Pete Rose Re-Applies for Lifetime Ban Lift
Let no one accuse former manager and player Pete Rose of not having cast a vote of confidence in favour of his own team. If only Rose hadn’t done this whilst managing and playing for the Cincinnati Reds and with real gambling money...Read More
What Type of Lottery Player are You?
As social beings, people are interested not only in what their fellow humans are doing, but in how and why they are doing it. Professional (and armchair) anthropologists study different behaviours and try to put reasons and numbers to ...Read More
Books About Poker You Need To Read
In Poker, much like life, if nothing else, you simply have to have a plan. And even though life’s “how to guide” may at times appear to be non-existent, luckily this isn’t the case with Poker. And better yet is...Read More
2019’s Top Ten Women In Poker
Being named one of the top Poker players in the world isn’t an honour enjoyed or deserved by many. It requires grit, determination, wit and a healthy dose of tenacity for good measure. And if you thought that these a...Read More
Top 10 Poker Players For 2019
There are Poker players and then there are top Poker players. Those players raking in the big money, playing against their fellow big-guns and racing each year towards the ultimate accolade of being named Player of the...Read More
Adrian Mateos Wins MILLIONS World Bahamas
Spanish Poker-pro Adrian Mateos may be young but he’s everything but inexperienced or inadequate. The player recently strutted his Poker stuff when he absolutely aced the MILLIONS World Bahamas Main Event for $1.1 mi...Read More
Loto-Quebec’s Latest Report Reveals Player Preferences
Canadian operator Loto-Quebec has released its latest financial and revenue report. According to the first-half of 2019/2020 assessment, Quebec players are now more than ever before choosing to spend time and money on casino gaming ent...Read More
Stones To Answer To $10M Conspiracy Lawsuit
Its not every day one gets to read about a $10 million conspiracy lawsuit. And even more rare is the occurrence when it involves something like playing Poker. But given the circumstances leading up to the civil lawsuit...Read More
Two Women Arrested Over Bingo Card Scam
All is fair in love and war, and Bingo apparently. Police have confirmed a Thursday night New Jersey incident during which two players had supposedly taped the missing winning number needed for a win on to their card. The incident in q...Read More
Couple Leads the Way By Striking Lottery Gold
A classic 1966 Jaguar XKE has the name of one half of a very lucky Port Alberni couple written all over it. Harold and Madelaine are now able to turn their wildest dreams and desires into a reality because the Port Alberni couple are the...Read More
Skywind’s New Breed Of Retention Tools
Skywind Group, in an attempt to strengthen its existing partnerships as well as make its overall offering more alluring to potential new operator partnerships, has created and launched two brand new player engagement t...Read More
US Interrupts Canada’s AmeriCup Winning Streak
6 years and 17 straight victories. This was what Canada was made to offer up in terms of a previously uninterrupted winning streak when the Americans recently beat Canada to the victory post in the FIBA Women’s Ameri...Read More
Twitter Abuzz After Brits Play Money List
There’s no need to be constantly aware of Britain’s high stakes Poker schedule, at least not when you’re a Twitter user. Twitter users are notorious for taking to the platform to vent about especially the equalit...Read More
Meek Mill Bemoans $70k Gambling Loss
One may be tempted into thinking that Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill is particularly unlucky, if even there was such a thing. Earlier this year Mill bet $200,000 on the San Francisco Warriors sticking it to the Raptors ...Read More
Bianca Andreescu Makes Canadian Tennis History
All hail Bianca Andreescu, queen of the North. The 19-year-old Canadian tennis star is now officially 195 spots closer to number 1 glory on the world tennis ranking and the new number 14 overall. The young star this we...Read More
PEGI Responds To NBA 2K20 Age Outrage
The cat is wreaking havoc in the chicken coop following the release of the official trailer and age rating for the upcoming new NBA 2K20 video game by games developer Visual Concepts. The authority for the implementati...Read More
Washington DC Says Yes To Sports Betting
