The highest buy-in pot-limit Omaha event of the 2022 Poker Masters series saw 40 entries made, each costing $25,000. As a result, the prize pool grew to $1,000,000,with only the top six finishers making the money. In the end, Tony Bloom came away with the title and the top prizeContinue Reading
Six semifinalists for the 16th annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award have been selected by a panel of judges and were split evenly this year between fiction and non-fiction. These semifinalists were chosen from nearly two dozen submissions, a healthy indicator that interest in horse racing remains very much aliveContinue Reading
Like most I suspect, I am happy to ignore the six-runner ITV filler from Newton Abbot, and concentrate on the five York races, which I will take in chronological order. The opener is a competitive 11-runner 1m3f188yd handicap at 13:50 but that didn’t stop the Betfair Sportsbook installing William Haggas’Continue Reading
I didn’t expect to get a tip out of the three Kempton races on ITV but, as much as I tried, I couldn’t resist Diamond Bay at 5.59/2 or bigger in the 1m3f handicap at 15:30. It is certainly not my usual kind of price – and Zero Ten wasContinue Reading
It is always a tricky time of the punting year, when we are all guessing on the levels of fitness of the returnees, but Musselburgh have put on excellent prize money so you have to expect most will arrive here, tuned up and ready for the fight. I will startContinue Reading
Independent gaming certification lab BMM Testlabs announced Monday the promotion of Tony McLaughlin to VP of Quality Assurance Services in North America. McLaughlin joined BMM in 2016 as Technical Project Manager. In his new role, he will report to the Senior Vice President in Canada, Linda Lemieux. Lemieux said: “Over manyContinue Reading
The Wynn Millions poker tournament made its debut in 2021. The $10,000 buy-in event featured a massive $10 million guarantee, which was easily surpassed when 1,328 entries created a final prize pool of $12,483,200. The huge success of the inaugural running all but guaranteed that the event would be heldContinue Reading
Writing this second ante-post piece has been a bit of a horror story, but we will get to the reasons why shortly! In happier times, when compiling the list of double-entered horses for the weekend on Monday, I did have a chuckle to myself when going through Newbury’s 3m DailyContinue Reading
January 21, 2022 Online Poker Anyone who thinks there’s no action on crypto poker sites may need to think again as Tony G and Leon Tsoukernik recently played a pot worth almost $2 million. Tony G and Leon Tsoukernik shared a pot worth more than $1.8 million on the cryptoContinue Reading
ITV continue to roll out the red carpet for their racing viewers and day four of their uninterrupted coverage over Christmas ends on Wednesday with nine races from three tracks, headed up by Grade 1 action from Leopardstown. We may as well start with the Irish action then, although theContinue Reading