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Another day of play concluded last night on Paradise Island, and amazingly enough Brazil's Leonardo Pires finished as the chip leader for a third consecutive day! Pires will lead the 19 remaining players into Day 5 with a stack worth more than 4.5 million or 187 big blinds! That's about twice the stack size of his closets opponent!

Read more » 2016 PCA Main Event: 19 Players Left - Pires Still Out In Front!

A massive field of 928 players entered this year's PCA Main Event! After three days of play, however, there are only 73 remaining players who have the chance of becoming the champion of this prestigious tournament. The chip leader as the tournament is heading into Day 4 is Leonardo Pires with 2 million in chips - about 700k more than his closest opponent.

Read more » 2016 PCA: Brazil's Leonardo Pires Leads For Second Day In A Row

After several months of being put under surveillance, a croupier working at the Cromwell Mint Casino in London has been arrested for thievery when he was caught red-handed stealing poker chips worth thousands of pounds.

Read more » Poker Chips Worth Thousands Of Pounds Stolen By Croupier

Steve O'Dwyer has been on fire in the past two years or so. Little did it surprise anyone when he claimed yet another big title this weekend on Paradise Island. This time the 33-year-old American-Irishman added another $945,495 to his already massive bankroll by besting a field of 58 players (+ 22 re-entries) in the $50,000 buy-in Single Day High Roller!

Read more » PCA 2016: Steve O'Dwyer Wins $50k Single-Day High Roller

On Friday, Bryn Kenney entered his third PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller final table (there have only been six $100k PCA Super High Rollers).

Kenney had the chip lead when the cards were in the air and, after several hours of play, he had made it to heads-up against Joe McKeehan, the winner of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Read more » 2016 PCA: Bryn Kenney Wins The Super High Roller For $1,687,800
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This year's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller attracted a field of 58 entries, which created a massive $5.6 million prize pool! Now, the tournament, which started on Wednesday, is down to its final 6 competitors after 2 intensive days of play.

Read more » 2016 PCA: 6 Players Remain In The $100,000 Buy-In Tournament

The 13th edition of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) kicked off yesterday with the €100,000 buy-in Super High Roller event. 43 players entered the event but just 32 remained after 8 one-hour levels of play.

Read more » PCA 2016: Talal Shakerchi Leads Super High Roller

This may be one of the worst tough luck gambling stories of 2015. An elderly couple in the UK claim that they missed out on a lottery jackpot worth £35 million just before Christmas due to a faulty app. 

Read more » UK Couple Missed Out On £35 Million Lotto Jackpot

Better late than never (as the saying goes), here are 5 of the most read poker news/articles of 2015! Enjoy!

• Russian Wins $1 million in $5 Spin & Go!
• Interview With Sofia Lövgren
• PokerStars And Vanessa Rousso Part Ways
• Borgata Cheater Sentenced To 5 Years Behind Bars
• Phil Ivey Countersues Borgata Casino

An Australian charity loses its license to operate due to the allegation that the owner has been using the donations for online gambling.

Help Save Furry Ones, the name of the cat shelter in Australia, was founded in 2011 by Nicky Hocking. Hocking was actually a former pole dancer who is a confessed cat lady as well. Her charity takes in stray and unwanted kittens.

Read more » Cat Shelter Accused of Using Donations for Online Gambling

We would like to thank all our members, affiliates and partners for yet another successful year. Although we are more than happy with the outcome of 2015, our aim is to make 2016 even better by, for example, adding even more free bonuses, freerolls and leaderboards!

We hope you will join us on this journey (2016 to start with) and perhaps also help us become even bigger and better by referring friends, requesting bonuses, posting in the forum, making deposits on sites we promote etc. All of you play an important role as the story of BankrollMob.com unfolds!

Have a great new year's eve and see you in 2016!

Best regards,
BankrollMob Crew

This year we continued the Lottery tradition from previous years, where you could win MobPoints, MobDraw tickets and MobSafe shots. The way to get tickets to the lottery, would be if you won a prize in the Christmas Calendar that you were unable to use, for one reason or another.

Example: If you won a freeroll entry worth $15 you would get 15 tickets for the lottery if you decided to claim lottery tickets, instead of the actual prize. 

