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American poker pro Jason Koon has been running very good (both online and live) in the past 1,5 week. First, he took down PokerStars $1,000 Super Tuesday on February 24th, 2015, by outlasting a field of 591 entries for $111,699 in prize money.

Read more » Jason Koon Wins LAPC $50k High Roller ($436,344)

The 2015 World Poker Tour LA Poker Classic ($10,000 buy-in single entry event) drew a field of 538 players when it kicked off a few days ago. Now, after four days of intensive play, there are only 12 players left in the hunt for the top prize of $1,015,860! Peter Tran (picture) will lead the remaining players to Day 5 (start this evening) with a stack of 4,120,000, which equals 25 percent of the chips in play.

Read more » WPT LA Poker Classic: Peter Tran Leads With 12 Players Left

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 42)

The very first Annual American Poker Awards Ceremony (sponsored by PokerStars) took place in Beverly Hills on February 27th, 2015, and around 200 guests attended the event, including elite poker players, industry leaders and operators from the North American Poker World.

Read more » American Poker Awards

Hi guys and welcome to my blog. I'm westside1950, 25 year old student and poker player from Croatia and I hope you'll enjoy reading about both my poker and non-poker observations, stories and adventures.

I play regular speed heads-up SNG's on pokerstars(3.5€ /7&euro with tendency to move up the stakes and play heads-up cash games. Well, someday

Read more » Please Welcome New Blogger "westside1950"

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has not created any headlines for quite some time now. The main reasons are that he's not been running that good nor lost any major sums (well, compared to what many of us are used to hear about).

Read more » High Stakes: "Isildur1" Up $700k Last Month

In July 2014, high-stakes poker profiles Daniel "jungleman12" Cates and Phil Ivey paid $1 million each to bailout Richard Yong and his son Wai Yong, who both stood accused of accepting illegal bets on 2014 FIFA World Cup. Richard Yong was later freed from all charges, and now Cates has received his $1,000,000 bail money back + an extra $63.

source: highstakesdb

Besides winning millions of dollars playing poker online and live, Jason Somerville has gotten himself a decent fan base over the past 2 years through his live streaming videos of Youtube and Twitch. Today, PokerStars announced via a press release that the 27-year-old American has joined its Team PokerStars Pro.

Read more » PokerStars Signs Jason Somerville

On Thursday, The World Series of Poker announced that it has begun entering into agreements with casinos/poker rooms in Italy, Morocco and Mexico to expand its WSOP Circuit. Marrakech, one of Morocco's largest cities, will host the first international Circuit event from March 7th to March 15th, 2015 at Casino de Marrakech Es Saadi (picture).

Read more » WSOP Circuit Expands Outside The U.S.

The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta Poker Festival is set to become the biggest event in EPT history, with over 30 cash game tables running 24/7 and 69 tournaments over the course of 12 days (March 17-28).

Read more » EPT Malta Set To Break Records

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest. 

I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 41)

Hello Yall been on a bit of a poker break these last few months, Been hectic for me at the moment trying to move and pack and clean... god i got a lot of cleaning to do. For my first post back in a while i figure ill do part 3 of tao of gus first then a wee outro.

Read more » THE TAO OF GUS (PART 3)

Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.

Read more » Poker Tips, Bankroll Management and More (PART 40)

In September last year, police raided Aviation Club de France, a more than hundred year old casino on one of Paris' finest addresses, and brought 12 persons into custody after allegations of breaches of employment law and money laundering.

Read more » Legendary Aviation Club de France Closed For Good

Sam Trickett, the leading tournament earner in Europe, crashed with his Ferrari F458 Spider on Sunday. Luckily, the Brit wasn't hurt in the accident. In fact, he took a picture of the car, which costs approx. £275,000, and uploaded it on twitter saying "Nooooooo! Gutted!"

Read more » Sam Trickett Crashes His Ferrari F458

There will be no $1 million buy-in tournament (Big One for One Drop) at the World Series of Poker this summer, but that doesn't mean that there won't be any other tournaments this year with massive buy-ins. On February 19th, Tom Hall, who participated in the 2014 Big One for One Drop and is a regular in Macau's biggest cash games, posted the following message on twitter.

Read more » High-Roller Tom Hall Reveals $500k Buy-In Tournament

On Monday, PokerStars began searching for the last three online qualifiers for the second season of Shark Cage, a televised poker competition where 3 lucky online qualifiers will compete against poker pros and celebrities for a share of a $1 million prize pool!

Read more » Qualify For Shark Cage Season 2

In March 2014, poker player Mehmet Hassan was found dead in his London flat after his sister became concerned about his welfare and called the police. The police suspected that it was a premeditated burglary and it didn't take long before they arrested and charged three people (Leonie Granger, Kyrron Jackson and Nicholas Chandler) with murder, robbery and false imprisonment.

Read more » The Murder of Poker Player Mehmet Hassan: Trial Underway

In April 2012, a group of 14 gamblers won $1.5 million playing mini-baccarat at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City after noticing that the cards weren't shuffled. Once players noticed the error, they increased their bets from $10 a hand to $5,000 and won 41 straight hands before the table was closed down.

Read more » Gamblers Ordered To Return $1.5m Won Playing Mini-Baccarat

The blog section here on BankrollMob has been a bit quiet so far this year, therefore we are now looking for new bloggers who would like to earn mob points while sharing their daily adventures with +630,000 users!

Interested? Simply send an email to [email protected] with a few words about yourself - along with a complete blog post (doesn't have to be a new one) that we can review. 

On April 5, 2012, Irish rugby player Neilus Keogh was playing poker with eight people in the Sporting Emporium Casino - where he was a regular. After losing an unknown sum of money in a hand, Keogh stood up and punched another player, Michael Frisby, in the face before throwing a chair at him.

Read more » Irish Rugby Player Sacked By Club Over Poker Game Assualt

After four days of play, Anthony Zinno had outlasted a field of 419 players in the CAD $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event (played in Toronto, Canada - sponsored by PartyPoker).

Zinno was awarded CAD $380,021 along with a $15,400 seat in the WPT Championship. This was his second WPT title, after winning the WPT Borgata Poker Open for $878,812 during Season XII. He now sits in first place with 1,587.62 points in the Season XIII WPT Player of the Year race.

Read more » Anthony Zinno Wins WPT Fallsview Poker Classic

On Monday, PokerStars announced that there will be a special edition of the Sunday Million next month to celebrate the weekly Sunday tournament's 9th anniversary. The special edition of the Sunday Million, which will be played on March 8 at 14:30 ET, will have the usual $215 buy-in but have a massive $9,000,000 prize pool!

Read more » Sunday Million With $9 Million Prize Pool!

We are very happy to announce that Full Tilt will be hosting an exclusiv Full Tilt Classic tournaments for members of BankrollMob.com. This tournament will award the top two finishers with a $100 entry ticket to the Full Tilt Classic Main Event (200,000 GTD, scheduled on Sunday the 22nd of February at 13:30 ET).

Name: BankrollMob Full Tilt Classic
Tournament ID: 287987664
Date: 18th of February
Time: 9pm CET/8pm GMT/15:00 ET
Prize: 2 x $100 tickets to main event
Buy-in: $0.92 + $0.08
Password: wtw4fw
Read more » BRM Exclusive: BankrollMob Full Tilt Classic

PokerStars' Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Perth Main Event concluded yesterday at Crown Perth in Australia. A field of 192 entrants was narrowed down to a winner, Michael Kane, after four action-packed days of poker.

Read more » ANZPT Perth: Michael Kane Wins The Main Event