Business & Financial
Greg Raymer No Longer With PokerStars
2004 World Series of Poker champion Greg “FossilMan” Raymer has confirmed rumors that he parted ways with the world’s largest online poker room, PokerStars.com.
Few details were offered related to the decision that Rayer, whose moniker comes from his love of collecting fossils, confirmed on the TwoPlusTwo.com website.
DoylesRoom.com Helps Boost Yatahay Profile With 150 Percent Growth
DoylesRoom.com hopes to find a permanent home with the Yatahay Poker Network and the later most certainly will do everything in their power to make sure Doyles sticks around.
For Doylesroom.com, this is the popular online poker room’s 4th home in five years. Two previous networks pulled out of the US market while a third could not sustain Doyles growth.
The Yatahay Network is expected to provide DoylesRoom with all the tools to ensure substantial growth.
$87.5 Million Bet On This Year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas
Some Vegas Sportsbooks Saved by Last Minute Steelers Surge
Some Las Vegas sportsbooks like The M, The Venetian, Hard Rock and Tropicana made out well this Super Bowl.
“We took a ton of Steeler moneyline bets,” Sportsbook Director Mike Colbert told the Las Vegas Sun. “I expected Steeler money to come in today and it did. It was a lot more than I expected. We really tried to balance the book, but it just so happened that the Packers were much better for us.”
Queensland Floods Cost Tabcorp Millions In Lost Revenue And More…
Online Poker Traffic Falls Off 2.5 Percent This Week: Could Get Worse
With the troubles at the world’s two largest online poker rooms, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, continuing this week, traffic across the board has dropped 2.5 percent.
The two card rooms have had trouble paying out customers via popular methods such as eChecks and bank wires as a result of an ongoing investigation by US Federal authorities. The US Attorney’s office out of Baltimore, Maryland, is heading up the probe, alleging money laundering by payment facilitators used by both companies. Three individuals named in the case agreed to cooperate with authorities.
Gambling Domain Names No Longer a Hot Commodity It Seems
Australian And Asia Pacific Gambling Tycoon News: February 1, 2011
Nevada Casinos Lose $3.4 Billion This Past Year
LAS VEGAS — (Associated Press) - Nevada gambling regulators say the state's largest casinos lost $3.4 billion during the fiscal year that ended last June 30.
Year of the Rabbit Could Bring Record Numbers of People to Las Vegas
Crown Casino Demands Aussie Govt Lift Game For Asian High Rollers
What The DoylesRoom.com Move to Yahatay Means for Poker Players
Breaking News: DoylesRoom.com Moves to Yatahay Poker Network
DoylesRoom.com announced Friday afternoon it will be moving off the Cake Network to the Yatahay Poker Network effective immediately.
Boyfriend of Disney Employee Traded “Insider Info” to Support Gambling Habit
The boyfriend of an ex-Disney employee was sentenced to two years and three months for trying to sell access to Mickey Mouse’s financial secrets.
Prosecutors contend that Yonni Sebbag, the boyfriend of former Walt Disney Co. administrative assistant Bonnie Hoxie, contacted dozens of hedge funds and investment companies in an effort to sell “insider trading secrets” as a means of supporting his gambling addiction.
The FBI was alerted upon learning that Sebbag offered $15,000 for the information.
Four Wives, Seventeen Children Involved in Ho Debacle
Just one day after announcing publicly that all was good in his family, the 89-year-old Macau casino magnate, Stanley Ho has filed suit claiming he got a raw deal.
PokerStars eCheck Crisis: Gambling911 Twitter Alerts Around The Clock
Paper Checks, Wires, Western Unions: No Easy Bait For Online Poker Fish
Ho No, Not Again! Billionaire Casino Magnate Files Lawsuit
So you thought it was over, huh? Guess again!
Saga Is HO-VER: Stanley Ho Admits to Transfer of Stake in Casino Empire
Full Tilt Poker Check Problems Persist: Bank Wires Working
The world’s second largest online poker room, Full Tilt, is advising customers not to cash or deposit any recently issued checks.
