Known for its horse track, Mohegan Sun Pocono has made a noticeable shift to casino gambling in recent years. What kind of impact will Mohegan Sun have in the PA online gambling space?
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One of Pokerstars New Jersey’s premier series, the New Jersey Spring Championship of Online Poker, is set to offer players guaranteed prize pools of $1.3 million next month.
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PokerStars latest cash game innovation rolls out across the international online poker network.
PokerStars has released a new cash game variant, Split Hold’em, for a limited time across its global online poker markets.
PRO first revealed that the global poker giant was readying to launch the new game on Monday and suggested that the format would likely be a take on Double Flop Hold’em, a game where two boards are dealt and the pot is split between the best hand of each board. Indeed, that is exactly how Split Hold’em is played.
NJSCOOP sets $1.3 million in guarantees spread over the 16 day series.
PokerStars has revealed its schedule for April’s NJSCOOP in what promises to be the largest ever guaranteed prize pool in a tournament series in the regulated New Jersey online poker market.
With $1.3 million guaranteed across 80 events, it tops all previous tournament series run by PokerStars or its competitors. The previous SCOOP in spring 2017 guaranteed just $1.2 million, as did the companion NJCOOP, which last ran in autumn 2017.
The summer openings of Hard Rock Atlantic City and Ocean Resort Casino have brought a level of excitement back to the city, so which NJ casino will succeed may, in fact, be a trick question.
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PGA-themed daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests have generally proven to be a success for DraftKings – the sport has built an enthusiastic following in the daily fantasy realm since debuting on the site in January 2014.
The DFS industry leader has run multiple contests with multi-million dollar prize pools over the years for all major PGA tournaments. It also got a three-year head start on its biggest rival in this regard. FanDuel did not roll out a PGA product until March 2017. It had primarily stayed away prior to that due to Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) concerns.
Not one to rest on its laurels – especially during a time when product innovation seems to be the name of the game in DFS – DraftKings served up a new PGA game format last weekend that mirrored the scoring system of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play tournament.
The WGC-Dell event consisted of a round-robin tournament with 64 golfers overall. They were divided into 16 groups of four players. DraftKings rolled out its new Match Play format just for the event.
The WGC-Dell’s match play rules deviate from standard “stroke play” golf in that it features head-to-head competition between pairs of golfers.
In match play, winners are determined by how many holes and matches a golfer wins. That’s in contrast to stroke play, where each golfer competes with the others in a tournament from the onset. In stroke play, the golfer with the lowest score overall at the end of 18 holes is considered the winner.
Accordingly, DraftKings scoring system for their Match Play contests was as follows:
While the scoring was different from DraftKings’ standard PGA offerings – where points are awarded based on traditional categories such as bogeys, eagles, birdies, and par – Match Play contests still featured a $50,000 salary cap and six-golfer roster.
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Despite those similarities, Match Play contests still differ enough from the conventional format to qualify as the latest example of DraftKings’ willingness to explore new contest variants.
FanDuel seemingly took the lead in this regard several months ago with the creation of its LABS initiative. DraftKings has attempted to keep pace with the introduction of its Showdown (single-game format) during the NFL playoffs and its Pick ‘Em format (no salary cap) the prior summer.
Most of the new offerings that have come down the pike from both industry heavyweights share a common theme –simplicity. Any DFS format that has fewer hoops to jump through – i.e. salary caps and full rosters – is likely to catch the eye and hold the interest of the casual player that may just be sampling the product, possibly looking for an alternative to sports betting.
Moreover, the simplified formats likely up the odds of success to some degree. That’s naturally one of the best incentives for a new player to become a repeat customer.
Match Play seems to be following in those footsteps, even with its conventional roster size and salary cap. The head-to-head format and scoring centered on clear won/loss-based outcomes are much likelier to appeal to a novice PGA DFS player. Multiple bonus opportunities also drive up scoring. That’s usually a tried-and-true method of making a fantasy contest all the more entertaining in the eyes of the participant.
Additionally, having a format that mirrors the only one of the four major WGC events not to be played with stroke play rules gives DraftKings a golden opportunity to feed into a previously untapped segment of DFS golf.
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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board announced this week it will begin accepting applications for interactive gaming platforms on June 4.
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Poker Central announced 30 of 48 players via lottery in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl. The list includes reputable names Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth.
PokerGO broadcast the live lottery announcement earlier this month. From a list of 61, host Ali Nejad, alongside Negreanu, Hellmuth, and ARIA Head of Poker Operations Sean McCormack drew names.
These players put down the nonrefundable $30,000 deposit toward the $300,000 buy-in event at ARIA Las Vegas Hotel & Casino in Nevada.
Names on the list include first-timers and former winners alike.
Left off the list were other surprising notables:
ARIA will select 16 players and two seats for the $10,000 satellite May 26. The full list of players is below in the order of selection.
The Super High Roller Bowl runs May 27 through May 30, with livestreaming by PokerGO and programming on NBC Sports Network. The Super High Roller Bowl coverage will play in episodes on the network throughout 2018.
Poker Central teamed up with Macau Billionaire Poker to expand overseas leading into the release of the Super High Roller Bowl schedule in the United States.
Justin Bonomo won the 49-player capped Super High Roller Bowl China March 22 for $4.8 million. There were 75 entries, as well as over $18 million in the total prize pool.
The others in the final table lineup include:
This opportunity gave Bonomo his best live cash. This guaranteed $100 million HKD tournament was held at Babylon Casino in Macau, China.
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In February Poker Central debuted of the U.S. Poker Open. This series had $10,000, $25,000, and $50,000 tournaments.
Poker Central also snagged awards at the American Poker Awards for its documentary on Matt Berkey and for its Poker Central Podcast.
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