Patrick Antonius had two rough days at the Full Tilt Poker tables on August 11th and 12th when he lost more than $1million, but his EV switched to the positive side and he managed to earn $590K yesterday. This happened just before his turn to host the FTOPS event #22 tomorrow. The event will have… Read more »
Continuing a trend that has been prevalent since the beginning of the current calendar year, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission reported that casino revenues were down once again for the month of July. Read more »
There are 267,000 cards still up for grabs as part of the PartyPoker Card Rush Instant Win promotion. It sounds like a promotion associated with scratch-off lottery tickets, but PartyPoker has put a unique spin on instant win games. Read more »
This week, former Bluff Magazine Editor-in-Chief Matt Parvis transitioned to the same role with PokerNews. Former Bluff Magazine Online Editor Lance Bradley will now assume the role of Editor-in-Chief at Bluff Magazine. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is not among the biggest poker rooms because of its traffic, it is also one of the top poker rooms for promotions. This weekend Full Tilt Poker will have some of the biggest online tournaments with prize pools in the millions of dollars. To warm-up the weekend, on Friday August 14, 2009… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has one of the largest team of pro poker players, with names like Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonius, Erik Seidel, Mike Matusow, Allen Cunningham and many more composing their Red Pro Team. The FTOPS events have seen tons of action from the Red Pros, which have had a great performance at the FTOPS… Read more »
David "Dragon" Pham is one of the fiercest tournament players the United States has ever seen, but he almost didn't make it. Born in South Vietnam in 1967, Pham fled to the US at the age of 17 aboard a boat with 145 passengers; only 46 people would survive that voyage, and fortunately, David Pham was one of them. When he arrived in the States, Pham briefly worked for his cousin's laundry business, but since his cousin was Men "The Master" Nguyen, he soon shifted his focus to poker. Read more »
Titan Poker could be called the most important poker room in the iPoker Network, they currently rank as the third biggest network in traffic. Their average is 5,500 players at their poker room at all times. Titan Poker bonuses are one of the easiest poker bonuses to clear and their promotions are among the best… Read more »
With his runner up finish in the 2009 WSOP, Ivan Demidov may have cemented Russia's place among the best pokering nations of the world, but Vitaly Lunkin is providing some staunch support to even further that claim. Getting his start in strategic games such as backgammon and Renju, Lunkin was introduced to poker by a friend and his never looked back. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has recently been the platform for some crazy high stakes action. Most poker fans will remember that this year Tom “durrrr” Dwan was down $4 million dollars and he managed to get into the positive numbers a few months after. He has been running cold lately and has been on a losing… Read more »
Bodog Poker put out a list of top money earners for 2009, which is highly appreciated by all the poker fans and railbirds. This list gives recognition to the players who are running hot this year. First on the list is Team PokerStars Netherlands Pro Pieter De Korver, who has earned $3,275,389 in tournaments winnings… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has been hosting one of their major events during the year the FTOPS XIII which started on August 5th and will end this Sunday August 16th. But before such a big event comes to an end Full Tilt Poker will host the FTOPS Ante Up for Africa on Saturday August 15th at… Read more »
888, the parent company of Pacific Poker, reported Total Operating Income of $61 million during the second quarter of 2009, a 7% increase compared to the year's first quarter. However, it translated into a 12% dip year over year. Read more »
I just got back from two weeks at the World Series of Poker. It had the usual mix of high drama, low humor, insanity, and all the things you count on at the WSOP. More importantly, it had the wonderful opportunities to reconnect with friends from all over the poker world that I don't get to see often enough. Read more »
Liv Boeree, formerly an ambassador of Absolute Poker, has become a card-carrying member of Team Ultimate Bet (Team UB), officials of the Tokwiro-owned online poker rooms announced this week. Read more »
Some of the most popular tournaments at Absolute Poker are the tournaments hosted during the weekend. They have many guaranteed tournaments available, the big action stars on Saturday evening at 5:30pm ET with the $100K Guaranteed Deep Stack poker tournament. The buy-in for this tournament is $300 + $20 and all players will start with… Read more »
In conversations regarding who's had the most successful career at the World Series of Poker, it makes sense that Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan are usually first to be mentioned – after all, they lead the pack with 11, 11 and 10 bracelets, respectively. However, a few names down the list you'll find Layne Flack, who's also had an incredible amount of success at the WSOP, with six bracelets of his own. Read more »
Poker players have a large selection of poker rooms where they can play; they also have plenty of tournaments to choose from; some make a good return for their money but not all of them, since on some tournaments the player field is tougher than others. Now that the FTOPS are underway at FTP and… Read more »
Gavin Smith is a Canadian poker pro from Guelph, Ontario. At a young age, Gavin's father taught him cribbage and rummy, which no doubt later facilitated his interest in poker. After earning a bachelor's degree in economics, Smith got a job as a poker dealer, a position that would truly shape his future in the game. In 1998, after dealing for a year, and then running his own poker club for the year after that, Gavin Smith decided to take the plunge and play poker for a living. Read more »
Party Poker is known for having user friendly software but that’s not enough to keep all their players happy. Party Poker listens to their players and wants to fix all the issues that are affecting or irritating any of their players. For the reasons mentioned before, Party Poker released a new version of their software;… Read more »
The upcoming "Poker In The Park" festival, which will be held in London at Leicester Square on August 13th and 14th, will feature a charity poker tournament along with two days of discussion on some of the hot button issues in the poker world. Read more »
Chris Moneymaker, the proverbial face that launched thousands of internet poker players, is the American who won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event, taking home $2.5 million. "Money800," as he's known online, qualified through PokerStars by playing just a $39 satellite tournament and then subsequently outlasted 838 players to not only do the unthinkable – beat a field of experienced pros and veterans – but also to facilitate the unpredictable, popularizing poker to heights the game had never seen. Read more »
Nordic Gaming Group Ltd. (NGG), one of Europe's fastest growing online gaming companies, announced Tuesday that it has chosen Income Access affiliate marketing software to power its soon-to-be-launched affiliate programs. Read more »
Two PokerStars Pros have won the World Poker Open before: Humberto Brenes and Barry Greenstein. This tournament doesn’t have TV coverage, so it does not catch a lot of media buzz. This year 126 players started in the tournament and there is a fierce battle for the $192K prize which is not the only prize… Read more »
The FTOPS XIII events started at Full Tilt Poker on August the 5th and will end on August 16th. Traffic at Full Tilt Poker has increased since the FTOPS events started; clearly players like the big prize pools that the FTOPS offer them. For today August 12, 2009 the FTOPS events will be featuring event… Read more »
