Absolute Poker will host a plethora of juicy tournaments today, including guaranteed tourneys, deep stack tourneys and knockout tourneys which are commonly known as sniper tournaments at Absolute Poker. An eight thousand dollar guaranteed tournament will start at 3 pm ET; the buy-in is $30 + $3. Re-buys will be allowed. At the same time… Read more »
The WCOOP events started on September the 3rd and PokerStars players have been salivating over the bloated prize pools. Most of the guaranteed prize pools so far have been exceeded due to the high number of entrants. Event number one had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,250,000 but the entries to the tourney bumped up… Read more »
Poker has traditionally been a masculine pursuit, but women have been making inroads into the game since the boom earlier this century. One only has to look at Annie Duke's performance in the first WSOP Tournament of Champions or Vanessa Rousso's runner-up finish at this year's National Heads Up Poker Championship to realize that women are a formidable part of today's poker world. Read more »
Ultimate Bet is celebrating their 10th anniversary and they want to share it with their loyal customers. The celebration will take place at the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino & Spa and UB wants to take as many players as possible with them. There will be many opportunities to win a seat to the Aruba Poker… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has one of the biggest teams of professional online poker players, and with names like Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius, and Gus Hansen, they have no shortage of star power on their roster. Many of the Red Pros are high stakes players who can be found at Full Tilt… Read more »
The parent company of online poker room Pacific Poker, 888 Holdings, is the latest online gambling business to release the results of their mid-year financial report. Like many other businesses within the industry, 888.holdings saw significant declines in their earnings and revenues for both their online casino and poker room from 2008 to 2009. Read more »
The railbirds at the nosebleed cash games on Full Tilt Poker that loved watching Luke "FullFlush1" Schwartz mouth off to Tom "durrrr" Dwan earlier this year will be happy to hear there is yet another chance for the two to face off on the felt in person. Read more »
It’s easier than ever to earn Party Poker points, as players can now accumulate PartyPoints by playing at any of Party’s tables, and those points can be used in different ways. One PartyPoint will be awarded for every fifty cents that players pay in tournament fees. Ten PartyPoints will be awarded for every twenty five… Read more »
Tonight, Absolute Poker will offer a $15K guaranteed prize pool in a re-buy tournament. The buy-in is $50 + $5 and it will start at 7 pm ET. The first of their extremely popular bounty tournaments will start at 7 pm ET with a guaranteed prize pool of $3K and a buy-in of only $6… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker hosted the FTOPS events from August 5th – 16th, and generated a total of $19 million in cashes. Most of the Red Pros gave their best effort at the tables, but they had no luck as all of the events were won by regular Full Tilt Poker players. The main event was… Read more »
The main event at the European Poker Tour stop in Barcelona started with 478 players, including some of the biggest names in the poker world. Among the stars who made the trip to Barcelona were Daniel Negreanu, Robert Mizrachi, Asa Smith, Samer Rahmen, Brandon Schaefer, Mike McDonald, Noah Boeken, Sandra Naujoks, Ivan Deminov, Peter Eastgate,… Read more »
After defeating a rival poker house in a veritable Olympics of shenanigans last week, the cast of the G4 reality show "2 Months, 2 Million" set their sites on two new targets: Full Tilt Pros David Benyamine and Erica Schoenberg. The quartet also got back to putting in time on the virtual felt, adding $49,000 to their previous $114,000 in winnings and bringing their total profits up to $163,000. Read more »
It was a busier Sunday than normal on the virtual poker felts as the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) recommenced with three events, two of which played down to a champion early Monday morning. Read more »
When the World Poker Tour ( WPT ) first announced it would be adding a stop in Slovakia for its eighth season, it was unclear how many big name pros would be willing to travel to Bratislava to participate in the event. Read more »
The biggest series of online poker tournaments started on September the 3rd and the anticipation had the poker world on the edge of their seats. The first event had a guaranteed prize pool of $1,250,000, but with 8,538 entrants, it swelled to $1,707,600. Many poker pros were spotted at the tournament tables. The 2003 World… Read more »
Titan Poker will be offering their first one million dollar guaranteed tournament on September 13th at 1 pm ET. For those players who want to buy-in directly the cost is $500 + $35. Players will start with ten thousand chips and blinds will be increasing every thirty minutes. The second million dollar guaranteed tournament will… Read more »
Cake Poker players have been experiencing connectivity problems throughout the last week, and it’s finally resulted in Cake Poker players being denied access to their accounts. Cake Poker assures that no player account information was compromised in any way, and that the issue has been identified and will be resolved. However, their service will continue… Read more »
The 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which started on September 3rd, has had several of the opening tournaments break their guaranteed prize pools to this point in the schedule. As the tournament grinds its way through its first weekend, eight WCOOP bracelets have been awarded in several different disciplines of poker. Of… Read more »
Those players looking forward to a Caribbean vacation to the Bahamas to rub elbows with some of the biggest stars of the poker and sports world at the upcoming Sports Legends Challenge were let down when they received an e-mail from the event's organizers informing them it was being postponed. No alternative date has been set, but the organizers plan on hosting the event at a new, yet to be determined U.S. location sometime in 2010. Read more »
Last week Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley told members of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) that she would be rejecting their bid to include an online poker initiative on Massachusetts ballots in 2010. Citing a failure to meet the legal requirements to make it onto the ballot, Coakley's decision is the latest setback for the PPA and other lobbying groups trying to expand gambling in Massachusetts. Read more »
Six weeks of World Series of Poker (WSOP) coverage have broadcast on ESPN and the dip in ratings the cable sports network saw with the airing of the preliminary events does not appear to be carrying over to the all-important Main Event coverage. ESPN is reporting gains in all categories and demographics from this time last year, most importantly in the coveted 18-49 year old male audience. Read more »
Yesterday marked the three week line until play begins in the Caesars Cup, the inaugural team event that pits the best that the United States has to offer against the strongest that Europe can put up in a unique team format that hasn’t been seen before in poker. What is confusing some people, however, is… Read more »
Many players who opt to spend their time and money at their local home game rather than going to a brick and mortar casino cite the comfort and security they derive from a weekly game with familiar faces as a driving force behind their decision. Recent events in Houston, Texas may have home game players thinking twice about their safety and security after an attempted robbery of a local game resulted in the shooting death of one of the assailants. Read more »
At 2:30 pm ET on Saturday afternoon, Titan Poker will be hosting a freeze-out with $50K guaranteed prize pool. At least eighty places will be paid and each player will start with two thousand chips. On Sunday at 2 pm ET, Titan Poker will be hosting its biggest guaranteed tournament of the week with a… Read more »
Just a week removed from an event in Macau, the APPT is all set for another event that will have the people in New Zealand at the edge of their seat. The PokerStars APPT Auckland will be run Saturday 10th- Saturday 18th, 2009. The previous APPT Auckland was won by a PokerStars qualifier who earned… Read more »
