The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is definitely Ryan Riess’ lucky poker venue. The player recently scooped his third poker title at the casino after besting the 91-person field of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $10,000 One-Day event. Riess collected $236,838 for his performance and the tournament trophy.
The event took place on Monday at the host venue. As mentioned above, it drew 91 entrants who created a prize pool of $873,600 to absolutely smash the $500,000 guarantee. The event’s structure provided for fast and furious action at the poker tables. It featured 30-minute levels this year, a change from previous editions of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open festival. The top 12 finishers received a share of the money, with min-cashes kicking off from $21,857.
Poker pro Aaron Mermelstein was the unfortunate bubble boy to bust out in 13th place. He was followed by James Calderaro whose twelfth-place finish secured him with the first payout of the tournament.
Notables who failed to make it into the money included Elio Fox, who topped the field of the SHRPO $50,000 Super High Roller just a couple of days ago, and WPT champ James Romero. Stephen Chidwick, Barry Hutter, and Ben Yu were among the tournament regulars to cash from the One-Day event, but failed to claim the title.
Final Stage of Play
The short levels allowed players to reach the final stages of the tournament quite quickly. It was not that long before Riess and Ray Qartomy were the last two players left in contention. Riess was the chip leader ahead of heads-up. He came on top the chip counts chart late into play to never look back. As for Qartomy, it can be said that he controlled action throughout the greater portion of the final table.
Instead of squaring off for the title, the two remaining finalists decided to strike a deal and split what had left of the prize pool based on their chip counts. Riess was thus crowned the tournament’s champion and collected the lion’s share of the prize pool, good for $236,838, while Qartomy scooped a $206,297 for his runner-up finish.
Riess has previously won two other tournaments at the same casino. Last April, the player took down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $10,000 Finale for a first-place prize of $716,088. And in the spring of 2015, he won a $2,200 No-Limit Hold’em tournament that was part of that year’s edition of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. His payout from that tournament totaled $63,891.
Despite his numerous successes on the live tournament felt, Riess is still best known for capturing the most coveted poker title on the planet – the WSOP Championship. The player won the Main Event in 2013 to collect a first-place prize of $8,361,570. Including his latest live tournament cash, Riess now has more than $12.2 million in live tournament earnings.
Resorts will certainly end up being Atlantic City’s 5th gambling establishment to be running a physical sporting activities publication, the residential or commercial property itself has actually validated in a news release. Its wagering center is slated to open doors on Wednesday at 11 am, pending authorization from New Jersey betting regulatory authorities.
Previously this month, Resorts came to be New Jersey’s initial gambling establishment to introduce online and also mobile sporting activities wagering. The roll-out of its electronic offering was the arise from its collaboration with DraftKings. The gambling establishment has actually additionally lately secured a collaboration with Destiny Team, proprietor of the BetStars wagering brand name, to name a few.
Resorts’ physical sporting activities publication will certainly include a 12-foot video clip wall surface in addition to 15 tv displays. There will certainly be 6 wagering home windows as well as 4 self-serve stands situated throughout the center.
Resorts will certainly be Atlantic City’s 5th casino site to introduce a sporting activities publication on online casino facilities. The Borgata was the very first to open up a wagering center as part of its video gaming flooring. Its physical sporting activities publication went reside on June 14. Sea Hotel Online casino introduced its sporting activities publication on June 27, adhered to by the Wild West Gambling enterprise at Bally’s, which took its very first sporting activities bank on July 30. Most lately, Harrah’s went deal with a short-term sporting activities publication.
First Financial Details
Profits produced by the 3 buildings totaled up to almost $3.5 million, with Monmouth blazing a trail with $2.3 million, adhered to by the Borgata with $986,831 and also Sea with $192,671.
New Jersey was the very first state to legislate sporting activities wagering, adhering to the mid-May annulment of the government restriction on sporting activities wagering. The state was really the one to lead the promote the ultimate lift of the restriction for a variety of years as well as ultimately brought the issue to the United States High Court.
