Day: 24 January 2019

Bart Lybaert Takes Down 2019 Aussie Millions AU$1,150 Six Max Event for AU$124,355

Thu 24 Jan 2019 14.07 Harry Evans
Bart Lybaert Takes Down 2019 Aussie Millions AU$1,150 Six Max Event for AU$124,355

Only a couple of weeks after he won the eighth event of the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) for $250,391, Bart Lybaert won another live poker event. This time the player took down 2019 Aussie Millions AU$1,150 Six Max event scooping a cash prize of AU$124,355. Lybaert outlasted a total entry field of 542 players to win what turned out to be one of the biggest victories in his career as a poker player so far. The first-place prize was not large enough to beat his best live cash of…

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More Bookmakers Follow Ladbrokes’ Decision to Voluntarily Cut FOBT Stakes in Northern Ireland

Thu 24 Jan 2019 8.10 Olivia Cole
More Bookmakers Follow Ladbrokes’ Decision to Voluntarily Cut FOBT Stakes in Northern Ireland

According to recent correspondence between the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB) and a Belfast Councillor, a number of bookmakers in Northern Ireland will reduce the maximum stakes allowed on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). Both William Hill and Paddy Power have decided to slash the betting stakes on the controversial machines which have been blamed for spreading gambling addictions among local residents. The decision of the gambling operators came after councillor John Kyle urged bookmakers to follow another betting company – Ladbrokes – which has previously revealed that it would voluntary…

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