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When Full Tilt Poker bid the world an abrupt “adieu,” it took with it four things from the poker community. Our money, our money, our money…and Rush Poker. Oh, Rush Poker, how we loved thee. For many around the world who are still able to play online poker, the absence of Rush Poker has left… Read more »
Working his way through experienced professionals from the tour and several PokerStars qualifiers, Denmark’s Frederik Jensen earned his first major professional poker championship by winning the European Poker Tour’s most recent stop at the Casino Gran Madrid on Saturday. The final table was set Friday evening when Mike McDonald’s run at a historic second EPT… Read more »
While most of the United States was succumbing to the NCAA’s March Madness, European poker fans were much more concerned with the activities of the European Poker Tour event in Madrid, Spain, which completed its third day on Thursday. The 112 players remaining from the 477 player starting field were ready for action in the… Read more »
Wednesday was a much shorter day than the previous two at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Madrid Main Event. Whereas those who made it through Days 1A and 1B had to make it through eight levels, those who went on to finish Day 2 with chips got call it a relatively early night, needing to… Read more »
They said that the second starting day of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Madrid Main Event would be much bigger than the first starting flight, and they were right. With 352 players paying €5,000 + €300 on Tuesday, Day 1B turned out to be almost three times as large as Day 1A, which had just… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is back in Spain this week for its second stop of the season in the Iberian nation. This time, it is at the Casino Gran Madrid where a few hundred poker players will converge for EPT Madrid. In September, 811 players participated in EPT Barcelona, creating a total prize pool… Read more »
Looking to avenge one of his few defeats in his namesake challenge, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom will face off later today against Isaac Haxton on PokerStars. The Swedish online wizard isn’t getting any love from the odds makers, however. According to Matchbook.com, which is accepting wagers on the tournament, Haxton is favored to once again defeat… Read more »
After battling through one of the longer final tables in WPT history, local player Moon Kim emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars event. The final six men convened at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose Friday afternoon, with World Series of Poker bracelet holder Erik Cajelais holding… Read more »
It took only nine hours for the players at the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars to determine the final table, with a historic occurrence once the final six were determined. Twenty men returned for battle on Thursday, looking for one of those coveted seats at a WPT final table. Leading the way was… Read more »
The World Poker Tour stop in San Jose for the Bay 101 Shooting Stars has proven to be an exciting event after working down to the final twenty players for Thursday’s action. 149 players and 19 of the remaining “Shooting Stars” (the professional players carrying a $5000 bounty on their heads) came back for action… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star wrapped up late Tuesday night with another 222 players stepping up to the plate and only 96 surviving to fight on Day 2. Leading the way as the proud owner of the both the largest chip stack and the $10,000 bonus that goes… Read more »
The next big World Poker Tour event got underway Monday, staying in California this week at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star. Held at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California, the tournament is one of the most fun on the Tour, as a number of well-known poker players are designated as “Shooting Stars,”… Read more »
After finishing up their latest stop last week in Los Angeles, poker professionals have little time to rest on the World Poker Tour, heading up the coast of California for the start of the next event on the Season X schedule on Monday. The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars, one of the more popular events… Read more »
Demonstrating the demand for the game in the Sunshine State, a Florida poker room that is the largest in the state opened up on Thursday. According to reports from several Florida sources, the parking lot of the Regency Square Mall in Jacksonville was jammed to its capacity for the opening of Best Bet Jacksonville, which… Read more »
After coming to the final table with a slim chip lead, veteran poker player Sean Jazayeri withstood the challenges from the “young guns” of the poker world en route to the championship of the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic. When the final table began on Wednesday, Jazayeri held a scant 370,000 chip lead… Read more »
It’s getting down to it now at the World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. Day 3 started with 54 players remaining, all already in the money, and after a relatively snug 9 hours, just 18 players still had chips in front of them. Two tables left. And leading the quest for the final table… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic hit the halfway point last night and with three days down and three to go, Virginia’s Tuan Phan leads the remaining field of 54 players. Phan was the first player to eclipse the million chip mark and with 1.14 million bagged and tagged, he is still the… Read more »
The first day of play is in the books at the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic, with a sizeable field coming out for their shot at the latest championship for the WPT’s Season Ten. When the bell rang for the start of action on Friday, 389 players were in their seats with late… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s stop in Copenhagen, Denmark is entering into the homestretch, with a well-respected Belgian at the top of the leaderboard. 72 players came back on Thursday to whittle the field down to the final 24 contenders. Heading the field at the start of the day was Team LockPro Elite member Melanie Weisner,… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. It’s going on six months now since Full Tilt Poker, the former number two site in the online poker industry, had its license revoked by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, almost nine months since the news… Read more »
Things certainly picked up Tuesday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main Event. Monday’s Day 1A, with just 83 players showing up, looked like your local casino’s Thursday nooner. Fortunately, Day 1B resembled the EPT tournament that it should be, as 216 runners sat down at the tables at the SAS Radisson Hotel to… Read more »
If you were in the poker room at the Sheraton WTC São Paulo on Monday and stepped out for a few moments, you might have missed the entire final table of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final. In one of the shortest final tables one will ever see in a major event, Germany’s… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final narrowed its field down to the final table Sunday as just eight players remain out of the original 367. With a buy-in of R$3,700 or about USD $2,155, the total prize pool amounts to USD $1,343,100, with R$324,600 going to the winner. Leading the finalists in Sao… Read more »
According to one of the most respected gaming reporters in the business, federal legislation that would regulate and legalize the online poker industry in the United States is more than likely shut down until 2013 at the earliest. On his Twitter account Friday afternoon, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Howard Stutz chirped to his readers, “One… Read more »
While he continues what is the biggest battle of his life, the poker community will come together once again this Sunday for two benefit tournaments to raise money to benefit legendary Scandinavian poker professional Thor Hansen. Hansen, considered by many in his native Norway to be the “Godfather” of Scandinavian poker, was diagnosed with cancer… Read more »
