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We were supposed to have just two players left to battle heads-up for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship on Tuesday, but after twelve hours of play Monday and on into Tuesday morning, it was time to call it quits with three players remaining. It will be an all-European fight to the… Read more »
Mark Newhouse accomplished what many in the poker world consider the greatest poker accomplishment of all time: he made back-to-back World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tables in fields with over 6,000 players. Dan Harrington did it ten years ago, but the fields were much smaller (though not tiny) back then. And Johnny… Read more »
The final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event finally gets underway tonight with the first of two days of action. The broadcast will begin on ESPN2 at 8:00pm ET semi-live with just a 30-minute delay and will continue until just two players remain. Those two will return to the Rio… Read more »
It has all come down to this. The 2014 World Series of Poker Championship Event’s “November Nine” are all settled in Las Vegas preparing for the resumption of festivities that will, on Tuesday night, crown the next World Champion. But just how will it play out? Let’s take a look into the Poker News Daily… Read more »
Overcoming daunting odds, Darren Elias made World Poker Tour history in coming from behind to win the WPT Caribbean in St. Maarten Friday evening. At the start of action on Friday, Elias was in second place but that wasn’t much consolation. With his 495K in chips, Elias was almost four times behind chip leader Christophe… Read more »
We said yesterday that the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event was a small tournament and perhaps surprisingly, the second starting flight was not much bigger than the first. On Tuesday, just 61 players paid the $3,500 to try to earn a WPT title, almost exactly the same as the 57 that played… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN) announced on Friday that it has mutually parted ways with the 5Dimes Group. The Group, better known for its online sports betting than for internet poker, includes the sites 5Dimes.eu, Sportbet.com, IslandCasino.com, and Vietbet.eu. In a press release, an EPN spokesperson said, “We are happy with where the Network is… Read more »
While the New Jersey poker community waits with bated breath, the new Amaya Gaming-led PokerStars seems to be taking their time in making their grand entrance into the Atlantic City online gaming and poker industry. In September following the completion of the sale of the #1 online poker site in the industry to Amaya Gaming,… Read more »
As we prepare to head into the final two months of 2014, Dan Colman is looking to make a sweep of the major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world – unless there is a repeat of a similar situation that occurred last year. On the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year… Read more »
Once again, sports betting in New Jersey will have to wait as the curiously short-sighted American sports leagues get to take their ball and go home. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp issued a temporary restraining order, halting the start of a sports wagering regime in the Garden State, at least for now.… Read more »
After having one of the most restrictive online gaming and poker laws in the United States on the books for years, commentary has suddenly exploded as several figures try to make a change in said law. According to MYNorthwest.com writer Josh Kerns, Seattle radio station KIRO-FM host Dori Monson called out the Washington state government… Read more »
After tabulation of the votes from the living members of the organization and a select list of poker journalists, poker professional Daniel Negreanu and longtime poker fixture Jack McClelland are the two men who will comprise the class for the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame. Negreanu and McClelland will become the 47th and 48th members… Read more »
On Thursday, October 16th, Pennsylvania State Representative Mike Sturla introduced House Resolution 1095 into the Pennsylvania General Assembly, a bill which encourages the United States Congress to not give in to Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson and his cronies who want to make sure Americans cannot play poker online. United States Senator Lindsey Graham… Read more »
When Full Tilt Poker removed the likenesses of Gus Hansen and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom from its website, people started gossiping that something was up. It was. The two high stakes poker pros are no longer sponsored by the site. In a statement released to multiple media outlets, Full Tilt confirmed the departure of Hansen and… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) wrapped up over the weekend with Scott Davies taking the Main Event bracelet and Mike Leah capturing the High Roller crown. One side story, though, garnered interest in the last days of the WSOP APAC: the race for the WSOP Player of the Year (POY)… Read more »
Although two men came to the table on Saturday afternoon with a shot at becoming only the second two-time winner in European Poker Tour history, Sebastian Pauli denied both of them – including runner-up Kevin MacPhee – en route to taking down the EPT London at the Grand Connaught Rooms in the United Kingdom. Pauli… Read more »
After a heads-up battle that lasted longer than the four eliminations leading to it, the United States’ Scott Davies outlasted the United Kingdom’s Jack Salter to take home the Championship Event bracelet at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) Saturday night (early morning U. S. time) at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia.… Read more »
In what turned out to be an extremely rapid final table, Canada’s Mike Leah rode a chip lead that he took two days to create in dominating the final six players en route to winning his first bracelet in the $25,000 High Rollers event at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC). Coming to the… Read more »
The close of the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) is upon us with two tournaments set to close over the next couple of days. Up first will be the $25,000 High Roller event on Friday and the festivities Down Under will conclude with the crowning of the $10,000 Main Event champion. $10,000 Championship… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event turned the corner Wednesday as the money bubble burst and the tournament played down to the final 18 players. It almost got down to the desired 16, but the plan was to play to either that number or six 90-minute levels, and the… Read more »
Tuesday saw Day 2 come and go at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event as the survivors from the two opening flights came together in a unified field for the first time. A total of 182 players came over from Days 1A and 1B, while five more players registered… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) AU$10,000 Main Event got going this weekend in Australia as two waves of players started their quest for the final bracelet of the Series (wait, wait…before you say that the High Roller Event is still to be played, I will counter with the fact that… Read more »
Battling through arguably the most difficult final table to date at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC), Germany’s George Danzer captured his third bracelet of the overall WSOP and took over the lead in the WSOP Player of the Year race. Although only 48 players put their money on the line in Event… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) is creeping closer to its $10,000 Championship Event, but there’s still a bit of work with the preliminary events left to wrap up. One of those tournaments on Saturday (Friday in the U. S.) was Event #7, the $2000 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em tournament, which saw its… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP-APAC) has blown by the halfway point of the festival, awarding two more WSOP bracelets over the past couple of days to very worthy champions. Event #5 – $5000 Pot Limit Omaha After coming to the final table with a huge chip lead (his 667,000 in chips was… Read more »
