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Fans of the PokerStars-sponsored “Big Game,” a cash game series that airs late nights on Fox, will be in for a change when its second season begins airing in June or July. Chris Rose, who hosted Season 1 alongside Joe Stapleton, will focus on baseball duties for Fox. In his stead will be longtime poker… Read more »
According to the Wall Street Journal and the Las Vegas Review Journal, Full Tilt Poker has teamed up with Fertitta Interactive to back Federal legislation legalizing online poker. Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, the owners of Station Casinos, also own Fertitta Interactive. However, according to the news outlets, no tie-in with Station Casinos is expected. Tom… Read more »
This week, the real estate section of Yahoo featured an article from Curbed.com highlighting the unique penthouse of young poker star Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. Located in New York City’s East Village, the main attraction of the residence is, get this, a slide. That’s right. Galfond has a slide in his house. And it’s no kiddie… Read more »
This week, the Poker News Daily web TV series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes investment manager and our host’s father, Jeff Friedberg. An in-depth discussion on investing your hard-earned poker money is at hand in a can’t-miss episode. UB.com sponsors “The Showdown,” so show your love for the show by signing up for UB.com… Read more »
Sunday afternoon marked the finale of Full Tilt Poker’s Challenge Durrrr promotion, but there was some controversy as to who was the actual winner of the competition. The Challenge Durrrr promotion was a chance for one of Full Tilt Poker’s players to step up and take on Tom “durrrr” Dwan in a multi-table competition. Over… Read more »
Johnny Chan returned to “High Stakes Poker” on Saturday night. The episode, which aired on GSN at 8:00pm ET, featured the final action from the first group of Season 7. Next week, a new lineup will be seated. The action was pretty quiet this week. However, David “Viffer” Peat had the table talking early. In… Read more »
In an unconfirmed rumor first reported by RakeTheRake, Victory Poker, which currently makes its home on the Cake Poker Network, may soon be jumping ship to the CEREUS Network. The latter family of sites includes UB.com and Absolute Poker, both of which accept players from the United States. Poker News Daily contacted Victory Poker CEO… Read more »
On Wednesday, PokerStars added yet another member to its ever-growing Pro Team. Joining the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem, and Vanessa Rousso is community favorite Eugene “MyRabbiFoo” Katchalov. The 29-year-old Ukraine native who now resides in New York has had great success in both the online and live poker realms. Although he… Read more »
A brand new poker training site launched in recent days. PocketFives Training absorbed what was formerly PokerPwnage and debuted in the last week. PocketFives Training features a stellar lineup of pros and largely focuses on MTT coaching. Nat Arem, Vice President of Protos Marketing, the parent company of PocketFives, was looking forward to growing the… Read more »
This week, “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes Benton Blakeman, a mid-stakes cash game grinder and sponsored pro of FeltStars. The episode is dedicated to improving your poker game, so buckle up. UB.com sponsors “The Showdown,” so show your love for the show by signing up for UB.com using the bonus code UBPND. Check out… Read more »
It’s hard to believe that PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, is about to deal its 60 billionth hand. Yes, that’s billion with a “b” and PokerStars officials are expecting the milestone pot to occur sometime in the next eight or nine days. The site happily accepts players from the United States. Starting at… Read more »
A rather quiet episode of “High Stakes Poker” aired on GSN last night. The cash game series, which broadcasts new episodes every Saturday night at 8:00pm ET and 11:00pm ET, features hosts Norm Macdonald and PartyPoker pro Kara Scott, the latter of whom conducts interviews from show’s set at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. PokerStars… Read more »
The 2011 Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), wrapped up on Friday with Alan Sternberg taking down the title. Sternberg, a satellite winner, banked over a million dollars and bested one of the toughest final tables of Season IX of the WPT. Sternberg entered the final table second… Read more »
For the first time ever, World Poker Tour (WPT) host Mike Sexton reached the final table of an open event. Sexton will headline the Bay 101 Shooting Star final six today, although he is the low man on the totem pole entering the finale at 363,000 in chips, or just 18 big blinds. Sexton acknowledged… Read more »
In a day that featured the tip-off of the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament, lawmakers on Capitol Hill stole the show. Dominating wins by Pittsburgh and San Diego State and disheartening losses by Louisville and Vanderbilt were overshadowed by Congressmen John Campbell (R-CA) and Barney Frank (D-MA) introducing the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and… Read more »
After two starting days in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament, Chris Trapani leads the way with a stack of 197,900. Needless to say, the week has been an emotional roller coaster for Trapani, who gave a eulogy to his father, Marko, prior to the start of play on Day 1A.… Read more »
The Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), began on Monday afternoon in San Jose, California with 142 players. When the drama ended for the evening, just 66 remained with Day 1B looming on the horizon today. Each Shooting Star had a $5,000 bounty on their head and the… Read more »
On Monday, Full Tilt Poker announced the debut of the Onyx Cup, a series of six high-stakes live tournaments starting in May in Las Vegas. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill tournaments, either. Instead, five preliminary No Limit Hold’em events will have buy-ins between $100,000 and $300,000, while the Grand Finale comes with a $250,000 price tag… Read more »
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 »
