by Brett Collson
The PokerStars North American Poker Tour will make its third stop this month when it visits Mohegan Sun. The 16-day poker event will consist of 37 tournaments, including a $25,600 two-day High Roller Bounty Shootout that will attract the biggest names in the game.
A quaint field of 143 players turned out for the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Hollywood Poker Open. The event marks the WPT’s first ever trip to Hollywood Casino Indiana, located just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The latest trend for online poker companies is to have their own live tournament schedules so that customers can participate in the game away from the internet. Full Tilt Poker recently announced that its own sponsored poker tour would be back for the second year.
In the most recent installment of the ESPN.com poker news show “Inside Deal,” 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth took center stage. A review of Hellmuth’s most infamous meltdowns also aired.
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A total of 242 players turned out for the $5,000 Main Event of the Wynn Classic and when the smoke cleared, poker pro Brandon Cantu stood tall above the field for $363,000. He defeated poker veteran Jared Jaffee heads-up.
ESPN’s coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for the second consecutive year, as announced this week by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Just like many people around the world, poker players leapt at the chance to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday. Whether it was pulling up a chair for some poker or pulling up a bar stool to tip a few, poker’s best kept up its end by celebrating well.
Recently, World Series of Poker officials announced open voting to determine 20 of the 27 spots in the 2010 Tournament of Champions. With five automatic qualifiers already in the field and two more left up to the event’s sponsor, Poker News Daily staff writers cast their votes.
The Durrrr Challenge might be two-thirds completed, but at this point a lot of players are beginning to think that Patrik Antonius is fully cooked. According to our good friends at DurrrrChallenge.com, there have been 33,303 hands played out of the 50,000 total with Tom “durrrr” Dwan up over $1.9 million.
A second suspect is behind bars charged with taking part in the high-stakes robbery of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin event two weeks ago. The second arrest came after the first assailant, 21 years of age, turned himself in to police on Monday.
Online poker training site DragTheBar.com announced Thursday that lead instructor Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt has been added to the PokerStars Team Online. Schmidt joins an elite 26-player roster.
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Forecasting future developments in poker is usually about as reliable as trying to predict a flop, turn, and river. However, there’s far more than a 52-card deck’s worth of possibilities for players and industry personnel.
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Poker pro Scott Seiver has been on the run of a lifetime. The young gun finished fourth in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour High-Roller Bounty Shootout last month for $215,000 and won the L.A. Poker Classic High-Roller event for another $425,000.
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In poker, sometimes the hand you hold has differing capabilities depending upon the game that you’re playing. What would be a great hand in one form of poker will, in essence, be total junk in another discipline of the game.
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