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After a month-long layoff, Season 10 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) resumed Sunday with the opening flight of the EPT London Main Event. A total of 209 players paid the £5,250 to participate. This number should be eclipsed easily on Monday, since many prospective runners may have been spending their day on the computer,… Read more »
In the unofficial kickoff to what will be an exciting month of poker on the Old Continent, the European Poker Tour’s £5000 Main Event kicks off today while wrapping up its £50,000 Super High Roller with a powerful final table. The EPT London (the second stop of the Season 10 EPT schedule) has long been… Read more »
As they stuff their turkeys, make final preparations for the family to come home and ensure there’s enough money in the bank for the upcoming Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa season, New Jersey residents will have something else to be thankful for two days before Thanksgiving. It was announced yesterday that the New Jersey online gaming industry, which has… Read more »
Across the United States today, the movie Runner Runner is set to premiere in theaters. In early reviews and predicted box office take, the movie – from Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien – has taken some hits, however. Long anticipated by the poker community, Runner Runner is the story of Richie Furst (Justin… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. Last week, officials for the World Series of Poker and the Poker Hall of Fame announced the ten nominees that will vie for the honor of induction into the Hall during this year’s “November Nine” showdown… Read more »
But how much did you lose? If we were Chris Moorman’s mother, that might be something we would ask him. But we are not Chris Moorman’s mother, so let’s stick to the positives and congratulate Chris “Moorman1” Moorman for becoming the first player in history to eclipse the $10 million mark in lifetime online tournament… Read more »
According to a number of reports out of California, legendary gambler and poker player Archie Karas (née Anargyros Karabourniotis) was arrested at his Las Vegas home last week for cheating at blackjack. He faces charges of burglary, winning by fraudulent, means and cheating. Karas committed the crime at the Barona Casino, located in Lakeside, California,… Read more »
Since they came online in April, Ultimate Poker has had to do little to garner the attention of Nevada online poker players. As the only game in town, they basically could sit back and wait for the players to find them. Aside from some in-house promotion around its Station Casino properties and Ultimate Fighting Championship… Read more »
Making their new poker tournaments series a truly international event, the World Poker Tour announced that the inaugural season of WPT Alpha8 – their high stakes tournament poker series – will journey outside of the United States later this month and in early 2014. After making its debut with the WPT Alpha8 Florida event last… Read more »
According to report by Christopher Palmeri on Bloomberg.com, Caesars Entertainment Corporation will house the gaming servers of competitor Wynn Resorts in one of its Atlantic City casinos when the online gambling industry gets underway in New Jersey later this year. It is an interesting decision by Caesars and not just because Caesars and Wynn are… Read more »
Wynn Resorts has finally made a move to get into the intrastate online poker game. On Monday, it was announced that Wynn and 888 Holdings have entered into an agreement to develop Wynn’s online poker product. Wynn’s site will be on the All American Poker Network (AAPN), a joint venture between 888 Holdings and Avenue… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle, Anthony Zinno came from the middle of the pack to defeat Vanessa Selbst to take down the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open on Friday night. Zinno came to the final table with the audacious task of toppling the two chip leaders, Selbst and overall chip… Read more »
After battling through one of the largest tournaments in the history of the organization, the final six players were determined at the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City early on Friday morning. 36 players came to the felt on Thursday afternoon with the task of working down to the WPT six handed… Read more »
As of 3:00pm ET on Wednesday, September 18th, Garden City Group (GCG), the U.S. Department of Justice-appointed claims administrator for the return of Full Tilt Poker funds to U.S. players, has launched the Full Tilt Poker Claim Filing Site. Former U.S. customers of the poker room can now officially file their petitions to be reimbursed… Read more »
The 591 survivors from the first two starting days came together to battle it out on Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event Tuesday and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the night, just 174 players were left standing (or sitting, as the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event was completed Monday and, as expected, there was a fantastic turnout. 813 players registered for Day 1B, more than double the number of runners the tournament fielded on Day 1A. Paul Volpe bagged the most chips – 231,850 –… Read more »
The week that former Full Tilt Poker customers in the United States have been eagerly awaiting has arrived. The remissions process has begun. Beginning today, Garden City Group (GCG), chosen by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York to be the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator, has started sending e-mails to… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) continues its stint in the States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. The $3,500 tournament features two starting flights and will run through Friday. Sunday’s Day 1A saw 376 players register and just 166 make it all the way through still holding chips.… Read more »
With a slight lull before the final charge to the end of the calendar year, Daniel Negreanu has made his move towards reclaiming the lead in several Player of the Year rankings that he started the year with. While he’s been able to claim two of them, the third one has still eluded him but… Read more »
According to a number of reports, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) is targeting November 23rd as the launch date for online gambling in the Garden State. When the gaming legislation was passed, the soft go-live deadline was nine months from February 26th, thus three days after this most recent mark. The DGE… Read more »
According to multiple reports, the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has closed its poker room. Last week, a representative from the casino told USPoker.com that the poker room simply closed; there was no internal or external communication about it at all. CardPlayer.com wrote yesterday that a spokesperson said the poker room will… Read more »
Online poker traffic monitoring site PokerScout.com issued its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update Monday, indicating that the summer doldrums are over, as cash game traffic was up for the third consecutive week. Last week specifically, traffic increased 2.9 percent, with only one of the top ten poker rooms and networks declining. That one laggard was… Read more »
PartyPoker released its long-awaited new online poker client last Thursday introducing players to a new, socially-centered game experience. The highly anticipated launch, however, could have gone more smoothly. First, let’s take a quick look what’s new. The first thing players will notice after the software is downloaded, installed, and launched, is the new branding. Out… Read more »
The festivities at the first stop for the European Poker Tour’s Season Ten have come to a conclusion, with Tom Middleton finishing off what he started in winning the Main Event and Thomas Muhlocker besting Daniel Negreanu in the €10,000 High Roller. Middleton, who took over the lead in the Main Event on Day Four,… Read more »
The monstrous field that showed up for the European Poker Tour’s first stop of Season Ten in Barcelona, Spain, has been whittled down to only 24 players, but it was the action in the €10,000 High Roller tournament that has drawn a great deal of attention from the poker community. 79 players came back on… Read more »
