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New York Post
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Leo Margets trying to make history at 2025 WSOP main event
Leonore 'Leo' Margets has a chance to make history at the WSOP main event. The Barcelona native, 41, became the first woman to make the final table at the main event in 30 years and has a chance to be the first woman ever to win the tournament. Barbara Enright made the final table in 1995 and finished in fifth place. 3 Leonore 'Leo' Margets Instagram/leo_margets 3 Leo Margets during the WSOP main event. YouTube/PokerGO 'I woke up, and it wasn't a dream. And the best part is, this is just the beginning!' Margets wrote in Spanish in an Instagram post, according to a translation. 'I'm not looking at my phone or my messages, but I wanted to stop by and say thanks because the vibes I'm getting are amazing. How incredible to be experiencing this. I have the best rail in the world. There's still a long way to go, but I'm more ready than ever.' By reaching the final table of nine contestants, Margets secured at least a $1 million prize. 3 Leo Margets during a previous WSOP event. Instagram/leo_margets The winner of the tournament, which this year had 9,735 entrants and has an entry fee of $10,000, will take home $10 million. Margets has a WSOP bracelet on her résumé, having won a $1,500 entry No Limit Hold'em closer tournament in 2021, which came with a prize of $376,850. She enters the final table with the fifth-most chips remaining (53,400,000). The other contestants are John Wasnock, Michael Mizrachi, Braxton Dunaway, Kenny Hallaert, Luka Bojovic, Adam Hendrix, Daehyung Lee and Jarod Minghini. Action at the final table is set to begin Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. ET and will continue until there are four players left. The final four will then return to action Wednesday.
Malaysian Reserve
14-07-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Leo Margets Makes History as First Woman in 30 Years To Reach WSOP Main Event Final Table; Watch Live On PokerGO® July 15-16
LAS VEGAS, July 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The final table of the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event is set, and you can watch every hand live on PokerGO® July 15-16. Just nine players remain from the colossal field of 9,735 entries. The winner will be crowned world champion, take home the enormous $10,000,000 first-place prize, and earn the most coveted gold bracelet in the game. To watch the WSOP Main Event final table live, visit Coverage begins 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 15. This WSOP Main Event final table is one for the history books, with Spain's Leo Margets becoming the first woman in 30 years to reach the final table, following in the footsteps of poker icon Barbara Enright, who accomplished the feat in 1995. Margets enters the final table fifth in chips with a chance to etch her name into poker immortality and inspire a new generation of players around the world. Each of the remaining players is guaranteed $1,000,000, with more than $30,000,000 still to play for. John Wasnock, an investment consultant from North Bend, Washington, enters the final table with the chip lead. He's joined by the aforementioned Margets and Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi, Braxton Dunaway, Kenny Hallaert, Luka Bojovic, Adam Hendrix, Daehyung Lee, and Jarod Minghini. For more information on the final table players, check out their bios. For a limited time, poker fans can sign up for an annual PokerGO subscription using the promo code 'WSOP25' to receive $20 off the regular annual price ($99.99) for the first year. Visit or download PokerGO to your favorite device. Media Contactpress@ About PokerGO®PokerGO® is the world's largest poker content company delivering industry-leading programming around the world to consumers. PokerGO delivers more than 100 days of live poker annually. PokerGO's video-on-demand library includes original content that provides unmatched access to the world of poker. For more information, visit Become a part of the PokerGO community on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Discord, and by listening to the PokerGO Podcast. Shop the best and newest poker apparel and more at
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Leo Margets Makes History as First Woman in 30 Years To Reach WSOP Main Event Final Table; Watch Live On PokerGO® July 15-16
LAS VEGAS, July 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The final table of the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event is set, and you can watch every hand live on PokerGO® July 15-16. Just nine players remain from the colossal field of 9,735 entries. The winner will be crowned world champion, take home the enormous $10,000,000 first-place prize, and earn the most coveted gold bracelet in the game. To watch the WSOP Main Event final table live, visit Coverage begins 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on Tuesday, July 15. This WSOP Main Event final table is one for the history books, with Spain's Leo Margets becoming the first woman in 30 years to reach the final table, following in the footsteps of poker icon Barbara Enright, who accomplished the feat in 1995. Margets enters the final table fifth in chips with a chance to etch her name into poker immortality and inspire a new generation of players around the world. Each of the remaining players is guaranteed $1,000,000, with more than $30,000,000 still to play for. John Wasnock, an investment consultant from North Bend, Washington, enters the final table with the chip lead. He's joined by the aforementioned Margets and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Braxton Dunaway, Kenny Hallaert, Luka Bojovic, Adam Hendrix, Daehyung Lee, and Jarod Minghini. For more information on the final table players, check out their bios. For a limited time, poker fans can sign up for an annual PokerGO subscription using the promo code "WSOP25" to receive $20 off the regular annual price ($99.99) for the first year. Visit or download PokerGO to your favorite device. Media Contactpress@ About PokerGO®PokerGO® is the world's largest poker content company delivering industry-leading programming around the world to consumers. PokerGO delivers more than 100 days of live poker annually. PokerGO's video-on-demand library includes original content that provides unmatched access to the world of poker. For more information, visit Become a part of the PokerGO community on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Discord, and by listening to the PokerGO Podcast. Shop the best and newest poker apparel and more at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE PokerGO Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MGM's Aria advertises Illegal offshore betting site
