Online poker news
Like father, like daughter. Doyle Brunson's daughter, Pam Brunson, will manage the Brunson 10, according to officials from DoylesRoom. The stable of up-and-coming poker pros numbers four, with six men and two women yet to be named. Read more »
Although most online poker players use Windows PCs, there has been a growing swell of players using Apple Mac computers like MacBook Pros and iMacs. The Mac-centric poker niche is growing, with four major sites having native software clients: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, UB.com, and Absolute Poker. Read more »
One day prior to Super Bowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints, officials from Victory Poker will celebrate the site's launch at a party at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas. The online poker room will open for business on February 1st. Read more »
The online poker community has raised $1.5 million for victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti earlier this month, according to a press release distributed by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). Read more »
This weekend saw many players tweeting about the tournaments they were in, which included the UBOC, the LAPC and the EPT Deauville. Other popular topics this week were football as well as new houses, tattoos by Kat von D, and a river card made to measure for Eric Mizrachi. Read more »
In the online poker world, having a room named after you is perhaps the most notable sign that you have made your mark in the industry. Today the Cake Poker Network announced the latest addition to that roster of poker player online rooms. Read more »
The $2,600 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Six-Max tournament (Event #8) held as part of the ongoing Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) featured a $1.57 million prize pool, the largest in the 10-year history of UB.com. Read more »
It feels like online poker news has been dominated by the changes at Full Tilt Poker. With the addition of the new game Rush Poker and implementation of a new buy-in structure at standard tables, most players are cheering the changes at Full Tilt. Read more »
It took the poker software industry all of one week to support Full Tilt Poker's latest update that featured the introduction of Rush Poker. Now, the popular tracking program Holdem Manager has created a workaround for the new addition. Read more »
The online poker room Poker Fantasy will be moving to the Merge Gaming Network on January 31st, according to an e-mail received by Poker News Daily last week. As a result, the site will likely be unavailable for two weeks while it updates its software. Read more »
The fourth Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) rolled on after kicking off on Wednesday. Four online poker tournaments have been played so far, with two more set to pan out on Saturday on the virtual felts of UB.com. Read more »
The Everleaf Gaming Network and Universal Poker Network (UPN) have combined forces to form a larger network that will attempt to attract more players. The new network, yet to be named, was officially formed on January 19th and will also be adding Victory Poker to the system on February 1st, according to Victory Poker officials. Read more »
Awards in the poker world can range from plaques to large trophies to even the head of an alligator (the World Series of Poker Circuit's Bayou Poker Classic trophy is the stuffed head of such an animal). One of the most cherished mementos of victory in poker is, of course, the WSOP bracelet that is awarded to each winner of an event in Las Vegas. For one of the most prized trophies in poker to appear for sale is almost unheard of. Read more »
The kickoff event of the fourth Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) saw recent PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) runner-up Ty "KEEFKING420" Reiman take down the $320 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Sniper contest for $65,000. Read more »
Continuing to add to an already impressive lineup, it was announced early Thursday that top poker professional Antanas "Tony G" Guoga has signed a sponsorship deal with PartyPoker. Guoga, who has been at the forefront of the international poker scene for the past decade, will make his first showing for Team PartyPoker at the Aussie Millions, which began today and is one of the top international tournaments on the tournament poker schedule. Read more »
"Online poker on steroids." That's how one TwoPlusTwo poster described Rush Poker, the newest spectacle introduced by Full Tilt Poker that has action junkies drooling over a fast-paced format we've never seen before. Read more »
This week, members of the online poker community wishing to donate to victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti last week can take advantage of several tournaments being held across cyberspace. Read more »
As the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV draws closer, the field of 12 continues to take shape. On Tuesday, PartyPoker.com announced that poker's newest bad boy, Luke "FullFlush" Schwartz, has been confirmed as the fifth player for the February contest. Read more »
At most online sites, the hands in a ring game are dealt at nearly twice the speed of what would occur during a live session. This isn't quick enough for some players, who prefer playing at multiple tables to earn more money for their bankroll and satisfy their desire for action. A new innovation at Full Tilt Poker has responded to the call for faster play on the virtual felt. Read more »
Last Thursday, David "Doc Sands" Sands, currently the number one ranked player on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, put a call out to his fellow tournament players on the PocketFives forum to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Read more »
From January 25th to 31st, Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest site, is doubling the prize pools of its guaranteed tournaments. A total of $25 million will be on the line throughout the week, leading up to a special $1.5 million purse for the site's marquee $750,000 Guaranteed on Sunday. Read more »
On Thursday, one of the top online poker networks in the industry, Microgaming, announced its intentions to eliminate datamining on its family of sites. Read more »
The tragic earthquake that rocked the island country of Haiti a few days ago has grabbed the attention of the entire world and the poker community is no exception. In the wake of the natural disaster, a number of poker players have reached out to help the millions of people affected by the quake. Read more »
Online poker site RealDealPoker.com is planning to provide private high-stakes cash tables for mysterious Scandinavian phenom "Isildur1." The site, set to launch in March 2010, will be the first and only poker site that will use a Cut N' Shuffle system rather than a Random Number Generator (RNG) to deal its cards Read more »
The DoylesRoom Brunson 10 saw its stable of five pros shrink to four this week, as Alec "traheho" Torelli parted ways with the USA-friendly online poker site to pursue "another project," according to a press release obtained by Poker News Daily on Friday. Read more »
