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In 2010, Tom Marchese claimed the CardPlayer Player of the Year honors, edging out Dwyte Pilgrim. At the time of writing, Marchese had garnered 6,738 Player of the Year Points and amassed more than $2 million in live tournament earnings during the 2010 calendar year. In 2009, UB.com pro Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin was CardPlayer’s Player… Read more »

Over a year has passed since the murder of the PokerListings founder Andreas Oscarsson, with no one charged for the killing and plenty of questions still unanswered. Poker News Daily reported on the story last year in which Oscarsson – with his young son beside him – was shot six times as he laid sleeping… Read more »

Earlier this month, iGaming Business (iGB) announced the official schedule of events for the 2011 London Affiliate Conference.  Like the installment, which drew over 2,200 people, the 2011 conference will be held at Old Billingsgate, located on the north bank of the Thames. Formerly called CAP Euro, the London Affiliate Conference will run from January… Read more »

A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s largest stages, Paul Zimbler played poker for over 72 consecutive hours, getting his name into the Guinness Book of World Records. This June, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak played $10/$20 Hold’em at the Bellagio for an amazing 115 straight hours, streaming his insanity online for… Read more »

The high-stakes cash games in Macau that featured many of poker’s biggest names have apparently wrapped up for the time being, and now questions are swirling around the final results. While a handful of media members and staff did their best to report from inside the Starworld Casino, the higher-ups made sure to keep most… Read more »

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Macau Festival wrapped up on Monday with 18 year old Zhang Dan Peng winning the Main Event for HKD $1.68 million (US $215,000). But the biggest story surrounding the series was the side action that developed after some of the big-name pros busted out of the tournament and created one… Read more »

Swedish online gaming operator Entraction Holding AB released its third quarter financial statements this week and showed a decline of 22.1% in net sales, including a massive drop in poker revenue. Poker room returns fell 33% to SEK (Swedish Krona) 46.9 million in the third quarter of 2010 from SEK 69.9 million in the same… Read more »

A new report from consulting firm Richard K. Miller and Associates (RKMA) revealed that gross gaming revenue in the U.S. totaled $80.5 billion in 2009. The company’s “Casinos, Gaming, and Wagering 2010” report provided in-depth analysis regarding the amount of money retained by casinos, racetracks, lotteries, and other gaming hosts. According to the report, approximately… Read more »

As part of his fan tour around the United States, Scotty Nguyen has announced that he will be making stops at two Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) events in November. The “Prince of Poker” will take part in the festivities at the Meskwaki Bingo Casino Hotel in Tama, Iowa from November 1st to 7th, followed by… Read more »

About a year ago, Britain’s Paul Zimbler played poker for over 72 consecutive hours at the World Series of Poker Europe, making his stamp on the Guinness Book of World Records. Then, this June, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak crushed Zimbler’s mark, playing $10/$20 Hold’em at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for 115 hours straight. Many… Read more »

The “Bernard Lee Poker Show,” which airs every Tuesday from 6:00pm ET to 7:00pm ET on 1120 AM in Boston, 970 AM in Worcester, and 1390 AM in Cape Cod, is dishing out $1,000 in cash and prizes. The occasion: celebrating the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine. The show is making it… Read more »

Prior to the start of this year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe, the industry gathered at the Kensington Close Hotel in London for the first annual British Poker Awards. On Monday evening, the best players in the British poker community received accolades for their achievements over the past year. The winners of the individual… Read more »

The online poker site Deliverance Poker has filed a complaint alleging breach of contract against 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Niner Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and his alleged new sponsor, Full Tilt Poker. The complaint, filed on September 7th in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Austin, is… Read more »

With the PartyPoker World Open VI in full swing in London, video cameras were not just trained on the tables. As the single-table heat format provides plenty of downtime for those waiting to play and those busting out early, there are ample opportunities to interview the competitors. On Monday, PartyPoker’s cameras caught up with Tom… Read more »

The International Poker Players Association (IPPA) will present a championship event later this year with the biggest buy-in the world has ever seen. The Monte Carlo IPPA Championship, scheduled for Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, will be a $250,000 buy-in No Limit Hold-em Shootout featuring a prize pool of $12 million, with the winner taking… Read more »

A bill, which is backed by one of the largest players in the online gaming industry, is up for a vote in the California General Assembly that would open up online betting on horse racing for the state’s residents. The proposed bill, named SB 1072 in the California legislature, would up the cut for the… Read more »

Even though Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius seem to be stuck at a standstill in the first Durrrr Challenge, the wait for the next challenge might only be a few days away. CardRunners instructor Daniel “jungleman12” Cates agreed to step up to the plate and face the 24-year-old Dwan, and the two could begin… Read more »

In figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board this week, state casinos pulled in revenue, or “win,” of $763.8 million in June, a drop of 6.65% year over year. It marks the largest drop in revenue compared to the same month the year before since October 2009, when win fell 11.56%. Revenues statewide in… Read more »

One of the first members of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Nine to make a splash following the final table being determined in July is Full Tilt Poker pro Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. Mizrachi signed on with Deepstacks Live to teach three courses over the next three months, largely in… Read more »

Fans of the popular poker training site CardRunners can rejoice. Now, CardRunners, one of the training industry’s leaders, has introduced a full-fledged affiliate program designed to grow its user base even further. No affiliate program had existed on the site for the past six months. CardRunners’ Lana Maier told Poker News Daily why she’s looking… Read more »

CardRunners, one of the top online poker training sites in the game today, announced yesterday the addition of top Norwegian Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) master Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen to their roster of poker talent, with his first video for the site set to debut today. Torbergsen, who will also step up to become a Full… Read more »

A life as a thief, a foray into professional boxing that aided his abilities outside the ring, and living the high life in casinos around the world… this isn’t the plot for the next James Bond film or a new television series coming this fall. It is the true life story of one of the… Read more »

Last month, word that a group in Austria dubbed the Magnificent Seven broke Phil Laak’s poker endurance record spread like wildfire through the industry. Purportedly, pent up in a hotel in Kufstein, the group played poker for a record 137 straight hours. Poker News Daily sat down with Magnificent Seven member Rudi Teichmann to discuss… Read more »

In the June 28th issue of Time Magazine, author Dan Kadlec chronicles the “Attack of the Math Brats.” Using a defining image of five young guns – including Jason Lee – reclining on a couch playing online poker on their laptops, Kadlec reviews how the age-old game has been uprooted in recent years. The four-page… Read more »