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From the “any news is better than no news” files, there has been some recent activity on the Full Tilt Poker cashout front. While customers from the United States still have not received their funds from the world’s second largest online poker room, Full Tilt has overcome its inertia and has taken what look to… Read more »
The last major open event leading up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is down to a final table in the Big Easy. The WSOP-Circuit $10,000 Southern Regional Championship played down to nine players at Harrah’s New Orleans Saturday with some familiar faces still vying for the top prize of $237,456. AJ Jejelowo will… Read more »
Erik Seidel may have taken the spotlight away from Scott Seiver at the World Poker Tour Championship on Friday. But the 26-year-old poker phenom has 1.6 million reasons not to care. Seiver earned his first World Poker Tour title and $1,618,344 for his victory in the $25,000 WPT Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The… Read more »
He’s done it again. Well, almost. Erik Seidel is one elimination away from winning yet another High Roller title in 2011. The man who’s already accrued more than $4.3 million in earnings this year will play Erick Lindgren for $1,092,780 and the World Poker Tour $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller crown on Friday afternoon at… Read more »
It’s a very surreal setting in the Bellagio poker room. We have star-studded pros like Erik Seidel and Daniel Negreanu seated in the high-limit room in the rear of the casino’s poker room vying for millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Read more »
Galen Hall is one day away from what could be his second seven-figure score of 2011. Not bad for a kid who considers himself a part-time player. The 24-year old Stanford student who won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event in January for $2.3 million is the chip leader of the $25,000 World Poker… Read more »
It was moving day Tuesday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship, as the money bubble was finally burst and the field inched ever closer to the final table. Galen Hall will be the chip leader when play resumes Wednesday, sitting with a stack of 3,438,000 chips, well ahead of Sam El Sayed, the… Read more »
Live poker is eaaaaaaasyyy. Or, loldonkaments. That could have been what Jordan Jayne was thinking on Sunday when, at the tender age of 20, he won the Heartland Poker Tour’s (HPT) Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort stop in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, the first live tournament he had ever entered. For his victory over 385 opponents,… Read more »
More than tripling his chip stack from the start of the day, Abe Mosseri ended Day 2 of the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship as the chip leader with 685,200 chips, as the field was slowly whittled away. With 116 of the original 220 players remaining, there is still a long way to… Read more »
Day 1 of the $25,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Championship got underway on Saturday with 188 players taking to the tables at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Christian “charder30” Harder sat atop the leaderboard at the end of five levels of play, with Ali Eslami, Kyle “KJulius10” Julius, Justin Young and Doyle Brunson all… Read more »
The final stop of Season IX on the World Poker Tour will kick off on Saturday with the $25,000 WPT World Poker Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tour’s flagship event begins at noon local time today and runs through Friday, May 20, where a final table of six players will commence at 4… Read more »
The final table of the 2011 European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Madrid was made up of an eclectic group of eight players, with seven different countries being represented and contrasting personalities making for a unique live broadcast on PokerStars.tv on Thursday. Venezuela’s Ivan Freitez entered the day with the chip lead and put… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) hosted its annual conference call Wednesday to announce the changes being made to the upcoming series in Las Vegas. On the call were WSOP Communications Director Seth Palansky, WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel and WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart, who were eager to announce that the final table action… Read more »
The active week for Absolute Poker continues. On Tuesday, the member of the CEREUS Network announced that it, along with sister site UB, has come to an agreement with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, a preliminary step in hopefully getting frozen funds back into U.S. players’ bank accounts. … Read more »
Blanca Games, operator of both Absolute Poker and UB, issued a statement over the weekend in an attempt to clarify the activities on Friday, during which agents of the Organismo de Investigaciones Judiciales (OIJ) (essentially, the Costa Rican FBI) raided the offices of the two poker rooms. As could be seen in a Costa Rican… Read more »
Over half the field of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event has been shown the door as both flights of Day 1 are set to merge on Monday. The final Main Event of season seven will end up being one of the richest in EPT history, as 686 players paid the €10,000… Read more »
Poker player and media personality Bernard Lee is celebrating the fourth anniversary of The Bernard Lee Poker Show this month with two of the game’s biggest names as guests. Former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Greg Raymer and 2009 Bluff Magazine Player of the Year... Read more »
According to a report by MSNBC on Wednesday, indicted online poker rooms Absolute Poker and UB was to be filing for bankruptcy, leaving thousands of players even more concerned about the funds frozen in their real-money accounts. Read more »
The newly formed Federated Sports and Gaming (FS&G) released the list of 218 players eligible for the inaugural season of its professional poker league Tuesday, along with the detailed criteria for selection. The league is slated to launch in early August and will feature four rake-free Main Events plus a championship to be held in… Read more »
It was not quite the smooth ride that he probably would have liked, but Taylor Von Kriegenbergh got the result he wanted just the same, winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Monday night. For his efforts, the recent college grad won $1,122,340, a $25,500 entry into the WPT World Championship, a… Read more »
The penultimate day of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown came to a close Sunday with just the final six players remaining, setting up Monday’s television final table. Leading the way is Taylor Von Kriegenbergh, who used a gigantic late push to finish the day with a chip stack double that of… Read more »
He’s only 24 years old, but Blair Hinkle has already accomplished more than most poker players dream of. In his brief career as a pro, Hinkle has captured a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, a WSOP circuit ring, and a handful of major online wins, including a $1.1 million score in the FTOPS XIX… Read more »
After three days of play, the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), has seen its starting group of 433 whittled all the way down to 51. Taylor von Kriegenbergh is the pacesetter with 1.08 million in chips, just ahead of the mound of 1.02 million that belongs to Abbey… Read more »
A total of 147 players remain in the running for the million-dollar top prize at the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, the first ever stop in Florida for the World Poker Tour (WPT). Former WPT Legends of Poker final tablist Todd Terry leads the way with two days of play in the books and will come… Read more »
With registration open until the start of Day 2, the first ever Florida stop for the World Poker Tour (WPT) kicked off on Wednesday and attracted 406 players. The Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, a $10,000 buy-in tournament, features poker pro Randy Dorfman on top after one day of play with a stack of… Read more »
