Gambling in Canada Archive

Connor “blanconegro” Drinan dominating live and online poker from Canada. Connor Drinan isn’t really a household name in the live poker world, and yet he has amassed more than US $11 million in tournament cashes. His online poker moniker, “blanconegro”, has been known to strike fear in the hearts of those who know it,...

$1.9m GTD PartyPoker LIVE World Cup of Cards is coming to the Playground Poker Club in Montreal Jan 20-Feb 6. PartyPoker will return to its new favorite haunt, the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, next month. This time, the popular online poker operator is organizing a two-week festival that will see $1,926,000 in guaranteed...

Five reasons why PartyPoker will retain the title of best online poker site in 2019. PartyPoker made a lot of big moves in 2018. Some were extremely successful, impressing the operator’s worthy dominance of the industry upon players throughout Canada, Europe, and beyond. Others were, well… not so well received. But together, all of...

PartyPoker Shatters Record with Largest Online Poker Tournament, Paying Near $2 Million Over its $20M GTD. Records are set, broken, and broken again all the time. It used to be a common occurrence in the online poker industry. Nowadays, it takes something truly exceptional to attract the attention of Guinness Record officials. PartyPoker did...

PartyPoker LIVE MyLounge – Canada’s Favorite Poker Room Launches Exclusive Perks for Members on Live Tour Casinos are known to be elaborate places. Their reputation for opulent flamboyance spans far and wide. Veteran patrons have come to expect the very best in atmosphere and service. Live poker players will soon be privy to the...

For a major nation with so many professional poker players, why is it there are so few major live poker tournaments held in Canada? In the live poker realm, there are only a few major festival titles that are coveted above all others. They include the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the European Poker...

Words of wisdom from Canada’s streaming poker star, Arlie Shaban, who turned pro because he hated his day job. Are you tired of your day job? Do you hate getting up early in the morning? Does the commute bother you? Maybe you’re sick of taking instruction from others. Well, maybe you don’t have to...

Iowa Tribe launches rake free online poker site that charges by the buy-in, not the hand. Remember a few years back when the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma was building PokerTribe.com, an online poker site it promised would revolutionize the world’s legal, real-money internet poker scene? Yeah, don’t worry, that epic failure is not what...

Are you a high-rolling online poker VIP? Now you can become a Skrill VIP, too. There are three basic types of online poker players. You have your low-stakes recreational player, who doesn’t spend much, competing for entertainment value more than anything else. Then, there’s the low- to mid-stakes strategist, who also maintains a low-cost...

A glimpse at one of Canada’s best online poker players, Casey Jarzabeck. Online or on the felt, Casey “Bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabeck is not one to be reckoned with. Hailing from Saint Catherines, Ontario, he’s one of Canada’s fiercest online poker tournament grinders. He’s racked up some decent winnings in live events, as well, but his...