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In what has been a frantic weekend around the tournament rooms of the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, the 2015 World Series of Poker – and its grand experiment, “The Colossus” – and its officials have been holding their breath regarding how well the tournament was received. From all appearances, the players came out… Read more »
If its “Colossus” tournament wasn’t enough for players and fans around the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino, the 2015 World Series of Poker had three other tournaments that might have captured someone’s fancy. In these tournaments, a player was denied a bracelet after dominating the final table, one of Hollywood’s elite will take on… Read more »
With surprisingly little fanfare (no celebrities or showgirls around for the “shuffle up and deal” announcement this year) the 2015 World Series of Poker is off and running. The first official bracelet of this summer’s grandest poker spectacle has been awarded and, in the second tournament on the schedule, there are 20 players that are… Read more »
Today is the day. Opening day of the 46th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Poker players, their families, friends, and poker fans are flocking to the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino just off the Las Vegas Strip for a month and a half of card playing madness. More than 60 bracelets will be awarded,… Read more »
The World Series of Poker is about to begin and later this year, a few people are going to be millions of dollars richer. In 2008, Ivan Demidov was to be one of those skilled and fortunate players, as he finished second to Peter Eastgate in the WSOP Main Event, the first time the world… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker – and its 64 event schedule – set to begin next week, the players have completed essentially the first half of the tournament poker “season.” As players prepare to descend on the “Oasis in the Desert” two men, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Anthony Zinno, will be at the top of… Read more »
For many in the poker community (and especially the online side), the threats that Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz’s “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” (RAWA) bring to the table have been enumerated many times. Now it has been proposed that not only would RAWA ban online gaming and poker on the federal level in the United… Read more »
PennLive.com, the online presence of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-area newspaper, The Patriot-News, reported Wednesday morning that a new poll reveals that Pennsylvanians are in favor of online gaming legalization. The poll was conducted last week by Harrisburg lobbying and PR firm The Bravo Group and covered responses provided by 769 of the state’s registered voters. The… Read more »
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is seven days into its fortnight of tournaments and Jason Mercier has been the dominant force of the event so far. It isn’t just No Limit Texas Hold’em that Mercier has been showing his proclivities but a wide array of games. On back-to-back days last week, one… Read more »
Part of the beauty of poker is that on any given day, the most amateur of amateurs can beat the best professionals in the world. To those unfamiliar with the game, that may sound ridiculous; how can a “sport” be at all attractive when the least skilled players can win? Well, that is, in fact,… Read more »
In an op/ed piece in a major California newspaper, one of the leaders of the multitude of Indian tribes in the state comes out as an advocate for consumers and players in the ongoing debate over online poker. In the San Diego Union-Times Bo Mazzetti, the chairman of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians (which… Read more »
According to the New York Daily News’ Kenneth Lovett, Democrats in the New York Legislature are advising their brethren that represent the state in Congress to stand against the proposed bill that would federally outlaw online gaming and poker in the U. S. Five Democrats – New York State Senators Diane Savino, Tony Avella, David… Read more »
Good poker films are few and far between. The fictional stories are usually completely over-the-top and melodramatic (cue music as hero tosses his cards face-up on the table and walks away in slow motion before the camera pans to the felt to reveal he had a royal flush) and the documentaries typically feature people about… Read more »
Although this year’s festivities at the Rio in Las Vegas haven’t begun as of yet (we are less than three weeks away, however), Caesars Entertainment and WSOP officials have announced a big change for the running of the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe. It was announced on Friday that this year’s event will be… Read more »
Battling through a difficult final table, Spain’s Adrian Mateos – the reigning World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion – added the second leg of poker’s “Triple Crown” in winning the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final in Monte Carlo yesterday. With only a six-handed final table (the other two official EPT final table spots,… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle to determine the champion, Sheraz Nasir denied Lu Zhang a shot at making history on the World Poker Tour in winning the first stop of Season XIV’s schedule, the partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship, on Wednesday night. Trevor Delaney held the lead (and 3.19 million chips) as the cards… Read more »
The field was slashed Monday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event as more than 300 players were reduced to just 114 on Day 2. It is an extremely close race for the pole position as Germans Ole Schemion and Christopher Frank are one-two with 477,700 chips and 465,200 chips, respectively. Jose… Read more »
Just as the World Poker Tour’s season came to an end last week, so does the eleventh season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) this week with the EPT Grand Final Main Event in glitzy Monte Carlo, Monaco. The €10,000 + €600 tournament has a guaranteed first prize of €1 million. Leading the event after… Read more »
It seems like it was just yesterday that Season XIII of the World Poker Tour concluded with Asher Conniff winning his first major championship in becoming the WPT World Champion in Atlantic City. Looking at the calendar, it wasn’t just yesterday, it was a couple of days ago, which makes the beginning of Season XIV,… Read more »
In an e-mail to affiliates on Friday – in some cases other businesses that have been with the site since its inception in 2001 – PokerStars announced major changes to its affiliate program that will have a seismic effect on the online poker industry. The e-mail, which was posted on several online poker forums by… Read more »
Vanquishing three former World Poker Tour champions – including a former WPT and World Series of Poker World Champion – Asher Conniff broke through to earn his first major championship ever in taking down the WPT World Championship at the Borgata in Atlantic City Wednesday night. Conniff was in a good operating position as the… Read more »
There is one more day remaining in Season XIII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) as the WPT World Championship final table has been set. It is a very strong final table, as three of its six members have won World Poker Tour titles previously. Alexander Lakhov leads the way with 4.11 million chips, almost… Read more »
For years, proponents of online poker in California have been trying to get something going in the state legislature, only to have every bill die before it can even get on its feet. Yesterday, though, one bill finally took its first step. The California State Assembly Governmental Organization (GO) Committee passed AB 431 by a… Read more »
The much-anticipated 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship kicked off this weekend, marking the beginning of the end of WPT Season XIII. High Roller events aside, the WPT Championship is the most expensive tournament of the season with a $15,000 + $400 buy-in. 234 players signed up on Saturday with another five registering late… Read more »
After what has been an exciting Season XIII roster of tournaments, the World Poker Tour is looking to cap off their season with one more bit of excitement for its fans. Beginning this afternoon, the WPT is in Atlantic City, NJ, for the traditional finale of each season, the WPT World Championship. From their inception… Read more »
