Poker Tournament News
For the first time in the tournament's seven year history, the 2009 World Poker Tour Invitational - which caps off the month long L. A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino on February 28th - will feature rebuys for the invite-only tournament that will entirely go to charity. Read more »
Early on Monday morning, after battling through what was the largest one flight field in the history of the organization, a soon to be unemployed factory worker from Arkansas captured the first championship of the 2009 season for the Heartland Poker Tour at the Downstream Casino in Quapaw, OK. Read more »
A perennial Super Bowl advertiser, GoDaddy.com will bring its brand name to the felts of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship as its presenting sponsor. The tournament, which is entering its fifth season, runs from March 6th through March 8th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Read more »
Guaranteed tournaments are one of the best values in tournament poker. Regardless of how many players enter the event, these tournaments normally will offer either a large prize pool or an excellent overlay. Read more »
The $3,000 buy-in Main Event of the 2009 Borgata Winter Open recently concluded and emerging victorious from the pack of 1,017 entrants was poker pro Steve Weinstein, who goes by the screen name thorladen online. Weinstein is also a world-renowned bridge player. Read more »
The $2,700 Main Event of the Asian Poker Tour's (APT) Philippines stop wrapped up on Sunday from the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila. A total of 262 players representing 40 countries descended upon the bustling Asian city and local pro Neil Arce took home $185,000 for the win. Read more »
In November, the first installment of Dream Team Poker kicked off from the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. At the end of the day, Team Bluff walked away as the winners. Dream Team Poker organizers wasted no time in announcing a second running of the unique tournament. This time, the action heads to the Las Vegas Strip at Caesars Palace. Read more »
The 2009 Deep Stack Extravaganza begins on Monday, February 2nd from the Las Vegas Strip hotel. The action will culminate exactly three weeks later with a $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Main Event that will attract some of the top poker pros that Sin City has to offer. Read more »
Many people around the world are preparing for the festivities that surround the World Championship of American football with Super Bowl XLIII, being held in Tampa, FL, this Sunday. Read more »
Australian Stewart Scott outlasted a talented field of 681 players to take down the Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event title and its AUD $2 million top prize on Saturday. The event, held at Melbourne's Crown Casino, attracted many of the world's biggest names in poker, but it was the amateur that brought the title back home to Australia. Read more »
There was $141,426 on the line in the inagural PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Vina del Mar event, held in Chile. In the end, Fabian Ortiz became the first Latin American champion in LAPT history. Read more »
UltimateBet.com wrapped up its 10-day UBOC series Sunday with the Championship event, a $1,050 buy-in No Limit Hold'em tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million. Read more »
After a two week run that has seen over one million dollars in cash handed out to its players, Ultimate Bet will wrap up the Third Annual Ultimate Bet Online Championships with a battle for the $1 Million Guaranteed Championship starting this Sunday. Read more »
One events that has grown in numbers as well as prestige at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) over the past few years has been the Ladies' No Limit Hold'em Championship. Since 2005, when Jennifer Tilly captured the title against 600 other players, the tournament has doubled in size and routinely drawn well over 1,000 players for each event in succeeding years. Read more »
A record-setting 1,347 players entered the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), the largest field ever assembled for a live poker tournament held outside of Las Vegas. At the end of the day, Canadian poker player Poorya Nazari grabbed $3 million and the title of PCA Champion. Read more »
Online poker room Ultimate Bet has started the New Year off on the right foot, sponsoring the fifth annual Merage Jewish Community Center's (JCC) No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament. The event, which takes place this Sunday, January 11th, will benefit the Merage JCC Scholarships and Children's Programs. Read more »
In 2004, there were 221 entrants into the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). At the time, the World Poker Tour sanctioned event was held on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas. In 2009, a whopping 1,347 runners hit the felts in The Bahamas, creating the largest live poker tournament held outside of Las Vegas. Read more »
The second of two starting days at the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) concluded on Tuesday and leading the field was online poker pro David "Bakes" Baker, who held 740,000 chips. Sitting just behind Baker was PokerStars player Simon Muñoz Marin, who held 485,000. Read more »
There were 255 players in the 2009 PartyPoker Irish Poker Championship, which was held recently at the Radisson SAS Hotel in Galway. At the end of the day, Dublin native Rory Rees Brennan collected €160,000 for winning the tournament, which boasted a €2,000 buy-in. Read more »
Former Baywatch television star Pamela Anderson is rumored to be taking another dip into the poker scene later this month. Several sources are reporting that the sex symbol will be participating in the Aussie Millions Poker Championship, which kicks off on January 9th. Read more »
The PartyPoker Irish Poker Championship (IPC) will kick off on January 2nd from the Radisson SAS Hotel in Galway, Ireland. On top of the intense play at the tables, event organizers have also added a "Main Event" of different sorts this time around in the form of a singing contest. Read more »
In the age of social networking and blogging, one company has taken the lead in the industry: Twitter. Looking to capitalize on the trend is the Twitter Poker Tour, which hosts micro buy-in tournaments on both PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Read more »
The finale of the Poker Million was played out last week in London and, needless to say, the Irish dominated. In fact, natives of the country went 1-2-3-4 in the event, with Boyle Poker pro Marty Smyth taking home $1 million for the win. Read more »
On Friday, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas will play host to The Poker Jingle, a charity poker tournament to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS). The event is hosted by 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Tom McEvoy. Read more »
Annette Obrestad, known as Annette_15 on the online poker felts, came out on top of more than 200 players to win Ultimate Bet's second edition of the $100,000 Guaranteed tourney. Read more »