SCOTUS revealed in 2014 that it would certainly examine New Jersey’s request and also provided its judgment, preferring the state, on Might 14. The choice of the country’s leading court made it feasible for all 50 states to legislate sporting activities wagering if they think this would certainly be a favorable relocation. The 1992 PASPA restriction restricted banking on expert and also amateur sporting activities organizations at a government degree.
New Jersey handled to craft a sporting activities wagering regulations and also to deal with sporting activities wagering procedures within a month after the restriction’s annulment. The relocation came as one more vital symptom of the hectic year the state’s gaming market has actually had. In addition to the legalization of sporting activities wagering, New Jersey as well as Atlantic City, specifically, has actually seen the opening of 2 brand-new gambling enterprises– Acid rock Resort & Casino Site Atlantic City as well as Sea Hotel Gambling Establishment. Both brand-new buildings, as well as the legalized sporting activities wagering offering, are wished to assist the state’s gaming market to renew after a dreadful year that finished in the closure of 5 Boardwalk gambling enterprises within 2 as well as a fifty percent years.
Anatoly Filatov won the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia RUB318,000, defeating a field of 916 total entries to win the RUB60 million first-place prize.
Before this prestigious event—the largest poker festival held in Russia that year—Filatov had already amassed over $2.1 million in live tournament earnings, including two victories in events hosted by his sponsor, partypoker. His impressive track record also included a deep run in the 2017 Caribbean Poker Party, where he finished in the $5,300 Finale for $165,000. In the same year, he secured 11th place in the partypoker MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona €10,300 High Roller (€50,000) and a seventh-place finish in the partypoker MILLIONS North America C$10,300 Finale (C$60,000).
Filatov entered the final day of the tournament in eighth chip position with 11 players left. He navigated his way to the final eight, where he eliminated Konstantin Uspenskii. Holding K♥Q♣, Filatov outdrew Uspenskii’s A♠K♦, making two pair by the river and sending him home with $63,000. He followed up with another knockout, using pocket kings to hold against Mikhail Galitskiy’s A♥Q♠, eliminating Galitskiy in seventh place for $90,000.
Filatov continued his momentum, busting Alexey Melnikov in fifth place ($180,000) and moving into second in chips, trailing only Gor Kazaryan. He then took the outright lead when he called Viktor Khodorenko’s all-in shove with pocket queens against Khodorenko’s A♦7♣. Filatov made a set on the turn, eliminating Khodorenko in fourth place ($270,000).
Kazaryan briefly regained the chip lead, but Filatov reclaimed control after knocking out Andrey Malyshev in third place ($400,950), setting up the final heads-up battle. Kazaryan entered with 534,000,000 chips, while Filatov started with 378,000,000.
The decisive hand came with blinds at 6,000,000-12,000,000 and a 12,000,000 big blind ante. Kazaryan limped in from the button with Q♠9♥, and Filatov raised to 27,000,000 from the big blind with J♥10♥. Kazaryan called. The flop brought Q♣9♦7♣, and Filatov checked. Kazaryan bet 35,000,000, and Filatov called. The turn came K♠, giving Filatov a straight. He checked again, prompting Kazaryan to bet 55,000,000. Filatov moved all-in, and Kazaryan called with his two pair. The river was the A♠, sealing Filatov’s victory. Kazaryan finished as the runner-up, earning $585,000.
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event Results:
A top Nevada sports book operator is in hot water once again with regulators, and this time it will have to dismantle its systems used to facilitate wagers.
According to a complaint and settlement posted last week to the Gaming Control Board’s website, CG Technology, formerly known as Cantor Gaming, has admitted to accepting online-based wagers from gamblers across the country, which was in violation of Nevada casino regulations. State officials said the company self-reported the betting activity.
The result is a $250,000 fine, as well as the firm being ordered to cease using its own technology and equipment. CGT can remain in business, but it must now use a third party tech and equipment manufacturer. Within six months, “CGT shall permanently discontinue the use of its sports pool wagering system and all of its components,” the GCB said.
