http://www.pokerkingblog.comPoker King Blog | Poker Rumors and GossipFri, 04 Sep 2009 09:28:06 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092en Daniel Negreanu is a big, big Vegas Golden Knights fan. The expansion team is set to do something amazing, as they have reached the Stanley Cup Finals in their first year of existence. Negreanu has posted frequently about the team on his Twitter account, documenting the team's meteoric rise through the regular season and playoffs. The Vegas Golden Knights have defeated the Los Angeles King...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/05/26/stanley-cup-finals-negreanu/Shares of The Stars Group Inc. have hit an all-time high following the news that the US Supreme Court has ruled that a federal ban on sports betting is unconstitutional. Stars Group Inc., which trades as TSG on the NASDAQ stock exchange, is currently up almost 12% to $37.50 per share. The company, which recently announced a planned acquisition of Sky Betting and Gaming, is seen as one of t...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/05/14/stars-group-us-sports-betting/Analysts and the market in general have applauded The Stars Group's proposed takeover of Skybetting + Gaming, as shares of the Pokerstars parent company traded up over 14% on the NASDAQ today to close at $33.45. As a result of the market's positive reaction to the deal, The Stars Group Inc., which has a portfolio of assets that includes Pokerstars and the European Poker Tour, is now valued at ...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/04/23/market-applaud-stars-group-skybetting-deal/Earlier today, partypoker revealed that they would be eliminating the rake on the bounty element of all PKO (Progressive Knockout) MTTs for the next six months minimum. partypoker has said that they will make the change permanent if they receive enough support from the online poker community. These changes will go into effect on Sunday, May 6th, and will run until November at the very leas...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/04/14/partypoker-eliminate-rake-bounty-pko-mtts/Patrik Antonius is widely regarded as being one of the top poker players in the world, though his live tournament results never really told that story. The reason? Antonius stayed away from the live tournament grind for the most part, preferably to stick to online and live cash games. Over the past couple of months, however, things have changed, as we have suddenly seen much more of Antoni...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/04/11/re-emergence-patrik-antonius/If No Limit Hold'em is starting to bore you and Limit Hold'em makes you want to jump out of a window, Pokerstars may have the answer for you: Split Hold'em. Earlier this week, Pokerstars announced that they were launching the new poker variant on their site. The site also warned that this game will only be available for a limited period of time, though they will surely keep it if the game beco...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/03/28/pokerstars-split-holdem/Justin Bonomo took down the biggest single cash of his career earlier today after topping Patrik Antonius in heads-up play to take down the Super High Roller Bowl China. The Super High Roller Bowl China was very well-attended, which ended up creating a total prize pool of nearly $20 million. Macau is very popular amongst high stakes players, so securing a strong turnout proved to be quite easy...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/03/22/justin-bonomo-super-high-roller-bowl-china/The next High Roller series on Pokerstars is getting started on Sunday, March 18th. In some ways, Pokerstars is upping the stakes, and in other ways, they are lowering them. Pokerstars is guaranteeing a total of $10 million for this High Roller Series. The series will have a total of 27 events this year (up from 22) and will be spread out over a total of nine days, starting on Sunday, Marc...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/03/10/next-high-roller-series-pokerstars/Following the astonishing success of the MILLIONS Germany tournament series, partypoker LIVE is getting ready to host the MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona later in the spring. Led by European Poker Tour founder John Duthie, the partypoker LIVE tour has made some tremendous strides so far this year, despite being a very new tour. It's clear that partypoker is looking to directly compete with Poke...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2018/03/01/partypoker-live-millions-grand-final-barcelona-schedule/PokerGo subscribers sat down to watch the third and final episode of "High Stakes Hybrid" week on Poker After Dark, only to find out that it had been cancelled due to "unforeseen circumstances". This was a disappointment to many, as the first two episodes had produced some pretty good pots, including a very large $300,000 pot between Doug Polk and Jason Koon. - According to PokerGo's of...https://www.pokerkingblog.com/2017/10/13/highest-ever-stakes-poker-after-dark/