Two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Steve Zolotow paced the field in London on Day 1B of the 2009 WSOP Europe Main Event. A total of 178 players entered on Sunday for a combined starting grid of 334. Read more »
Poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were spared elimination on the premiere of the CBS reality show Amazing Race, which is entering its 15th season. Michelle and Ho arrived at the first pit stop in last place. Read more »
Brazilian player Alexandre “Allingomes” Gomes has had a remarkable performance in the past twenty four months. He has showed that his skills are top notch in live and online tournaments. His first big career prize was the PokerStars Wednesday 150 Grand in February 2008 were he took the 1st place prize for $65K; his biggest… Read more »
I recently returned from a 10-day trip to Indiana. The first part of the trip was spent at the Hollywood Casino (formerly Argosy Casino) in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The new $336 million facility is more than twice the size of its former vessel. Read more »
Party Gaming lost a member of its Board of Directors last week, when Non-Executive Directors Emilio Gomez stepped down from his post for personal reasons. The official statement from Party Gaming announcing his resignation made no mention of a future replacement. Read more »
Day 1A of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event played out on Saturday. When the smoke cleared, Brian Powell and Team PokerStars Pro member Jason Mercier led the field, which began with 156 players. Read more »
On Saturday afternoon, CBS Sports aired the second of two episodes of the PokerStars.net Ante Up for Africa tournament that played out during the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo festivities. Read more »
Recent seizures of internet gambling funds related to the payment processor Account Services do not appear to be the end of the U.S. Government's war against the industry. This week, it was revealed that funds in six more accounts had been seized. Read more »
Harrah's Interactive Entertainment (HIE) announced Thursday that its World Series of Poker (WSOP) brand would be renewing its contract with IMG Sports and Entertainment for five more years through 2014. The two groups have worked together since 2005. Read more »
Team Europe emerged victorious in the first ever Caesars Cup, claiming the heads-up and two-on-two matches by a 4-1 margin. Daniel Negreanu captained the American team, while Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad headed the European squad. Read more »
With the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event on the horizon, the Cake Poker Network site DoylesRoom has made a splash, signing Chris "Moorman1" Moorman to its prestigious Brunson 10. Read more »
Absolute Poker will have hundreds of thousands of dollars in guaranteed prize pools this weekend. The prizes will be spread among the different tournaments that will be held this weekend. Players will get a chance to warm-up for the tourneys that will be played this weekend with a $15K guaranteed re-buy tourney that will be… Read more »
Ever since the explosion of poker in the early years of the 21st century, attempts have been made to organize players, either through a governing body for the sport or an organization to impose changes in the game, with varying degrees of success. Read more »
PokerStars has some of the largest guaranteed prize pool tournaments each week. Today, PokerStars will be offering the following big guaranteed prize pools: the Daily Thirty Grand at 2 pm, the Daily Eighty Grand at 3 pm, a $60K guaranteed $11+R No Limit Hold’em tourney at 4pm, and a No Limit Hold’em tournament with a… Read more »
Longtime PokerStars representative Isabelle Mercier of Canada ended her relationship with the site a few weeks ago, but another woman has already been added to the roster. PokerStars recently announced the signing of Fatima Moreira de Melo, an Olympic gold medal winning field hockey player from Holland. Read more »
The debate on Capitol Hill rages on over health care reform, which, according to Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), will likely come with a nearly $1 trillion price tag. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed using internet gambling revenue to defray some of the cost, but withdrew his amendment this week. Read more »
The World Series of Poker Europe has taken the spotlight in the poker world and captured the attention of some of the best players in the world. The WSOPE started on September 17th and we are one day away from the Main Event. A Pot Limit Omaha tournament started on September 23rd and the field… Read more »
Down 20:1 in chips heads-up, Olivier Busquet mounted the comeback of the century and won the 2009 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. Busquet entered the six-handed televised final table as the chip leader. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has become a favorite poker room among high stakes players; hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars switch from one bankroll to another in a matter of minutes. It’s very easy to spot some of the best players in the world playing at Full Tilt in one of the many different… Read more »
The evidence keeps mounting that Capitol Hill is going to address the issue of internet gambling head-on. Recently, a column from noted libertarian politician Bob Barr suggested that legislation clarifying the legal standing of internet gambling is on the horizon. Read more »
Popular European poker site Ladbrokes, part of the Microgaming Network, announced that all of its €950 Ladbrokes Poker Killarney packages have sold out. The only way for a player to enter this exclusive event is to qualify through a €60 live super satellite where 30 seats will be awarded. Read more »
The EPT Barcelona ended just a few weeks ago; the field had 478 players and included twenty three poker stars pros such as Marcin Horecki, Noah Boeken, Thierry Van Den Berg, Jason Mercier, Johnny Lodden, Katja Thater, Peter Eastgate, Marcel Luske, Lex Veldhuis, Pieter de Korver, Vanessa Rousso, Ivan Demidov, Dario Minieri, Daniel Negreanu and… Read more »
In poker, sometimes the hand you hold has differing potential depending upon the game you're playing. What would be a great hand in one form of poker will, in essence, be junk in another discipline. In this continuing series of articles, we'll examine particular hands and what strategies a player should use. Read more »
The six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Borgata Poker Open is set. Leading the way is Olivier Busquet, who holds 10.3 million chips. His stack is double that of the next closest competitor, Yanick Brodeur. Read more »
On this week's installment of the G4 online poker reality show "2 Months, $2 Million," the cast opened boot camp, taking on four students for $7,500 each. In the end, the group earned $106,000 for the week. The show airs on Wednesdays at 8:00pm ET. Read more »