In November 2016, CGT’s mobile wagering system allowed a gambler in Maryland to place a bet. Despite the firm making “software modifications to the geolocation functionality” of its systems, in April 2017 CGT allowed bets from gamblers in Texas, Arizona and California.
“CGT’s conduct […] constitutes a failure to comply with or make provision for compliance with all federal, state and local laws and regulations,” the complaint said.
The U.S. Supreme Court in May of this year ruled to allow all states to legalize and regulate sports betting. Prior to that ruling, single-game sports gambling was illegal outside of Nevada.
Furthermore, the complaint said, CGT engaged in a pattern of accepting wagers on sporting events that were concluded. In May 2016, CGT accepted bets on MMA and boxing matches “during and after the conclusion of the matches.” In October 2016, CGT took nearly three dozen bets on a college football game after it was finished. A year later in October 2017, CGT took nine bets on another NCAA football game that had been completed.
This isn’t the first time the firm has been in trouble with the Silver State. In a complaint from 2016, Nevada said that CGT shortchanged some gamblers between 2011 and 2015. Regulators said that CGT underpaid about $700,000 on more than 20,000 winning parlay bets during the period. The 2016 complaint also said that it overpaid $100,000 on 11,000 parlays. The result was a $1.5 million fine and the CEO at the time stepping down. In 2014, the company paid a record $5.5 million fine over a former executive facilitating illegal bets in 2011 and 2012.
CGT operates sports books at the M Casino Resort, Hard Rock, Tropicana, Cosmopolitan, Venetian, Palms and Silverton, according to regulators.
A number of weeks earlier, the New York Times included a short article on “retired” poker specialist Vanessa Selbst’s brand-new life as a hedge fund supervisor. Currently, the New York Times is going the various other instructions with a featured interview on poker player Maria Konnikova. In the interview, Konnikova shared her choice to pursue poker, her experience in the, as well as her future plans.
Maria Konnikova made a decision to write a book centered on poker, less than two years back, a game she knew nothing regarding. She was lucky enough to employ poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel as a coach, and also soon she was sitting behind players like Jason Koon and Ike Haxton.
For those that have not know just what Konnikova has actually done during the past year, it is something that is quite impressive. After doing publications that examined the assuming procedure of Sherlock Holmes and how you can use it to real life and why we succumb to the shams of confidence men (“con men”), Konnikova was at a loss about her following instructions. Konnikova, who made her doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 2013, lastly settled on the world of poker and, particularly, the results of good luck and also decision making.
Just like any kind of appropriate scientist, Konnikova really did not waltz in and also simply begin chucking chips. Examining under the tutoring of poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel, Konnikova obtained a Ph.D. in poker from probably among the very best of all-time before even stepped to a poker table. As soon as she did, nonetheless, she showed the abilities of a poker that had actually gone to the tables for years.
In January, she headed to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, where she continued to stun several in the poker community. She won the PCA National Championship $1650 Event for $84,600. In addition to the major title, she also earned a Platinum Pass valued at $30,000. Since then, Konnikova has actually added an additional 10 cashes money on almost all the significant event circuits, consisting of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour, and the World Series of Poker. As a matter of fact, her run has actually been such a success that Konnikova has put the book plans on hold to ride the poker success streak out.
Check out NYT Profile of Maria Konnikova here, as the poker world could learn quite a bit about bringing new players (male or female) to the game and the approach to learning the game.
In New Jersey, the board of trustees for Stockton University has reportedly approved a deal that would see the public college purchase the 20-acre site that was once home to The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in hopes of transforming it into a city-center campus.Site unused since January of 2014:According to a Thursday report from NJ.com, the Atlantic City plot is currently owned by Florida property development firm, TJM Properties Incorporated, and includes eleven acres of beachfront real estate. It has sat unused since January of 2014 when The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel closed its doors to be purchased by Caesars Entertainment Corporation.Clearwater-headquartered TJM Properties Inc. paid approximately $13.5 million for the site some four months after the closure of its 23-story The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel and had previously hoped to transform the area into a family entertainment center featuring a water park.Casino building to be demolished:
NJ.com reported that the deal unanimously approved on Wednesday would encompass TJM Properties Incorporated selling the land to Stockton University after demolishing the building that once housed The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. The agreement would also see the property developer leave an adjacent nine-story parking garage with the college subsequently surrounding this structure with a range of residential and academic facilities.
