Railbirds around the world just witnessed another session in which Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen did not have his A game running. In addition to that, some of the best high stakes players in the world were in the right place at the right time to take Gus Hansen’s money. It looked like they… Read more »
PokerStars is once again innovating with their new Baltic Festival packages. Players will have multiple chances to qualify to the event, which will take place from October 28th through the 31st. There will be satellites running every day for as low as $1.10, those satellite events will award seats to the tournaments that will give… Read more »
Global payments processor NEOVIA Financial PLC reported a 9% fall in revenue for the half-year ending on June 30th, 2009. The company, which owns the popular e-wallet Neteller, posted group revenue of $32.6 million, down from $35.9 million at the same time last year. Read more »
Who will win the 2009 WSOP Main Event? Poker News Daily sought the insight of some of the other players who made incredible runs at this year's Main Event as well as a couple of our own writers who spent the summer keeping a very close eye on the action. You'll be surprised to read just how many of them did not opt for fan favorite Phil Ivey. Read more »
The top two online poker sites in the world, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, have recently released software updates. These additions have a ripple effect in the poker software industry, as every time there's an update for a site, third party software developers must update their programs in order for them to continue to work. Read more »
The conclusion of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is now just six weeks away and an $8.1 million first place prize will be up for grabs. Poker News Daily has learned that CardPlayer Editor Jeff Shulman is receiving training from Phil Hellmuth. Read more »
The play down day is upon us at the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. A total of 27 players remain, led by Yanick Brodeur, who holds 3.0 million chips, well ahead of Frank Calo's second place stack of 2.1 million. Read more »
The first big guaranteed tournament of the day is the Daily Thirty Grand that starts at 2 pm ET, the buy-in is $10 + $1 and late registration will be open up to 60 minutes after the tournament starts. The Daily Eighty Grand will start one hour later, the buy-in is $50 + $5. Extended… Read more »
Day 4 unfolded in front of ESPN cameras at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. November Nine member Phil Ivey presided over the feature table, while a pair of former Main Event champions headlined Table Two. Read more »
The official schedule of the 2009 WSOPE had Event two as a three day event, but due to the number of players who have exited the tournament, the last players were asked if they wanted to play until there was a final winner. They all agreed and they are now playing until a winner is… Read more »
This week, the ESPN.com poker program "Inside Deal" welcomed new Ultimate Bet pro and media consultant Joe Sebok. Regular host Bernard Lee was absent, as he was competing in the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. Read more »
The 2007 Aussie Millions main event winner and Full Tilt Poker pro Gus Hansen has hit a rough downswing that has damaged his bankroll with a loss that exceeds $2.9 million. His EV turned to the negative numbers in March and since then he has lost a significant amount of money each month. He has… Read more »
The entire series of events at the WCOOP was a complete success; players from all over the world wanted a chunk of the groundbreaking prize pools, most of which exceeded the guaranteed prize pool. The last events were held this past weekend; event 43 was a No Limit Hold’em tourney with a prize pool of… Read more »
Party Poker is one of the biggest online poker rooms in the world and because they want to keep been a favorite among poker players they have created a new promotion that will award millions of dollars – all players have to do is play poker. Players will earn points when playing cash games, every… Read more »
Continuing what has been one of the most successful years that a professional poker player could have, Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko won the Main Event of the 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), earning over $1.7 million for his efforts. Read more »
Recently, Terrence "Unassigned" Chan took down a $1,050 buy-in Limit Hold'em Six-Max event during the PokerStars WCOOP a few months after winning two SCOOP Limit Hold'em events. He sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his feat. Read more »
A total of 167 players remain in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. However, many of the tournament's big names, including Gavin Smith and 2007 Borgata Poker Open Champion Roy Winston, were sent packing. Read more »
On Monday, it was revealed that PokerRoad CEO Joe Sebok had become the new Media and Operations Consultant for Ultimate Bet. The online poker site is fresh off releasing the list of screen names associated with the cheating scandal led by Russ Hamilton. Sebok sat down with Poker News Daily to discuss his new role. Read more »
Long considered to be one of the top poker professionals without a major sponsorship deal, it was announced late Monday evening that Joe Sebok will be joining Ultimate Bet's roster of poker pros. Sebok will also take a prominent position inside of the Ultimate Bet organization. Read more »
The Full Tilt Poker miniFTOPS final events brought in thousands of players that wanted to make big money with the small buy-ins. The player fields were massive and the game was fierce, as all players wanted to make it to the money. On Saturday a two day No Limit Hold’em 6-max event took place and… Read more »
There are technical issues at Cake Poker, which are still affecting its performance. Cake Poker will be taken offline tomorrow for an estimated 60 minutes, so players should be aware that at 9 am ET their software will lose connection to the Cake network for about an hour. Cake Poker announced that they will be… Read more »
Players worldwide have been playing in the ECOOP events since 2007 when Titan Poker offered a record $2.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The series of tournament has grown, and the prize pools along with it. Titan Poker will have the ECOOP V events starting on November 23rd through December 6th 2009. The total prize… Read more »
Last Thursday, the National Council on Problem Gambling held a press conference in the Canon House Office Building to debrief media and Congressional staffers on HR 2906, the Comprehensive Problem Gambling Act. Read more »
Ultimate Bet had more than $805K on the line in their wide variety of tournaments spread throughout the week. The biggest guaranteed tournaments were the following: $30K Sniper won by “MWCSTR8NUTZ”, $150K Guaranteed taken down by “WILD DUCK”, $80K Sniper won by “NICHOLASJ”, $25K Sniper on Thursday won by JAOIJEROME and the $25K Sniper on… Read more »
The World Series of Online Poker has come to an end at PokerStars, and it was a complete success. A high percentage of the tourneys had more players than expected, which led to bigger prize pools; at some tournaments the prize was doubled, even tripled. PokerStars pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier had an outstanding performance in… Read more »
