September 21, 2014
American poker professional, 27-year-old Darren Elias “The End Boss”, took down the 2014 WPT Borgata Open Poker Main Event Season XIII, besting a large field of 1226 with a total prize pool of $3 924 426. Elias collected a career-high payday of $843 744 and a seat in the WPT World Championships after taking out […]
July 3, 2014
Lawyers for top international poker pro Phil Ivey, who has been accused of using baccarat edge-sorting skills to cheat the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa out of $9.6 million in 2012, have filed a motion for dismissal of the charges in a Nevada court. Ivey’s lawyers deny any wrongdoing on his part, and claim that […]
April 16, 2014
Borgata’s edge sorting cheating litigation against international poker ace Phil Ivey (see previous reports) has been sent back to the company by U.S. District Court Judge Noel Hillman because it does not adequately specify the state domiciles of Ivey and his alleged accomplice, Cheng Yin Sun. Meanwhile, the respected online gambling legal expert, Professor I.Nelson […]
April 14, 2014
The $560 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Reentry event at the World Poker Tour Borgata Spring Open live tournament has been won by New York grinder Carlos Alvarado, who bested a massive field of 2,500 to take home $127,652 following a four-way chop in the final stages of the game. The event carried a $1 million guaranteed […]
April 12, 2014
International live and online poker ace Phil Ivey again faces a legal tussle with a land casino – this time in the United States – following the federal filing of litigation by Atlantic City’s Borgata land casino, which alleges that the famous poker pro and a Mandarin-speaking associate exploited a defect in cards that enabled […]
February 4, 2014
Cedar Knolls, New Jersey poker fan Myroslaw “onetime99” Woroch (40) has become the first instant millionaire created in Borgata Casino’s online poker promotion “New Jersey’s Next Poker Millionaire.” With typical casino industry panache and flair, Worock was crowned following an online tournament on the Borgata Poker site that culminated in a televised championship event played […]
February 2, 2014
New York poker pro Anthony Merulla is probably still celebrating his massive win this weekend in the 2014 $3 Million Guaranteed World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open main event after an impressive performance that saw him best 1228 other runners to claim the $842,379 main prize. When the final table was reached Merulla was […]
January 31, 2014
Rising interest in legalised New Jersey online poker has seen tens of thousands of New Jersey poker fans attracted to a millionaire online tournament organised by Party Poker.com and Borgata Poker.com and set to climax in a live eight-player final table at the Borgata this week, according to press material from the organisers. The eight […]
January 25, 2014
The discovery of faux chips at the Borgata Winter poker festival live tourney in Atlantic City last week caused the cancellation of an event on the schedule, and this week led to the arrest of 42-year-old poker pro Christian Lusardi after some unusual evidence pointed his way. That evidence came in the form of a […]