by Joe Mattia | Published: Aug 28, '23

The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and Yahoo announced a multi-year naming rights partnership for the Yahoo Sportsbook powered by William Hill on The Venetian casino floor. The sportsbook was completely redesigned, according to the casino. The opening comes as sports betting is at record levels in the Silver State. Nevada’s sports betting sites and brick-and-mortar […]

by Joe Mattia | Published: Apr 29, '23

Yahoo announced the acquisition of Wagr, a peer-to-peer sports betting app. Wagr will be fully integrated into Yahoo Sports. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition of Wagr “augments and accelerates” Yahoo Sports’ plan to further enter the online sports betting space. Wagr has a negligible market share in the U.S. compared to […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Oct 20, '15

California-based tech giant Yahoo is in talks to buy Major League Gaming, a New York-based eSports organization, for an undisclosed price, according to media reports. The possible transaction comes as other firms in the daily fantasy sports space are positioning themselves to take action on the eSports industry. Yahoo, which is vying for market share […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Dec 04, '14

Yahoo! announced that as of Dec. 31 its free-play poker platform will be no more. “As of Dec. 31, 2014, Yahoo Games will no longer offer the Yahoo Classic Games including Yahoo Poker, Yahoo Pool and Yahoo Bingo on web or mobile devices,” the firm wrote on its website. It was a perplexing announcement because, […]

by Thor Henrykson | Published: Apr 26, '07

In a move that will surely change the online poker market, online giant Yahoo has launched a real-money online poker site at www.yahoo.co.uk/poker. This is the first instance of an online company the size of Yahoo entering the poker world, but will likely not be the last. The basis of Yahoo Poker is a partnership […]

by Sean Chaffin | Published: Mar 04, '26

Coney Island serves as Joey Chestnut’s home court every summer. The Indiana native spends Independence Day at the Brooklyn amusement park as the favorite in the annual Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Last year, he downed 70.5 hot dogs and buns in a 10-minute span. It was short of the record of 76 […]

by Scott J. Burnham | Published: Sep 17, '25

It will be a few years before we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the poker boom, but there is a 25th anniversary this year that I would like to acknowledge. In 2000, a freelance writer from Chicago named Jim McManus was hired by Harper’s Weekly magazine to write an article on the […]

by Scott J. Burnham | Published: Aug 20, '25

At the World Series of Poker, can a player be penalized for actions that do not violate a specific rule? We are talking, of course, about Will Kassouf and perhaps to a lesser extent, about Martin Kabrhel. The behavior of both can be fairly described as generally obnoxious, but it can be argued that the […]

by Scott J. Burnham | Published: Aug 06, '25

In the WSOP, when players are heads up, is it against the rules to for one player to purposely lose chips to benefit another player? This question is unfortunately not hypothetical, but based on what the WSOP has determined happened in the Millionaire Maker event when James Carroll, who had a 9:1 chip lead heads […]

by Scott J. Burnham | Published: Jun 11, '25

The WSOP rules on electronic devices have finally arrived. When examining a rule, it is always helpful to ask, “What is the purpose of  the rule?” That is, “What problem is it trying to solve?” Poker is very much an individualistic game. Every decision is completely up to one person – no teammates, no coaches, […]