Friday updates – June 19, 2020
Publish date: June 19, 2020

Hey, poker playas!

Casinos and poker room are beginning to open all around the world. so here we are giving you the updates from around the globe and the Philippines.

Commerce Casino re-opens poker room

Commerce Casino is the largest card room in the world, with more than 240 tables on-site and spreads more Texas Hold’em games than any other casino in the world. The News of its reopening is good news to poker players in the U.S.

Commerce Casino is home to several poker tournament series. 

The Nevada board may have issued a guideline for poker rooms of limiting the number of players per table. Commerce will have 8-handed games.

Base on their videos, only side dividers are installed. Face covering is required for all employees, players, and vendors upon entering the establishment.

Daniel Negreanu 1M USD Online WSOP bracelet bet.

Announcing on Twitter, seven-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu invited people on a new side bet.  The last time he won a bracelet was 2013 WSOP but that has not stopped his motivation to win a new one and raise the stake.

He has laid the odds at 2.5 to 1 on him getting one bracelet this year. His goal is to drum up $1 million in action with a per-person cap of $100k.

A cap that poker players and fans have hit now three times.

Players would definitely monitor this bet.

Check out his twitter account as he has raise another side bet for the GG/WSOp online bracelet series.

EIC preparing for application PAGCOR casino license.

Hong Kong-listed gaming investor International Entertainment Corp (IEC) is preparing for its application for  PAGCOR to develop a casino and integrated resort at its Manila hotel premises, New Coast Hotel Manila.

It has a Philippines subsidiary, The Marina Square Properties, Inc, revealing that it has now secured a Letter of No Objection and a City Council Resolution from the City of Manila stating it does not object to such a development.

both papers are a requirement for PAGCOR to issue a provisional license.

IEC currently leases space at New Coast Hotel Manila to PAGCOR for gaming operations., A hotel/casino establishment that has undergone a few changes in the last decade.

Its first opens as the Hyatt hotel which became New World Manila Bay Hotel which was formerly known as the Hyatt Hotel.

 It also owns the rights to operate live poker events across most of Asia under the PokerStars brand.

Hyatt Hotel was the host hotel for Pokerstars Inaugural APPT back in 2007 which attracted pros like Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, and Vanessa Rousso.

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