Washington DC is officially joining the sports betting party. Just days ago, the District of Columbia Lottery announced that sports enthusiasts would soon be able to legally wager on sports events and competitions. According to DC Lotter...Read More
Ryan Dunn Wins Poker bestbet Summer Warm Up
The WSOP and European Poker Tours aren’t the only Poker tournaments offering some pretty decent buy-ins and prize pools. A lot is happening stateside too, with the popular Poker room bestbet Jacksonville having very recently wrappe...Read More
Study Hopes To Negate Football Head Injuries
A team of Montreal researchers hoping to better understand and negate the occurrence of head injuries in football have enlisted the members of 3 local varsity football teams in a new study. The study hopes to make head...Read More
Pro-Gamer Ninja Announces Adidas Deal
The world’s most famous professional gamer has been a busy beaver. A new book and a brand-new sponsorship deal with sport and fitness clothing and attire giant Adidas are just some of the latest developments going do...Read More
Annie Duke To Team Up With Hartford Funds
Annie Duke, famously known as the Duchess of Poker, may no longer be actively playing major tournaments, but this hasn’t stopped the rest of the world from continuing to idolise her as being a true “Poker professio...Read More
PokerStars Slashes Cash Games From 24 To 4
PokerStars has slashed the number of cash tables that any player is able to play simultaneously at any given time from 24 down to 4. In spite of the fact that this is bound to prove highly unpopular as far as changes go; especially among...Read More
Bryn Kennedy Is The $55 Million Dollar Man
Bryn Kennedy is Poker’s very own moneymaking machine. The man who not too long ago, despite having finished second in the wealthiest game on earth, the £1,050,000 Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity, still manage...Read More
Bride-To-Be Wins £50k Playing Bingo
Not only is Kylie Preece about to be married, but the 30-year old mother of 3 from Kidderminster, England, is now also able to contribute towards the wedding of her dreams. Kylie is after all £50,000 richer thanks to her having boug...Read More
Vancouver’s Planet Bingo A Beacon Of Hope
Planet Bingo in Vancouver is the largest hall in the Lower Mainland region and its management is particularly proud of the sheer size of the 400-seater venue. But this BCLC owned powerhouse is about much more than just a place where peopl...Read More
Richard Lyndaker Dead At 33
Yet another one of Poker’s legendary players has died. Former online legend Richard “nutsinho” Lyndaker passed away in his San Diego apartment following a suspected accidental pain medication overdose. A close friend of ...Read More
Rooney Takes A Beating Over Gambling Shirt Sponsorship
Former Man United and England captain Wayne Rooney recently managed to attract quite a bit of controversy when he revealed to the football world that the wheels of his leaving current team D.C. United and joining Derby Country, had been ...Read More
Players Not Able To Detect Slot Variances
A significant new study shows that contrary to popular belief, players aren’t quite as tuned in to the likelihood of a win based on the actual detection of percentile statistics as what is currently still assumed to be true. Antony ...Read More
Daniel Sturridge Guilty Of Leaking Betting Info
The English Football Association (FA) has sanctioned English football star Daniel Sturridge, after it was discovered that the player had leaked information about his possible transfer. An independent regulatory commiss...Read More
How Gambling Almost Made For An NBA No-Show
Now a US marriage made in heaven, it’s hard to imagine that gambling once almost stopped the NBA from extending its reach into Canadian territories. The year was 1993 and a very resolute then NBA Commissioner David Stern had at the ...Read More
$888 Event Won By Former Fast Food Worker
As honourable as what an honest day’s work may be, whether its flipping burgers at a local fast-food joint or performing open-heart surgery, winning a gold bracelet and a load of cash still beats it all. Especially if your name is R...Read More
Gronkowski Cuts Short Rumours Of A Come-Back
Rumours of Rob Gronkowski’s intentions to make his way back out of retirement and onto the field have been doing the rounds for quite some time now. The player has however said that, even if this is a very tempting i...Read More
Chris Moneymaker Embarks On 2nd Tour
