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The televised ESPN Bounty Shootout, held as part of the Bicycle Casino’s Big Event, held its final table on Saturday. The $10,000 buy-in tournament featured a winner-take-all top prize of $171,000 and nine players were left standing, including reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel. Every player who reached the final table… Read more »
The home game ended this morning right around 4:00am. I made it to bed in time to credibly tell myself that I really wasn’t seeing a faint light in the East. Cards had gone in the air pretty close to 7:00pm, which, as somebody pointed out toward the end of the “evening,” meant that many… Read more »
Nevada Assembly Majority Whip William Horne introduced AB258 on Thursday calling for legalized intrastate online poker. The news comes one week after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have created the first intrastate internet gambling regime in the U.S. Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas told the Wall Street… Read more »
In figures reported on Thursday, Nevada casino gaming revenue, or “win,” was flat in January year-over-year according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Statewide, Nevada casinos raked in a total of $877.4 million two months ago, which represented a decrease of 0.67% over the same period one year prior. The good news is that, over… Read more »
Another 348 hands of the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge played out on Tuesday in its first action since January. Many in the community were growing tired of the second incarnation of the so-called Durrrr Challenge between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates, but the battle waged on and the latter extended his lead… Read more »
Last week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped a bombshell on our industry by vetoing a bill proposed by State Senator Raymond Lesniak that would have created the first intrastate internet gambling market in the U.S. Now, the online poker industry has had a chance to digest the veto of the bill, which sailed through… Read more »
Last year, Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel fell to Annie Duke in the finals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Despite the loss, the tournament marked a victory of sorts for Seidel, who had entered the 2010 running with a 0-5 record in the made-for-television event. Now, Seidel has won 11 of his last… Read more »
Saturday night’s episode of the GSN cash game series “High Stakes Poker” featured the largest pot by far of Season 7, which is now just two hours old. Last week, two $400,000 pots were played and, this week, Victory Poker pro Antonio Esfandiari scooped one worth $593,000. Former “Saturday Night Live” funny man Norm Macdonald… Read more »
Trying to pick the lead story of Friday’s first round action in the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship is no easy task. Upsets-a-plenty characterized the day, the biggest of which came after Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith defeated PokerStars pro David Williams in the first round. The tournament is emanating from Caesars Palace… Read more »
Call it an upset if you will at the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. With Full Tilt Poker pro Carlos Mortensen seeking to become the first player to four WPT wins and holding down the chip lead entering the final table, rookie Gregory Brooks ultimately came away with the title and banked $1.6… Read more »
In breaking news from New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie has vetoed a bill passed overwhelmingly by both chambers of the state’s legislature that would have created the first intrastate internet gambling market in the U.S. According to the Wall Street Journal, Christie’s decision was in part based on doubts about whether the bill could withstand… Read more »
Carlos Mortensen has racked up several impressive distinctions as a player. He’s the only person ever to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. He’s the WPT’s all-time money leader at $5.7 million and, on Thursday, he’ll have a chance to extend that mark. Mortensen will… Read more »
Eighteen players remain in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. Full Tilt Poker pro Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar has a stranglehold on the top spot on the leaderboard with 3.2 million in chips after four days of play. In fact, his stack is 40% larger than the second place tally of 2.3 million belonging… Read more »
On Sunday, the money bubble popped at the L.A. Poker Classic, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Sixty-three players remain and a top prize of $1.6 million is up for grabs. The tournament will dole out the first seven-figure grand prize of Season IX and Jason “TheMasterJ33” DeWitt holds down the top spot… Read more »
The poker world was stunned last week when Travis Makar, one of the people allegedly involved in the Ultimate Bet super user scandal, called into the DonkDown Radio show and revealed that he had a large number of documents regarding the site’s involvement in the scandal from years ago. Makar stated that he never worked… Read more »
The seventh annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship will return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next month and the excitement began building this week with the announcement of the 64-player field. Defending champion Annie Duke will join the world’s top pros and a handful of celebrities to compete for a record payday when the event… Read more »
This week, the Poker News Daily exclusive web-based series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes Jason “NovaSky” Koon. He’s fresh off a $458,000 score for final tabling a Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event and has become one of the top dogs in the industry. UB.com sponsors “The Showdown,” so support the show by… Read more »
Less than two months have gone by in 2011, but I have to say that it already feels like a year has passed. When someone referred to me as “The busiest man in poker,” I think they must have been thinking about the past several weeks. And I have barely played any poker. Here’s a… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Johnny Chan, and several of poker’s biggest names joined a host of celebrities and NFL players for a charity poker tournament at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend. The tournament was set up to raise money for the Starkey Hearing Foundation and Pros for Africa,… Read more »
There’s a major change in the offing for the PokerStars-backed European Poker Tour (EPT). The tournament series’ Grand Final, which has been held in Monte Carlo for the past six seasons, will pick up and head to Madrid, Spain. The Casino Gran Madrid will serve as the host venue for the Season 7 EPT Grand… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational is set. The group of six was determined last night at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles and lawyer Damon Schramm leads the way with a stack of 865,000. A top prize of $100,000 is on the line in the invite-only tournament and each… Read more »
For the first time, one of the major players in the Ultimate Bet Superuser Scandal has spoken out about the case on a poker radio broadcast. On Wednesday night, “The Cold Call Show” hosted by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Todd “DanDruff” Witteles and Bryan “The Icon” Micon on DonkDown Radio, featured an interview… Read more »
Samsung 3D televisions, Apple iPads, and Monster Beats headphones are just a few of the prizes up for grabs as part of PartyPoker’s Win Tonight promotion, which runs until March 28th. The series of daily freerolls is open to new players only. The PartyPoker Win Tonight promotion began back on February 15th and gives players… Read more »
We’re only two months into the 112th Congress and already talk of pro-internet gambling legislation being introduced has begun. This time, it’s from Congressman John Campbell (R-CA), who, according to Gambling Compliance, has teamed with Barney Frank (D-MA) to call for the licensing and regulation of internet gambling in the United States. In an e-mail… Read more »
If the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Las Vegas bookmakers have their way, betting on non-sporting events will soon be coming to casinos around the state. An article on the website Covers.com, written by Case Keefer, tells the story of how the Nevada Gaming Commission recently amended regulations to allow for wagering on “event betting.”… Read more »
