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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 »
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 »
