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Cake Poker: Weekend Tournament Schedule
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 12, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Cake Poker doesn’t boast a tournament with the pedigree of PokerStars’ Sunday Million or Full Tilt Poker’s $750K, but they still do offer a great slate of weekend tournaments.
First, Cake Poker runs their normal nightly schedule all throughout the weekend. At 5pm, Cake Poker features a $10 $10K Guaranteed Rebuy. Following that at 6:30pm is [...]
PokerStars: Nightly Tournament Results
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 12, 2010 at 1:45 pm

Night in and night out, PokerStars runs the biggest and best tournaments online poker has to offer. Yesterday, the action started with the Daily Thirty Grand, which received 5491 entrants and paid out 810 spots. When the dust finally settled, truck625a bested the field and added nearly $7K to his bank account. Losing the heads-up [...]
Full Tilt Poker: MiniFTOPS Results
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 12, 2010 at 12:52 pm

Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS XV continued yesterday with two great tournaments. Event #2, a $20 + 2 Omaha H/L Pot Limit tourney, garnered 4198 entrants and generated a $84K prize-pool ($75K was guaranteed). After nine hours of intense play, TUTANKHAMEN emerged victorious, taking home $16.6K for his win. TheHenk settled on second place for $10K, [...]
Titan Poker Launches New Software
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Titan Poker, the iPoker network’s flagship site and one of Europe’s biggest, recently released a new version of their client software. Chief among the updates are the implementation of Razz games, a new Flash version of the site that supports Mac users, and the inclusion of five languages: Hungarian, portuguese, Romanian, Czech, and Greek. Additionally, [...]
Party Poker: Tonight’s Action
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 11, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Once the king of online poker, Party Poker can’t quite offer what they used to due to dropping out of the US market, but they still do have a great schedule of nightly tournaments.
Party Poker kicks things of at 2:15 with a $22 $10K Guaranteed Rebuy and follows that up with a $55 $20K Guaranteed [...]
Bodog Poker: Nightly Tournament Schedule
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 11, 2010 at 2:35 pm

While Bodog Poker is a relatively small site, especially when compared to giants like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, sometimes that can mean more value for your tournament dollar. Wading through six thousand players to ship a huge tournament is obviously a great feeling, but variance prohibits that from happening very often. With Bodog Poker’s [...]
PokerStars Nightly Tournament Results
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 11, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Every night on PokerStars is action packed, and last night was no different. The day started off at 1pm with the Daily Thirty Grand, which saw 5560 players register to create a $55.6K prize-pool. When the dust settled, JazzFunkMast emerged as the victor, taking home $7K for his efforts. Jake784 lost the heads-up match and [...]
Full Tilt Poker MiniFTOPS #1 Report
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 11, 2010 at 12:21 pm

A total of 18,875 players – yes, eighteen-thousand eight-hundred and seventy-five – showed up to play the opening event of MiniFTOPS XV. Full Tilt Poker guaranteed $350K, but the mass turnout swelled the prize-pool to $377.5K, and the tournament paid out almost 2500 spots.
After what must have been an agonizingly long twelve hour grind, edge_lover [...]
UB.com: Today’s Tournament Schedule
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 10, 2010 at 5:34 pm

You won’t find any tournaments on UB.com tonight with 15K runners, but that could be a good thing; unless you make the final table, playing a tournament that large can only end in disappointment…and that’s going to happen more often than not. So, if MiniFTOPS isn’t really your thing, swing by UB.com for some of [...]
PokerStars Tournament Review: 1$ickDisea$e Wins The Super Tuesday
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 10, 2010 at 12:44 pm

Tuesdays on PokerStars are always action packed, and last night was no exception. The Super Tuesday, the biggest weekday tournament that PokerStars offers, garnered 382 entrants and a $382K prize-pool that paid 45 spots. When the dust settled, 1$ickDisea$e emerged victorious, banking nearly $74K for his night’s work. Losing the heads-up battle was iCeVeNoM, who [...]
Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS XV Begins Tonight
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 10, 2010 at 12:13 pm

For lower limit tournament grinders who can’t afford the stakes of the regular Fill Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), the introduction of MiniFTOPS was a dream come true. The smaller series features tournaments that are one-tenth the buy-in of a normal FTOPS event, but still carry a hefty guarantee with them and always generate massive [...]
Cake Poker: Tonight’s Tournament Schedule
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 9, 2010 at 5:04 pm

If you’re trying to find some smaller field tournaments than the gargantuan ones offered by PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, look no further than Cake Poker. Tonight’s schedule includes a variety of buy-in levels, so there’s likely a tournament for you regardless of the stakes you normally play.
First up at 5pm, Cake Poker features a [...]
PokerStars: Nightly Tournament Report
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 9, 2010 at 2:13 pm