Enrollment growing quickly:
Enrollment at Stockton University has grown quickly over recent years with the college due to welcome some 9,600 students for its upcoming autumn semester. It is moreover purportedly set to inaugurate a residential campus in Atlantic City later this month in hopes of attracting even more out-of-state students.
Law and medical schools may follow:
Stockton University President, Harvey Kesselman, told NJ.com that his institution has been contemplating this purchase for several years in hopes of possibly establishing medical and law schools on the Boardwalk site.
Kesselman reportedly stated…
“One of the things that is difficult for urban institutions is many of them are landlocked. This is still, in my judgment, the most significant city in the state of New Jersey and it’s really important for the region and state that Atlantic City is successful. We are not the panacea for all ills but we are part of the solution.”
University now entering due diligence period:
The site also reported that Stockton University has now entered a 30-day due diligence period in which it hopes to completely check out its planned purchase before entering into final negotiations with TJM Properties Incorporated.
University ‘not rushed’ to buy:
Stockton University was only established in nearby Galloway Township in 1969 but last year welcomed some 8,200 undergraduates. Kesselman reportedly proclaimed that the planned purchase is not a done deal but that the university is in the process of ‘building a strategic plan [that] includes a facilities plan’.
Kesselman reportedly stated…
“It’s not only what we want to do but it’s also how many students we want to recruit. We will do it in a strategic way. We are not rushed to do this.”
Warren Sheaves was the last player to register for the Global Casino Championship, coming into the tournament late on Day 1 and he would be the last man standing as well.
“That was my strategy,” Sheaves said. “People play poker all day and I’m on vacation every single day of my life.”
And it shows. From start to finish, Sheaves seemed to be having the most fun at the table. He showed up for the final day of play clad in a black, red, yellow, and green Jamaica jump suit, talked and laughed the most, and never seemed deterred despite which way the cards fall. It was something that he said was a part of his game plan, just a part of who he is, and a tool to throw his opponents off.
“A little bit of column A, B, and C,” Sheaves explained. “My personality is to make people happy and I try to exhibit that in my own life.”
Sheaves came into the final day of play as the second shortest of the final six, but he was never deterred. In fact, he felt right at home, in his comfort zone. When it came to his plan, he said he was just planning to “Crush souls,” and “Collect chips.”
“I mean like, 30 bigs for me? That’s my wheelhouse,” he explained. “I could’ve won this tournament with six big blinds.”
He got off to a hot start early in the day, winning a pot early then doubling up through Arkadiy Tsinis when his pocket aces held up against Tsinis’s pocket jacks. And from there, it was all uphill. Tsinis would end up being the 6th place finisher, falling shortly after when he lost a flip to Keven Stammen.
Loni Harwood would be the next to fall when runner-up Jeremy Meacham made a flush on the river and moved all in against her. Harwood would call it off with top two pair, but it was no good and her repeat title chase would be dashed, early in fifth place.
Sheaves would eliminate Armin Stocker shortly after that. Stocker came in the day as a short stack, but some lucky hands allowed him to ladder up two places. The money got in before the flop when Stocker shoved over Sheave’s three-bet and Sheaves quickly called. Sheaves was holding pocket jacks and they would hold up against Stocker’s tens, leaving the tournament three handed.
Sheaves, Stammen and Meacham would play a highly contested battle, with chips moving back and forth and the stacks staying relatively even for a few hours. Keven Stammen was whittled away little by little and eventually he got all the money in against Sheaves in a coinflip situation. Sheave held ace-jack against Stammen’s pocket threes and rivered a flush to bring the tournament into heads up play.
