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By all measures, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament was a rousing success. Attendance ballooned to 391 players in 2009, up 25 from 2008. Heads-up play came down to a recognizable WPT veteran, Steve Brecher, against one of the world's top female pros, Kathy Liebert. Read more »
After a hard-fought week, the final table of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star event is set. The group is led by Steve Brecher, who holds 2.06 million chips, barely edging out Tony Behari, who comes armed to the six-handed final table with a stack of 2.05 million. Read more »
After Day 2 of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament in San Jose, California, a total of 36 players and four bounties remain. The tournament saw a total of 391 entrants, including 50 Shooting Stars, take to the field in total. Read more »
Attendance was up at the 2009 Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the seventh season of the World Poker Tour (WPT). This time around, a total of 391 players turned out (up from 376 last year), helped in part by a 256 player showing on Day 1B. Read more »
A total of 135 players entered the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament on Day 1A. After 10 levels of play in the Matt Savage-run tournament, just 50 remain. Now, all eyes on Tuesday will be focused on Day 1B, which kicks off at 10:45am local time. Read more »
One of the toughest final tables in the history of the European Poker Tour (EPT) produced the tournament series' second female winner. PokerStars.de ShootingStar member Sandra Naujoks took home €917,000 for taking down EPT Dortmund. Read more »
The final table of the $5,000 buy-in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Event Championship at Caesars Atlantic City played out on Saturday. A total of 208 entrants participated and, when the smoke cleared, 23 year-old professional poker player Samuel Chartier emerged victorious. Read more »
The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event kicks off on Monday from sunny San Jose, California. The unique high-stakes bounty tournament awards $5,000 for knocking a "shooting star" out of the event. The $10,000 buy-in contest's winner will likely receive a seven-figure payday and $25,000 buy-in to the WPT Championship. Read more »
The finale of the second season of Ultimate Bet's Best Damn Poker Show wrapped up this week. The series, which airs on Fox Sports Net, was won by Patrick Karst, a 51 year-old married father of three from Markle, Indiana. Read more »
Many online poker players remember the "superuser" scandals that have erupted over the past couple of years. Millions of dollars were lost in the commission of these scams and only through the diligence of the online poker world did they ever come to light. Read more »
This week, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (CCC) released its "win," or revenue totals for February. In the shortest month of the year, gambling revenues in Atlantic City dove 19.2% in comparison to February of 2008 to $310.3 million. A total of 11 casinos make up the Atlantic City market. Read more »
Most serious poker players hope to capture a tournament championship on one of the tours that exist today, but many of them cannot travel or afford to buy into the World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker events. These players seem to have found a home in the Heartland Poker Tour. Read more »
Last week, the WPT partnered with Chili Poker to introduce a land-based tournament in Marrakech, Morocco. Now, the action moves north. In a press release distributed on Monday by the roving poker tour, it was revealed that the WPT has teamed up with bwin to launch WPT Venice. Read more »
The finale of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship took place on Sunday night at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. When the smoke cleared, Huck Seed defeated new Go Daddy Girl Vanessa Rousso to take home $500,000. Read more »
The semi-finals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship are set from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Two members of Team PokerStars Pro will battle it out, as Vanessa Rousso will take on Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier. Also, Huck Seed will face off against Sam Farha. Read more »
Bigger is better at PokerStars. Recently, the world's largest online poker site registered its 20 millionth user. The milestone designation went to a brand new PokerStars member from Slovakia, piposko. Read more »
The 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship kicks off on Friday from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Last night, a drawing party at PURE Nightclub at the casino determined the initial pairings for the group of 64 players. Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is coming to the African continent. On Wednesday, the tournament series announced that it has inked a sponsorship arrangement with Chili Poker to bring the game to Marrakech, Morocco. Read more »
The Merge Gaming Network just got a little bigger. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Big Bet Poker is the Network's newest addition. The group of sites already includes ACED, Carbon Poker, Iron Duke, Poker Nordica, Reefer Poker, and Spin32. Read more »
In 2005, Freddy Deeb took down the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic. Three and a half years later, Deeb was up to his winning ways once again, taking down his second WPT title, this time at the Celebrity Invitational. Read more »
The National Kidney Foundation will be the beneficiaries of the 2009 Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament, which is sponsored by Curtis and Co. Watches and Dream Team Poker and takes place at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. Read more »
This is Part II of a two-part series on perspectives of the economic crisis and its possible impacts on the gambling and poker industries. Dan Goldman has been a high-tech and marketing expert for nearly 30 years. He is perhaps best known within the poker industry as the former Vice President of Marketing for PokerStars. Read more »
In November, CryptoLogic announced that it would merge its member online poker rooms with the Boss Media Network during the first quarter of 2009. Poker News Daily can confirm that the official move of InterPoker is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, March 17th. Read more »
The World Poker Tour's (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic kicked off last Saturday from the Commerce Casino. A total of 696 poker hopefuls entered, representing a growth of 5% from 2008. In the end, one man stood tall above the rest, Andrew Cimpan. Read more »
On Thursday, the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI) released the results of a study performed by U.S.-based PricewaterhouseCoopers. The company found that up to $51.9 billion over a ten year period could be raised by taxing and regulating the internet gambling industry. Read more »
