FRENCH WIN IN N.L.H.E. AT WORLD SERIES OF POKER
2014-06-17
Frenchman Pierre Malan has won his first World Series of Poker bracelet and $536,768 after surviving a tough and talented field of 1,164 other players to claim victory in event 29, a $2,500 buy-in NLHE contest that carried a prize pool of $2,650,375.
After 3 days of hectic action Malan entered the heads up with former WSOP 2013 NLHE four-handed bracelet winner Justin Oliver with a healthy lead that enabled him to dispatch his last opponent in just three hands, helped by victory in a huge pot.
Oliver's second placing rewarded him with $332,198, whilst other final table take-homes were:
Matt Salsberg $207,842
Thad McNulty $150,859
Barry Hutter $111,368
Jamie Armstrong $83,486
Andy Phan $63,502
Daniel Laming $48,952
Sam Cohen $38,244.
LARGEST HUMAN PLAYING CARD RECORD SET2013-07-23The Oneida tribal gambling group
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The guests were issued with red or white ponchos and organised in groups to create the world's largest human playing card in the form of a gigantic ace of diamonds.
Guinness officials were present to verify the event.
ONLINE GAMBLING OPERATORS AGAIN ON U.K. RICH LIST2013-04-24Online gambling industry observers will be taking an interested look at the new Sunday Times Rich List, due for publication this weekend and detailing the richest folks in Britain.
Pre-publication publicity suggests that the Coates family, which owns the popular bet365 internet gambling enterprise, will be among these super-successful people, and is close to becoming Britain's first gambling billionaires.
According to the Sunday Times, online gamblers lost so much last year that Britains top ten internet betting magnates are each worth more than GBP 100 million. Internet betting exchanges, virtual poker tables and web bingo have all proved lucrative, the newspaper notes.
Peter Coates (75) his daughter Denise (45) and son John (43) have an estimated wealth of GBP 925 million just 13 years after they founded bet365, which is thought to be worth more than GBP 800 million.
Denise Coates featured in last year's Rich List, which reported that she heads a company that saw profits in 2009-10 soar from GBP 66.5 million to almost GBP 101 million on the back of GBP 420 million in sales. Profits were again up in 2010 -2011 to GBP 98.6 million on GBP 501.4 million in sales.