A screenshot from a PokerGo tournament at Aria in mid-April shows the Monkey Tilt logo advertised on the poker table felt. MGM Resorts International is advertising an offshore casino and sports betting site that is off limits to gamblers in the United States — a move that could prompt more regulatory headaches for the company, which recently paid $16 million to state and federal authorities for violating anti-money laundering laws. The logo for Monkey Tilt, an offshore casino and betting site, appears on an Aria poker table in an episode of PokerGo, a program that is sometimes produced at Aria. Among the gamblers at the table is Samer (Sam) Mohammed Kiki Jr., founder and CEO of Monkey Tilt. He did not respond to numerous requests for comment. The revelation puts MGM in the awkward position of advertising for an illegal competitor of its BetMGM site. MGM general counsel John McManus did not respond to requests for comment. It's unknown whether MGM received compensation for the logo's placement on the poker felt. Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Kirk Hendrick said via email that Nevada gaming regulation does 'not specifically address what types of advertising are allowed by those approved to participate in Nevada's gaming industry,' but noted regulations provide 'guidance regarding types of advertising that may be determined as an unsuitable method of operation…' Under Nevada gaming law, licensees may be subject to disciplinary action for 'failure to conduct advertising and public relations activities in accordance with decency, dignity, good taste, honesty and inoffensiveness, including, but not limited to, advertising that is false or materially misleading.' Hendrick declined to address Aria's Monkey Tilt ad specifically, but said 'the Nevada Gaming Control Board is concerned whenever issues relate to unlicensed gaming.' 'The PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort & Casino is your destination to participate and watch the biggest poker tournaments and cash games as seen on PokerGO,' says the PokerGO Facebook page. 'What you're talking about sounds more sloppy than anything that would require a regulator to get involved,' says Alan Feldman, director of Strategic Initiatives for UNLV's International Gaming Institute and formerly MGM's longtime corporate spokesman. 'If it was an explicit endorsement, it would require a formal approval. If it amounted to an implicit endorsement, it probably should have been approved.' Kiki, a Las Vegas resident, is a former employee of MGM and Caesars Entertainment. His Instagram account features images of a villa at the Mansions at MGM Grand, an accommodation reserved for high rollers. A video shows Kiki gambling at Fontainebleau. Like a growing number of offshore sites, Monkey Tilt accepts only cryptocurrency, which is often used by offshore platforms to evade tracking by law enforcement. Prospective gamblers in the U.S. who attempt to register to gamble on Monkey Tilt are directed to which is billed as a 'social casino.' However, the site is inoperable. Americans bet more than $510 billion a year with illegal and unregulated operators, according to a report from the American Gaming Association, at an annual cost of $44.2 billion in revenue to legal operators. The AGA says 55% of sports bettors who placed illegal bets thought they were gambling legally. Through the use of virtual private networks (VPNs), gamblers in the U.S. can circumvent the law and evade detection by masking their internet protocol (IP) address, which is used to identify location. 'Having a logo for an offshore site on an MGM event gives the impression that the MGM is endorsing this site,' says former casino executive and California Gambling Control Commission member Richard Schuetz. 'It is totally inappropriate and contrary to the goals of Nevada's model of regulated gaming.' A bettor who views an ad for a gambling site on the poker table of a licensed Las Vegas resort 'would absolutely have a reasonable expectation to believe' the site is legitimate, says Trey Delap, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling. According to the AGA, illegal gambling operations don't invest in responsible gambling programs, fail to protect minors via age verification, take no steps to prevent money laundering, and don't guarantee fair payouts. 'Unlike legal operators, illegal operators also don't pay a dime in taxes, robbing state and local governments of more than $13 billion in tax revenue each year,' says the AGA. State gambling regulators, including Hendrick, and the AGA have asked the federal government to crack down on offshore betting sites. 