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It was a rough week to be a contestant on the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge, which flanks NFL coverage on FOX. On Sunday, both contestants failed to reach the third round of the show, which pits qualifiers against celebrity defenders and PokerStars pros for a chance at $1 million. Chris Rose serves as its host.… Read more »
On Saturday night, the first of two semifinal matches of the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship played out on GSN. Eight players took to the felt for the hour-long program and the top two teams advanced to the finals. In the semifinals, each team received two 30-second timeouts to talk strategy and players who advanced… Read more »
Sportingbet PLC has reported to the London Stock Exchange and its shareholders a solid end-of-year report, showing increases across the board and settling legal issues with the U.S. government over the company’s business activities prior to 2006. Sportingbet, which owns Paradise Poker, ended its 2010 fiscal year at the end of June. On October 6th,… Read more »
One of the many activities during the upcoming World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table is the Poker Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Who makes it in this year remains to be seen, but one of the most valued members of the poker community, Poker Hall of Fame member Doyle Brunson, has given… Read more »
If only for a few minutes, the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge returned on Monday night. A brief 258-hand session was played over the course of 20 minutes, with Dwan cutting into the lead of Dan “JungleMan12” Cates by $31,000. Dwan and Cates have now played 7,660 hands of the 50,000 required for completion and… Read more »
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi entered Day 6 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event second in chips and took his seat at the feature table alongside poker pro Peter Jetten. A total of 122 players remained including Mizrachi’s brother, Robert. Breeze Zuckerman exited in 121st place for $57,000 as this year’s Last… Read more »
This week, new episodes of NBC’s “Poker After Dark” returned to airwaves featuring a high-stakes cash game. Over $1 million was spread across the table and the blinds stood at $300/$600 with a $100 ante. Ali Nejad had the call of the action, which emanated from the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas and airs… Read more »
On Saturday, the 16-person playoff field was determined in the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship on GSN. The show airs new episodes every Saturday at 9:00pm ET. Over the weekend, the final two qualifying matches for the playoffs were held. Teammates alternate action by street on Doubles Poker and cannot talk strategy at the table… Read more »
Inside sources at World Team Poker tell Poker News Daily that Team Spain, which did not participate in the first tournament back in May, has filed its roster. The captain of the squad will be former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champ Carlos Mortensen, who has banded together a team that brings great… Read more »
Nine cities will play hosts to tournaments as part of Season 2 of the PokerStars U.K. and Ireland Poker Tour, more commonly called the UKIPT. The first cycle of the tour is wrapping up now in London in conjunction with the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) stop in the British capital. Newly minted PokerStars pro Liv… Read more »
Launching on the USA-friendly online poker site DoylesRoom is the all-new Doyles Rewards program. The loyalty program is already live for non-rakeback players and will be launching in the near future for those with rakeback. Ten-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Doyle Brunson fronts the room, which makes its home on the Cake… Read more »
The largest live poker tournament ever held on British soil is taking place in London. The European Poker Tour’s (EPT) London Main Event clocked in at 848 players earlier today and a prize pool of over £4 million is up for grabs. Text found on the PokerStars Blog accurately assesses, “That will be a large… Read more »
What started as a field of 346 entrants in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event played down to a winner on Tuesday night. When the smoke cleared, Britain’s James Bord took down the title on his home turf at the Casino at the Empire in London. The £10,000 buy-in event marked… Read more »
The Main Event of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe schedule is in progress from the Casino at the Empire in London. With six players remaining, Ronald Lee leads the way with a stack of 3.4 million. The pace has been fast and furious so far. In fact, it took just 25 hands… Read more »
At the time of writing, 15 players remain in the £10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event. Arguably the two biggest names in the field, Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey and Viktor Blom, the person many believe to be behind the “Isildur1” moniker, both found the rail on Monday. Blom 3bet… Read more »
On Thursday, action in Event #4 of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe schedule, a £10,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up tournament, ground to a screeching halt after Gus Hansen and Jim “Mr_BigQueso” Collopy were deadlocked at one match apiece. With both combatants taking to the felt in the WSOP Europe Main… Read more »
London-based Sportingbet PLC has agreed to pay $33 million to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to keep the online gambling operator out of court in the States. Sportingbet was under investigation for illegal internet gambling operations between 1998 and 2006. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said that Sportingbet offered… Read more »
We have a winner! Late Thursday night, Dwyte Pilgrim cemented his legacy by taking down the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City. The man who was widely considered to be one of the top players in poker never to have won a major pulled one out of his hat in monumental… Read more »
He has 20 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Cashes for over $450,000. Add to that three gold rings and you have one of the most successful players in WSOP Circuit history. However, what has insofar eluded Dwyte Pilgrim is a signature win in a major live tournament. That could all change on Thursday, however,… Read more »
Whereas past installments of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN have featured the “old guard of poker,” this week’s two-hour block highlighted one of the game’s young stars, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. The Bluefire Poker instructor took his seat at the feature table on Day 5 of the Main Event, which featured 574… Read more »
Taking center stage in recent weeks has been the squabble between a coalition of California casinos and the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) over the merits of HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act. Poker News Daily sat down with Commerce Casino CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board Haig Papaian to… Read more »
After two days of play in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Poker Open, tournament veteran John D’Agostino leads the way with a stack of 681,000. He has a slight lead over the second place stack of Giuseppe Pantaleo and, when play resumes for Day 3 on Tuesday, both will be seated at the same… Read more »
The record books were re-written over the weekend, as 1,042 players turned out for the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, the largest WPT field ever assembled. Last year, the tournament, which sports a $3,500 buy-in, drew 1,018 players, meaning that attendance this year was up 2%. Over 300 players turned… Read more »
Goldwater Bank in Scottsdale, Arizona has agreed to forfeit $734,000 in assets tied to money laundering and illegal online gambling operations, the FBI said on Friday. The one-branch bank was accused of transferring funds for several online gambling sites, including PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room. At least $13 million was transferred in the… Read more »
In Season 2, the Borgata Poker Open became a regular stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Today, the first of two starting days in the $3,500 buy-in East Coast poker tournament will begin at 11:00am ET. Tomorrow, it’ll be Groundhog Day for Borgata and WPT officials, who will see Day 1B play out. Last… Read more »
