Gossip, twitter, etc.
Over the weekend, the Bay 101 Shooting Star World Poker Tour event came to a close with Phil Hellmuth primed to take down his first ever WPT title. Doyle Brunson was firmly in the corner of the UB.com sponsored pro, tweeting, "go Phil...show the boys some "old school" poker!" Read more »
Whether across the Atlantic taking part in the European Poker Tour (EPT) stop in Berlin or the National Heads Up Poker Championship in Las Vegas, there was action not only on the felt, but also away from the tables. Read more »
Five-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Dennis Rodman has officially signed with Only Poker. An anonymous employee of the site confirmed the news to Poker News Daily and Rodman now appears on Only Poker's website. Read more »
While the poker world watched yesterday's championship game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints, as the weekend began, a championship was celebrated and East Coast residents prepared for another huge winter storm. Read more »
Ten-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Doyle Brunson will likely bow out of the star-studded PartyPoker Premier League IV, according to his blog. Brunson cites the fallout from dental surgery as the cause and may be sidelined until May. Read more »
The Cake Poker Network site Only Poker may sign former five-time NBA champion Dennis Rodman. Rumors abound that the announcement of the NBA bad boy joining the site will be made in two weeks. Read more »
It's that time of the week again. The time where Poker News Daily scours the Web and no Twitter feed goes unread as we search for all the juiciest gossip, tournament updates, and all-around nonsense we can find in order to bring you the latest Poker in Twitter update. 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
