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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Worst Ruling in Poker
After I posted the Brandon Cantu hand a week or two ago, I started discussing with a few people what the worst ruling was that I had ever seen at a poker table.
I once heard of a guy who lost all of his chips without even having any cards in front of him. I was playing at the Turning Stone Casino in upstate New York. Sitting next to me was a dealer from the Foxwoods Casino. He proceeded to tell me about a hand that occurred at one of his tables while he was dealing.
The soon-to-be victimized player had folded his cards long ago. He was sitting and telling a story of a poker hand that he was playing at some time in the past. The story went something like this…”blah blah blah, blah blah blah, then I said I’M ALL IN.”
The problem was that right when he threw in the last line to that story, he heard someone at the table say “I call you” followed by the words “I’m gonna have to go all-in as well”. Needless to say, there was now a problem at the table.
This guys actions had clearly affected the table because the third guy got priced into his draw and decided to go all-in. The poker room manager came over and made the following statement. “If a player’s words or actions cause action in a hand, that player will be held liable for that action.”
Basically what this meant was that the guy had to put his money into the pot without any chance to get it back. Apparently this didn’t make him very happy from what I understand.
I thought this was probably one of the strangest rulings that I had ever heard. In the years since I heard about this, I have never found anyone who has heard of something similar. I even considered the possibility that this guy was just a drunk, but I’m confident enough to post this story on here.
I don’t suppose we have anyone from the Foxwoods poker room that reads this blog?