Player power in Poker. The concept is nothing new and it is proving to be a popular occurrence on the international scene. Players are doing their own thing and branding away at leisure, becoming household names and celebrities in their o...Read More
Poker Player In Hot Water Over Movie-Piracy
If Poker players are anything, then let that thing be recognised as being resourceful. But resourceful isn’t always what one should be going for, especially not when one’s particular brand of resourceful makes one to steal sha...Read More
Husband Unbelieving Of Wife’s Lotto Win
Allan Coe, the husband of a Lottery winner from Creighton in Saskatchewan, was so surprised at having been informed by his son that his (Allan’s) wife had just won $1,000,000 in the Saskatchewan Lottery thanks to a Western Max ticke...Read More
Auger-Aliassime’s Rise To Super-Stardom
It tends to leave you with a strange sensation of disparity. Young Canadian men’s tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime’s statement that despite now being able to buy just about any flashy supercar under the sun, he can’t r...Read More
Andrew Neeme Live In Canada On The Weekend
Canadian Poker players and fans are in for a special treat this coming weekend. Andrew Neeme, who is known for his popular in-person meet-up game events, will be hosted by 888poker in Canada. Thanks to the initiative, Neeme will have the ...Read More
Bingo Inspires Award-Winning Musical
Bingo has been the inspiration behind everything from raising funds to social programs aimed a relieving loneliness in the lives of the aged. But treat of all treats; the game has now also inspired its very own musical! Bingo! The Winnin...Read More
Bianca Andreescu Makes History By Winning Indian Wells
Canadian teen Bianca Andreescu has made tennis history. The 18 year-old on Sunday won her very first tournament at Premier Mandatory level when she won the women’s final at Indian Wells. But the most amazing part is ...Read More
Koon Kicks Ivey Off The Top 10 List
As if being forced, admittedly all of one’s one doing, to resort to playing low-budget Poker and having your name stripped from one of the most esteemed Poker rooms in Vegas isn’t bad enough, Poker’s disgraced golden boy...Read More
Canada Paves The Way For Young Tennis Stars
Not quite as excitable as the US, as full of swag as Australians, or as stiff upper lip as the British, Canadians have always managed to stay relatively grounded in sports, no matter what the rest of the world appeared...Read More
OLG Insider Win One Step Closer To Payment
One can hardly even begin to imagine the disappointment: winning a smashing cash prize only to be told that payment won’t be possible due to the presence of the red tape of bureaucracy. Hard luck has probably never been quite as dif...Read More
Felix Auger-Aliassime Defeated In Rio Final
Rio’s ATP 500 final saw Serbia’s Laslo Djere beat playerplayerCanadian teen Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 7-5 on Sunday past. 18 year-old Aliassime is from Montreal, and on Sunday he became the youngest player ever to have...Read More
Danny Ibrahim Wins World Cup Of Cards
The 2019 Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards draw 317 entries, and Danny Ibrahim ran circles around each and every one of the entrants. Three days was all that it took for the Ottawa, Ontario pro-player to secure the ultimate $1,100...Read More
Ramon Colillas Takes Home $25k PSPC Win
With every level that passed in the $25,000 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC), the stakes grew even higher for those still in the running for the grand prize. A group of 38 participants reached the second last day of action on Januar...Read More
Bingo Player Calls for Support for Female Gamblers
An overwhelming majority of bingo players are able to have a healthy, normal relationship with their gambling game of choice. However, there is a small percentage that suffers from addiction, as with all gaming-related activities, and tho...Read More
The Evolution of Bingo Halls
Way back in the 1960s, bingo players used to select one day a week on their calendars to set aside for their favourite game. On this particular evening, they would disappear into a cloud of cigarette smoke to chat, socialize, and enjoy th...Read More
partypoker Makes History Online
History was made last week as online Poker once again managed to re-invent itself. The biggest online Poker tournament in history ran on partypoker, proving that the game of Poker has evolved into something that is bigger and better than ...Read More
