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888 Poker has fine-tuned its daily Fish ´N´ Chips tournament schedule by replacing some of the existing menu with new BIG Fish tournaments. The six new tournaments have buy-ins starting at $5.50, guaranteed prize pools totalling $100,000, and are being supported by a very generous satellite schedule.

The impending release date of the shared liquidity on WSOP.com between Delaware, Nevada, and New Jersey resulted in excitement across the markets. May is finally here and WSOP.com coronated the launch with a major online tournament series.

The shared liquidity agreement was announced on October 13 and anticipation has been high since then.

The shared player pools allow for larger prize pools, increased offering in live games and tournaments, and potential for legislation in other states.

Pennsylvania is expected to be the next state in the pecking order to join in the shared liquidity. The state signed online gaming into regulation in the fall of 2017 and is awaiting a formal date to commence the button clicking.

“It’s a monumental day for online poker in the United States,” WSOP.com Head of Online Poker Bill Rini said. “This is truly a game-changer for players and we hope is the model blueprint for additional states to join the fray.”

Starting the party with a bang

The Coast to Coast Classic opens on May 11 and boasts a staggering $1 million in prize pool guarantees across 32 events.

All three states are eligible to participate in the series with over a week of events scheduled. The guarantees in the Coast to Coast Classic range from $10,000 all the way up to the $200,001 Main Event on Sunday, May 20.

The $200,001 guarantee on the $500 buy-in is the largest prize pool ever offered in the history of regulated online poker in the United States.

Three tournaments take place each day of the series with the exception of the two Sundays on the schedule. Both May 13 and May 20 feature four MTTs.

Every tournament starts at the top of the hour between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

Any player who registers for at least one Coast to Coast Classic event earns a ticket to a satellite for the $365 WSOP bracelet event with 20 seats guaranteed.

Other notable events on the Coast to Coast Classic schedule include the $320 $100,000 guaranteed Sunday Special on May 13; $30 $25,000 guaranteed Little Monday on May 14; and the $1,000 $85,000 guaranteed Six Max High Roller.

Every event on the schedule is No Limit Hold’em with the exception of the $50 $10,000 guaranteed Pot Limit Omaha on Saturday, May 19.

Coast to Coast Classic Schedule

Event	Date	Buy-in	Guarantee	Time (ET)
NLH – Kick-off [R&A]	May 11	$30	$30,000	4:00 PM
Friday Fight III [Knockout]	May 11	$150	$10,000	5:00 PM
Turbo Deep$tack [Re-entry]	May 11	$50	$15,000	6:00 PM
Saturday Startup [Freezeout]	May 12	$50	$15,000	4:00 PM
Saturday Jumart [R&A, 4 Max]	May 12	$50	$20,000	5:00 PM
Saturday Night Shuffle Up [Re-entry]	May 12	$150	$35,000	6:00 PM
Sunday Special [Re-entry]	May 13	$320	$100,000	3:00 PM
Short-Handed Sunday [R&A, 4 Max]	May 13	$50	$25,000	4:00 PM
Sunday Funday [1R1A]	May 13	$100	$25,000	5:00 PM
R&A, Turbo	May 13	$30	$15,000	6:00 PM
Little Monday [R&A]	May 14	$30	$25,000	5:00 PM
The Classic 50 [R&A]	May 14	$50	$20,000	6:00 PM
8×8 [8R, 8 Max, Turbo]	May 14	$88	$15,000	7:00 PM
High Roller [Re-entry, 6 Max]	May 15	$1,000	$85,000	5:00 PM
Tuesday Showdown Special [Re-entry]	May 15	$250	$35,000	6:00 PM
Turbo Tuesday [R, 6 Max]	May 15	$50	$20,000	7:00 PM
Wednesday Warmup Deep$tack [R&A]	May 16	$20	$15,000	4:00 PM
Classic Freezeout	May 16	$100	$20,000	5:00 PM
Wednesday Biggie [Re-entry, Super Turbo]	May 16	$75	$15,000	6:00 PM
Thursday 2AND1	May 17	$30	$15,000	4:00 PM
Chips Chips Chips [Re-entry, Deeack]	May 17	$75	$17,500	5:00 PM
Thursday’s 6 Max [Re-entry]	May 17	$100	$25,000	6:00 PM
Kick-off [R&A]	May 18	$30	$20,000	5:00 PM
TGIF [Deepstack & Super Addon]	May 18	$50	$25,000	6:00 PM
Friday Fight II [Knockout]	May 18	$75	$10,000	7:00 PM
Saturday Night 30 [R&A]	May 19	$30	$20,000	4:00 PM
The Omaha 50 [R&A, 8 Max]	May 19	$50	$10,000	5:00 PM
Thursday’s 6 Max [Re-entry]	May 19	$100	$25,000	6:00 PM
Sunday One Day [R&A]	May 20	$11/$11/$22	$22,222	4:00 PM
Main Event [Re-entry]	May 20	$500	$200,001	3:00 PM
High Roller [Re-entry, 6 max]	May 20	$1,000	$60,000	5:00 PM
Closeout Deep$tack [Re-entry, Turbo]	May 20	$100	$25,000	6:00 PM

