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Ben Palmer emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour (WPT) at Venetian Main event on Tuesday, earning himself a tidy $431,655, a sum which includes a $15,000 seat in the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions. Palmer was the chip leader of the nine remaining players going into Tuesday’s action with 5.460 million chips.… Read more »
Four-time World Poker Tour champ Darren Elias was the target of a burglary on Thursday, but the scary part of the incident was not that someone broke into his Medford, New Jersey home. It was that he held a 19-year old babysitter, who was taking care of Elias’s two-year old daughter, at gunpoint. Fortunately, all… Read more »
The inaugural Global Poker Awards will be handed out in the PokerGO studios in Las Vegas on April 5, but they are already generating a great deal of buzz. Some of that buzz is not something that the Global Poker Index (the organization behind the Global Poker Awards) desires, however. Complaints have arisen regarding the… Read more »
Many may think that the States of America is the only country that is having issues with the question of online gaming and poker. But nothing would be further from the truth. Australia continues to ban out-of-country gaming companies from their citizens and China, Russia and other countries continue to crack down on the activity.… Read more »
One of the most difficult things for online poker has been its ability to become a part of what is called “normal” culture. This is somewhat defined by being able to be seen without complaint from some segments of society, such as in sponsoring activities or appearing in advertising. Recently an online poker site made… Read more »
On Friday night, a man robbed the poker room cashier at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and was killed by metro police in a shootout outside the casino. At the time, police did not release the name of the suspect, but they since have. And the interesting thing about it is that he has a… Read more »
That didn’t take long, did it? One day after the closing of the nomination period for the inaugural awarding of the Global Poker Awards, the Global Poker Index has come out with the final list of nominees. Spanning the globe and the world of poker, the Global Poker Awards will take over for the European… Read more »
For those of you who missed yesterday’s Part One, the First Annual Global Poker Awards are going to be handed out in Las Vegas this April. To give out awards, however, you need to have some people to choose to receive said awards. With this in mind, the Global Poker Awards have reached out to… Read more »
The newly created Global Poker Awards will be handed out in ceremonies from the studios of Poker Central in April. As one of the past members of the nomination committee for the American Poker Awards, I was once again asked to make nominations for the people, tournaments and moments from poker in the past year… Read more »
In what turned out to be a marathon session, Vinicius Lima came off the start of day short stack to defeat the start of day chip leader Dave Farah, capturing the World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open championship in the process. Farah’s Tournament to Lose Coming to Las Vegas for the last final table… Read more »
Erkut Yilmaz is not what one would consider a household name in the world of poker, but everyone best start paying attention, because this man is tearing it up right now. Yilmaz won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event yesterday, his second WPT title this season. For the win, Yilmaz banked $303,920,… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker coming up, talk at some point will inevitably turn to the meaning of a gold bracelet. There are dozens upon dozens of events now, leading some people to consider the value of a bracelet to be watered down. Many of the younger generation of players are more concerned with… Read more »
If you are going to make a final table on the World Poker Tour (WPT), you might as well get there with more chips than all of the other players combined. That is exactly what is happening at the WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event final table, as Jim Collopy heads into Tuesday’s six-handed final table… Read more »
As a few World Poker Tour final tables are contested in Las Vegas, the WPT Rolling Thunder – a Tour event that always makes me think of the 1980’s arcade game – marches on in California. Heading into Day 3, it is Anthony Zinno with the chip lead, holding 612,000 chips entering Monday’s action. Zinno… Read more »
While the World Poker Tour gets ready to stage three final tables beginning next week (more on this in a bit), the regular tour is going on at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Northern California. The WPT Rolling Thunder, now in its sixth year, has finished off its two-Day Ones and currently is looking… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour stop at the Commerce Casino for the L. A. Poker Classic Main Event has been determined and it could be historic. Four-time WPT champion Darren Elias is looking to break into rarefied air and perhaps become the first five-time champion in the history of the circuit. His… Read more »
I think it is safe to say that David ODB Baker is having a good week. On Monday, he took the chip lead at the World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic and on Tuesday, he stayed on top, ending Day 4 as the largest stack in the tournament for the second day in a… Read more »
Fortunes can change quickly in a poker tournament. “A chip and a chair” feels like a cliché, but it feels that way because it’s true. As long as you have chips – or a chip – you have a chance. Such was the case for David ODB Baker on Monday as he was able to… Read more »
Russia’s Andrey Zaichenko leads the 2019 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event with 949,500 chips as the tournament heads into its third day on Monday. Though it will never garner the four-figure crowds of some of the east coast WPT events because of the nature of its $10,000 freezeout structure, it is… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has landed in Los Angeles, CA (actually Commerce, CA, if you want to be exact), for the latest incarnation of the only tournament that has been a part of each of their 17 seasons of action. The L. A. Poker Classic Main Event at the Commerce Casino has once again brought… Read more »
There are a few things that you can count on in life – death, taxes, some segment of the New England Patriots pissing you off. You can perhaps add the yearly stop by the World Poker Tour at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles for the L. A. Poker Classic and its Main Event, which… Read more »
According to attorneys representing the Las Vegas Sands Corporation in a long-running lawsuit with a former employee, anti-online gaming advocate Sheldon Adelson is in “dire” health and unavailable for deposition in the case. This news could have a seismic impact on the drive he has been at the forefront of – the eradication of online… Read more »
The poker world found out about a month ago, but PokerStars officially announced on Wednesday that it is restricting the use of third party software tools starting Monday, March 4th. In a blog post, Severin Rasset started out by explaining the high-level reasoning for the policy changes: We all sit down at the table as… Read more »
Remember way back in 2015 when the World Series of Poker introduced its first online bracelet event and half the poker world was all like, “THE WSOP IS DEFILING THE PURITY OF POKER! IT WILL NEVER BE A REAL BRACELET!” They must think the WSOP is a downright mutant now, as this year, there will… Read more »
After eight events that has seen the United Kingdom’s Stephen Chidwick win two tournaments and Sean Winter attempt to keep pace with the Brit for the overall Player of the Series honors (and an extra $100,000), the second ever U. S. Poker Open will close this weekend. Wrapping up the festivities will be the conclusion… Read more »
