarily decided to go back to the US for his desire to "just get this behind him." He faces the charges of violating the Unlawful Internet Enforcement Act and was engaged in money laundering and bank fraud.

Read more » Absolute Poker Co-Founder Returns to the US to Face Black Friday Charges

After topping a field of 489 runners, Darren Elias won the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic CA$5,000 Main Event last Friday to collect yet another WPT title as well as CA$449,484 in prize money.

Read more » Darren Elias Wins A Third WPT Title!

We will run 3 weekly $100 tournaments at 888poker from March 1 until June 12, 2017. Anyone can participate in these tournaments and battle for a share of the $4,500 leaderboard prize pool.

Leaderboard Info:

• Name: BankrollMob's $9,000 Spring Leaderboard
• Tournament Tab: Restricted
• Dates: March 1 - June 12, 2017
• Tournament Days: Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays at 20:00 CEST
• Buy-in: $1 + password (will be released here 24 hours before start)

It's rather unusual that live tournaments with buy-ins around $1,000 attract many (if any) players from the poker elite, but the $1,100 Omaha Hi-Low/Stud Hi-Low event at the 2017 L.A. Poker Classic managed to do just that.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth Defeats Mike Matusow To Win Side Event

Multi-table tournament poker star Shaun Deeb just can't get himself away from yet another Twitter fight. Just last week, he came between Jason Mercier vs Brandon Cantu's heated comments on Twitter, and in the end had sided with his friend Mercier whilst delivered virtual blows to Cantu's credibility.

Read more » Shaun Deeb got into another Twitter feud, this time against the Brunsons

Some of the poker world's brightest shining stars competed in the 2017 Triton Super High Roller Series Manila HK$250,000 (approx. $32.2k) 6-Max Event over the weekend. The event drew a field of 43 entries, including 8 re-entries, which generated a prize pool of HK$10,113,600. It took just about 12 hours of play on the second day to boil down a very talented field of poker pros into just one player: Daniel Colman.

Read more » Daniel Colman Wins HK$250,000 Buy-in Event in Manila

The description of luck is very different depending on a lot of aspects, including the emotional status and religious beliefs of the person interpreting it. If you happen to cross paths with a black cat, people say you'd get bad luck.

Read more » UK is the luckiest country according to 888poker Study

Italian poker pro Massimiliano "Max" Pescatori is currently selling his 2015 World Series of Poker Championship bracelet on eBay and will donate the funds as relief for earthquake victims in Amatrice, a town located in central Italy.

Read more » Poker pro selling WSOP bracelet to aid earthquake victims in Italy

Christian Lusardi, known as the infamous Borgata chip counterfeiter, only spent a short 7 months in jail for his crimes committed against the poker community.

Lusardi's misdeed hit the headlines in the world of poker back in 2014, when he attempted to bluff his way through the Borgata's Winter Poker Open by putting in $2.7 million worth of counterfeit chips into the tournament. By the time the organizers have discovered the fake chips, the tournament was suddenly stopped, with 27 players still remaining.

Read more » Borgata chip fraudster Lusardi released from jail after only 7 months

Atlanta poker pro Daniel Weinmann won his first World Poker Tour title last Friday (on his birthday) after outlasting a record-field of 1,312 entries in the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship to win $892,433 and a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions .

Read more » Daniel Weinmann Wins Record WPT Borgata Winter Open Championship

Partypoker has appointed John Duthie as president of partypoker LIVE. Duthie has signed a five-year deal with partypoker, who is actually the founder and former CEO of the European Poker Tour (EPT).

In a press release, Duthie said, "I have been impressed with the progress of partypoker and in particular the number of trusted, experienced and well respected individuals and organizations who have chosen to put their support behind the partypoker brand. I believe there is a gap in the market for an operator whose primary focus is poker and who will listen to and work with the poker community, as this was something that was absolutely key to the growth and success of the EPT."

Read more » John Duthie appointed as President of partypoker LIVE

It is the norm that before a match begins, seasoned poker players will scrutinize videos of their upcoming opponents - to learn their playing style and analyze previous poker hands. However, this match is totally different - it would be against a supercomputer designed to play poker.

Read more » Supercomputer Libratus outwits humans in ‘Brains vs. AI' poker rematch

The world's biggest poker site and well-known Scandinavian poker pros Johnny Lodden (Norway) and Theo Jorgensen (Denmark) are no longer working together.

Read more » Johnny Lodden & Theo Jorgensen part ways with PokerStars

The winner in the $1,050 Event #59: $1,500,000 Super XL - Main Event, after playing for more than 12 hours, is "Enigmasility" from Belarus, and he got a nice $262,200 for it.

Read more » 888poker's Super XL Series Main Event won by "Enigmasility"

Shurane Vijayaram came into the final table with a substantial chip lead and battled Ben Heath who had the second biggest chip stack at the start of the day for the championship of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event. Eventually, the advantage in stack had become one of Vijayaram's keys to winning the grand prize.

Read more » Shurane Vijayaram wins the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event

It seems like the interest in playing poker events with big buy-ins in Australia isn't what it used to be. The 2017 Aussie Millions, conluding today, only saw 18 registrations for the A$100,000 Challenge which ultimately led to that the A$250,000 Challenge was cancelled.

Read more » 2017 Aussie Millions: Little Interest In Super High Roller Events

As part of a deal with the United States, US financial services firm Western Union Co. has agreed to pay a federal fine of $586 million (or €545.2 million) after admitting that it allowed the processing of online gaming transactions which turned out to be illegal. Simply put, it aided and allowed wire fraud and failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program.

Read more » Western Union to pay $586M fine due to processing illegal online gambling transactions

It seems like the legal battle is never over for poker pro Phil Ivey. The most recent news about Phil Ivey and his case against the Borgata casino is that Ivey was ordered to give back to the casino what he and his companion had won worth $10.1 million, as compensation for breaching the casino contract. This order was brought out regarding Ivey's edge sorting case as reported in late December 2016.

Read more » Phil Ivey shall try to appeal Borgata casino $10M lawsuit ruling

The Super XL Series is back at 888poker tomorrow! 64 different events with $5,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools will be played January 19-31. Buy-ins range from just $5 to $1,050 and you can satellite your way to all events. The highlight of the series will be the $1.5 million guaranteed main event on January 29th.  

Click here to find out how you can get a 3 tournament tickets to the daily Super XL Qualifier!

partypoker has just announced its first partypoker Million National event in Sochi, Russia. The recently opened Sochi Casino and Resort in association with the Poker Club Management will host a $1,000,000 guaranteed event in which the winner is going to get at least $200,000!

Read more » partypoker LIVE: $1M Guaranteed Event in Russia (online satellites for just 1 cent!)