The Jamaican press reported the story of Leighton Barrett this week, who has left his home on the Island to travel to Philadelphia to compete in the annual World Chess Open Championship. It’s the biggest event of his career after dominating tournaments at home. The crucial thing to know about Leighton is that he’s only […]
The Poker Players Alliance staged a Town Hall meeting at the Rio hotel last weekend, updating members and players of the current status of online poker across the United States. Among those addressing the audience was Congressman Joe Barton (R-Texas), a sponsor of H.R.2366, the Bill considered to be the best hope for a change […]
The debate over poker’s status as a skill game surfaced in a New York courtroom this week, when an expert witness said poker was a skill game, in the defence of a man accused of illegal gambling. The case, which was heard in a Brooklyn Federal Court, centred on the defendant Lawrence DiChristina, who stands […]
A report by three academics in Holland has added further weight to the argument that poker is a game of skill. PhD candidates Rogier J.D. Potter van Loon and Dennie van Dolder and Associate Professor of Finance Martijn J. van den Assem of Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, Holland analysed more than 400 million […]
The last of the gold medals were awarded at the World Mind Games yesterday, bringing events in Lille to a close after 15 days of competition. In the Bridge competition, there were gold medals for Sweden in the Open Team category while England’s women won their classification, ahead of Russia which took silver and Poland […]