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The most important tournament on the World Poker Tour (WPT), and thus the tour itself, is nearing its end. Day 3 of the 2013 WPT World Championship concluded Monday night as the field narrowed from 67 to just 24. It looked like it would be a fairly quick day as the eliminations sped along early… Read more »
On Saturday, poker pro Annie Duke released a statement to express her thoughts on the audio tapes of a secret meeting hosted by former UltimateBet (UB) owner Russ Hamilton that were released earlier this month by UB insider Travis Makar. The recordings implicated several people in the infamous cheating scandal, revealing that UB’s higher-ups were… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour Championship event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas is in the books and, although the field is smaller than last year’s gathering, there are still several powerful contenders in place for a run at the title. 93 players came back on Sunday with Will “The Thrill” Failla holding… Read more »
The finale of the World Poker Tour’s Season XI schedule, the 2013 WPT Championship, is underway at the Bellagio in Las Vegas with a small but strong opening Day One now in the books. The $25,000 buy in event, while it might have lacked in numbers for its start at noon on Saturday, didn’t lack… Read more »
The eleventh season of the World Poker Tour has come down to its final tournament, the WPT Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, which begins on Saturday with a tremendous amount of drama in store. This year’s $25,000 tournament features a few wrinkles thrown in that should make for an intriguing event. Starting with… Read more »
The 44th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) starts in just two weeks and it promises to be bigger than ever. In one significant way, though, it will be smaller. Doyle Brunson will not be playing. “The Godfather of Poker” made his announcement Tuesday night via his @TexDolly Twitter account, writing, “Afraid I am finally… Read more »
Last week, we told you about poker superstar Phil Ivey’s lawsuit against London’s Crockfords for the casino’s failure to pay him the £7.3 million he won over two nights at a high stakes punto banco table in August 2012. The UK’s Daily Mail originally reported the story of Ivey’s big score and Crockfords’ lack of… Read more »
Ultimate Poker (UP), the first licensed online poker room to launch in Nevada, announced this weekend that as of late Thursday, May 9th, it has “discontinued the use of all services from Iovation.” Iovation was used to verify the identities of new UP customers. The connection to Iovation became publicly known the very first day… Read more »
After a ten hour final table battle, the top two chip stacks at the start of the day – Steve O’Dwyer and Andrew Pantling – decided the championship of the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, with O’Dwyer emerging as the final champion of the EPT’s Season Nine schedule. O’Dwyer led Pantling by… Read more »
The final table is set for the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo after a short day knocked the contenders in the field down from 16 to eight. Andrew Pantling was the only player over the two million chip mark (2.248 million, to be exact) as the cards hit the air this afternoon… Read more »
Although it happened over half a decade ago, the “superuser” scandal at Ultimate Bet still has the attention of the online poker community. Recently released audiotapes of discussion of that sordid part of online poker’s past have now surfaced, which will reignite the controversy all over again. Today, John Mehaffey published those audiotapes that were… Read more »
In an excellent display of power poker, chip leader Amir Babakhani dominated the final table to take down the victory at the World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, last night. Babakhani came into the final table with over 6.6 million chips, amassing that stack by being the… Read more »
It’s down to the penultimate day of the 2013 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, with the final six players set to square off this afternoon to determine the last title on the WPT circuit before they head to the WPT Championship next week. 2013 World Series of… Read more »
Things are getting serious at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. Day 3, contrary to our prediction, was a fairly short one for a major tournament, lasting only seven hours before the requisite 26 players were culled to narrow the field to two tables. At the end of the day, two names… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights got together for the unified Day 2 Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. The field was culled significantly, as just 44 players remain out of the 294 that started the day. That also means the money bubble burst; Tyler Reiman was knocked out in… Read more »
Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship finished up Sunday, thus completing the three starting flights of the second WPT stop in Montreal. Jonathan Driscoll came away as the day’s chip leader, finishing the night with 263,800 chips. Just two other players – Jonathan Roy (218,400 chips) and Jake Toole… Read more »
As expected, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, drew a massive number of players for action as they try to put themselves in position to take down the last event on the Season XI WPT schedule prior to the WPT Championship later this month. The… Read more »
The cards are in the air for the World Poker Tour stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, with players positioning themselves for a run at a championship that has quickly become one of the most hotly contested on the WPT circuit. WPT announcer and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton was on… Read more »
While different states have either moved forward with regulation of the online gaming and poker industries (or have tried and failed), the federal government has largely been quiet on the issue since the end of 2012. That may change with proposed legislation from one of New York’s most well-known and respected members of the House… Read more »
For a while, it looked like the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event final table would be a quick one, as four of the six players were eliminated within 68 hands. But it took over 100 more hands to get through the heads-up portion of the tournament before… Read more »
In a few minutes, a new era of poker will begin in the United States. Ultimate Gaming, a subsidiary of Station Casinos LLC, will see its Ultimate Poker deal its first hand at 9:00am PST (noon ET), becoming the first legal, regulated online poker room in the United States. Initially, Ultimate Poker will only be… Read more »
In tournament poker, there are chip leaders and then there are chip leaders. At the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event, David Diaz was the italicized latter on Sunday. Upon the close of Day 2, he held a monstrous lead on his 24 opponents, holding 1.705 million chips at night’s end. Let’s use… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event concluded Saturday (Sunday morning, to be exact) and, as expected the field was bigger than that of Day 1A. 205 entrants paid the $3,500 to participate, bringing the total field to 351. Prevailing over the 85 survivors from Day 1B was… Read more »
In a shockingly rapid fashion, Daniel-Gai Pidun defeated the start of day chip leader, Robert Haigh, to earn the championship of the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, early Sunday morning (U. S. time). At the start of action on Saturday, Haigh and Pidun were the only two players over the five million mark,… Read more »
What was expected to be a quick Day Five that would determine the final table turned out to be a long battle at the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. The final 17 men came to the felt on Friday with Roman Herold holding a decent lead over the field with his… Read more »
