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Jennifer Harman has pledged to contribute 1% of her poker earnings to The NephCure Foundation, a charitable organization whose goal is to support research to fight two terrible kidney diseases, Nephrotic Syndrome and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis. Read more »
Lady Gaga's hit single "Poker Face" was nominated for five Grammys this year and took home two titles. "Poker Face" was a smashing success by all accounts, putting Lady Gaga on the proverbial map. The Grammys aired on Sunday night on CBS. Read more »
With all that was going on last weekend, it is a wonder that any poker was played at all. Poker players tweeted feverishly about a wide array of topics, from J.D. Salinger's death to the Grammys to brown rice to Big Mac wraps. Someone offered $10,000 for an iPad, Doyle Brunson could not find food good enough for his dog, and Joe Sebok plans to jump off a plane. Read more »
"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em." Thanks to Kenny Rogers and his hit song "The Gambler", those words will forever be ingrained in the game of poker. Read more »
This afternoon, rumors spread around the poker industry that Cake Poker, which had purchased T.J. Cloutier's 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, was planning to return the piece to its rightful owners. Poker News Daily can now confirm those rumblings. Read more »
The amazing adventures of T.J. Cloutier's World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet added a new chapter this week. As reported by Poker News Daily on Sunday, Cloutier pawned off his 2005 $5,000 No Limit Hold 'em WSOP bracelet and, in turn, the Plano Pawn Shop sold it on eBay for $4,006. Now, online site Cake Poker is suggesting that it purchased the item and has unspecified plans for it in the future. Read more »
If someone would have asked you who you thought would be a good person to appear on a national news program to discuss politics, we're guessing that UB.com's Tiffany Michelle would have been way down your list, if your list was that long. Read more »
Over the weekend, Phil Ivey placed second to Dan Shak in the $100,000 Challenge at the 2010 Aussie Millions Poker Championship at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. For his efforts, Ivey won $553,776 ($600,000 AUD), vaulting him into the top position on the all-time live tournament money list. Read more »
T.J. Cloutier's World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet sold for $4,006 on the popular online auction site eBay. The Plano Pawn Shop put up the bracelet, which Cloutier won in a $5,000 No Limit Hold'em event in 2005. Read more »
It is only five years old, but Poker Pro Magazine has already established itself in the poker world with a circulation in excess of 150,000 copies per month. The publication is already available in the U.S. and Canada, but the company is now offering a something special for its Canadian readership. Read more »
Recently, the popular poker tracking and analysis program Holdem Manager announced that it had added a free 30-day trial of Table Ninja to its suite of products. The change took effect on January 20th. Read more »
With 24 hours left in the bidding, the two championship bracelets that were won by T.J. Cloutier have begun to draw bidding attention on eBay. Read more »
It has been widely documented that longtime poker pro Doyle Brunson is quite the Twitter aficionado. Brunson, better known to his Tweeps as @TexDolly, typically utilizes his Twitter feed for updates on DoylesRoom, chatting with his celebrity friends, updating the world on his prop and sports betting, and providing the world with a seemingly endless stream of blonde jokes. Read more »
The online poker community is a young one, so it is no wonder that when Poker News Daily inquired about their thoughts on the Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien debate, they all came out on the side of "Coco." Read more »
Now that the poker community has returned from the Bahamas and are no longer racking up expensive roaming charges on their cell phones, they have been posting on the social networking website Twitter with a newfound dedication. In the past couple of days, players have been dropping Tweets about the Massachusetts Senate race, Biloxi and Australia prelims, their latest big scores and, of course, current events ranging from politics to television. Read more »
UB.com sponsored pro Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin has made a generous $200,000 donation to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater's baseball team. Baldwin helped guide the squad to a national championship in 2005. Read more »
This weekend, the New Orleans Saints will host the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:40pm ET on Sunday and the game will air on Fox. Among those in attendance will be 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon. Read more »
Harrison Gimbel was crowned the champion of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event in the Bahamas more than a week ago, but the event is still stirring up chatter due to an incident involving two of the game's high-stakes online players that occurred during a $5,000 side tournament. Read more »
The old poker adage "tight is right" may seemingly have gone the way of the Dodo, especially in the current online poker age of constant aggression. A recent study by a sociology student at Cornell University suggest that the adage, however quaint, may actually be correct. Read more »
According to figures released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, gaming revenues in Atlantic City dipped 13.2% during the 2009 calendar year compared to 2008. All told, area casinos raked in $3.9 billion. Read more »
Poker News Daily has been following the most interesting Tweets since last Friday, encompassing players' last impressions from the Bahamas, their last goodbyes to the late Amir Vahedi, the drives to raise funds for Haiti relief and some NFL quandaries. Read more »
Dover native Steven Gedney hit a record-shattering Bad Beat Jackpot at Caesars Atlantic City of $553,958 last Friday. The behemoth prize pool dwarfed the former largest jackpot of $361,244 and Gedney raked in $276,979 as a result of the beat. Read more »
For the first time since December 2007, Nevada casino "win" increased year over year. In November 2009, revenues grew 4.35%, snapping 22 consecutive months of falling win and perhaps signaling the start of a new streak. Read more »
Companies hurt by the downturn were retailers that sell supplies for private poker tournaments and home games. While business was booming prior to the downturn, many of the major retailers are encouraged by their 2010 prospects. Read more »
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the tiny nation of Haiti left the country in shambles and perhaps as many as 50,000 people may have perished. In response, the online poker world has come together to raise money for the natural disaster's victims. Read more »
