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Earlier this year some of you might have heard about a potential MMA fight between Sorel Mizzi and Luke Schwartz. Well, Schwartz ended up backing down from the challenge, claiming that he didn't have the time and effort to make the fight happen.

Read more » Upcoming MMA Fight Between Sorel Mizzi & Brian Rast

Steve O'Dwyer became the first-ever player on the European Poker Tour to win a second Super High Roller title last night! Amazingly enough this was only the fifteenth time the EPT held an event with a Super High Roller attached. (Aside from two EPT Super High Roller titles, he also has a Super High Roller title victory from the 2014 APPT in Macau).

Read more » WPT Prague: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Yet Another Super High Roller!

Once registration for the EPT €50k Super High Roller closed on Wednesday, the total number of entrants had increased from 51 to 56 (46 players, 10 re-entries). This means that this year's Super High Roller in Prague enjoyed an increase of 5 entries over last year's 51 entries.

Read more » EPT Prague Super High Roller: Netherland's Luuk Gieles Leads Final 8

When it comes to gambling, Australians are deemed to be very big spenders, and because of that, they have hit a new top record this year concerning the total sum of cash they spent on various gambling activities. A report by iGaming Business revealed that the country has reached that record-high gambling spend during the 12 months from September 30, 2014 up September 30, 2015.

Read more » Australians' Spend Record Amount On Gambling In 2015

The European Poker Tour Prague kicked off with a bang yesterday, because 50 entries (42 players, 8 reentries) were made during the first day of the €50,000 Super High Roller! Re-entries and late registration is open until the start of Day 2, so for sure last year's field of 51 entries (42 players, 9 re-entries) will be beaten!

Read more » EPT Prague: Super High Roller Underway

A teenager in the United Kingdom has been sentenced for his cyber-attack on an online gambling website which led to an estimate loss of £18,000.

According to a report from the Daily Express, the 19-year-old teenager, Max Whitehouse, showed up on November 20, 2015 before the Nottingham Crown Court and confessed to flooding the website with a huge amount of virtual traffic to the point that it could no longer operate for a while.

Read more » Teen Sentenced To 1 Year In Prison For Cyber-Attack On Gambling Website

After a thrilling three-hour heads-up battle against Russia's Pavel Plesuv on Sunday, Spain's Javier Gomez was the last man standing in the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event. Gomez only had about €25k in tournament earnings prior to this tournament, so the €175,000 first-place prize will definitely come in handy!

Read more » Javier Gomez Wins partypoker WPT Prague For €175,000!

At a Gambling Compliance Conference in Lisbon on Monday, government officials suprised many when they revealed that Portuguese poker players soon won't be able to compete against players from other countries.

Read more » Portuguese Players Soon Cut Off From The Rest Of The Online Poker World

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event concluded last night with Brian Senie bagging up an incredible chip lead! Senie, from USA, started Day 2 with a decent stack but a tough table, featuring Simon Deadman, Michel Abercassis and Yann Dion.

Read more » WPT Prague: American Pro To Bring Massive Lead Into Day 3

A once-a-week game of Mahjong enjoyed by a group of elderly women in Florida was busted by police for illegal gambling charges, according to a columnist from The Huffington Post. Apparently, the game only had a daily "loss limit" of just $4.

Read more » Mahjong-loving Grandmas Busted By Police For Illegal Gambling

The second starting day of the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event attracted a much bigger player-field than Day 1A (60 entries). A total of 173 players entered Day 1B, and 112 of them made it through to Day 2 after 8 levels of intensive play.

Read more » WPT Prague: Day 1B Update

The World Poker Tour has landed in beautiful Prague in Czech Republic and the first day of the Main Event is already in the books. 60 players entered Day 1A and, after 8 levels of play, 38 of them were still alive and kicking.

Read more » WPT Prague: Day 1A Drew 60 Players

December is finally here... and just like in the past couple of years Santa Claus has arrived early to BankrollMob with a bag full of amazing Christmas Gifts for our members! From 1 - 24 December, you have 5 unique chances every day to win Poker Tournament Tickets, Mob Points (cash), Merchandise, and much more in our Christmas Calendar!

