Poker players have been talking about a mysterious email sent out recently which alluded to a PartyPoker US Network for online poker. What does PartyPoker mean by “network”? What are their plans for American expansion? And should players be excited? We also discuss the possibility of online poker in New York for 2020, and have an update on alleged poker cheater Mike Postle. Links to gambling news stories, games reviews and special offers below. Hello friends, and welcome again to This Week in Gambling where you get the most current gaming headlines but you have to look at my face……

As the year closes, we can see a number of poker news stories made attention-grabbing headlines in 2018. However, just like we did last year, US Poker has boiled it down to an easily digestible top five, aimed at pleasing your poker palate. Here’s US Poker’s Top 5 Biggest Poker Stories of 2018, starting with number five,the launch of shared liquidity. Considering May 1, 2018 marked the biggest day for online poker since Black Friday, this story should have been higher up on this list. It was the day tri-state shared liquidity launched. The day the pooling of players from…

Poker News – Two of the UK’s most prominent professional players agreed to chop the UKIPT Nottingham High Roller and take an even £68,000 each. The £3,300 buy-in event saw 86 unique entries and 15 rebuys, which helped beat the £300,000 guarantee by £2,650. The last men standing were World Poker Tour Dublin champion and double World Championship Of Online Poker winner Dave Shallow and Richard Kellett. Shallow went down in the history books as the tournament’s champion by virtue of having more chips at the time of the deal, but both players agreed to an even chop citing being…

From Pokerati Trust us, they’re not the same! First and foremost, it all boils to down to whom you’re playing. In a traditional game of poker, even online, you’re putting up bets against other players. You’re trying to win for yourself, but you’re also trying to beat them. But with video poker, it’s all about you. Maybe you’ll win and maybe you’ll lose, but you don’t have to focus on anyone else’s hand. Really the only commonality between the two games is the system of ranking cards. A good hand in poker is a good hand in video poker, but…

With online poker now legal in Nevada, and UltimatePoker.com currently legally able to offer the game to those within the state’s borders, I predict, in the end, the big winner in the online poker bonanza will be Facebook (FB), but for this to come to pass, poker must spread beyond just Nevada. First of all, casino gambling is legal in many states. Poker is considered a game of skill, and embraced as such even by many who might frown upon games of chance. Poker offers politicians a new way to increase revenues without having to enforce new obligatory taxes (always…

The great ones can’t stay away. And Doyle Brunson, one of the best poker players of all time, showed an old professional-sports rule of thumb also applies to card games: Retirements never stick, not with legends. Doyle vowed he was done playing in the World Series of Poker in May. He had softened the stance by June, stating he “hadn’t ruled it out.” With one day left before July, the 79-year-old smashed the idea all together. Brunson was one of 111 entrants through two levels of play Sunday in the $50,000 buy-in Poker Player’s Championship. “I give him a lot…