Being the biggest online poker site has its spoils, not the least of which is the fact that you can offer the juiciest action night in and night out. While Full Tilt Poker might have featured the $1K Monday last night, PokerStars had their own slew of great tournaments.
First on the schedule was the afternoon [...]
Full Tilt Poker: Monday Tournament Report
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 9, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Monday nights on Full Tilt Poker always generate a bit of a buzz, mainly due to the high-roller event known as the $1K Monday. After a grueling seven and a half hour grind, bankrolkme87 emerged as the newest $1K Monday champion, a score that netted him nearly $77K. Shovestoof, who was bested by bankrollme in [...]
Cake Poker Major: HamHead Wins The $125K
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 8, 2010 at 5:02 pm

An up-and-coming young site, Cake Poker already has a Sunday Major that’s on the radar of every serious tournament poker player. The $125K Guaranteed has a buy-in of $162 and rarely gets over 1000 entrants, so it’s easily one of the better value tournaments of the weekend as it regularly pays out over $25K to [...]
Titan Poker $250K Guaranteed: chazmanchaz1 wins $59K
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 8, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Every Sunday, Titan Poker hosts what might be the best value tournament of the weekend in their $250K Guaranteed. With a buy-in of $320 and a field-size that rarely gets over 1000 entrants, the $250K is the best bang for your tournament poker buck. Just ask chazmanchaz1, he’ll tell you.
After a long and grueling day [...]
UB.com $200K: CKINGUSC Wins $48K
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 8, 2010 at 2:54 pm

Although UB.com is a smaller site that doesn’t get nearly the same amount of traffic as PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, they still try to pull out all the stops on Sundays with their Major, the 200K Guaranteed.
This past Sunday, UB.com saw their biggest tournament get 1093 entrants, which bumped the prize-pool to almost $219K. [...]
Full Tilt Poker Crowns New Champions: doublencs, shiftzerg, and UgotaBanana
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 8, 2010 at 2:07 pm

Second only to PokerStars in terms of weekend guarantees, Full Tilt Poker offers their own schedule of potentially life-altering prize-pools, and this past weekend was certainly no exception.
First up was The Sunday Brawl, a hefty $256 knock-out tournament that saw 2911 players register to generate a $582K prize-pool. When the tournament ended, doublencs emerged victorious [...]
PokerStars Sunday Million Winner: MAE9690 Ships $260K
By JD for POKER NEWS DAILY - March 8, 2010 at 1:23 pm

As they do every weekend, PokerStars handed out glory, bragging rights and, of course, life-changing money to their three new Sunday Major champions.
First on the slate was the Sunday Warm-Up, which garnered 4980 players and a $996K prize-pool. When there were only six players remaining, the action was paused and an unprecedented six-way deal was [...]
Party Poker will send 120 players to various NHL games
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 12, 2010 at 4:18 pm

Party Poker has rolled out a promotion that will have players racing to make as many PartyPoints as possible. The first 120 players to reach fifteen hundred points starting today and before February 21th will receive an NHL package. Each package will include two tickets to the VIP suite at the game, hotel accommodations for [...]
Full Tilt offers more than $5 Million This Weekend
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 12, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Full Tilt Poker is currently running their FTOPS XV series and those tournaments are simultaneously running along with the Big Money Sunday tournaments this weekend, with millions of dollars at stake.
The first big tournament will be played out on Saturday at 1 pm in the Pot Limit Omaha 6-max format and a $350K prize pool. [...]
Full Tilt Pro Cole South Crushes His Competition
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 12, 2010 at 1:51 pm

The high stakes tables have been really busy at Full Tilt for the past weeks and million of dollars have moved around. One player that has been playing in an outstanding way this year is the Full Tilt Pro Cole South. His game has been on the uprise and his profit for this year exceeds [...]
Paul Wasicka Wins the WSOP Circuit Tunica
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 12, 2010 at 1:48 pm

The 2006 WSOP runner-up Paul Wasicka has managed to outplay the 96 player field after several days of play and has pocketed $139,422 for his effort.
Wasicka started playing poker in ’04 and he has been involved ever since, his first big win came shortly after his incursion into poker. His deep run at the ’06 [...]
PokerStars ANZPT Adelaide Day Two
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 12, 2010 at 1:47 pm

The start of the second day of play brought 122 players to the tables, and by the time the day ends there will be about fifty percent of the field remaining. Day three will give us a disappointed bubble boy and some very excited players after they reach the money positions.
The ’09 player of the [...]
bwin Promotions
By Jerry for POKER NEWS DAILY - February 11, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Not all players have experienced the thrill and adrenaline rush of playing a final table in a mayor tournament, but now bwin is giving all their players a chance to have that experience with their new Final Table SitNGos. The new tournaments will be running until February 28th and they will be played in the [...]