Top Gambling News: Tom Schneider Eyes WSOP Player of Year Title
These are the top gambling news stories here at Gambling911.com Wednesday June 19, 2013 (afternoon hours Eastern Standard Time). Follow us on Twitter here.
*2007 World Series Player of the Year Tom Schneider Sweeps HORSE Events - Less than a week ago, Schneider won the $1,500 HORSE event along with $258,000. Now he has swept the HORSE events on the 2013 WSOP schedule, winning the $5,000 HORSE tournament, a fourth gold bracelet, and a $318,955 payday.
Schneider, who won the 2007 WSOP Player of the Year title, is now one of the frontrunners to take that crown this year.
Here are the final table results for the $5,000 HORSE event:
1st: Tom Schneider - $318,955
2nd: Benjamin Scholl - $197,228
3rd: Greg Mueller - $129,600
4th: Viatcheslav Ortynsiky - $94,664
5th: Chris Klodnicki - $70,093
6th: Adam Friedman - $52,613
7th: David Benyamine - $40,039
8th: Konstantin Puchkov - $30,876 (source: WSOP.com)
*Chris Dombrowski Latest WSOP Bracelet Winner - Chris Dombrowski is the most recent World Series of Poker champion outlasting the 2,108-player field in Event 30, a $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event for his first gold bracelet victory and $346,332. Dombrowski now boasts 18 WSOP-related cashes on top of almost $450,000 in career earnings.
*Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival Set to Become Europe’s Biggest Ever - Full Tilt Poker has announced the schedule for Europe’s biggest ever live poker festival, the inaugural Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival.
The Festival will take place from July 27th to August 12th with the highlight of the 60-event schedule being the €1,000,000 guaranteed UKIPT Main Event, running from August 8th to 12th.
The Festival features a wide variety of events and games such as the Irish Poker Championship, the UK v Ireland Heads Up Championship, the UKIPT High Roller Championship, the Pot-limit Omaha UKIPT Championship, Open Faced Chinese Poker, the World and National 25 Championships and, for the first time ever, the Irish Bridge Masters.
The action kicks off on July 27th with the €135 + €15 buy-in Galway Cup, which has an estimated prize pool of $100,000.
*Table Games to Begin at Twin River Casino - LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) - Bettors will soon be able to play blackjack, roulette and craps at the Twin River Casino as Rhode Island moves to get a head start on neighboring Massachusetts.
Twin River will open 65 new tables offering Las Vegas-style games with a ribbon cutting Wednesday morning. The Lincoln, R.I., facility won voter approval last fall to expand from a slot parlor into a full-fledged casino.
On a recent tour of the new tables, Twin River chairman John Taylor said the facility has hired some 400 new employees to support the expansion.
Supporters say the expansion will protect state gambling revenue from competition from Massachusetts, where casinos have been authorized but not yet built.
Those who prefer Twin River's slots can rest easy: Twin River still has more than 4,500 slot machines.
- Ace King, Gambling911.com
