Jennifer Newell has been writing about poker and gambling since 2004. From her days in the WPT offices to covering summers of WSOP tournament action, she also followed gambling legislation to Washington D.C. and women-only poker to the Bahamas. Meanwhile, she lived in Los Angeles and Las Vegas for many years before moving back to her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. Now, Jen travels less, writing about poker and online gambling from her home with her two dogs watching her every move. In her spare time, she follows politics, works on her never-finished novels, and learns Italian in the hopes of retiring to Italy someday. If you want to know more, you can follow Jen on Twitter @WriterJen or on her Linkedin Profile.
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6 Quick Tips to Improve Winning Scratch Cards Online
Scratchies are famously easy, fun, and, most importantly of all, require little to no skill to enjoy. It’s no wonder then why gamblers all over the world love this lottery-style game. If luck is on your side, you may find yourself the lucky recipient of a generous prize. But…
10 Ways to Spot a Dangerous Online Casino
The best casino sites in Canada are those that take casino safety seriously. There are plenty of old and new casinos alike that take protecting your personal and financial information like it’s a matter of life or death. That’s why there is really no reason to take the…
Top 10 most influential women in the world of Gambling
There seems to be an assumption that gambling and games are for the boys, but statistically that isn’t the case. Online gamblers in Canada are split almost equally between the genders with women making up 43% of online players. The big hitters running the industry aren’t always so equally dispersed,…
How Casinos Make You Spend More Online
For decades, brick-and-mortar casinos have been keeping players happy and engaged with flashy lights and sounds, free food and drinks, intoxicating fragrances, and ambient lighting. Casino sites have their own techniques to keep players spending for hours on end. They use the same principles and apply them to the online…
The Biggest Online Wins in Casino History
Only two types of games offer multimillion-dollar jackpots to online gamblers — progressive slot machines, and online lotteries. It’s easy to become disheartened by the alleged 1-in-50 million chance you have to take home the grand prize on any progressive slot title. However, those unfavorable odds haven’t stopped…
Ontario iGaming Brings More Operators and Raised Concerns
Nearly two months after Ontario launched its new competitive internet gaming market, the new entity seems to be moving along smoothly. Lawmakers are looking forward to the profits, which the Ontario Auditor General just recently revealed could be $75M in the first three years. More online gaming operators continue to…
Updates and Fines from iGaming Ontario as Market Grows
The new, competitive internet gaming market in Ontario is in good shape. The market seems to be holding its own since its 4 April launch. But as expected, there are some updates from the AGCO. Perhaps not expected, the AGCO issued fines to two sites in the new market for…
A Poker Superstar the World Just Hasn’t Heard About Yet
Eric Persson likes to splash the pot just about as much as he likes to make a splash on television. And, while he may be a relatively new face in poker, it seems he’s been destined for gaming his entire life. Wearing a muscle shirt and ball cap, both…
WSOP Circuit Returns and Expands to Calgary
The World Series of Poker Circuit is heating up. Just kidding; it’s already on fire. Big crowds have been crushing guarantees at every stop on the 2021-2022 WSOP Circuit. One of those that did particularly well was the January stop in Calgary at Deerfoot Casino. It was so popular that…
Six Tips to Improve Your Video Poker Game
It may look like a slot machine, feel like a slot machine, and have all the bells and whistles of a slot machine, but video poker plays vastly different than the slots. Much like Texas Hold’em, Omaha, or even blackjack, video poker is a game of skill and strategy. “If…
