Recently, a new tournament series was launched with scheduled stops in Ireland, England and Scotland. There are a total of nine stops scheduled, culminating with the grand final in London. The first tournament will start in a few hours in Galway, Ireland, at The Radisson Hotel. The event is scheduled to be played over four… Read more »
When Isildur1 appeared at the Full Tilt tables, players and railbirds were excited because he wasn’t scared to play anyone. He managed to put in long sessions multi-tabling against several Red Pros at a time, and quickly built his bankroll up to more than $6 million. But unfortunately for him, the high stakes regulars adapted… Read more »
The schedule for the 2010 Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC) was recently released and features more than $4 million in guaranteed prize money up for grabs across 18 events. The festivities will span the course of a dozen days. Read more »
Much like the rest of the world, the poker community can't help but comment on professional golfer Tiger Woods' recent personal problems. The world is buzzing about Woods' car accident and various personal problems, including allegations of infidelity with at least a dozen different women. Read more »
Doylesroom is announcing a new promotion that will reward players for the hours they spend at their tables. When players sit at the ring game tables or enter tournaments they are awarded with Frequent Player Points. As points are accumulated players begin to earn Gold Chips. Those gold chips will now form stacks that will… Read more »
The miniFTOPS events started yesterday and thousands of players fired-up their Full Tilt software to participate in the $20 No Limit Hold’em 6-max event. The total guaranteed prize pool was $250K but due to the 16,711 entries, the prize pool swelled to $334K. Competition was fierce like at any tournament at Full Tilt, and after… Read more »
Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and Brian Townsend had each taken big portions of the mysterious Isildur1's bankroll over the past month and a half. On Tuesday, it was Brian Hastings' turn. Read more »
The online poker world was fixated at the micro-stakes games last week, as Joey "JoeIngram1" Ingram won a lucrative prop bet that involved setting the world record for number of hands played. Read more »
Even though the Gold Stacks promotion was announced just a few days ago, players are already stacking up the gold chips and flying through the different levels of the promotion. The Gold Stacks promotion is very rewarding and players are enjoying the added benefits, as in one of the most recent posts in the Cake… Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Patrik Antonius recently spoke about Isildur1 and expressed a lot of respect for his game, saying that he uses a much different perspective, constantly forcing his opponents to make very tough decisions. Antonius compared Isildur’s style of play to the aggressiveness of Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Another topic that Antonius talked about was… Read more »
The CEREUS Network has taken another step towards regaining the trust of its customer base. The independent certification group eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (eCOGRA) recently announced that CEREUS met all of the qualifications for the organization's seal of approval. Read more »
As the newest ambassador of the game, 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Joe Cada met with more than 10 Congressmen on Capitol Hill on Monday in a visit sponsored by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA). Read more »
Building upon its reputation as one of the hip spots in Las Vegas, the Palms Hotel and Casino will be introducing a new ad campaign that will feature musician Lady Gaga's song "Poker Face." Read more »
Ladies and gentleman, we here at Poker News Daily are normally not the type to pat our own backs and toot our own horn, but sometimes we just can't help ourselves. Bluff Magazine recently revealed its list of nominations for the 2009 Reader's Choice Awards and Poker News Daily is one of the four nominees in the Best Poker Blog category. Read more »
One of the top poker magazines in the world, Bluff Magazine, is currently hosting a survey asking readers to list their favorite poker players of 2009. There are several categories and a few surprises in them. The readers will be asked to vote for their favorite player in ’09, with the choices being: Full Tilt… Read more »
Full Tilt is running their Iron Man Challenge promotion this December, but they have added several new features which make the promotion very rewarding to players who reach the higher levels. First of all players, have to opt-in to the promotion on their accounts and then play normally at the cash tables they like or… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has rebranded its poker room to UB, but it has also implemented physical changes such as icons for each type of tournament and cash game table, new tournament structures, synchronized breaks, and new guaranteed tournaments. But Ultimate Bet wants to celebrate its re-branding with its players, and what better way to do that… Read more »
After taking some time away from virtual felts at Full Tilt, Isildur1 returned this past weekend and several successful sessions against the Red Pros and high stakes regulars. At one point, Isildur1 was multi-tabling against Patrik Antonius and lost around $430K to him. He was also playing against Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies and profited for more… Read more »
With the conclusion of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) in Sydney, Australia last week, another successful season came to an end and one more Aussie champion was born. Online qualifier Aaron Benton won the AUD $6,300 Grand Final Main Event to become the third straight Australian-born player to capture the title. Read more »
On Wednesday, the Mini Full Tilt Online Poker Series XIV (MiniFTOPS) will kick off on Full Tilt Poker. The series mirrors the schedule of the 14th FTOPS, which took place in November, but features tournaments at one-tenth of the buy-in. Read more »
Playing at the biggest online poker room in the world has its benefits, especially if most of the world champions are sponsored by that poker room. Beginning today, players will see the following more often on Tuesdays as part of PokerStars‘ “Outlast the Pro” promotion: Joe Cada, Chris Moneymaker, Peter Eastgate, Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY”… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is offering all their players a great opportunity to take home large amounts of cash in small buy-in tournaments. The miniFTOPS will feature twenty-five events of varying formats including razz 6-max, Pot Limit Omaha re-buy, PLO knockout, HORSE, Stud/8, 7 games among others. The first event will be a No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
The biggest guaranteed tournament on Party Poker is held once a month and it has a notable one million dollars at stake. The best part of it all is that players have plenty of opportunities to enter the tournament for a fraction of the complete buy-in. Satellites are hosted daily for the entire month preceding… Read more »
Cake Poker will be rewarding players even more with their new Instant Rewards program called Gold Stacks. All players have to do is play on regular ring game tables. There are a total of fifty levels in the Gold Stacks promotion and players will advance through them by earning gold chips and creating stacks. The… Read more »
Isildur1 had been absent from the high stake tables after losing much of the money he’d won from players like the Full Tilt Pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Ilari “ziigmund” Sahamies and others. After all, losing more than six million dollars in less than thirty days requires some soul searching. What might have been going through… Read more »
