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Vin Narayanan Gaming Guru - Page 11  MGM, Boyd Gaming to form company with bwin.Party31 October 2011
MGM Resorts International and Boyd Gaming are forming a new company with European online gambling giant bwin.party to offer online poker in the United States when it is regulated by the government. Boyd announced today that it would own 10 percent of the joint venture. MGM Resorts will own 25 percent of the ... (read more)
Full Tilt Poker's gaming license revoked by Alderney29 September 2011
The Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) revoked Full Tilt Poker's license today. "At a hearing held in London over six days, it emerged that FTP had fundamentally misled AGCC about their operational integrity by continuously reporting as liquid funds balances that had been covertly seized or restrained by U.S. ... (read more)
Full Tilt didn't violate license by commingling funds21 September 2011
MILAN, Italy -- Full Tilt Poker may have commingled player funds and operations money in bank accounts, but that didn't violate its license with the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). Alderney licensees are required to disclose to players whether they mix player deposits and operations money in ... (read more)
Vin's top-10 WSOP Main Event (mostly) observations25 July 2011
The World Series of Poker Main Event has become an annual pilgrimage for poker players. Every year, it draws thousands of players -- amateurs and pros alike -- willing to plunk down $10,000 of their own money (or a combination of their money and other people's money) for the shot to win close to $9 million and a place in poker history. ... (read more)
WSOP Main Event final table has European flavor20 July 2011
LAS VEGAS - The final table for the World Series of Poker Main Event is set and the Europeans are coming. The Czech Republic's Martin Staszko is the tournament's chip leader with 40.175 million in chips. And he leads a contingent of five Europeans to the final table. Ireland's Eoghan O'Dea is second in chips with 33.925 million. ... (read more)
WSOP Main Event down to 22 players19 July 2011
LAS VEGAS -- And then there were 22. The World Series of Poker Main Event played itself down from 57 players to 22 Monday, and Anton Makiievskyi emerged as the chip leader with 21.045 million. The final 22 will attempt to play their way into November's final table Tuesday. The Main Event champion wins $8,711,956. ... (read more)
Ryan Lenaghan grabs WSOP Main Event lead; Ben Lamb lurking18 July 2011
LAS VEGAS - The World Series of Poker Main Event taught us three critical lessons Sunday: 1. A 10-million chip stack is irrelevant when Ben Lamb is chasing you. 2. Be frickin' careful when you move chip stacks to a new table. 3. If the players -- and their friends and family -- didn't have to be at the Main Event, they would have been watching the Women's World Cup final. ... (read more)
Enormous chip stacks have the WSOP Main Event buzzing17 July 2011
LAS VEGAS - The World Series of Poker Main Event found its mojo Saturday. After a week of quiet intensity, a sense of excitement emerged in the Amazon Room as players jockeyed for position to make a run at the final table, and a first prize of more than $8.7 million. The biggest cause for the newfound ... (read more)
WSOP Main Event field hits the money16 July 2011
LAS VEGAS -- For 693 players, Friday was a good day at the World Series of Poker Main Event. It was the day they began to win money. Friday's Day 4 action began with 852 players remaining from an original field of 6,865. But the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament is only awarding money to players who finish 693rd or better, so 159 players were going home today without winning any cash. ... (read more)
WSOP chip leader Manoj Viswanathan breaking some trends16 July 2011
LAS VEGAS - The storyline is almost expected. Young poker pro learns to play the game online. Then he plays in the World Series of Poker Main Event, rises to the chip lead and wins the tournament -- seemingly out of nowhere. That's what happened with the last three Main Event champions, Jonathan Duhamel (2011), Joe Cada (2010) and Peter Eastgate (2009). ... (read more)
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