Two-Time WSOP Master Thor Hansen Dies
Legendary Norwegian Poker player Thor Hansen was a legend in his own right. A regular on the scene, Hansen quickly acquired the honourable nickname of the “Godfather of Poker”. Sadly, after a 6-year long battle with cancer, Ha...Read More
MGA Announces New Dispute Directive
Whilst most of us try our best to make love and not war, sometimes, disputes are inevitable. The reality is that we do not always see eye to eye because we’re viewing the same situation from different angles. We’re not talking...Read More
Japan’s Mikiya Kudo Aces APT Main Event
We can hardly think of a better feeling in the world than being the Poker player to have taken down a field of 307 opponents in a prestigious and world-renowned tournament. This particular honour has befallen Mikiya Kudo after he managed ...Read More
Canada Qualifies For Basketball World Cup
It’s been almost a decade since Canada’s last participation in a FIBA World Cup, but thanks to the obvious resolve to make it happen by players like Kyle Wiltjer, Canada’s men’s Basketball team will be competing i...Read More
WSOP-C Winners Share Golden Poker Advice
In October, two players scored their first World Series of Poker Circuit rings, both of whom hailed from Indiana. The first ring was won by Heather Alcorn in the $1,700 Main Event at Horseshoe Southern Indiana, while Mo Nuwwarah scored th...Read More
Canadian Grandmother Scores $700k Lotto Win
A grandmother living in the Canadian region of Saskatchewan was thrilled with a lovely birthday surprise earlier this month. The lucky gran is now more than $700,000 wealthier thanks to a winning lottery ticket that was gifted to her by h...Read More
Miguel Goncalo Wins WPT500 Montreal
The World Poker Tour’s Montreal Main Event has just wrapped up at Canada’s Playground Poker Club. Before the tourney got underway, it was headed up by the $500 buy-in WPT500 Montreal – an event that attracted a whopping ...Read More
5 Of The Best Footballers in the World
So you’re sitting in your local pub, minding your own business, catching up on the latest sports news. But then, from nearby, you hear two patrons discussing who the top 5 football players in the world are. You know already that the...Read More
Most Expensive Football Transfers Ever
What would the world of football be if it didn’t have the obscene player value amounts dangled in front of our eyes? After all, watching the games and cheering for the goals is one thing, but gasping at the utterly outrageous sums of ...Read More
Tim Andrew Bests 3,250 Players to Gold
Canadian small-stakes grinder Tim Andrew made his first-ever bracelet event appearance into something of an unforgettable day. The strong-willed player took down the Event #11: $365 PLO GIANT for $116,015, claiming the title and besting ...Read More
Gera Claims H.O.R.S.E Gold Ring and $8,303
In the USA, Manju Gera has officially been named the latest winner of a gold ring. Earlier in the week, the professional grinder bested a large field in the $400 H.O.R.S.E tourney at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, claiming her first cash ...Read More
Online Poker’s US Resurgence Makes Going Pro Easier
On April 15, 2011, the chances of being a professional online poker player in the US were essentially altogether extinct. Thousands of players who earned the bulk of their living online were suddenly forced to consider either playing on t...Read More
Kevin Martin Keeps Raking In the Wins
Not long after his first big win of last month, local legend and Team PokerStars Online Pro Kevin Martin managed to bank his , and then go on to win a 3rd. The player, who is also a well-known poker streamer and winner of Big Brother Can...Read More
Canada’s Pro Poker Stars
Canada has produced some of the world’s strongest and most passionate poker pros of all time. In celebration of BC’s Tim Andrew winning Canada’s first bracelet in WSOP 2018, we are delving into the great nation’s b...Read More
The World's Top 3 Female Poker Players
The days when Poker was strictly a man’s world are long gone. The ladies have arrived, and are doing a pretty good job at holding their own, too. The changing tide is evident in every online room and at : there are more women at the...Read More
Discover the Wonderful World of Poker
Poker has been played in smoke-filled rooms from time immemorial. Many gamers play poker at land-based casinos and many play online. At a land-based casino you can play video poker or you can sit down and play poker with real ...Read More