Online poker news
If you need another reason to play on PokerStars, check out the site’s 13 Regional Championships of Online Poker, or RCOOPs. Announced this week, 13 RCOOP series will run on the world’s largest online poker site and offer up over $7 million in total guaranteed prize money. The site already hosts its annual Spring Championship… Read more »
Two top up and coming poker professionals, 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe bracelet winner Scott Shelley and noted billiards/poker pro Toni Judet, have recently signed sponsorship deals with two of the top online poker sites in the industry. The signing of Judet, who hails from Bucharest, Romania, to the Team PokerStars Pro roster… Read more »
Starting this week, online poker room UB.com is holding a special series of freerolls featuring a spectacular grand prize: a $12,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic package. The road to the Five Diamond Classic consists of three rounds, none of which requires a single penny to be spent. Round… Read more »
HighStakesDB.com released its biggest winners and losers report for 2010 late last week, and the online tracking site revealed that Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “jungleman12” Cates are the biggest earners at Full Tilt Poker’s nosebleed cash games. The two rising stars, who are currently facing off against one another in the second edition of… Read more »
The game went live almost a month ago, but PartyPoker just made it official with a press release this week: Double Hold’em has landed. The new poker variety is available at both real and play money tables and should prove to be a fun change of pace for even the most devoted Texas Hold’em players.… Read more »
According to an e-mail sent to Black Card members, Full Tilt Poker is searching for Beta testers for Rush Poker Mobile. The application, which is available for Android-powered phones, features both real money and play money Rush Poker tables. Supported phones include the Acer Liquid Stream S110, HTC Desire, HTC Droid Incredible, HTC Evo 4G,… Read more »
The latest addition to the USA-friendly Cake Poker Network is Poker King, managed by SunGame. The latter company is an Asian-facing internet gambling outfit that “provides a variety of online gaming experiences such as online live dealer, sports book, keno, slots, finance bets, and more of the hottest games,” according to a press release sent… Read more »
Russian poker player Maxim Lykov is the newest member of Team PokerStars Pro. Officials from the world’s largest online poker site announced Lykov’s membership on Friday, noting that it took just two deposits of $40 for the Russian to become a global poker superstar. Lykov got his start in poker five years ago as an… Read more »
If only for a few minutes, the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge returned on Monday night. A brief 258-hand session was played over the course of 20 minutes, with Dwan cutting into the lead of Dan “JungleMan12” Cates by $31,000. Dwan and Cates have now played 7,660 hands of the 50,000 required for completion and… Read more »
After taking an oh-fer in the action in London over the past few weeks, Tom “durrrr” Dwan made up for it by hitting the cash game tables earlier this week. According to HighStakesDB.com, Dwan hit the tables against Power Poker front man Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on Sunday night at Full Tilt Poker. The duo were… Read more »
Online gambling site Bodog announced this week that it has signed an advertising deal with the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer (MLS). The agreement gives Bodog.net additional exposure through ad placements on all LED field boards at the Home Depot Center, LA Galaxy’s stadium, plus corner section banners, branding displayed on in-stadium TVs, and… Read more »
The nice thing about online poker is that you can play cards from anywhere. Rain or shine, hot or cold, weekend or weekday, it makes no difference as long as you have a reliable internet connection. But sometimes it’s fun to pack a suitcase and travel somewhere with natural sunlight, even if it is just… Read more »
On November 10th, the 18th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS, will kick off on the world’s second largest site. Once again, Full Tilt Poker will host 34 FTOPS tournaments, culminating in a $640 buy-in Main Event on November 21st that will shell out at least $3 million. All told, Full… Read more »
Forty-five players pocketed their share of $200,000 as Bodog hosted the $470 + $30 Main Event of the Bodog Poker Open V (BPO) on Sunday. With just 360 registered players, there was a $30,000 overlay, as a $200,000 prize pool was guaranteed by Bodog. Taking the top spot at the $50,000 first prize was Evansville,… Read more »
An article in the Sunday edition of the New York Times notes that the land-based casino industry, for quite some time a vehement opponent to legalized online gaming and poker, is beginning to warm to the idea. The article, written by Barry Meier, inaccurately points out that online gaming and poker are illegal (the Unlawful… Read more »
The Million Dollar Challenge between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “JungleMan12” Cates returned on Saturday following a month-long break for the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe. In the short 582-hand session, the fifth of the second incarnation of the Durrrr Challenge, Dwan cut into Cates’ lead by a scant $1,400. The last action prior… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker, the world’s second-largest online poker room, unveiled a software update Thursday that includes a new bonus rewards system for its valued customers. The site introduced the Full Tilt Black Card, which hopes to compete with the Supernova Elite program of PokerStars and offers various benefits for high-volume players. All players who average… Read more »
The price of poker has gone up on the Merge Gaming Network site Carbon Poker. In recent weeks, $100/$200, $200/$400, and $300/$600 No Limit Texas Hold’em tables were added to the USA-friendly online poker room, with a new crop of players rising to meet the occasion. One Carbon Poker player that seems to be excelling… Read more »
Launching on the USA-friendly online poker site DoylesRoom is the all-new Doyles Rewards program. The loyalty program is already live for non-rakeback players and will be launching in the near future for those with rakeback. Ten-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Doyle Brunson fronts the room, which makes its home on the Cake… Read more »
After a decision from the state’s Supreme Court regarding the legality of a law set in place four years ago, the top online site in the poker industry, PokerStars, has made the move to no longer accept cash players from the state of Washington. In an e-mail message sent to residents of the state of… Read more »
PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the industry, cracked an unofficial record last week for the most players in action simultaneously on cash game tables. According to PokerScout.com, PokerStars drew in an astounding 105,230 players to its cash game tables on September 22nd. This beat the previous unofficial record, also held by PokerStars, of… Read more »
On Monday, September 27th, online poker room UB.com announced that it will be sponsoring the tour bus of legendary metal band Anthrax during the rest of its United States tour in September and October. As many poker players know, this is not just a random sponsorship, as Team UB member Scott Ian is the front… Read more »
Tyson “POTTERPOKER” Marks is poker’s newest multi-millionaire after winning the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event early Tuesday morning. The $2,278,097 payday was the largest in the history of online poker, surpassing 2009 WCOOP Main Event winner Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko ($1,715,200). The $5,200 buy-in event with a $10 million guarantee got… Read more »
In October, PartyPoker will bring back one of its most popular promotions of all-time, the Card Rush XL. The promotion last ran in July and offers up 1.8 million prizes, including cash, freeroll entries, Party Points, and Card Rush XL Leaderboard Points. The Card Rush XL promotion will run throughout the entire month of October… Read more »
Last week, word broke that the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Texas Hold’em Poker on Facebook had launched a promotion to give players seats to the WPT Boot Camp. The promotion runs through Wednesday and Poker News Daily caught up with David McCaman, Senior Director of Marketing for Hands-On Entertainment, to break down the unique opportunity.… Read more »
