Tom Jenkins

Sunday marks the final day of the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is being housed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Eight players remain including last year’s runner-up, Erik Seidel. The eight-time bracelet winner fell to Annie Duke in the best-of-three finale in 2010 and now has his sights set on revenge. After getting…

The bracket is set in the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, whose pairings were determined last night at a drawing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Recent World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic final tablist Carlos Mortensen was a late addition to the field and will face off against heralded young gun Sam Trickett…

In breaking news from California, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has pulled its branding from this weekend’s event at the Bicycle Casino. A representative of the world’s largest online poker site posted on TwoPlusTwo earlier today, “The North American Poker Tour L.A. event scheduled for March 5th to 12th at the Bicycle Casino…

On Sunday night, the finale of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event aired on ESPN2. The two-hour broadcast featuring commentary from Norman Chad and Lon McEachern hit television airwaves at 10:00pm ET and began with a final table of nine. For the first time, four Americans made the finale. Ronald Lee…

Federated Sports and Gaming has announced the schedule for its first season. The league, which features former UB.com pro Annie Duke as its Commissioner, will hold four preliminary tournaments along with a high-stakes $20,000 buy-in, rake-free Main Event. Yes, rake-free. The tournaments will run during the last four months of the year, with the Championship…

Ten days ago, a lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California numbered VC057998. The litigation pits poker players Eli Strickland and Edwin Pairavi against the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles over what the Plaintiffs claim is a “classic bait and switch.” The suit surrounds a $200,000 guaranteed poker tournament held…

How do you celebrate a $2.3 million cash windfall? Buy an island? Burn a couch? Dance a jig? For 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event winner Galen Hall, a party at a swank San Francisco hotel and a trip for 20 friends on a party bus were just what the doctor ordered, according to…

On Monday, a Tweet from poker pro Kathy Liebert hinted at changes from PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site: “I heard that PokerStars was cutting many of their Team Pros’ compensation. Take it or leave it. Greg Raymer left it.” She followed up her rumor by asserting, “I think it’s a bad business decision…

On Friday, the poker world learned that DoylesRoom, which had made its home on the Cake Poker Network for the last two years, would be jumping ship immediately to the Yatahay Poker Network. The latter features sites like BetCRIS and True Poker and is the 38th largest worldwide in terms of real money ring game…

This week, “The Showdown” with Jon Friedberg welcomes recent Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday winner Shaun Deeb. The top-tier poker pro sits at #44 worldwide in the PocketFives.com Rankings and has maintained his place atop the industry for the past five years. Check out Part 1 and Part 2. Friedberg began the show by discussing…

Kicking off on Full Tilt Poker on February 6th is the 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS. The quarterly tournament extravaganza boasts a slate of 45 events this time around and features not one, not two, not three, but nine multi-entry tournaments. Multi-entry tournaments were introduced as part of Full…

The cast for the 22nd cycle of the hit CBS reality series “Survivor” was announced on Monday and, to the surprise of some, was void of poker players. A thread on TwoPlusTwo before the announcement claimed that a poker player could be part of the upcoming season’s installment, but the rumors turned out to be…

Last year, a field of 1,529 players turned out to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) for its signature Main Event, a $10,000 buy-in poker tournament at the Atlantis Hotel and Casino in the Bahamas. This year, a field of 647 poker hopefuls turned out for Day 1A of the Main Event on Saturday, with a…

A marathon 2,918-hand session took place late Monday night in the Durrrr Challenge. The ongoing promotion on Full Tilt Poker between site pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “JungleMan12” Cates is now one-third of the way through at 17,108 hands and Cates has built an $819,000 lead. The largest hand in the second round of…

It’s been a busy day for all of us in the online poker community. Just hours after Annie Duke announced her exit from UB.com to pursue non-poker business interests, site icon Phil Hellmuth departed as well. A statement posted on UB.com reveals that the two sides “mutually parted ways.” Hellmuth was recently seen on ESPN’s…

More exposure of UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth is just what the poker world needs. In recent days, Hellmuth potentially dropped a bombshell by Tweeting 23 simple words: “OMG! Phil Hellmuth (me!) on ‘Dancing with the Stars!’ Outrageous! Might make a fool out of myself on worldwide television one more time.” ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars”…

Former cricket star Shane Warne has taken his competitive edge to the poker felts recently and is a sponsored pro of 888. He was the life of the party during this year’s World Series of Poker and sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his newfound passion. Poker News Daily: Thanks for joining us.…

Over the weekend, 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up John Racener received his third DUI, according to the St. Petersburg Times newspaper. Early Saturday morning, law enforcement officials stopped Racener at West Azeele Street and South Westland Avenue. According to the Times, “He refused blood-alcohol testing and was booked into the Hillsborough…

The popular poker training site CardRunners is turning five years old. Given the major milestone, CardRunners is giving new members $100 off and dishing out some of the holiday season’s hottest electronic items. Poker players who sign up for CardRunners between December 6th and 12th will see their $100 signup fee waived in honor of…