Russia’s Gleb Tremzin Leads EPT Prague Main Event After Day 2

As we end Day 2 of the EPT Prague Main Event a little more than 200 hopefuls have an opportunity to open another window in this high stakes advent calendar. At the top of them all, Russia's Gleb Tremzin who started the day with with 168,000 and finished on 610,500.

If you're looking for a good story behind your advent calendar winner, consider Niall Ferrell who sits on 547,000. He's just a few weeks removed from winning EPT Malta and seems intent on making another run.

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Bookies Hope to Avoid Disaster With Patriots Seeing Nearly 90 Percent

Bookies have hardly reacted to the amount of action coming in on New England this week in their game against the Houston Texans.  As of Friday afternoon, 86% of the action on the Patriots-Texans game was going towards New England.

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New Book Exposes the Underbelly of Daily Fantasy Sports

A new book that promises to blow the lid off the inner secrets of the daily fantasy sports industry has just been released and anyone who participates in the popular pastime will find the book not just fascinating but also financially rewarding.

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ACR’s CAGE Sees One of the Biggest First Place Payouts In History

The Cage didn’t necessarily feature the biggest turnout in Americas Cardroom’s history last night, but it was a memorable event nonetheless.

Not only did all eight players who successfully emerged from The Cage win more than their buy-in back, but this week’s top two players earned more cash than the first place winner in most installments of the time-based cash game.

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Wife of Mississippi Gambler Sues DraftKings, FanDuel Over Husband’s Losses

A woman in Mississippi has filed a lawsuit against Daily Fantasy Sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel in an effort to recover her husband’s losses.

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Wizard of Macau Launches Improved Site Experience

Online gaming information site Wizard of Macau has announced that it has launched an improved version of its popular website, bringing a revamped look and feel to users who are seeking information on the world’s largest gambling destination.

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Family of Late U.S. Gangster Wants Compensation for Cuba Hotel

TAMPA — (Associated Press) - The family of the late gangster Meyer Lansky is hoping to be compensated for a Havana casino hotel seized after Cuba's 1959 revolution, now that the countries have begun trying to resolve billions in dollars in claims for the confiscation of American properties by the island's socialist government.

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San Diego Casinos Raided: Not ‘Terrorist Related’

Law enforcement dressed in full raid gear were in the process of raiding two San Diego casinos Wednesday shortly before 9 am this morning.

Seven Mile Casino on Bay Boulevard in Chula Vista and the Black Jack Palomar Casino on El Cajon Boulevard and Oregon Street were targeted.

Witnesses to the scene say that FBI agents were in full raid gear.   

FBI spokesperson Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said the raid was not terrorism related but could not provide more details. 

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Mike Francesa Loses His Mind Arguing With Assemblyman Dean Murray Over DFS Bill

Radio host Mike Francesa went off on New York State Assemblyman Dean Murray for proposing legislation that would make Daily Fantasy Sports a “game of skill”.

"Why would you do that?" Francesa said. "It is not a game of skill, it's a game of chance."

A New York judge was in the process of determining just that as of Wednesday when this was being published.

This would ultimately turn into a heated back and forth between the two. 

"I know, I know, you know it all," Murray said. "You have no concept."

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Restore Americas Wire Act: Does House Oversight Committee Have Nothing Better to Do?

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia- Today, Campaign for Liberty President Norm Singleton issued the following statement regarding the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s hearing on the “Restoration of America’s Wire Act”:

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Kid Poker Daniel Negreanu Blasts Trump as ‘Disgusting’

A few poker pros have come out against Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to refuse all Muslims from entering the U.S. if elected.

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Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu (aka Kid Poker) came out swinging on Twitter Tuesday.

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Key NY Lawmakers Throw Daily Fantasy Sports a Lifeline

(Associated Press) - Key Lawmakers Say Daily Fantasy Sports Will be Legal in NY No Matter What Court Decides - The chairman of a state legislative committee with authority over gambling predicts New York will legalize and regulate daily fantasy sports, no matter how a court fight centered on the lucrative industry turns out.

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Brian Rast vs. Sorel Mizzi Fight Goes Off December 30

Forget the fight everyone is looking forward to this coming Saturday – Conor McGregor vs. Jose Aldo.  How about Brian Rast vs. Sorel Mizzi?

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Luuk Gieles Tops EPT12 Prague €50K Super High Roller Day 1 Field

Dutch poker pro Luuk Gieles is leading the EPT12 Prague €50k Super High Roller at the end of Day 1.

He bagged 1,025,000 after today's eight levels to top the 50-entry field (42 unique players + 8 re-entries). The 23-year-old's total live tournament results of $144k wouldn't necessarily mark him out as an EPT Super High Roller, however Gieles has a strong online background with Supernova Elite status on PokerStars where he's crushing it as "pokerkluka". His achievements there include a TCOOP title which he won back in January 2014 for $284k.

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Vote Eric Schneiderman Out of Office, DraftKings, FanDuel Proclaim

Daily Fantasy Sports leaders DraftKings and FanDuel want their customers to vote New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman out of office. 

