We had a chance to catch last weekend's installment of the NBC poker franchise "Face the Ace." In the end, Brian Twitty, a real estate appraiser and band member, walked away with $40,000 after defeating Jennifer Harman. Read more »
As 2009 comes to a close, the online poker tournament fields around the Web continue to become tougher with Truly Free Poker Training from CardRunners and StoxPoker. The program was launched earlier this year in conjunction with Full Tilt Poker. Read more »
On Wednesday night at 9:00pm ET, CNBC will air a one-hour exposé entitled, "The Big Business of Illegal Gambling." The report from CNBC's Melissa Francis will put the multi-billion dollar industry into focus and include a segment on internet gambling. Read more »
Poker pro Thuy Doan was born in Vietnam in the ‘80s and her mom survived the Vietnam War, unfortunately for her the consequences of the war followed her across the world after her family moved to the United States to start a new life. Just after graduating from college, Thuy was diagnosed with Cancer on… Read more »
The Italian Poker Tour has ended for the year after hosting six successful tournaments. The last tournament on schedule was the San Remo Four which began on December 10th and concluded this past Sunday. After several days at the tables the field of players narrowed down and the competition got even tougher. The final table… Read more »
After several days of play the two hundred and fifty nine player field was narrowed down to just nine players. Four of those players were locals, so the title had a legitimate shot at staying in the country. The British player Paul Marrow started the final table with a very aggressive style of play, as… Read more »
From her stunning performance in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in March, where she finished second to Huck Seed, to television and magazine gigs, to running her own poker training camp called the Big Slick Boot Camp, Rousso has been at the pinnacle of the poker world. Read more »
After a month-long hiatus, the World Poker Tour (WPT) returned to action on Monday with the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. A total of 292 players entered, with registration still open on Day 2, and all but 57 survived the day. Read more »
Fresh off watching the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table pan out, Ultimate Bet pro Annie Duke discusses the wild action that unfolded from the Rio in Las Vegas and aired on ESPN. Read more »
Popular poker room Everest Poker is aiming to kick off 2010 in style with the second installment of its Live the Dream promotion. The contest gives qualifiers the chance to compete for one of ten sponsorship deals worth over $100,000. Read more »
As 2009 prepares to fade into the pages of history, it will also close the doors on a decade that has been like no other for the sport of poker. Read more »
Isildur1 returned to the tables several days after taking a complete beating from Brian Hastings, a session that saw him drop over $4 million. In his brief appearance on Sunday, he managed to leave the tables down only $240K, which is not bad for the limits he was grinding. He has experienced bigger swings at… Read more »
The Aussie Millions is one of the largest poker tournaments in the world and as such, it attracts players from all corners of the globe. Since traveling to Australia could get pretty expensive depending on the part of the world the player is at, each package that was awarded by Party Poker includes $500 to… Read more »
The two hundred and fifty-nine player field was reduced to just nine after three days of intense play. The total prize pool at stake was $690K. In seat one is Irishman Michael Graydon, who despite his young age of 24, is well known in the online poker world for being a feared SitNGo player. The… Read more »
It’s no surprise that the biggest weekly online guaranteed tournament brought thousand of players to the PokerStars virtual felts. A total of 8,358 players registered, pushing the prize pool to $1,671,600. A total of 1,260 players left the tables with extra money in their accounts, and the top prize was $245,897.13. It took less than… Read more »
Party Gaming and Austria-based gambling group Bwin are allegedly involved in merger discussions, according to stories published in The Times and Sunday Times over the weekend. The move would potentially create a £2 billion online poker, casino, and sports betting company. Read more »
For the World Poker Tour (WPT), 2009 was a year of incredible highs, but the organization was also faced with issues away from the felt that had to be overcome for the company to remain viable in other arenas. Read more »
This week marks the second installment of Team Pro Tuesdays on PokerStars, the world's largest online poker site. Every Tuesday through December 29th, PokerStars sponsored pros will be hitting the virtual felts in earnest. Read more »
A 44 year-old man linked to the Swedish version of the Hells Angels accused of "aggravated extortion" may be involved in the murder of PokerListings.com founder Andreas Oscarsson, according to several Swedish news outlets. Read more »
The 2009 installment of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic will kick off on Monday from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tournament's namesake told UB.com's "Poker2Nite" that a field of 400 players is expected. Read more »
Ever since the popular online poker room PartyPoker signed 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event winner Stewart Scott as one of its sponsored pros, it has gone out of its way to promote both online and brick and mortar poker in Australia. Read more »
You've settled into your chair at your favorite poker room or online and are ready to play some world-class, A-game poker. After a short time, however, a player comes to the table who starts to get, for lack of a better term, "crazy." Read more »
When the late gaming legend Benny Binion brought the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on the world, little did he know what it would become. What began 40 years ago as a gathering of Texas road gamblers in a quaint Las Vegas hotel has grown to become a behemoth that now spans an entire calendar year. Read more »
The fourth installment of the UB.com-sponsored poker news show "Poker2Nite" aired on Wednesday night on Fox Sports Net. The series stars PokerRoad personalities Joe Sebok and Scott Huff. This week, UB.com poker pro Phil Hellmuth joined the show. Read more »
With the terrible downswings that Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Gus Hansen, and Isildur1 have experienced, they have opted to take a few days off from poker to re-think their entire strategy. Afterall, a player’s bankroll can be completely destroyed in just a few hours of play at the nosebleed table limits. But durrrr is a very… Read more »
