New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney wrote a letter, urging states to resist sports leagues’ demands for an integrity fee. Sweeney vowed such a fee would be excluded from any NJ sports betting bill.
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Now that NJ sports betting is legal thanks to last week’s Supreme Court decision, the state is considering filing suit against the sports leagues for lost tax revenue plus more than $8 million in legal fees.
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A poker player who was robbed and shot outside one of Texas’ social poker clubs has recovered, as the suspects are now behind bars. According to a report Tuesday from …
Keno is being hailed a hit in Pennsylvania, with over $2 million in sales in the first 17 days since the game officially launched. Additionally, the PA Lotto has awarded $1.3 million in prizes.
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In a meeting with New Jersey lawmakers this week, the state treasurer estimated that legal NJ sports betting would only bring $13m in tax revenue to the state, far less than what had been expected.
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Phil Ivey’s return to the winner’s circle last week in Montenegro in the Triton Super High Roller Series came in a new form of poker for most viewers. Short Deck poker first entered the vernacular in 2017 when cash games in Macau introduced the format at the behest of businessmen looking for more action.
All 16 cards from deuces through fives are removed, thus creating more playable hands. The Triton series offered two events with the format that were live streamed on Twitch as a global audience soaked in the game, most for the first time.
The increased activity in Short Deck is based on the amount of playable hands dealt to each player on a per round basis. The math in Short Deck changes the hand rankings which creates a new dynamic for all involved.
As Tom Dwan stated on the Twitch live stream, flushes are worth more than full houses in Short Deck. This is an alteration that Dwan said was inputted only a few months ago.
Similar to Pot-Limit Omaha, hand strengths are closer together in Short Deck than in standard No-Limit Hold’em.
In a release written last year for paulphaupoker.com, Ivey said, “There’s a lot of gambling involved. The equities run pretty close, so it’s pretty easy to get your money in the middle and be 50/50 or somewhere near that. It suits a more gambling style of player.”
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The Triton Super High Roller Series included cash games with blinds as high as €2,000/€4,000 and four tournaments. Two of the four tournaments were Short Deck.
Ivey won the HKD$250,000 ($31,848) preliminary event that brought in 61 entrants for $604,992, defeating Daniel Cates heads up.
The second Short Deck event accumulated more entrants than the Triton Main Event. Both tournaments were an HKD$1 million ($127,391) buy-in and there was a discrepancy between the two.
The standard No-Limit Hold’em Main Event drew 63 runners with Super High Roller Bowl entrant Mikita Bodyakovskiy coming out on top. Starting the same day as the conclusion of the Main Event, the Short Deck post-lim amassed 103 players and put a whopping $12.3 million in the prize pool.
Jason Koon started his summer off with a bang, as he took home the $3.6 million first-place prize. Other players to make the final table included a mix of professionals and businessman. Ivey, Winfred Yu, Peter Jetten, Paul Phau, and bracelet winner Dr. Sean Dempsey were among them.
The popularity of Short Deck among high rollers could soon trickle into card rooms across the United States. Big blind ante and shot clocks derived from the highest of buy-ins and it will be interesting to see if Short Deck joins them.
Dwan’s familiarity with Short Deck led him to refer to No-Limit Hold’em as “Long Deck.” The #PokerTwitter crew fell in love with the verbiage right away.
lol @GregMerson just texted me 2 mins ago “gotta refer to NL as long deck from now on”
— Christian Harder (@realcharder30) May 16, 2018
Perhaps the Big Bet mix that took ARIA by storm last summer has a new plaque in place for Short Deck? Stay tuned.
ARIA’s Sean McCormack noted that he and his team are working to potentially add Short Deck to their offering of tournaments this summer.
We already have the rules in our rule book. Reach out to @TDPaulCampbell to see if we can fit on schedule. I’d love to see this go.
— Sean McCormack (@ThePokerBoss) May 18, 2018
Triton Poker holds the proverbial trademark to Short Deck poker and already have plans to leverage the format in their next series. Coming to Korea starting on July 23 is the next Triton Super High Roller Series. Per Kevin Mathers’ Twitter, Phau noted that the schedule consists of four Short Deck events and two Long Deck.
Pot-Limit Omaha’s growth is at a new peak with casinos across the United States offering the game at the $1/$2 level. Should Short Deck continue to increase in popularity, it may not be too long before it too is the new “it” game for players at all levels.
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PokerStars new Showtime Hold’em game could be one of the better variants of NL Hold’em trialled by the site this spring, as it incentivises players to be more observant about their opponents’ cards. Players who take advantage of the extra information available could find Showtime Hold´em extremely lucrative.
The poker media often spends the time before the annual World Series of Poker filling the pages of various websites with its predictions. They point out players on a hot streak who look ready for a big series. Others you may not have heard on the verge of a breakout. Or various poker personalities they deem destined to make a mark on the WSOP this year, one way or another.
