BankrollMob News: Poker, Casino, Crypto & Betting

Just as the previous three days, Day 3 of the EPT Malta Main Event ended with a new chip leader, Javier Gomez. The Spaniard, who qualified for the tournament through a €250 satellite, bagged up 1,690,000 and is now guaranteed €12,800 - with the chance of going all the way to the top prize of €810,400!

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 56 Players Left, Satellite Qualifier Out In Front

Another six players entered Day 2 of the EPT Malta Main Event to bring the total field size to 895 players and a prize pool of €4,340,750 - of which 121 players will receive a share of (the winner will take home €810,400).

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 186 Players Ready For Day 3

A massive field of 629 runners entered Day 1B of the EPT Malta Main Event, which brings the total to 899 entries - with registration open until tomorrow at noon. This means that the tournament is already the second-largest debut for a new destination on the European Poker Tour.

Read more » EPT Malta: Max Silver Tops Massive Day 1B Field

The first day of the first ever European Poker Tour Main Event in Malta has come to an end. Approximately 260 players turned up for Day 1A, and 153 remained after eight 75-minute levels of play in the Grand Masters Suite of the Portomaso Casino.

Read more » The First Ever EPT Malta Main Event Has Started

Hello mobsters, this is your blogger westside1950 writing (dknight217 on Pokerstars), I hope you all had good and successful week. I wrote about a week ago about my plan to go and play Spin&Go's on Pokerstars.

Read more » ''Accept rematch?''

Micro Millions, the richest low-stakes tournament series in poker, kicked off on March 19. In total, 100 events will be played until March 29 with $5,000,000 in guaranteed cash prizes!

With buy-ins starting from as little as $0.111, this is the perfect tournament series for all type of players. Besides some massive prize pools, there are also a Player of the Series prizes up for grabs. Visit PokerStars website for further information or click one of the links below. Good luck!

At around 14:30 on Friday, after four intensive days of poker, Connor Drinan and Dzmitry Urbanovich were the last men standing from a field of 88 entries of the European Poker Tour Malta €25,000 High Roller.

Read more » Dzmitry Urbanovich Wins EPT Malta High Roller (€572,300)

The €25,000 buy-in High Roller is down to a final table of eight players after three intensive days of play in Malta. Connor Drinan, who bagged up 893k after nearly 10 levels of play, will lead the way to today's final table.

Read more » EPT Malta €25,000 High Roller: Connor Drinan Leads Final 8

Just five days after being eliminated in 6th place on the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event final table, Ravee Mathi Sundar won the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder $3,500 Main Event! In total, he topped a field of 379 players to claim his first WPT title, $266,857 in prize money and a $15,400 entro into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Borgata Casino in Atlantic City.

Read more » Ravee Mathi Sundar Wins WPT Rolling Thunder

On Tuesday, PokerStars announced that it had signed Japanese celebrity Yuiko Matsukawa as a new brand ambassador. Matsukawa is 24-year-old actress and model who recently received significant public attention in Japan by starring as the heroine of recent release Terrace House Closing Door, a movie based on a reality TV show series about six men and women living in a shared house.

Read more » PokerStars Signs Yuiko Matsukawa

Pokerstars' $9m Anniversary Sunday Million kicked off last Sunday and went on for 15 hours before the field of 50,432 had turned into 1 remaining player. The winner was BRAYDEN93, located in Mexico, and he left the table with no less than $597,720. The first prize was initially said to be +$1 million but due to a deal that was agreed on between the players it turned out that the second place paid out more than the first place.
Read more » $9 million anniversary Sunday Million winner

Yuguang Li, a 36 year old businessman, had a fantastic run at the poker tables in Macau last Friday. Li started by winning the MPC22 Red Dragon Main Event which had gathered a field of 987 players. The first place gave him some $238,000 USD but instead of celbrating the win, Li jumped straight in to the poker action in the MPC22 HK$80,000 High Roller event which proved to be the right thing to do since he managed to win this one too and bag another $219,000 USD.
Read more » Yuguang Li's 24 hour winning-spree in Macau

Hello everyone, this is your blogger westside1950 writing, HU SNG player on Pokerstars (nickname: dknight217)

I didn't play much for the last couple of days, traffic on normal speed Heads-Up tables is rapidly going down, so if you want to play a decent session you must really be patient in waiting for your opponents.