With the two relatively even stacked, Sheaves and Meacham had a heated battled, but for the majority of it, Meacham seemed to be in control. He put tons of pressure on Sheaves by relentlessly check-raising, moving all in multiple times, and a good portion of the match, just by having the goods.
But Sheaves never looked deterred. He was seen singing, joking, smiling, laughing, and just genuinely having a good time at the table. The tournament took a turning point though when Sheaves finally picked off a massive bluff from Meacham.
In the hand, Sheaves opened with a raise to 130,000 and Meacham called. The flop came ace-high and Meacham check-raised a bet from Sheaves. Sheaves called. Both the turn and the river were blank and Meacham bet on both streets, moving all in on the river. Sheaves tanked for a long time, but eventually came to the correct decision – Calling with a pair of fours. Meacham just had jack-high and Sheaves would take a commanding lead while Meacham was left with just over 10 big blinds.
“So I flopped a pair,” Sheaves said about his thought process during the hand. He paused for quite some time, indicating that was his only thought before he eventually added a bit more. “He check-raised the flop and he’s been doing that to me with a flush draw and I’ve been letting him have it, you know? What do they call that? Bait? Bait. I had a five kicker, that thing was huge!
“Yeah, it seemed like a flush draw and I just hoped that he didn’t make a pair of sevens. There’s no way he has a fucking ace. No one has an ace.”
There was a moment during the hand, after Meacham’s flop check-raise, that Sheaves started asking questions. “Do you like fishing?” he asked. “I mean like actual fishing. I go fishing once a year with my dad.” Sheaves said that it wasn’t just a random question, he was digging for information at the same time.
“Well, I thought he was on a flush draw,” Sheaves explained. “I also just wanted to give a shout out to my dad who’s taken great care of me my whole life and we go fishing every year and it’s a beautiful thing. But he was fishin’. He was fishin’.”
It was just one hand after that Meacham would get all the money in. He moved in with queen-high and Sheaves called him down with ace-high. Sheaves paired his ace and that would earn him his first bracelet when it held up. But for Sheaves, this isn’t the bracelet that he wanted to win.
“I feel pretty good,” he admitted. “But they only invited 120 people or so to this tournament. So I just kind of feel like this is a medium bracelet, you know? It doesn’t really fit my ego.”
But it’s not over for Sheaves. He plans to keep grinding, despite achieving this poker goal. He plans to be back on the road tonight on the way to yet another tournament stop.
Elio Fox won the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) $50,000 no-limit hold’em super high roller, defeating a field of 25 total entries to win $500,000. This was Fox’s fifth live tournament title of 2018, having also won the $10,000 turbo bounty event at the World Series of Poker this summer for his second career gold bracelet.
The $50,000 no-limit hold’em super high roller featured a $1,000,000 guarantee this year, which was surpassed by nearly a quarter of a million dollars when 25 entries were made. Day 2 started with only three players remaining including Christopher Hunichen (5th – $100,000) and Almedin Imsirovic (4th – $130,000) having been eliminated late on day 1.
High roller tournament regular Dan Shak held the chip lead, with Fox close behind and Giuseppe Iadisernia as the shortest stack. Iadisernia called a shove from Shak in the small blind, holding the KDiamond Suit10Spade Suit against Shak’s AHeart Suit7Spade Suit. Neither player improved their hand on a 6Heart Suit4Diamond Suit2Heart Suit3Spade Suit8Diamond Suit runout and Iadisernia was sent to the rail in third place ($190,000).
Shak took 1,350,0000 into heads-up play against Fox, who began with 1,150,000. Their final showdown didn’t last very long, with Fox able to overtake the lead before the final hand of the tournament came down. With a board of KClub SuitKDiamond SuitJSpade Suit10Heart Suit Shak checked to Fox, who bet 80,000. Shak check-raised all-in and Fox called holding the AHeart SuitQHeart Suit for the Broadway straight. Shak had JHeart Suit3Spade Suit, and could make a full house to win the hand. The 5Spade Suit on the river locked up the pot and the title for Fox. Shak was awarded $305,000 as the runner-up finisher.