The lottery in 2015 had the following prizes available:

• 2 x 4,000 MobPoints
• 3 x 3,000 MobPoints
• 5 x 2,000 MobPoints
• 15 x 500 MobDraw tickets
• 10 x 100 MobSafe "shots"
• 15 x 50 MobSafe "shots"

And today we ran the "randomizer" and found the winners to the prizes above. Basically, the more tickets you had, the bigger chances of winning.Read more » Christmas Calendar 2015: Lottery Winners

On December 23, New England's media personality and top professional poker player Bernard Lee, donated holiday packages to more than 50 children in Milford, Massachusetts as a part of The Full House Charity Program. Lee even delivered the holiday packages in person, along with the help of his son and daughter.

Read more » Children in Need Receive Holiday Packages from Poker Player Bernard Lee

Many people from all over the world who watched the Miss Universe 2015 pageant on Sunday, December 20, would definitely agree that this rather "minor slipup" made by Steve Harvey became something strangely memorable and controversial for everyone, especially to the 2 contestants, the first runner up and the winner of the pageant.

Read more » Host Announced Wrong Winner at Miss Universe Event - Reportedly Drank & Gambled Before The Event

An online gambling addict who works as a bookkeeper swindled her employers out of almost £1 million, costing one of her bosses to lose his retirement fund, has now been put behind bars.

Read more » Bookkeeper Stole Almost £1M From Employers To Fuel Gambling Addiction

Hong Kong-based gaming machine manufacturer and supplier Paradise Entertainment Ltd. is offering innovative card dealer robots to US and other land-based casinos worldwide.

Read more » Humanoid Card Dealer Robots to Enter US-Based Casinos

The most expensive tournament in World Poker Tour history will be played at the WPT National Philippines in January 2016. The tournament will have a buy-in of $200,000 and, according to WPT.com, some of the biggest names in poker have already confirmed that they will be taking part.

Read more » Ivey, Dwan & Cates Among Participants In Upcoming Super High Roller

Tony G has been rather anonymous in the poker world ever since being elected to the European Parliament in 2014. However, it seems like the former poker pro is not done with poker just yet. The fact is that he just challenged Canada's Prime Minster to play poker against him.

The reason? Well, in a special 60-second challenge by maccleans.co, Canada's PM Justin Trudeau responded "That's not a thing" when asked what his favourite Baltic nation was". As many of you probably know, the Baltic states consist of Estonia, Latvia and Tony G's Lithuania. 

Read more » Tony G's Poker Challenge To Canada's PM: "I'll take everything you have"

The online processing subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, ClickandBuy, was recently reported to close at the end of April 2016.

As of now, customers are being notified to clear out their accounts prior to the announced date. According to Deutsche Telekom, the reason for the discontinuation of ClickandBuy is due to its failure to keep up with the strong market competition.

Read more » ClickandBuy To Close Down In 2016

Hossein Ensan, 51, was unknown to most people in the poker world before winning an EPT Seniors Event in Barcelona last year. He used some of his winnings to a live satellite that eventually took him to the EPT Barcelona Main Event in which he finished in third place. Then he finished 6th in the EPT Malta Main Event a few months later.

Read more » Hossein Ensan Wins EPT Prague Main Event

There are only six players left after 5 thrilling days of poker in Prague. Ilkin Amirov will lead the remaining players into today's final table with 9.9 million in chips. Amirov, who is the first person from the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to make an EPT final table, slowly worked his was to the chip lead early on Day 5.

Read more » EPT Prague: Main Event Final Table Is Set

The plan for Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event was to play down from 67 to 16 players. Well, 23 players still remained when the tournament director called it a day after several thrilling levels of play on Day 4. Marc Macdonell, from Ireland, bagged up the chip lead with 3.6 million to his name - just about 70k more than Gleb Tremzin in 2nd and 400k more than Benjamin Lamprecht in 3rd.

Read more » EPT Prague: Marc Macdonell To Bring Small Lead Into Day 5 Of Main Event

Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event will see the return of 67 players (total entrants: 1,044 - prize pool: €5,063,400). The plan is to play down to 16 players and move one step closer to Wednesday's final table - where a trophy and €921,540 is awaiting the winner!

Read more » EPT Prague: Abbas Moradi Leads Final 67