Day: 2 April 2019

Asher Conniff Triumphs at 2018/19 WSOP Bally’s Las Vegas Main Event for His First Circuit Ring

Tue 2 Apr 2019 11.37 Harry Evans
Asher Conniff Triumphs at 2018/19 WSOP Bally’s Las Vegas Main Event for His First Circuit Ring

The poker action for Bally’s Las Vegas $1,800 Main Event has wrapped up with Brooklyn’s Asher Conniff triumphing over the strong field of 607 players for the first WSOP Circuit Ring in his career. After entering the Final Day with the chip lead, Conniff managed to survive and eliminate Joshua Suyat in the second place. The tournament started on Friday as the highlight of the 2018/2019 World Series of Poker Circuit at Bally’s Las Vegas and managed to attract a total of 607 entries during the two starting flights –…

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UK Regulators Investigate Introduction of Gambling Operators’ New Roulette-Style Games to Circumvent FOBT Rules

Tue 2 Apr 2019 8.03 Daniel Williams
UK Regulators Investigate Introduction of Gambling Operators’ New Roulette-Style Games to Circumvent FOBT Rules

Gambling regulators are investigating the introduction of new virtual roulette-style games which are allegedly used by British bookmakers to circumvent the newly-imposed restrictions on fixed-odds betting machines (FOBTs). Now, bookmakers have been accused of deliberately trying to cheat the stricter regime on the machines after they reportedly launched the high-stakes roulette-style games on the same day when the crackdown restrictions on the FOBTs came into force. Yesterday, UK gambling operators saw the reduction in the machines’ maximum stakes from £100 to £2 finally take place, after a long-running campaign against…

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