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Poker in a “brick and mortar” casino has always had a difficult history. With the players shuttling the chips – and the money – amongst each other, the casinos have been left pulling the “rake” in an attempt to make some money to provide for floor staff, dealers and the like. Unfortunately, this has led… Read more »
After an extended battle during heads up play, Paul Klann was able to come back to defeat Paul Volpe to win one of the most prestigious events the tournament circuit has to offer, the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic. The six men vying for the title were ready for action when the cards… Read more »
As the rest of the players are packing their bags to head to Northern California for the weekend, the final six men are set to play out the final table of the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic beginning this afternoon. Coming back to the felt on Thursday were 18 men who had the… Read more »
PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker have been rivals for a long time and despite the fact that they are now owned by the same company, they continue to battle it out for online poker supremacy (we don’t think PokerStars will lose that battle any time soon). Now it looks like it might be time for… Read more »
New Jersey became the third state in the U.S. to legalize online gambling Tuesday, seeing a revised bill fly through votes in both houses of the legislature before being signed by Governor Chris Christie. While the state’s Division of Gaming Enforcement technically has the power to decide whether or not poker will be one of… Read more »
They’re getting down to the nitty-gritty at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic, as the field narrowed from 162 to just 63 players Monday. While the pressure will ratchet up a notch for many on Tuesday as the final table is visible on the horizon, others may now feel relaxed, as everyone… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic got going this weekend in bittersweet fashion. While it is always a good time, the opening of the Main Event had a somber tone, as players remembered former Los Angeles Lakers owner and avid poker player, Jerry Buss, who passed away last week after a lengthy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour wrapped up its stop at the Casino Baden in Austria Sunday evening (afternoon in the United States) with Vladimir Bozinovic maintaining his lead throughout the final table on the way to taking down the championship. Bozinovic came to the final table with slightly more than 400,000 chips than two-time WPT champion… Read more »
The final table for the World Poker Tour stop in Baden, Austria, is set, with the potential for another chapter in the eleven year history of the tour to be written. Twenty men came back to the felt at the Casino Baden on Saturday to work their way down to the six handed final table… Read more »
The battle for the latest World Poker Tour championship kicked into overdrive on Friday as the money bubble burst today at the stop in Baden, Austria. Only 44 players were remaining at the start of action on Friday, but there would be many long faces in that crowd although they had made it to Day… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is in the middle of the second leg of its European Texas (Hold’em) Two-Step, finishing up Day Two at the Casino Baden in Austria earlier this afternoon (U. S. time). 131 players returned to the felt, joined together for the first time after two separate Day Ones started the tournament on… Read more »
In a way, it almost marks the end of what has been a sordid tale that will go down in the annals of poker’s history, for good or for ill. On Tuesday, former World Series of Poker Championship Event winner and Full Tilt Poker board member Chris Ferguson and the attorneys for the U. S.… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Baden Main Event watched 150 more players (well, actually 126, since 24 of them re-entered after busting out Tuesday) pull their chairs up to the poker tables at Casino Baden. 77 of them will have chairs to which to return for Thursdays Day 2 as the trek… Read more »
After three events in the United States, the World Poker Tour is back in Europe this week as WPT Baden kicked off Tuesday with the first of two starting flights. It was a fairly small Day 1A as just 104 players paid the €3,300 to participate. Just over half of them – 54 – made… Read more »
The poker and sports worlds lost a friend Monday as Los Angeles Lakers’ owner Dr. Jerry Buss passed away at the age of 80. The end came after an extended battle with cancer, resulting in Buss spending much of the past year and a half in the hospital. Buss was a self-made man, he grew… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. Recently I was reading my copy of ESPN The Magazine which featured a complete issue on the different Halls of Fame that are in existence. In one segment of the magazine, a rather cartoonish map of… Read more »
If there is one thing close to playing in the actual event (it has been likened to Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day rolled into one), it is the day the schedule is announced for it. Yesterday, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the finalized schedule for the… Read more »
The fallout from a video of the alleged collusion at a major poker tournament continues to be felt as the two players featured in the video have been stripped of their rankings and suspended by the Global Poker Index. As reported here on Poker News Daily recently, a French poker player and reporter, Nordine Bouya,… Read more »
Matt Giannetti became the 19th player to win multiple World Poker Tour (WPT) titles Tuesday, taking the crown at the 2013 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event. Giannetti, who was also a member of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, placing fourth in the Main Event, previously won WPT Malta in… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event began Day 3 with 36 players situated around four tables and ended with the skilled and fortunate six who made the final table. Matt Giannetti leads the way heading into Tuesday’s action with just over 3 million chips. Nobody has fewer than 20 big… Read more »
It’s been a quick tournament at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida, as the field of 369 players was narrowed to 143 after one day and then further whittled to just 36 after Day 2. Coincidentally, 36 was the cutoff for the money, so everyone returning for… Read more »
Wrapping one of the quicker final tables in recent memory, France’s very own Remi Castaignon came to the final day of the European Poker Tour Main Event in Deauville with a huge chip lead and, after momentarily losing that lead, came back to win the latest EPT title. How big was Castaignon’s lead to start… Read more »
The European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has reached its penultimate day, with local product Remi Castaignon seizing a huge chip lead for the final table action on Saturday. The 23 players who returned to the felt on Friday, in a stark contrast to the Day Four action the previous day, decided to take… Read more »
It was not a good Thursday to be one of the leaders of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, as those at the top of the pack at the start of play yesterday found themselves outside looking in for today’s action. The 51 players who came back to action at the Casino Barriere… Read more »
After what was an agonizing 45 day wait for its proponents, Governor Chris Christie of the state of New Jersey has conditionally vetoed legislation that would have made the state only the third in the U. S. to license and regulate online gaming and poker. In a press release this afternoon from the Governor’s Office… Read more »
