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It was a fairly short day at the inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland Live! Main Event as only fourteen eliminations were needed to determine the composition of the final table. Leading the charge into Tuesday’s action is the chip leader entering Monday, 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Greg Merson. With… Read more »
The 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland Live! Main Event has been a swift one, as after just two days (three calendar days because of the two starting flights), the field has been whittled from 337 to just 20 players. Leading the charge for the quarter-million dollar first prize is 2012 World Series of Poker… Read more »
Not one to rest on their laurels, the World Poker Tour quickly swung back into action after the conclusion of the Borgata Poker Open. In fact, while David Paredes was wrapping up the championship of that event, the first of two Day Ones took place at the newest venue for the WPT, Maryland Live! in,… Read more »
After hovering around the top of the leaderboard for the past two days, poker professional David Paredes made his big breakthrough in taking down his first major tournament poker championship in winning the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City late Friday night. Paredes, who held the Day 3 chip lead earlier this… Read more »
After battling through a massive field over the past four days, the final table is now set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City. Leading the final six men will be James Gilbert, but every player at the final table has a wealth of experience and could take down the championship.… Read more »
A two-part public service warning here: 1) Watching reality television is roughly akin to having a lobotomy without the benefit of anesthesia, so don’t do it, and 2) If you want to waste three months, there’s better ways to do it. After three months in which she obviously played the best game of anyone in… Read more »
The survivors from Day 1A and 1B met on Tuesday at the Borgata in Atlantic City for Day 2 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event. After late registration closed, the total field, including those who had already been eliminated, end up at 1,027 players. Just 127 runners remain heading… Read more »
The opening flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City are complete and the survivors from each are ready to combine into a single field today for Day 2. Sofia Lövgren came out of Day 1B as the chip leader both of her flight and of the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour was back in action Sunday with the first of two starting flights of the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. This $3,300 + $200 No-Limit Hold’em tournament has a $3 million guaranteed prize pool and will pay down to 120 places if its field reaches the same size… Read more »
After a huge event following their “restart” after the World Series of Poker – the massive Legends of Poker tournament in California earlier this month – the World Poker Tour kicks back into action this afternoon with the Borgata Poker Open in New Jersey. Usually one of the bigger events on the WPT circuit, the… Read more »
After receiving feedback from industry members and regulatory organizations, a New York State Senator is looking to revise some segments of his online poker legislation. New York State Senator John Bonacic, who is the driving force behind online poker legislation in the Empire State (he has filed some sort of bill in support of online… Read more »
In what has been a tumultuous two days, poker professional Vanessa Rousso has put herself in position to be under consideration for the $500,000 first prize on the CBS reality show Big Brother. After fighting her way into the final three, Rousso now has the potential to make the final two. Come next week, Rousso… Read more »
As they are pulling into the final week of what has been a summer-long run, the CBS reality television show Big Brother is down to its final five competitors. Of the five houseguests remaining, one is poker professional Vanessa Rousso. Rousso has shown a dominant mental game throughout the run of this summer’s program, but… Read more »
Tonight’s the night, sports fans. One of the landmark days of the fall. This evening, we get to watch the season’s first broadcast of Monday Night Foot…wait. Let’s flip the channel up one notch. Ok, there it is. Tonight, September 14th, marks the first episode of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event on… Read more »
The poker community is well aware of the potential future of poker under the dreams of Mediarex Sports and Entertainment’s (formerly Zokay Entertainment) Chief Executive Officer and founder Alexandre Dreyfus. The dream of Dreyfus – to “sportify” the game of poker rather than leave it in its current state – is one of the major… Read more »
After a great deal of outrage from many in the poker community regarding the conduct of the event, the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering has announced they are investigating the Hialeah Park Casino over a poker tournament it conducted in late August. According to Nick Sortal of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, gaming officials in Florida were… Read more »
What was trumpeted as the latest and best attempt to persuade a state legislature towards passing online gaming and/or poker regulations took place in Albany, NY, yesterday. The hearing by the Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee in the state capitol wasn’t widely attended, however, by neither the constituents nor the legislators that the hearing… Read more »
The ten finalists for the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame class were announced by the World Series of Poker yesterday after a public nomination period and a vetting process conducted by the PHOF Governing Council. Six of the nominees have been on this list before, while four (yes, I just checked, the math works out)… Read more »
If you live in these United States of America at the present moment, you probably don’t care, but if you live in, say, Canada, Mexico, numerous European nations, or any of a multitude of other locales, you may be interested to know that the 14th annual PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is underway.… Read more »
After battling from the brink of elimination, Mike Shariati stunned Freddy Deeb early Saturday morning to capture the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker Main Event at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, FL. As he had for the prior two day, Aaron Kweskin came to the six-handed WPT final table with… Read more »
Day 3 for the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, is in the books with Aaron Kweskin at the head of the final 15 players left. Perhaps more impressive than Kweskin’s run to the top is the presence of actor Bill Fagerbakke, known for his portrayal of… Read more »
The battle for bwin.party, parent company of partypoker, continues. On Tuesday, bwin.party confirmed that it has received another acquisition proposal from 888 Holdings, though it has not revealed any of the proposal’s details. The brief announcement is as follows: Further to its announcement on 27 August regarding a proposal from GVC Holdings PLC (‘GVC’), the… Read more »
Wrapping up a record breaking two week stay along the coast of the Mediterranean, John Juanda emerged as the champion of the European Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, picking up his first tournament cash in well over a year. To start the penultimate day of the EPT Barcelona, the nine men… Read more »
On their way to crowning their first Main Event champion for their Season 12 schedule, the European Poker Tour stop in Barcelona, Spain, churned on with its action on Friday. By the end of the day, Peter Eichhart was on top of the final 36 with Day 3 leader Oleksii Khoroshenin lurking behind him. 110… Read more »
With Day 3 in the books at the European Poker Tour’s stop in Barcelona, Spain, only 110 players remain from the massive 1694 player field that started the event on Sunday. Tonight, former EPT champion Oleksii Khoroshenin is sleeping well as he sits atop that 110 player group with the chip lead. 343 players came… Read more »