Bagging over one million in chips Wednesday evening, poker pro Jeremy Meacham led the six finalists for Day 3 of the 2018 WSOP Global Casino Championship. The prestigious tournament returns to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort for the fourth year in a row and the winner will take home more than 280,000 and a WSOP gold bracelet.
The 14th season the World Series of Poker concludes this week with the Global Casino Championship, which runs from August 7 through August 9. On Tuesday, a total of 127 players from the United States and the world gathered for prestigious bracelet event and paid the $10,000 buy-in, accumulating a total prize pool of $1,050,000. The attractive prizes for those who managed to make it to the 20 cash places were perfectly in line with the venue, the luxurious Harrah’s Cherokee set near the beautiful Great Smokey Mountains.
Only 53 players out of the 127 entries continued to Day 2 of the championship and were led by the experienced player from the Czech Republic Martin Kabrehl. Despite his great collection of titles, however, King’s Casino Rozvadov Casino Champion Kabrhel finished on the money bubble when he was eliminated by Arkadiy Tsinis. Those who reached the final 20 spots were guaranteed $12,889 and among the famous names to walk out early were three-time Circuit ring winner Joseph Cheong (20th), six-time Circuit ring winner Joshua Turner (19th), and three-time gold bracelet winner David “The Dragon” Pham (14th).
Renowned Canadian player and nine-time Circuit ring winner Ari Engel finished 12th, while Kurt Jewell from the US left in the 8th place. Following him, Blake Whittington was eliminated by Tsinis and received $37,627 for his 7th place finish. The final six competitors will return to the poker table Thursday at noon, led by Jeremy Meacham who comes with the biggest stack of 1,460,000 chips.
Only 6 Players Return at the Final Table
Meachan, a player from Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, bagged more than 1 million chips on Wednesday but the fight for the top place and the gold bracelet will not be easy for him. He is followed closely by Loni Harwood from Staten Island (1,427,000) and Kevin Stamen from Cincinnati and his 1,393,000. Miami’s Arkadiy Tsinis has 1,220,000 in chips and fifth in the chip ranking is Warren Sheaves from Chapel Hill, NC, who has a significantly small stack of 494,000. Armin Stocker from Switzerland is on the bottom with 409,000.
The final Day 3 of the 2018 WSOP Global Casino Championship starts at noon on August 9 and by the evening, the event would already crown its winner. The player who manages to survive until the end will pocket a cash prize of $282,113, while the prize for the runner-up is $174,360. Everyone else will take home a minimum of $48,926, quite a nice guarantee for being at the final table of the prestigious 2018 WSOP GCC event.
Maryland’s world-class poker rooms reported $3.7 million in revenue during July, according to state figures made public this week.
Through the first seven months of the year, the rooms raked $25.7 million.
July 2017 saw revenue of about $3.7 million as well, so rake was nearly unchanged year-over-year there. Through July of last year, rake was $26 million. Revenue was off about a percentage point.
Maryland has four poker rooms, as two of the state’s six casinos don’t offer poker.
The state’s largest poker room in terms of tables belongs to Live! Casino, which has 50 tables. Recently, MGM National Harbor unveiled an updated poker room which included the addition of tables. That casino now has 46 poker tables.
Maryland Lottery and Gaming officials also said this week that July 2018 gaming revenue for the state’s six casinos totaled $146.5 million, an increase of 5.6 percent compared to the July 2017 total of $138.7 million. That includes slots, table games and poker.
The short levels allowed players to reach the final stages of the tournament quite quickly. It was not that long before Riess and Ray Qartomy were the last two players left in contention. Riess was the chip leader ahead of heads-up. He came on top the chip counts chart late into play to never look back. As for Qartomy, it can be said that he controlled action throughout the greater portion of the final table.
