In a new video interview with Poker King Club, Tom "durrrr" Dwan talks poker, playing in Manila and confirms his participation for the biggest buy-in tournament in World Poker Tour history.

Check out the interview on Youtube.

The 21-year-old teen pop star and social media sensationJustin Bieber has posted a picture of a recent home game to his almost 50 million Instagram followers, although this seems to have been a contest where Sour Patch Kids sweets took the place of proper poker chips. Amazingly, the snap has drawn over 1.5 million likes and in excess of 25,000 comments.

This week, Ontario, Canada's p0cket00 became the second person ever to hit $9 million in career online tournament winnings.

The other person to do so, is Chris moorman1 Moorman, who hit $10 million in online tournament winnings in 2013.

His largest career cash was worth $106,000 and came in 2014 by virtue of winning the PokerStars Super Tuesday.

A state judge has ordered Amaya Gaming owned online poker subsidiary PokerStars to pay $870M to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.  

Last month they were ordered to pay the state’s residents $290M in compensation for their ‘illegal’ dealings between 2006 and 2011, but on Wednesday the state’s request for triple damages was granted.

Worse still for the Canadian gaming giants, there will be no time to dwell on the decision if they don’t want that $870M sum to increase any further, as the debt carries an interest rate of 12% per year ($104M) until it’s completely cleared.

Source: highstakesdb.com

The most expensive tournament in World Poker Tour history will be played at the WPT National Philippines in January 2016. The tournament will have a buy-in of $200,000 and, according to WPT.com, some of the biggest names in poker have already confirmed that they will be taking part.

"International poker pros Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Andrew Robl, Fedor Holz, Sam Trickett, Andrew Paintling, Vivek Rajkumar, Andrew Timothy, and Daniel "Jungleman" Cates will join the aforementioned 12 confirmed high-profile Asian businessmen, including Malaysian poker players and businessmen, Richard Yong and Paul Phua, as well as Cali Group CEO, Lei Tim Meng."

Hong Kong-based gaming machine manufacturer and supplier Paradise Entertainment Ltd. is offering innovative card dealer robots to US and other land-based casinos worldwide.

Their card dealer robot prototype named "Min" made her first debut and has impressed a lot of people at a Macau gaming show just this November 2015. Now, she and her clones are making their entry to the United States, where labor costs in land-based casinos are absolutely much higher as compared to Asia as well as in areas where humans are not allowed to work as croupiers.

Earlier this year some of you might have heard about a potential MMA fight between Sorel Mizzi and Luke Schwartz. Well, Schwartz ended up backing down from the challenge, claiming that he didn't have the time and effort to make the fight happen.

Luckily, we have just learnt that Brian Rast has decided to take Schwartz's place! According to a tweet by Sorel Mizzi a few days ago, he and Rast will battle each other on December 30th at 6 p.m. in Las Vegas. Tickets for the fight vary from 20 - 80 dollars with all proceeds going to REG Charity.

Tony G has been rather anonymous in the poker world ever since being elected to the European Parliament in 2014. However, it seems like the former poker pro is not done with poker just yet. The fact is that he just challenged Canada's Prime Minster to play poker against him.

The reason? Well, in a special 60-second challenge by maccleans.co, Canada's PM Justin Trudeau responded "That's not a thing" when asked what his favourite Baltic nation was". As many of you probably know, the Baltic states consist of Estonia, Latvia and Tony G's Lithuania. 

British player Alex Goulder won last night’s €1k Win The Button tournament for €31,895. The event attracted 137 players, with 20 paid from the €132,890 prize pool. Among those who cashed were Christian Nolte from Austria, IPT Malta champion Georgios Zisimopoulos and EPT Prague champ Martin Finger.

Source: EPT press

American poker pro Kenneth Smaron is leading the EPT12 Prague €10k High Roller at the end of Day 1 after bagging 274,400 yesterday.

Others who are through to Day 2 include EPT Copenhagen champ Anton Wigg (236,000), EPT10 Grand Final €100k Super High Roller runner-up Daniel Cates (211,400) and EPT12 Malta runner-up Alen Billic (196,000) while Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst and Eugene Katchalov have also made it to Day 2 with 119,700 and 21,400 respectively.

Source: EPT press