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Day Three of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has wrapped up after bursting the money bubble on Wednesday. 51 players will head back to action this morning (East Coast time) with the relatively-unknown Shahaf Hadaya at the helm of the ship. 154 players stepped back into the tournament battlefield of the Casino… Read more »
PokerStars launched a play money poker app on Facebook this week, a move which many speculate is a precursor to an eventual real money companion site to its standard, downloadable poker client. Currently in the beta testing stage, it is inaccessible to new players right now because it has reached its player limit. PokerStars.net on… Read more »
There are no internet poker sites up and running in Nevada yet, but already state legislators might change the law that allows for intrastate online poker. Class is back in session in Carson City and soon, according to an Associated Press report on BusinessWeek.com, elected officials might expand the borders of our favorite internet game.… Read more »
The first European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event of 2013 that is actually held in Europe-proper kicked off Sunday as the Casino Barriere at The Deauville International Centre played host to Day 1A of EPT Deauville. It was a solid turnout, as 307 players paid the €5,000 + €300 for their shot at glory. Leading… Read more »
Well, that didn’t take long. After battling for 15 hours, from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning and seeing the officials suspend final table play until Sunday afternoon, the final three men quickly came to a champion of the Aussie Millions Main Event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Joseph Cabret held over a two million… Read more »
On Friday afternoon, poker professional Andy Hwang handled a bit of adversity at the final table on the way to capturing the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open championship at the Borgata (naturally) in Atlantic City, NJ. Hwang started the final table with a nearly two million chip lead over Jim Anderson as the… Read more »
In just a few hours, the final table for the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event will begin, with a strong field in contention for the latest of what many consider one of the “major” championships in the poker world today. On Friday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne (late Thursday evening in North America), the… Read more »
The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open has reached its penultimate day in Atlantic City, playing down to its final table early Friday morning with Andy Hwang in the lead but a former WPT champion lurking among the final six players. Hwang held the lead as the 28 remaining players ventured back into the Borgata to… Read more »
The 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event is working its way through its 629 player field towards its conclusion on Saturday. After Day Three concluded, only one man was above the one million chip mark, Ray Ellis, but 35 other men were in pursuit of his position in first place. Yesterday’s action began with 68 players… Read more »
The 567 survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event combined on Tuesday for Day 2 and, as expected, the field was trimmed down in a hurry. Just 160 made it to bedtime with chips, led by Scott Herz and Joe DiMartino with 519,300… Read more »
Super high buy-in poker tournaments have been getting more and more popular over the last couple years as poker festival organizers look for ways to make the fields dense with the world’s strongest players. One of the first and most popular of the mega buy-ins was the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. The 2013 version of… Read more »
It is kind of strange to think of poker players who are in their 40’s as “old timers” or players whose peak of poker fame was just a few years ago as “old school,” but that’s probably would Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and Phil Hellmuth are. Hellmuth has remained relevant since the peak of the… Read more »
After two days of battle amongst the 64 players chosen for the event, the “Elite Eight” have been determined at the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The first-ever winner of the tournament in 2005, Phil Hellmuth, is still in contention to once again make poker history as the… Read more »
The first round of the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship is in the books, with the field being whittled down from its original 64 combatants through a long day of action to the 32 players who will come back today. Spades Bracket The contestants in the Spades bracket drew the short straw (depending on… Read more »
After a rollicking party on the grounds of Caesars Palace, the brackets are set for today’s start of the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship, with a champion set to be crowned on Saturday. After a year’s hiatus, the 2013 NHUPC will feature 64 poker players battling it out in a NCAA “March Madness” style… Read more »
CarbonPoker, an online poker room on the Merge Poker Network, announced Tuesday that this will be the last month for its rakeback program. Citing benefits to the overall poker economy, a representative from CarbonPoker also said that rakeback will likely be eliminated across the entire network. Yesterday, CarbonPoker representative “CarbonRyan” posted the news in Two… Read more »
Betfair Poker launched its new poker room on the iPoker Network Tuesday, the first step in move that will eventually see all Betfair traffic removed from the Ongame Network. Having just announced the decision to switch networks about two weeks ago, this would rank as one of the fastest switches we’ve seen in the industry.… Read more »
For years, PokerStars has been the gold standard in online poker. It is a poker room that knows poker; management didn’t just throw together some software, slap a download link on a website, and take it easy. The folks over there understand how the game works and how players think and, in turn, have provided… Read more »
Officials from Caesars Entertainment and the organizing committee for the event have named the final 32 players for the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship, with some outstanding players among those selected as well as some left outside looking in. Leading the list of the 32 remaining players who have been invited and confirmed their… Read more »
The schedule of events for the inaugural World Series of Poker foray into Australia was announced earlier this week, setting a slate of five tournaments and two special events that should draw the international poker community “down under” come this April. The World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) will be held at the Crown Casino… Read more »
Internet gaming firms may be having some issues trying to enter the United States online poker market, but it appears that one may be about to enter the brick-and-mortar arena. Rational Group, parent company of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, has entered into an agreement to purchase the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel in Atlantic City… Read more »
Vanessa Selbst made history Monday, becoming the winningest female in live poker tournament history after taking the crown at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller Event. Selbst, clearly the best female tournament player in the world right now and one of the elite players of either gender, won $1,424,420 for the victory,… Read more »
The first major event of 2013 wrapped up yesterday and just like the “warm-up” $100,000 Super High Roller Event, a player came from way behind, overcoming a sizeable chip deficit to win the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event. That man was Bulgarian Dimitar Danchev, who became the first player from his country to… Read more »
We have reached the penultimate day at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas as the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event has determined its final table. Jerry Wong will head the field as the final eight men step to the felt this afternoon to determine the champion of the event. 21 men came back on… Read more »
It was a short Friday of play at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event as the field took only six hours to whittle its way down to 21 players with Bulgaria’s Dimitar Danchev atop the table. 59 players came back yesterday, expecting to have a short day on the felt. PCA officials had decided… Read more »
