Videos
Even though the Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker just played down to the final nine, the action is just beginning on ESPN. The cable network will begin airing several tournaments from the 2008 WSOP every Tuesday night, leading up to the broadcast of the Main Event final table on November [...]
July 2008 Archive
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World Series of Poker Premieres on ESPN Tonight
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Everest Poker credits WSOP sponsorship with surge
GigaMedia Limited (Nasdaq: GIGM) announced today that the World Series of Poker, sponsored by GigaMedia's Everest Poker, has successfully completed the first portion of the main event and will begin airing this week on ESPN. The broadcasts will ultimately reach in excess of 300 million households g [...]
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Congressman Spencer Bachus Lies About Suicide Connection to Gambling
In a House Financial Services Committee hearing on June 25th, the topic was HR 5767, which would have blocked the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) from becoming a reality. Congressman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) led the opposition to the bill. Bachus centered his argum [...]
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Tiffany Michelle Speaks Out About Poker News – Interview with PND
Tiffany Michelle's battle against PokerNews rages on. The controversy surrounds the poker player signing a sponsorship agreement with UltimateBet after Jeffrey Lisandro and PokerNews owner Tony G bought her into the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event. In the latest development, Tony G responde [...]
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Online Tournament Roundup: June 21, 2008
It was business as usual in the online poker world this past weekend and the action in the major Sunday tournaments was brisk as usual. One week removed from the PokerStars $2 Million Guaranteed as part of the site's 2X program, thousands of poker players flocked to the virtual felts of Stars, Full [...]
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Tiffany Michelle’s Official Statement on the Poker News UB Controversy
Following on the radio interview she gave last week, Tiffany Michelle has issued a thorough rebuttal of Poker News' accusations against her, hoping to clear her name and to put to rest all talk of betrayal and lack of ethics on her part. [...]
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Annie Duke Interview with Poker News Daily
Poker News Daily: How did you get started playing poker? Duke: When I was 16 years-old, my brother went to New York in order to learn how to play chess. He read all of the books and even played on the tournament circuit. There was a Grand Master in New York that he was going to study with. In New [...]
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Barry Greenstein Defends Russ Hamilton in Ultimate Bet Super User Scandal
The Russ Hamilton saga has been sweeping the online poker world in the last week. Ever since January, UltimateBet has come under fire for the actions of one of its founding fathers, leading many to wonder whether he is the man who is directly responsible for cheating in the top-level games that UB o [...]
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GSN to Air High Stakes Poker Season V
Last week, the World Poker Tour announced that it had signed an agreement with cable network Fox Sports Net to broadcast the seventh season of the wildly-popular poker tournament series. The first five seasons aired (and in the case of Seasons II through V, continue to air) on The Travel Channel. La [...]
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PokerStars Doubles New Depositor Freeroll Prize Pools
As if poker players worldwide needed another reason to play on PokerStars, the online poker site is now doubling its new depositor freeroll prize pools. Between now and the end of the month, PokerStars will be running a pair of $2,222 freerolls each and every day. All you have to do is use the bonus [...]
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Jim McDermott’s Office Comments on HR 6501
On Wednesday, word broke in the online poker world that Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced HR 6501, the Investing in our Human Resources Act. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means as well as the Committee on Education and Labor. Two co-sponsors have already signed o [...]
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Mike Watson Wins WPT Bellagio Cup
Just a few hours after announcing that Fox Sports Net had become its newest television poker, the World Poker Tour doled out $6.5 million, the prize pool for its fourth annual Bellagio Cup. The very first tournament that will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the new Season VII television package, th [...]
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Digest – The State of iGaming in Europe
Poker rooms open, slot machines are rejected, and legislation goes every which way – here is a brief overview of the poker and iGaming news in Europe. [...]
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Barry Greenstein – Poker Player Profile
Barry Greenstein is a unique and cherished member of the poker community. Not only is he the only poker player to have won at least 3 WSOP bracelets and 3 WPT events, he's the only player to give all of the money won from those 3 WSOP victories and 3 WPT victories to charity. For more than a decade, [...]
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Jason Laso Interview with Poker News Daily
Poker News Daily: When you first started playing poker, did you have any aspirations of it becoming anything more than a recreational game? Laso: Definitely not. During my freshman year in college, I started moving up in levels a bit. During my sophomore year, I started taking it more seriously, [...]
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World Poker Tour Heads to Fox Sports Net
The World Poker Tour announced on Thursday that it's packing up its bags and heading to Fox Sports Net after a one-year stint on GSN, the Network for Games. Last month, GSN elected not to pick up its option for exclusive rights to the seventh season of the WPT, prompting a last-minute effort by the [...]
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Phil Ivey – Poker Player Profile
Phil Ivey was born in California in 1976, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was months old. Growing in a city famous for its gambling, Ivey's family wanted to prevent him from becoming another hustler, so his grandfather famously cheated Phil Ivey while teaching him to play Five-Card Stud a [...]
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Craig Marquis – Poker Player Profile
Some players get their fifteen minutes of fame at the WSOP Main Event final table and are never seen from or heard from again. 2007 WSOP Main Event champion Jerry Yang is a good example of that. [...]
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Scott Montgomery – Poker Player Profile
The third largest stack in the 2008 November Nine (the WSOP Final Table) is a young Canadian player with the perfect poker pedigree: Scott Montgomery, born in 1981 to a card-playing family in Perth, Ontario, grew up to study mathematics at the University of Waterloo (like other poker legends such as [...]
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Peter Eastgate – Poker Player Profile
Young Danish pro Peter Eastgate could make history at this year's WSOP – at 22 years old, he could beat Phil Hellmuth's record as the youngest player to win the Main Event (Hellmuth was 24 at the time.) Eastgate looks every bit as young as he is, and a definite advantage of all the publicity stemm [...]
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Kelly Kim – Poker Player Profile
Kelly Kim will enter the November 9 WSOP Main Event Final Table as a significant short stack with 2,620,000 in chips, about 8,000,000 less than the next shortest stack. [...]
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Ivan Demidov – Poker Player Profile
Ivan Demidov is the latest in a series of Russian natives finding incredible success at the WSOP. Last year's WSOP saw Russian pro Alexander Kravchenko win the first bracelet in Russian history to go along with 6 other cashes, while this year saw Nikolay Evdakov obliterate the previous single WSOP r [...]
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Dennis Phillips – Poker Player Profile
Dennis Phillips was a truck driver. At 53 years old, the St. Louis native has worked his way up from behind the steering wheel to behind a desk and now serves as an account manager for a trucking company. [...]
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Darus Suharto – Poker Player Profile
Darus Suharto could be a blast from the past: the former accountant based out of Toronto, Canada gained entry to the WSOP Main Event by first winning an $80 satellite on Poker Stars. He parlayed that victory into another Poker Stars satellite victory; a $640 tournament for a Main Event package. Acc [...]
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David Rheem – Poker Player Profile
David Rheem is a successful tournament pro based out of Miami, FL. His trademark sunglasses and hooded sweatshirt disguise an extremely talented up and coming player. [...]
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