'Offshore operators who offer their products into these highly-regulated state jurisdictions are doing so in contravention of not only state laws, but federal law,' says a 2023 letter to then-U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland signed by top regulators in New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in addition to Nevada. Federal law contains provisions for holding offshore sites accountable, such as the Wire Act of 1961, which prohibits the use of wire communication to transmit bets on sporting events across state or national borders, and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), which makes it illegal for offshore sites to knowingly accept payment for unregulated gambling. Jurisdictional challenges, international laws, encryption methods, as well as the expense of global prosecutions, render such efforts rare. A 2022 opinion piece in Legal Sports Report on the AGA's letter to Garland suggests the Department of Justice, 'like many law enforcement agencies, focuses much of its attention and resources on particular areas. To the extent that illicit gambling might overlap with any of the areas of interest that the Justice Department has its eye on, one can bet that those operators will be a priority.' President Donald Trump's DOJ has its eye almost exclusively focused on deporting undocumented, as well as some credentialed, immigrants. Anti-money laundering investigations in Nevada casinos have flourished in recent years, initiated by federal authorities from the Central District of California. MGM paid $7.45 million to the feds as part of a non-prosecution agreement for failing to file suspicious activity reports, and another $8.5 million to Nevada regulators last month for the same offense. The GCB, based on federal prosecutions of illegal sports bookies Mathew Bowyer and Damien LeForbes, fined Resorts World $10.5 million in March. However, under the Trump administration, an anticipated non-prosecution agreement between Resorts World and the DOJ has yet to materialize. Two of three federal prosecutors who brought the charges against MGM and the illegal bookies have left the office, and Trump has replaced the U.S. Attorney who oversaw the cases. The president, who says he's been persecuted and seeks to avenge individuals he perceives as similarly situated, may be unlikely to support anti-money laundering cases for personal reasons. Trump's Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which closed in 2016, was plagued by repeated anti-money laundering violations and admitted to several willful violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, including failure to report suspicious transactions; failure to file currency transaction reports; and failure to keep adequate records, according to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN). Trump, whose Las Vegas tower has no gambling, held a 10% share of the Riviera in the early 2000s. In 2016, Harry Reid told the Washington Post that Trump couldn't get a gaming license. Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, founder of Nevada-based Cantor Gaming, landed in hot water with Nevada gaming regulators, and paid a fine of $5.5 million, and with the DOJ, which he paid $16 million for engaging in illegal gambling and money laundering. In the absence of aggressive federal pursuit of illegal actors, the Nevada Legislature is taking a crack at curbing offshore sites that cater to gamblers in the state. Senate Bill 256, which has passed both houses, would allow Nevada officials to prosecute illegal sites that cater to Nevadans and recoup the site's gross receipts or profits, which would go into the state's general fund. 'While other states are looking to ban sweepstakes gambling and increase the penalties for illegal offshore gambling providers, Nevada may be the first to up the ante to include a provider's 'ill-gotten gains,'' reports Public Gaming International. The bill proposes increased penalties for individuals or entities facilitating illegal gambling, including the potential for felony charges. It also seeks to derail the proliferation of so-called social casino sites, which presumably allow patrons to play games without money. 'If you've ever had the opportunity to, unfortunately, click on that, which a lot of consumers do, you're taken to an app that you download, where you purchase gold coins,' Sen. Rochelle Nguyen, sponsor of SB 256, testified before a Senate committee. 'It is essentially gaming. It's illegal gaming.'
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PokerGO® Announces 2025 WSOP® Livestreaming Plans Featuring Daily Coverage of the Main Event and More
LAS VEGAS, May 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PokerGO®, the world's leading poker content company and streaming platform, today announced its exclusive livestreaming plans for the 2025 World Series of Poker® (WSOP®). Starting Saturday, May 31, PokerGO will stream near-daily coverage from the 2025 WSOP, offering poker fans the most comprehensive way to experience the game's richest and most prestigious tournament series. At the heart of PokerGO's 2025 coverage is the iconic WSOP Main Event. From July 2-16, PokerGO will broadcast every step of the Main Event as the next world champion rises from the felt. In addition to the Main Event, PokerGO will spotlight over two dozen WSOP gold bracelet events throughout the summer, including the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, $250,000 High Roller, $25,000 Heads-Up Championship, and $1,000 Ladies Championship. Visit for the full livestream schedule. Livestreams will be available worldwide on the PokerGO platform across all major devices, including Android, iOS, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and any web or mobile browser via Select events will also be available on the PokerGO YouTube channel, bringing WSOP action to an even broader audience. Fans can sign up for an annual PokerGO subscription using promo code "WSOP25" to receive $20 off the regular annual price ($99.99) and unlock access to the best seat in the house all summer long. As an added perk, all annual subscribers are automatically entered into the 2025 PokerGO Annual Subscriber Dream Seat Giveaway. On November 1, 2025, three lucky winners will be selected to each receive a Dream Seat into the 2025 PGT $1,000,000 Championship, a $300 travel gift card, and three nights' hotel accommodations in Las Vegas. For complete details, visit Media Contact press@ About PokerGO®PokerGO® is the world's largest poker content company delivering industry-leading programming around the world to consumers. PokerGO delivers more than 100 days of live poker annually. PokerGO's video-on-demand library includes original content that provides unmatched access to the world of poker. For more information, visit Become a part of the PokerGO community on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Discord, and by listening to the PokerGO Podcast. Shop the best and newest poker apparel and more at View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE PokerGO Sign in to access your portfolio