However, we here at USPoker think it’s time someone turn the camera around. Flip the script, as they say, and put the spotlight back on members of the poker media instead.
The live bloggers plucked straight from the pages of Craigslist. The poker fanboys ogling their idols and looking for a way to min-cash without ever registering. The marketing copywriters posing as journalists. And, the sports commentators who never made it in the big leagues trying to appeal to one last deteriorating niche market.
These folks often trot out the same coverage strategies year in year out. So, their behavior, and its effect on the 2018 WSOP, should be easy enough to predict.
Our tongues are firmly planted in our cheeks here. Plus, specific names have been omitted to make sure these folks don’t approach us in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino parking lot with beef and a blunt object throughout the summer. However, here is USPoker’s Poker Media Predictions for the 2018 WSOP:
As always, the team of live bloggers covering the WSOP will do an admirable and relatively adequate job providing live updates throughout every tournament on the massive 78-bracelet-event schedule.
These are the folks working 16-hour days trying to complete the almost impossible task of catching all the important action in tournaments with thousands of players on hundreds of tables. They should be commended just for trying. Instead, as always, players will quickly get fed up with the odd hand being misreported, or name spelled incorrectly.
Accuracy is important. These mistakes should be fixed immediately. But considering the volume of work, a mistake or two shouldn’t have the poker community jumping down the live bloggers’ throats.
Players will likely not do what they should, which is focus their complaints elsewhere. Like how dry and almost unreadable the coverage has become under the leadership of a group of English-as-a-second-language content heads devoid of any personality or real writing chops.
Poker is supposed to be fun. Reading bare bones hand histories isn’t. The basic style of live updates the poker community has been spoon fed in the past is far from entertaining. Plus, it does nothing to attract new players to the game.
It’s time those in the written live coverage business start making the updates fun and entertaining. They need to be highlighting those aspects of the game in an effort to draw people in. Unfortunately, the folks in charge have only proven to be in-the-box thinkers. So, it’ll likely be status quo for live updates again at the 2018 WSOP.
Producers of the WSOP final table live streams will roll out a familiar commentary team. A pair once credited for helping spark poker’s boom in popularity. Even though they are probably equally responsible for its stagnation over the decade since the game peaked.
The color man will tell the same Henny Youngman-style ex-wife jokes he’s been telling for 15 years. He will remain oblivious to the fact they’re not funny anymore, and probably weren’t in the first place.
The fact the team began picking up lifetime achievement awards last year should be a clear indication it’s time for them to go. Instead, we’ll see more of them than ever, ensuring yet another opportunity to bring poker to a whole new audience is wasted.
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The editor of a relatively popular online poker community website will tell the heart-wrenching story of a player overcoming the effects of a debilitating illness to play in a WSOP event.
It will touch the soul of the community, even if it is an obvious effort to pander to a poker awards jury next year. A jury the site’s publisher has already bought off, becoming a named-sponsor of one of the awards to ensure his editor’s success.
Like they always do, the mainstream media will largely ignore most of what’s happening at the WSOP. The fact the $1 million buy-in event is on again this year should draw some interest from the mass media.
However, they’re bound to print something giving tournament chips cash value. Or make some other egregious error that further enrages a poker community already buying into President Donald Trump‘s idea that most of what they produce is fake news.
Caesars public relations staff is bound to go above and beyond the usual $15 media food comp to try and draw out some more major news outlets. However, they’ll inevitably be left feeling like they got a lot less than a dinner at VooDoo Steakhouse should get them. And perhaps they shouldn’t have been so skimpy with the sides.
Thinly-veiled affiliate marketing websites posing as poker news outlets, just like this one, will treat poker like a sport.
They will publish all the important results coming out of the series. They’ll write stories that turn ordinary poker players into heroes. And, they’ll try to convince readers they can be next. However, it’s all just an effort to get you to sign up for an account with various online poker sites.
Some may even team up with the WSOP to offer satellite tournaments into online bracelet events. Much like the one US Poker is running on WSOP.com in a few days.
The $2 buy-in password-protected satellite tournament will go off on May 26 at 3:30 p.m. local time in Las Vegas. It’s open to players in Nevada and New Jersey. So, just sign up for an account with WSOP.com. Then scrounge up a couple of bucks and enter, using the password USP365 to join in.
The winner earns entry into WSOP Event #10: $365 Online No-Limit Hold’em, where a bracelet and hero status is on the line.
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Atlantic City’s gambling industry is struggling just as two brick-and-mortar casinos are slated to reopen next month under new branding and ownership. According to figures released Tuesday by Atlantic City …
The first three-country shared liquidity network between France, Spain and Portugal expected to go live imminently.
Portugal’s gaming regulator SRIJ has finally authorized PokerStars for cross-border shared liquidity.
The approval should now pave the way for PokerStars to combine its Portuguese poker room, which is currently segregated from the rest of the world, with its new PokerStars Europe network, which currently includes its Spanish and French online poker rooms.