For the consecutive third year, Tournament Director Matt Savage will supervise the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic, which is slated for October 3rd through 10th from the luxurious island nation. Read more »
Four players now comprise each team that will battle in September in the Caesars Cup as part of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe festivities. Recently, team captains Daniel Negreanu and Annette Obrestad each made two more selections. Read more »
As part of an agreement forged between World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) and Gamynia Limited earlier this month, WPTE officials may be subject to a $1 million penalty should the company call off the sale. Read more »
PokerStars Pros have been busted from the European Poker Tour Kiev; they did the best they could but their cards did not hold up on tight situations and they were sent to the rail. There are sixty eight players remaining after 12 levels of play. Tomorrow will be day number three at the event and… Read more »
It’s normal to see some of the big names in poker battling at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker. There are hundreds of railbirds that love to see all the aggression that goes on at FTP when names like Phil Ivey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Gus Hansen and Brian Hastings spend 12-hour-plus sessions in… Read more »
This article had to be withdrawn: unfortunately the ratings information we received and reported initially was inaccurate. The new version with the correct ratings can be now found as ESPN WSOP Main Event Ratings Even with 2008. Poker News Daily apologizes for any inconvenience. Read more »
The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event kicked off on cable station ESPN on Tuesday night. Late Wednesday, ratings released for the two-hour program were even with 2008 figures. Read more »
Playing poker with some of the world’s best players is a dream come true, and only a few players get to do it in their lifetime. Ultimate Bet wants to give all its players a chance to fulfill that dream by winning a seat in the Absolute Poker Sports Legends Challenge. Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker players… Read more »
PokerStars has announced that they will team up with Fox Sports for a national network broadcast of a heads up poker program that is called the "PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge." Read more »
The competition among poker rooms is fierce: all the poker rooms come up with different types of promotions to bring in new players, and while some promotions catch players’ attentions and position the poker room on the spot light for a few weeks, others come and go unnoticed. Cake Poker did put a lot of… Read more »
Party Poker had many satellite events that awarded seats to the 2009 Asian Poker Tour main event. Day 1A started with 133 players from all over the world and eleven of those earned their seat through a Party Poker satellite event. Some of the first Party Poker players to bust out of the main event… Read more »
A hearing scheduled for Friday to address Account Services' motion for the return of property, namely $14 million seized by the Southern District of New York, has been cancelled. The future of the case is now in jeopardy. Read more »
Titan Poker will be giving out seats to the Poker Cup Australia that will start on September 27th through October 5th, 2009. The event will be hosted at the Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex in Melbourne. It is considered the most popular casino in Australia. The Crown Casino is the largest in the southern hemisphere.… Read more »
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has been the largest tournament series online since its inception in 2002. The first main event raised a prize pool of $238,000 and the eventual winner took home $65,450. Over the years the WCOOP has grown exponentially with online Poker, and this year’s Main Event has a $10… Read more »
In breaking news from Wall Street, it was revealed that World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) has received an "alternative acquisition proposal." On August 3rd, it entered into an agreement with Gamynia Limited in a deal that was to be finalized during the fourth quarter. Read more »
PokerStars announced a new TV show that will put the Full Tilt Poker show Face the Ace on a tight spot. PokerStars has been in a battle with Full Tilt Poker for some time now, in the past month Full Tilt Poker announced their “Biggest Bonus Ever” promotion and a few days after PokerStars crushed… Read more »
Poker players that enjoy playing at live events know that when Matt Savage is the tournament director, the tournament is guaranteed to be an excellent event; things run smoothly and fairly when Matt Savage is involved. He has worked for the some of the major televised live tournaments around the globe like the WSOP, the… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is known for having some of the best action online at the high stakes table limits. Names that are commonly seen at the nosebleed tables are Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, David Benyamine, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Richard Ashby and many more. Railbirds around the world have commented since the beginning of… Read more »
Ultimate Bet's Phil Hellmuth is once again doing his part in giving back to the families of police officers that have lost their lives in the line of duty. The 11-time bracelet winner is teaming up with the Taser Foundation for Fallen Officers to host the 5th annual Hold'em For Heroes Celebrity Tournament November 19-21 at Fort McDowell Casino in Arizona. Read more »
Day 1B plays out at the EPT Kyev and PokerStars Pro Dario Minieri was sent to the rail, he was holding around 50 thousand chips and was running well but he made a risky move. There are three PokerStars Pros in the remaining 139 player field, the tournament is currently on level five and the… Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you get your start in poker? Fricke: Back in the day, it was basically out of necessity. Some friends of mine told me that they were going to be playing Magic a lot less and were going to be focusing on poker. I didn't want to lose them, so I started going into poker with them. Read more »
This week, "Inside Deal," which airs on ESPN.com, welcomes Team PokerStars Pro member Barry Greenstein. "Inside Deal" is hosted by Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Bernard Lee and "ESPN: The Magazine" contributor Laura Lane. Read more »
After much conjecture and rumor in the poker world, it was announced on Tuesday that Harrah's Entertainment, the owners of the World Series of Poker, and cable sports monolith ESPN have officially extended their broadcast partnership of the most prestigious event in poker through 2018. Read more »
The signing of quarterback Brett Favre by the Minnesota Vikings delayed the premiere of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) by 20 minutes on Tuesday night, with action from Day 1A and Day 1B taking center stage. Read more »
Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet guarantee $230K in tournaments tomorrow, so work on your weaknesses and get ready for the weekend by entering some of the biggest tournaments offered online at Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet this week. The biggest No Limit Hold’em tournament on Wednesday night will be hosted at the Cereus Network, a… Read more »
