Recently, Poker News Daily brought you word that poker may be on its way to becoming the next Olympic sport. With top-tier players located around the world, poker has truly become an international phenomenon. However, the game all of us love lacks a central rule-making body similar to those found in golf and basketball. Read more »
Whether you like it or not, you will at some stage be forced into playing heads up poker. This even applies if you are sitting in a full-ring game with nine or even ten players: imagine you are in the hijack seat in a nine handed cash game and action has been folded around to you; you open raise with Qs-10s and action is then folded around to the big blind, who calls. Read more »
When it began just over six years ago, the World Poker Tour was the only game in town. Sure, the World Series of Poker was showing its usual mild growth, but it was a tournament schedule that didn't have any draw other than its traditional April-to-May run. 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 »
Poker players around the world can rejoice in knowing that the Full Tilt Online Poker Series, or FTOPS as it's commonly known, will return for an eleventh installment. The wait won't be long, either, as FTOPS XI debuts less than one month from now on February 4th. 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 »
The latest salvo has been fired in the ongoing case pitting poker professional Clonie Gowen against her alleged former employer, Full Tilt Poker. On January 6th, attorneys representing Tiltware, Inc. and the 13 fellow poker pros that Gowen brought her suit against filed a defendant motion for dismissal. 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 »
According to Michael Corfman, Executive Director of the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association (GPWA) and Chief Executive Officer of Casino City, the owners of Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP) are also the men behind CardSpike. Read more »
The recent news in December of Party Gaming co-founder Anurag Dikshit's plea bargain with the U.S. Department of Justice thrust the company back into the spotlight. Now, in a recent interview with Financial Times, new Chief Executive Officer Jim Ryan has announced his plans for returning the company to the lofty perch it once held. Read more »
The beginning of 2009 has been a busy one for fans of poker on television. Last Sunday, the seventh season of the World Poker Tour kicked off on Fox Sports Net. Recently, the fifth season of "Poker After Dark" began airing on NBC. Poker enthusiasts can mark their calendars for Monday, January 12th, the date of the first of seven new episodes of the Best Damn Poker Show. Read more »
According to the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper, Utah State Representative Sheryl Allen (R-Bountiful) is seeking to introduce House Resolution 1, which asserts that the decision whether or not to adopt gambling should belong solely to the states. While Utah has managed to stunt land-based forms of gambling, Allen told the Tribune, "Computers made it much easier to gamble." 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 »
Move over, Super Bowl. There's a new sheriff in town. On Sunday, February 1st, the first four of episodes of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event will air on ESPN at 6:00pm ET; there will be eight episodes in total. The Super Bowl, which is one of the world's most watched sporting events, kicks off at 6:30pm ET. Read more »
On Sunday night, the seventh season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) kicked off. Part one of Bellagio Cup IV aired, which featured a final table that included Mike Watson, David Benyamine, Luke Staudenmaier, Ralph Perry, John Phan, and Gabriel Thaler. Read more »
Spectrum Gaming Group, which authors the Gaming Industry Observer newsletter, recently identified the Top 21 Industry Trends for 2009. Among them is the continued fight for the legalization and regulation of online poker in the United States. Read more »
John Phan, affectionately named "The Razor" in the world of poker, was recently named Bluff Magazine's 2008 Player of the Year, with $2.1 million in earnings translating into 1,214.1 points according to its rating system. He edged out Michael Binger, who hauled in $1.1 million for 1,183.7 points. Read more »
Australian technology and poker aficionado Andrew Milner has designed an RFID-enabled poker table that could bring the excitement of televised poker to weekly home games. Milner spent three months building the poker table, which is outfitted with wireless RFID chips at the bottom of the table and on decks of cards. Read more »
Having only been a poker professional for three years now after starting to play the game in 2003 right at the beginning of the "poker boom," I was very fortunate to have been able to ride most of the meteoric rise that the game experienced from 2003 until 2006. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get started in poker? Fitzgerald: When I was 16 years-old, I saw some kids playing at my high school. I didn't know if a flush beat a straight when I first sat down. That day, I made $10 and was instantly addicted. I read every poker book that I could and played in every home game in Seattle. Read more »
NBC's Poker After Dark has become synonymous with high-stakes cash games and six-man tournaments featuring World Poker Tour winners, World Series of Poker bracelet holders, and industry staples. The show airs as late as 2:20am Eastern Time in some markets and is currently entering its fifth season. Read more »
The World Poker Tour's subscription-based online poker room, ClubWPT, recently awarded its two millionth dollar of prize money. It has been one of the staples in the industry since its launch by the World Poker Tour (WPT), a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Read more »
In threads that have ballooned on Poker Affiliate Program's website as well as TwoPlusTwo, numerous affiliates have reported issues with payments from CardSpike, a skin of the Cake Poker Network. Read more »
Automated poker tables may soon become a staple of Norwegian Cruise Lines. The company signed an agreement with the popular cruise line to install tables on the Norwegian Pearl for a 90 day test period. Read more »
Less than one week after being parting ways with the iPoker Network, NoiQPoker has joined the Entraction Network, whose flagship site is Devilfish Poker. Players will officially be moved from iPoker to Entraction by the end of January. NoiQPoker got its start back in 2006. Read more »