Read more » BankrollMob Christmas Calendar With $13,000+ In Prizes!!!

Phil Ivey, 39, was denied his winnings of almost £8 million in August 2012 after playing a card game called punto banco at a casino in London. The owners of the Mayfair gaming club Crockfords declared that Mr. Ivey had been cheating and had broken the rules, thereby his win is not considered valid. Denying this, Mr. Ivey claimed that he utilized a completely legitimate technique called "edge sorting".

Read more » Phil Ivey Might Still Get His £8 Million - Granted Court Appeal Against Crockfords

Season 8 of PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour concluded last night after five intensive days of play in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Two Brazilian players, Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins and Afonse Henrique, played heads-up for the title.

Read more » LAPT Brazil: Yuri "theNERDguy" Martins Wins Grand Final

Several months after the trailer was released, ‘KidPoker' had its world premier yesterday at the Toronto International Film Festival! The long-awaited documentary, produced by PokerStars and directed by Francine Watson, about everyone's favorite poker player Daniel "KidPoker" Negreanu received some very positive feedback on, for example, Twitter right after the premier.

Read more » 'KidPoker' Premiered Last Night

On Wednesday, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu answered fan questions on reddit.com (Ask Me Anything). Here are some of the highlights! Enjoy! 

AvoidMyRage: Let's say you would commit all your time, energy and money to making as much money as possible playing poker, what/where would you play and how much do you think could you average a year?

I would play in Macau and think I could average $7 million a year.

Read more » Daniel Negreanu Answers Fan Questions

The third edition of the Cash Game Festival kicks off today at Olympic Casino in Tallinn, Estonia. The festival, which is sponsored by 888poker and some other popular poker rooms, will be running until this Sunday with cash games around the clock.

Read more » Cash Game Festival (LIVE STREAM)

Full Tilt's biggest promotion of the year is on! From November 23 until January 3, $1 million in prize giveaways will be awarded to players through eight different online activities, including deposit offers, Leader Board races and freeroll tournaments.

Read more » Million Dollar Breakaway: $1 Million In Prize Giveaways!

Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's painting "Poker Game" (finished in 1894) went under the hammer last week for an astonishing $658,000! Coolidge (1844-1934) became a well-known artist thanks to his paintings of dogs playing poker, which mirrored the successful middle-class humans of his time.

Read more » "Poker Game" Sold For $658,000!

In case you missed it, there is a BRM-exclusive freeroll league running on Poker Mira. Here are the daily freerolls: 

• $5 Freeroll at 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST ($5 Bankrollmob freeroll)
• $10 Freeroll at 20:00 GMT / 21:00 CET / 15:00 EST ($10 Bankrollmob depositors freeroll)

Read more » Poker MIRA Freeroll League

On Friday, the 6th of November 2015, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Foundation's yearly "All In" for Kids Poker Tournament raised almost $700,000 to benefit the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Read more » WPT Foundation's "All In" For Kids Tournament Raises $700K

Despite starting with the smallest stack on the 7th day of play, Jared Mahoney managed to overcome his 5 opponents on the WPT Montreal Main Event final table (lasted for nearly 10 hours) to claim his first WPT title and $433,410 CAD, by far the biggest cash of his career!

Read more » Jared Mahoney Wins partypoker WPT Montreal!

In just about six hours of play on Day 4 of the World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event, a field of 16 players was reduced to a final table of six, including Brian Altman who bagged up 8.4 million and the chip lead. Altman, who has about 1 million dollars in career earnings, has 3.4 million more than his nearest opponent, Darrell Fish with 5.1 million.

Read more » WPT Montreal Final Table Is Set

Although American poker pro Joe McKeehen won this year's WSOP Main Event for $7.6 million, the biggest winner of all was the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)! According to a report by taxabletalk.com' s Russ Fox, 34.13 percent of the final table's $24,806,976 prize money will go to the IRS. That's $8,467,091!

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Joe McKeehen Not The Biggest Winner Of This Year's Final Table