The high stakes tables at Full Tilt have been getting some crazy action, and some bankrolls are taking big downswings. Players are finding time to play online even tough most of them are in Europe playing at the different events that started last week and will extend until next week. David “POKERBLUFFS” Eldar has had… Read more »
The last few days have been busy for all PokerStars pros as there are plenty of live tournaments going on in London and players have been quite busy representing their teams. At the WSOPE main event things have heated up and there are down to twelve extremely experienced players. The chip lead is currently held… Read more »
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, which verified the results, September 6th saw PokerStars defeat its own world record for most players hosted by an online poker room. On that day, during which the WCOOP was in full swing, PokerStars recorded 307,016 players. Read more »
Poker News Daily can confirm that Pitbull Poker, a small site on the Flash Poker Network, closed down on Wednesday, according to a high-placed source. Contrary to rumors, no arrests were made in Costa Rica. The future of player funds held on the site is up in the air. Read more »
The European Poker Tour London events kick off today with a high roller tournament that boasts an impressive list of players including PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Ashton Griffin. Day one of the high roller event looks quite promising for all the PokerStars pros since six of the first 15 positions… Read more »
Party Poker will be hosting the World Poker Open V which is an exclusive event that will have only forty eight players fighting for the $489K prize pool in front of TV cameras in London. The event will start on October 11th. The odds are out and one of the favorites to take down the… Read more »
Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte was blasted off into space to become the first clown and high stakes poker player to leave earth literally. He will be going to the international space station, his trip will last 12 days before returning to earth. Guy Laliberte was brought up on a middle-class family in Canada; he left… Read more »
The poker and the Las Vegas communities lost one of their own last week, when entrepreneur and former World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Bob Stupak succumbed to a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was 67 years-old. Read more »
Day 5 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event played out on ESPN on Tuesday night. Jeff Shulman, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, and Andy Black were seated at the feature table as the field narrowed from 400 players. Read more »
Two days of play remain in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event and, perched atop the leaderboard entering Wednesday's battle is Matt Hawrilenko, a 27 year-old poker pro who goes by "Hoss-TBF" online. Read more »
The high stakes tables at Full Tilt Poker where once again busy and a lot of action took place last night. The unidentified until now “martonas” heated things up at the tables. He started playing against Cole South in the $300/$600 and was running hot, winning nearly $230K after almost one thousand hands played. After… Read more »
Carbon Poker wants to reward players for their loyalty and they have improved their benefits program to reflect just that. Players will earn VIP points when playing real money cash games and when they buy into a tournament as well. Points will only be awarded to players that are involved in a hand and get… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has just announced that they will be hosting the FTOPS XIV from November 4th through the 15th. The total guaranteed prize pool is $16 million, but given the success of recent FTOPS’, prizes will increase and in some cases double, so the total prize pool will be well over sixteen million. The… Read more »
Canadian player Daniel Negreanu is among the best poker players in the world, with live tournament earnings in excess of $11 million. He currently holds four World Series of Poker bracelets, and has won back to back events in the World Poker Tour for a combined $2.8 million. Negreanu has been around the biggest live… Read more »
Darvin Moon, the chip leader of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event entering the final table in November, joined the ESPN.com poker show "Inside Deal." Also appearing was Absolute Poker pro Lacey Jones. Read more »
Move over, Robert Downey, Jr. There's a new Ironman in town! Brett Radin scooped $51,000 for taking down the Commerce Casino's first ever Ironman event, a no-break poker tournament. Read more »
September 2006 affected US poker players and a lot of poker rooms that had to stop taking action from US customers. Party Poker was the largest poker room in the world, but took a major hit after shutting their doors to US customers, and had to redirect their advertising and promotions to other parts of… Read more »
History may be in the making in one of the most historic cities in the world. Doyle Brunson is in search of his record-tying 11th bracelet in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event and is sixth in chips with 92 players remaining. Read more »
Howard Lederer is a very successful poker player; he has won two WSOP bracelets, two WPT Championship titles and three Bellagio titles. Besides his achievements as a poker player he has also succeeded in life as a business man. He is one of founders of Full Tilt Poker but all of his achievements are not… Read more »
Poker pro Olivier Busquet, a high-stakes heads-up sit and go expert, recently took down the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Borgata Poker Open, mounting a comeback of epic proportions after being down 20:1 in chips to Jeremy Brown with a $925,000 first place prize on the line. Busquet sat down with Poker News Daily to recap the comeback. Read more »
The WCOOP event series ended a few days ago and this past weekend PokerStars had more than $2 million in guaranteed prize pools, but that is not enough for the biggest online poker room. They are now offering a brand new Porsche and cash prizes to the top 100 players in an exclusive tournament. New… Read more »
The National Football League (NFL) game between the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals garnered an 8.2 rating on Sunday night during the 8:00pm ET hour to lead all programs. The CBS reality series Amazing Race, which features poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho, premiered at 7.1. Read more »
Ultimate Bet has had a busy year; they released a Mac friendly version of their software platform which will allow players to access all types of games and tournaments that are offered on the PC version. Another upgrade they recently announced was the new feature called SecureID PIN. The feature can be easily activated once… Read more »
Overall the past few days has been slow at the high stakes tables, since most of the poker pros are playing at the WSOPE and other live events that are taking place right now. But not all the high stakes players are gone; David Benyamine, Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin, Tom “Kingsofcards” Marchese, David “POKERBLUFFS” Eldar, Di… Read more »
One of the most popular players in the game today, 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, has given those who couldn't make their way to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe festivities the opportunity to tour the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square in London and get personal with other poker pros through his Twitter account. Read more »
