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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 »
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 »
