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The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s Venice Grand Prix, with several surprises that unfolded as the Day Four play determined those six players. At the start of play on Friday, Erion Islamay was at the top of an eighteen player field that saw a host of top pros looking to take… Read more »
It was a slow day of action for Day 3 of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice, Italy, yesterday. How slow was it? After rocketing through two thirds of the survivors on Day Two, only half of the 36 remaining players were eliminated over the span… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has taken to Europe for the next couple of weeks with its first stop in Venice, Italy, taking center stage this week. The rather cozy field of 173 entrants has worked its way through Day Two on Wednesday with France’s Ludovic Lacay moving into the lead as play gets ready to… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Grand Prix continued Tuesday as another set of players took their shot at glory in the second of two starting flights. As is usually the case, the field on Day 1B was larger than that of Day 1A, as 108 registered for play, compared to just 65 runners on… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back to it yesterday as the first of two starting flights of the WPT Venice Grand Prix kicked off at Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice, Italy. As expected, it was a small field, with just 65 players paying the €3,300 to play in the single re-entry event.… Read more »
PartyPoker’s popular live invitation event, the PartyPoker Premier League VI, wrapped up this weekend after several days of opening heats. Holding the championship cup at the conclusion of the final table was Dan Shak, who also received $450,000 for his efforts. Shak has had a fantastic 2013 so far. In January, he finished eighth in… Read more »
Across the United States, there are several state legislatures that are examining the issue of online gaming and poker. In Florida, however, a proposed bill may have the undue effect of shutting online poker down rather than opening it up to citizens of the Sunshine State. Last week, the Florida State House of Representatives passed… Read more »
With a slight lull before the end of the first quarter of the tournament poker season, Paul Volpe has used two outstanding performances on the World Poker Tour’s stage to surge to the top of the major Player of the Year races. A little over a month ago, there were only a few major events… Read more »
Moving a step closer to bringing its online gaming industry to life, the state of Delaware announced yesterday that fourteen companies have applied for online gaming licenses for their proposed online casino gaming system. The online operation, which will be operated by the Delaware Lottery, will offer all types of casino gaming and online poker,… Read more »
Just last week, we reported that 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jerry Yang had a number of personal items seized by the United States Internal Revenue Service and will have them auctioned off on April 4th in order to help pay delinquent taxes. Among those items is his gold and diamond Main… Read more »
Apparently, taking millions of dollars from Melbourne’s Crown Casino is much easier than cleaning Terry Benedict’s vault. In a scam reminiscent of one of the “Ocean’s” films, though with far fewer moving pieces, a high stakes gambler allegedly made off with $32-$33 million in ill-gotten gains from the home of the Aussie Millions a few… Read more »
A week of exciting poker wrapped up in London, the United Kingdom on Saturday night with Ruben Visser capturing his first major championship victory at the European Poker Tour Main Event at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino. The final eight men came to the felt on noon Saturday (U. K. time) with Steve O’Dwyer, holding 5.27… Read more »
The final table for the European Poker Tour stop at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino (“The Vic”) was set on Friday, with Steve O’Dwyer fending off challenges to his place atop the ladder to lead the eight men left to the big money. 15 men came to the felt on Friday and, unlike the action on… Read more »
According to reports from North Carolina television station WRAL-TV, 2004 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner Greg Raymer was nabbed in a prostitution sting operation conducted by local police. Wake Forest, NC police conducted the operation, placing an ad on a website that allegedly is known for usage by prostitutes to recruit potential customers.… Read more »
It was expected that Day Four at the European Poker Tour stop in London, the United Kingdom would be a short day and that turned out to be the case. Out of the 32 players who began the action on Thursday, it only took roughly six hours for that field to be cut in half… Read more »
The money bubble will burst today at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event as just 113 players remain in the field after Day 2. Only 17 players need to be eliminated on Day 3 for the remaining players to cash for at least £8,000. It’s a fairly tight race at the top of… Read more »
Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event wrapped up Monday and, as expected the tournament room swelled as almost twice as many players were seated for the second starting flight as were in the first. After 236 players registered for Day 1A, 411 signed up for Day 1B, bringing the two-day… Read more »
Last month, Team PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu and Full Tilt Poker “Professionals” member Gus Hansen got into a friendly war of words over Twitter, resulting in Negreanu issuing a challenge to Hansen via a YouTube video. The challenge: Full Tilt’s Professionals – Hansen, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom – against Negreanu and two… Read more »
After over a month away from the action, the European Poker Tour stormed back to life in London, the United Kingdom on Sunday with its latest event on the Season Nine schedule. Although the online Sunday tournaments beckoned, 236 players decided to forego that action for some of the live variety. Right around noon in… Read more »
After starting the day near the bottom of the leaderboard, WeiKai Chang took down his first major championship in winning the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star late last night in San Jose, CA. As the cards hit the air on Friday, Chang found himself sitting down the ladder in fifth place with his… Read more »
The World Poker Tour stop at the Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, CA, is shaping up to be an epic battle, with a player making his second consecutive WPT final table (with the chip lead to boot) and one remaining Shooting Star left at the six-man final table. 44 players came back on… Read more »
Players are making quick work with their play at the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, popping the money bubble on Day Two as they battle towards a champion that will be crowned on Friday. Coming together for the first time in the tournament, the 249 players left were promised a… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event made history Tuesday as another 365 players bought into the tournament, bringing the total entries for both starting flights to 635, a new record for the northern California tour stop. The previous record was set during Season IV (we’re in Season XI now), when… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has moved up the Pacific coast of the United States this week for the always fun WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, California. Bay 101 has carved out a niche in the tournament circuit as an event which has a high concentration of “name” players. The reason for this… Read more »
After a week in the entertainment capital of the world (and dodging the Academy Awards, among other events), the World Poker Tour heads to the northern part of California beginning on Monday for the more relaxed, sedate world of San Jose and the Bay 101 Shooting Star. If you believed the part about “relaxed,” then… Read more »
