Online poker news
Over the weekend, the world's largest online poker site, PokerStars, generated the biggest field ever for its weekly Sunday Million. The $215 buy-in industry staple saw a whopping 19,377 players compete. Read more »
Online site PartyPoker made some changes to its play money policies during the past week. The site, which has been in the news with the signing of professional players Kara Scott and Tony G and its purchase of the World Poker Tour, is now putting a clamp down on the dishonest actions taking place at its play money tables. Read more »
A total of 1,307 players took part in the $1,050 buy-in Main Event of the fourth Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC). At the end of Sunday's tournament, Dave " DOUBLEDAVE22 " D'Alesandro took down the title and its corresponding $279,000 payday. Read more »
The move from the Boss Media Network to the iPoker Network is almost complete for the small online poker room King Solomons Poker. The site recently announced that players with accounts on its old Boss Media IPN site will no longer have access to the Boss Media-powered tables as of February 1st. Read more »
The world's largest online poker site is giving away tickets to the world's premier football game, Super Bowl XLIV. On Sunday, two pairs of tickets to the "Big Game" in Miami will be up for grabs on PokerStars. Read more »
Event #16 of the ongoing Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) played out on Friday, with 206 entrants turning out for a $530 Pot Limit Hold'em Six-Max event. When the smoke cleared, UB.com member TORREY5 banked $27,000 for the win. Read more »
The outpouring of support to the millions of people affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti continues, as online poker room Mansion Poker is the latest site organizing an event to raise money for the cause. Read more »
After nearly 32,000 hands in the Tom "durrrr" Dwan Million Dollar Challenge, the youngster leads rival Patrik Antonius by well over $1 million. Dwan ended the latest session up $199,000 after a quick 892-hand encounter. Let's take a look at a few recent hands during January's play. Read more »
ne thing PartyPoker has done extremely well in its history is provide some of the best promotions for its customers. With its popular Cash Machine set to end on January 31st, PartyPoker had to come up with another promotion that would continue to capture the interest of its players. Read more »
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 »
