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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 »
The final stop for the European Poker Tour before its season ending Grand Final reached its crunch point on Thursday with the final 17 players being determined at the Grand Hyatt in Berlin, Germany. At the start of action on Thursday afternoon, 55 players still held out hopes of taking home one of the bigger… Read more »
The money bubble burst Wednesday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event as the field was narrowed from 168 to just 55. As the payouts started at 136, most of the day was played with the participants feeling comfortable that the tournament was at least a profitable one. The chip leader going into… Read more »
The survivors from both starting flights combined into a single, unified field Tuesday as the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event forged ahead. Making a quantum leap on Day 2 was Finland’s Aku Joentausta, who was certainly in good shape to start the day, holding 105,500 chips, but when the night was over,… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is underway again as the EPT Berlin Main Event kicked off Sunday at the Grand Hyatt Berlin. 347 players paid the €5,000 + €300 to participate in the first of two starting flights and after eight levels, about half – 171 – remained. Leading those players waiting for Tuesday’s Day… Read more »
Following the completion of their first tournament of 2013, the International Federation of Poker has announced that the organization’s only president, noted poker author and general Renaissance man Anthony Holden, has stepped down from his leadership role with the group. A meeting of the board of directors accepted Holden’s resignation and immediately set about electing… Read more »
Nearly two years to the day after torpedoing the online poker industry, the same lawyer who pushed those indictments has announced another round of litigation, this time targeting several poker professionals who are alleged to be a part of a massive scheme. Earlier this week, the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New… Read more »
Kevin Eyster led the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown after Day 3. He led after Day 4. And aside from a few minutes, he led Day 5 all the way through, winning his first World Poker Tour title and $660,395. Eyster, going by the screen name “1SickDisease” (and variants) is a highly respected… Read more »
