According to figures released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, Atlantic City casinos posted revenues, or "win," of $335.4 million in September, representing a drop of 5.8% year over year. Read more »
According to his personal blog, A.J. Benza revealed that GSN's "High Stakes Poker" will return for Season 6 featuring Gabe Kaplan and a female co-host. New episodes will begin airing in February on the popular cable station. Read more »
Hitting newsstands around the United States last Friday was the inaugural Body Issue of ESPN: The Magazine. The periodical profiled athletes and their physiques and included an image of Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, and Jennifer Harman playing poker in the nude. Read more »
On Tuesday night, action from the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will continue on cable station ESPN. "The Worldwide Leader in Sports" has seen a ratings boom in 2009 down the stretch, with the Main Event final table on tap for November 10th. Read more »
According to figures released by the Nevada Gaming Control Board, statewide casino revenue, or "win," fell 9.32% in August of 2009 compared to August of 2008. The total gaming win reported was $847.0 million, representing the 20th straight month of decline. Read the Board's August revenue report. Read more »
Poker players Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho finished in last place for the second time on this season of the CBS reality series "Amazing Race." This time, however, a team losing their passports saved them from elimination. Read more »
Sunday marked the debut of the FOX poker show "PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge," a franchise similar to rival site Fill Tilt Poker's "Face the Ace." In the end, Father Andrew Trapp of Garden City, South Carolina earned $100,000 and a seat at the Table of Champions. Read more »
The seven-handed final table of the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic concluded with a chop between online poker player Brandon "AreTheseUtz" Hall and Robert Mizrachi. Each banked $414,000 plus a percentage based on their chip counts. Read more »
The latest sports star to take an interest in the game of poker is Formula One driver Giancarlo Fisichella. The Italian speedster recently signed on to a sponsorship deal with PartyPoker.it, PartyPoker's Italian site. Read more »
We've officially reached the halfway point of the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge. Eight months after play began in February, Dwan leads Patrik Antonius by nearly $700,000, with 25,145 hands completed. Read more »
As the final table of their Aruba Poker Classic plays out today, Ultimate Bet is once again showing its commitment not only to quality poker tournaments, but also to charity through a tournament in Aruba and an upcoming event in Canada. Read more »
Play was scheduled to kick off at Noon ET today in the seven-handed final table of the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic. However, a soggy climate delayed the action, which was scheduled to emanate from a set constructed over the Radisson's pool. Read more »
The PartyPoker World Open V action gets underway on Sunday and some last-minute additions to the lineup have made the event even more of a star-studded affair. Newcomers include Yevgeniy Timoshenko, J.P. Kelly, and Antoine Saout. Read more »
On September 30th, Poker News Daily confirmed that Pitbull Poker, a small site on the Flash Poker Network, closed down amid a superuser scandal. In response to the article, there are 35 comments and counting from angry players demanding to know how to get their funds back. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has thousands of dollars on the line every weekend. Players will be able to warm-up for the weekend tournaments with several big guaranteed prize pools later today. At 6 pm a No Limit Hold’em turbo tournament with a buy-in of $200 + $16 will have a minimum of $40K up for grabs.… Read more »
PokerStars is hosting a tournament that will have players fighting for thousands of dollars in online tournament freerolls. All players that enter the tournament and finish in the top ten positions can submit an original video that will be reviewed by PokerStars and if it’s chosen the player will get to face-off against a few… Read more »
Some of the top players in the world come from the Nordic countries, including the 2008 WSOP champion Peter Eastgate who hails from Denmark. Players in Sweden created a buzz in online forums as they debated if the online screen name “martonas”, who hit the spot light at Full Tilt a few months ago, was… Read more »
Poker News Daily: What does it feel like to be a member of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Nine? Moon: It's a privilege. It's overwhelming. I never thought I would be here, but I'm here and I'll make the most of it. Read more »
The poker brat sat with the 63rd best stack when action started on day three at the Ultimate Bet 10th Anniversary Aruba Poker Classic and was still in contention for the big money. At that particular point in the tournament, Robert Mizrachi held the chips lead with 353 thousand chips. Phil is a tight player… Read more »
A recent tweet from Doyle Brunson summed up what many skeptics had to say when they learned the 10-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner has taken to Twitter: "Can it be that you guys really like the blonde jokes? My followers are going up at an alarming rate...never thought I'd be a tweeeter:-)" Read more »
As the great wrestler Ric Flair said, "To be the man, you gotta beat the man!" In this week's finale of the European Poker Tour's (EPT) London stop, Aaron Gustavson did just that, besting reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate heads-up. Read more »
On August 3rd, PokerListings founder Andreas Oscarsson was found murdered in Trollhättan, Sweden. Two months later, police are investigating the incident as a "contract killing," according to the Swedish news outlet Sveriges Radio. Read more »
The world of internet poker is never lacking for controversy. The latest involves arguably the most respected online poker room in the industry, PokerStars. Read more »
RedKings Poker will be offering a new promotion for all their players in which thousands of dollars up for grabs. All players have to do to participate is play poker and they will receive daily race points. Players will choose from the three different levels available. The first level requires the player to accumulate 50… Read more »
Now that the live events have ended in London, the Red Pros are hitting the virtual felt more often. Gus Hansen started the action yesterday and Cole South was crushing him, but Hansen was able to turn things around and win back a large percentage of his losses back. As action heated up at the… Read more »
