Known as the “Bellagio Biker Bandit” Anthony Michael Carleo was in court this past Wednesday for a preliminary hearing in the case. A number of witnesses entered their testimony during the preliminary hearing, and according to Forbes Magazine, Carleo could face as much as 35 years in prison for the crime. On the day of the robbery, Carleo entered the Bellagio casino wearing aRead Full Article

We were told in the movie Oceans 11 that you just don’t walk into a casino and rob the place, but that is precisely what happened at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at around 4 PM Tuesday morning. According to the report in the New York Post a gunman approached a craps table wearing a motorcycle helmet, making off with anRead Full Article

Monday night not only saw the World Series of Poker crown Jonathan Duhamel as its newest Main Event Champion, but prior to the heads up match the Poker Hall of Fame officially grew by two players as Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel were inducted into the very exclusive club. Each inductee was introduced by a speaker before making a brief speech of their own:Read Full Article

It was announced Tuesday morning that Dan Harrington and Erik Seidel will be the two members of the 2010 class inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Seidel and Harrington have both had storied poker careers –careers that surely have not seen the final chapter written just yet—and were able to beat out eight other worthy finalists for the honor. Seidel has quietly amassedRead Full Article

The Middle Tennessee State University Blue Raiders should have been looking forward to the 2010 football season considering the team was picked to win the Sun Belt Conference. Unfortunately they may be without the services of their starting quarterback Dwight Dasher thanks to a nasty poker habit that has landed the senior in hot water. Dasher, who was on many people’s short-list for numerousRead Full Article

After implementing a fan voting system last year –a process that saw Mike Sexton end up as the lone inductee– the Poker Hall of Fame once again opened up the nomination process to the fans. After the initial nomination period a whopping 181 poker players have been nominated for poker’s highest honor. Next week the top 10 nominees will be sent to the NominationRead Full Article

The Poker Hall of Fame is an extremely exclusive club, and grows by only one or two each year. Beginning last year, the Poker Hall of Fame opened up the nomination process to the public, allowing poker fans to nominate their favorite poker players –so long as they meet the criteria set out by the Hall of Fame—through an online submission form. The topRead Full Article

The daring robbery shocked the poker world back in March, when four armed men entered the Hyatt Grand Hotel in Berlin brandishing machetes/axes and what turned out to be a starter pistol, and were able to escape with some €242,000 of the €1,000,000 prize-money at the European Poker Tour tournament. Two other men have also been arrested and face separate trials for their rolesRead Full Article

Phil Laak knew it was going to be tough to break the record for consecutive hours of poker played –the official record stood at over 72 hours, while the unofficial record stood at 78 hours—but the Unabomber, as Laak is known by, almost made it look easy! Laak not only bested the 72 hour and 78 hour marks, he went well past his ownRead Full Article

Poker pro Phil Laak has set the poker endurance record after playing 80 hours of live poker! Laak bested not only the record of Larry Olmsted, which stood at 72 hours, from the Guinness Book of World Records, but also the unofficial record of 78 hours set by Paul Zimbler and has beat his own goal of 80 hours and is slowly going towardsRead Full Article