Fabrice Bigot reeled in the largest live poker tournament score of his career this weekend when he came out on top of a massive field in the €1,100 WPT Prime Paris Main Event. Some 1,071 players turned out in force at the Club Circus, and created a €1, 028,160 prizeContinue Reading
The World Poker Tour Prime Championship $1,100 buy-in event attracted a gigantic field of 5,430 entries, more than doubling the $2 million guarantee to create a final prize pool of $5,267,100. In the end, Stephen Song emerged victorious from that sea of players with the title and the top prizeContinue Reading
The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has been a tremendous success, and while the $10,400 Championship has taken center stage, the festival has already hosted a highly-successful tournament in the $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Championship. That tournament has achieved its final table of six withContinue Reading
October 26, 2022 Law & Politics Will new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak be a good bet for the gambling industry or is he going to double down on restrictive reforms? That’s the question some are asking following Sunak’s official appointment to the post on Tuesday. Will new Prime MinisterContinue Reading
UK Government’s much anticipated White Paper may never see the light of day if rumors that the gambling reform will be axed by the new cabinet ministers turn out to be true. The ongoing Gambling Act 2005 review may be next on the firing line for the newly-elected Prime MinisterContinue Reading
Fumio Kishida has doubled down on his stance on online casinos in Japan. The country’s prime minister has stated that these platforms will remain illegal and insisted that all online casino organizations will not be tolerated. Prime minister Kishida’s comments come as a response to Issei Yamagishi’s questions. Yamagishi ClaimedContinue Reading
This week the World Poker Tour announced a new poker tournament offering: WPT Prime. According to the press release, WPT Prime will look to pair, “…the premier poker tournament experience of a WPT Main Tour stop with affordable buy-ins accessible to more players around the globe.” The first of threeContinue Reading