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The NJ sports betting case (Murphy vs NCAA) is just one of a few cases left to be decided before the SCOTUS summer recess, and the next possible decision date is May 14.

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We’re getting closer to the launch of PA online gambling.

This past week, Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) Director of Communications Doug Harbach revealed in an interview that application season is now open for $10 million licenses that would allow existing casinos to run websites with poker, table games, and slots.

The applications are officially known as petitions. They require an extensive amount of information, Harbach told Online Poker Report.

“It’s a little different than just an application, they have to send in a legal petition that we’re to receive. We were just talking about that today, as a matter of fact, because there’s a litany of things from the act that they have to supply in that petition,” Harbach was quoted as saying.

Pennsylvania’s 12 casinos have until July 15 to turn in their applications. Once the deadline passes, they can apply for $4 million a-la-carte licenses for online poker, online table games, or online slots.

What an iGaming license petition entails

As Harbach pointed out, the iGaming licenses for which casinos will petition require some extensive paperwork.

According to the Oct. 2017 legislation that expanded PA gambling to include iGaming, one of the things the petition must include is a list of the games the licensee plans to offer:

“An itemized list of the interactive games, including identifying what category each interactive game falls under, and any other game or games the slot machine licensee plans to offer through the slot machine licensee’s interactive gaming website for which authorization is being sought.”

If any changes are made to that list, the legislation states, then the licensee has to update the information.

Other interesting tidbits required for the petition are:

• The licensee’s plan to hire employees for its online slot machine operations should “promote the representation of diverse groups and Commonwealth residents in the employment positions.”
• The licensee should include an overview of how their license provide “economic benefits” to the Commonwealth
• A rundown of how their online gaming operations centers will work, including detailed descriptions of “the slot machine licensee’s initial system of internal and accounting controls applicable to interactive gaming” and “… proposed standards to protect, with a reasonable degree of certainty, the privacy and security of its registered players.”

Launch date for iGaming still uncertain

According to the legislation, the June 15 deadline will be followed by the aforementioned 30 days of a-la-carte applications. That puts the application period at about three-and-a-half months from now.

It’s unclear at which point the online casinos will launch.

As for how PGCB will handle the issue of skins — how many sites one casino can operate under a single license — casinos have argued both sides of the issue. Parx is pleading for one site per casino and global operator 888 asking for multiple skins.

Early this month, PGCB Executive Director Kevin O’Toole seemed to indicate that multiple skins would be allowed, so long as each site included the licensed casino’s branding.

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Everest Poker has launched a new progressive jackpot Twister game with a difference. Unlike some progressive jackpot Sit & Go games in which the top prize increases with each game, players will be chosen at random to play an animated “Age of the Gods” game guaranteeing one of four progressive jackpot prizes.

Paddy Power Betfair’s year-over-year revenue was down two percent to £408 million this quarter, but company executives promise better times are ahead.

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