Read more » Spin or go?

Day 2 of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event concluded just a couple of minutes ago with 36 remaining players from a field of 708 entries. Since the registration is now closed, we can confirm that the total prize pool is $5,026,800 and the winner will get $1,214,200.

Read more » WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: 36 Players Remain

On Monday, a 32-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing $420,000 in casino chips from poker pro Matt Kirk's Los Angeles apartment in January, 2015. Dustin Campbell was arrested at his home in Illinois with $40,000 in cash and $20,000 in casino chips on him.

Read more » Man Arrested For $420k Casino Chips Theft

Full Tilt Online Poker Series XXVIII is just around the corner. The popular tournament series, begins on Sunday, March 15, will run for 15 straight days with $4 million in guaranteed prize money, 35 events, and hundreds of special prizes (FTOPS clothes, freeroll with prizes for those who get knocked out on the bubble etc).

Read more » FTOPS XXVIII Starts On Sunday

The second day of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $7,500 Main Event has come to an end. 155 players of 389 that entered on Tuesday will return for Day 2 today. 2014 WSOP ladies event champion Haixia Zhang bagged up the largest stack of the second day (281,000 chips), which means that she will enter Day 2 with the second largest stack after Day 1 A's James Carroll with 297,600.

Read more » WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: Haixia Zhang Tops Day 1B

Congratulations to Chile's very own Oscar Alache, the winner of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Chile Main Event. It only took six-and-a-half hours of play on the final table until Alache was the last man standing of eight finalists.

Read more » Oscar Alache Wins LAPT Chile - His Second Main Event Title In 6 Months!

On February 27th, 2015, the first American Poker Awards Ceremony took place in Beverly Hills. Around 200 guests showed up for the event and Daniel Colman, who didn't attend the event, took home the most prestigious award: GPI Poker Player of the Year.

Read more » 2015 European Poker Awards: Nominees Announced

106 players (311 entries) survived the first day of World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star $7,500 Main Event. The defeating champion of this event, James Carroll, bagged up the chip lead at the end of the first day.

Read more » WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: Reigning Champ Leads After Day 1A

Bullying in poker has two meanings and sadly, both are prevalent. You will likely see it on tables and forums on a daily basis. The first kind of bullying is the ‘at the table bullying', using your stack to build more of a stack. This is part of poker and I won't be discussing this, mainly because I am not qualified to do so, not being a good enough player.

Read more » Bullying

For about 6 years, an unemployed 61-year-old Romanian national cheated casinos across the UK for tens of thousands of pounds by marking cards. Mihai Lacatos was so good at his cheating technique (bending and denting cards in 3-card Hold'em) that it went unnoticed for years.

Read more » Cheated UK Casinos For Several Years By Bending & Denting Cards

A big congratulations to Anthony Zinno, the winner of the 2015 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event! Zinno bested a field of 538 entries to lay hands to lay hands on the $1,015,860 first-place prize and a $15,400 entry into the season-ending WPT World Championship. In addition, he received a WPT Champions Trophy, a pair of gold Monster 24k Headphones and a Hublot Oceanographic 4000 Watch.

Read more » WPT L.A. Poker Classic: Anthony Zinno Wins Back-To-Back Titles!

Hi guys, this is your newest blogger westside1950 writing.
I'm flattered by the interest you've shown for my first post, so I'm really looking forward to writing this new blog of mine. I play 3.5€ and 7€ heads-up SNGs on Pokerstars and my nickname there is dknight217.

Read more » A chip and a chair

The World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is down to a final table of 6 players (the tournament drew a field of 538 entries) after several intensive days of play. Even though Igor Yaroshevskyy is the chip leader with 5,315,000, all eyes will be on Anthony Zinno (1,480,000 chips) when the televised final table kicks off.

Read more » WPT LAPC Final Table Set - Anthony Zinno Looking To Win Back-To-Back Titles!