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Baaaad Behavior: Brunson Draws Goat Analogy While Tweeting at 'Freaking Foreigners'

When it comes to US-based poker pros stance on how to deal with the recent spate in radical Islamic terrorist attacks across the globe as well as gun control in the U.S., few have been more outspoken than Todd Brunson, son of poker legend Doyle Brunson.

He tweeted:

The younger Brunson went on a Twitter tirade of sorts over the past 24 hours in regard to the later.

I've had 4 tweets from ppl disagreeing with my views on American gun control laws and all 4 were from other countries. Wtf??...

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‘Ahundredollars’ Takes Biggest Prize in Million Dollar Sunday History

San Jose, Costa Rica – His online poker name is ahundredollars, but the Million Dollar Sunday champion is waking up this morning with a lot more money in his pocket after taking first place in Americas Cardroom’s $1 million guaranteed poker tournament.

With a first place prize of $200,000, ahundredollars has won the biggest payout in the history of the Million Dollar Sunday.

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World’s First Food Casino Lets You Bet With Burgers

Leave your money at home.  A new casino actually let’s you place bets with burgers and other food items.

Say what?

You’ll find The Dinner in London “Raise the Steaks” new pop-up a throwback to a bygone era of the 1950’s. 

Participants will be provided with a free burger and chips with which they can use to gamble and hopefully win even more food. 

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No Festivus for the Rest of Us Kid Poker Affirms

Poker’s most outspoken representative Daniel Negreanu (also known as Kid Poker) has objected to the idea of banning any type of religious holiday observations on some college campuses.

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Samuel Sjoqvist Leads Eureka 5 Prague at End of Day 1A

After twelve 45-minute levels, the 118 Day 1a survivors of the €1,100 Eureka 5 Prague Main Event called it a day tonight - with Samuel Sjoqvist from Sweden in the lead after bagging 263,500.

The 26-year-old's live tournament resumé doesn't reveal much. So far, Sjoqvist has recorded only two cashes, one of them coming in the EPT11 Barcelona Main Event where he earned €20,300 for a 42nd place.

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Eureka 5 Prague Main Event Underway at EPT Prague Poker Festival

Eight years ago, Prague was introduced to the European Poker Tour for the first time. Since then, the tour has been returned to the Hilton Prague every December and here we are again - with a record-breaking 97 events, making this year's festival the largest ever held by PokerStars.

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WPT Acquisition of RealDeck Could Let Players Host Own Online Poker Tournaments

The World Poker Tour announced Friday their purchase of RealDeck for $15 million.

The deal is significant in that one of the patents held by RealDeck involves providing players with a live dealer and actual cards instead of software.  They also offer P2P audio and video.

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British Teen Given Suspended Jail Sentence for Online Gambling Cyber Attack

Max Dean Whitehouse was 17-years-old at the time he launched a cyber-attack on an unnamed large online gambling site two years ago.  The British teenager was given a 12-month jail sentence last week.

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Judge Throws Out Inmate Lawsuit Claiming USA Today Ruined Gambling Biz

A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has thrown out what a judge referred to as an “utterly frivolous” lawsuit by a prison inmate claiming USA Today ruined his illegal jailhouse gambling business after it decided to stop publishing Las Vegas odds.

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Man Gets Three Year Sentence for Biting Off Ear During Poker Brawl

James Salisbury, 27, has been jailed for three years after biting off a portion of another man’s ear during a heated brawl at an Ipswich Conservative Club poker game this past January.

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Free Tournament Bucks Announced for Million Dollar Sunday Event

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and one US-facing online poker site is starting to look like Santa.  Americas Cardroomtoday announced a series of free giveaways to every player at the site, designed to help poker players get into December 6th's Million Dollar Sunday and put more cash in their pockets. The Million Dollar Sunday gets underway on Sunday, December 6th at 5pm ET and features a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000, with $200,000 earmarked for first place.

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Jason Chaffetz Announces Hearing Date for Online Poker

Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz has announced a hearing date to determine the status of his co-authored legislation, Restore America’s Wire Act or RAWA for short.  

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Hearing Date: December 9, 2015 1:00 pm 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

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Judge Transfers State Lawsuit Against Seminoles

(Associated Press) - A federal lawsuit filed by the state against the Seminole Tribe of Florida has been transferred to Tallahassee, where it will join another pending lawsuit about gambling at Seminole casinos.

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Planned Parenthood Shooter Was God-Loving Gambler

(Associated Press) - The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic left a decades-long trail of broken marriages, scant social connections and a reputation for religious zealotry that didn’t match his yen for gambling and extramarital affairs.

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Kid Poker Documentary Available Soon: Gets Rave Reviews

A documentary on the life of poker icon Daniel Negreanu aired in Canada Tuesday night but not everyone lives there so, as one would expect, folks are inquiring as to when this documentary will air over the Internet.

According to PocketFives Community Manager Kevin Mathers, details of where to watch will be released soon.

The documentary received rave reviews from his peers who were able to watch it.

Poker player Michele Martin tweeted:

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