"Online poker on steroids." That's how one TwoPlusTwo poster described Rush Poker, the newest spectacle introduced by Full Tilt Poker that has action junkies drooling over a fast-paced format we've never seen before. Read more »
This week, members of the online poker community wishing to donate to victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti last week can take advantage of several tournaments being held across cyberspace. Read more »
As the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV draws closer, the field of 12 continues to take shape. On Tuesday, PartyPoker.com announced that poker's newest bad boy, Luke "FullFlush" Schwartz, has been confirmed as the fifth player for the February contest. Read more »
This weekend, the New Orleans Saints will host the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:40pm ET on Sunday and the game will air on Fox. Among those in attendance will be 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon. Read more »
PokerStars likes to reward players for their efforts at the tables with notable prizes at stake in each tournament. One of the most important parts about poker is the players, but poker is a combination of people working together and an important information tool are blogs. Since there area lot of people doing an outstanding… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has been a trendsetter since its inception, and its constant strive for innovation has benefited players with better poker clients, more stable software platforms, large tournament series with outstanding guarantees, daily guarantees with notable prize pools, the ability to multi-table and much more. The latest innovation that Full Tilt has announced is… Read more »
Harrison Gimbel was crowned the champion of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event in the Bahamas more than a week ago, but the event is still stirring up chatter due to an incident involving two of the game's high-stakes online players that occurred during a $5,000 side tournament. Read more »
At most online sites, the hands in a ring game are dealt at nearly twice the speed of what would occur during a live session. This isn't quick enough for some players, who prefer playing at multiple tables to earn more money for their bankroll and satisfy their desire for action. A new innovation at Full Tilt Poker has responded to the call for faster play on the virtual felt. Read more »
Poker News Daily: Congratulations on signing with Drag the Bar. Give us the background to joining the site after leaving StoxPoker. Dusty Schmidt: I started as a member at StoxPoker, got promoted to coach, and they made me an equity holder. It was exciting, we had a good group of guys, and post-merger, they sometimes lost sight of what got them there. Read more »
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the industry's one-million member strong lobbying organization, is ramping up for what could be a monumental 2010 legislative year. At stake is the future of online poker in the United States. Read more »
Last Thursday, David "Doc Sands" Sands, currently the number one ranked player on the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, put a call out to his fellow tournament players on the PocketFives forum to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Read more »
The old poker adage "tight is right" may seemingly have gone the way of the Dodo, especially in the current online poker age of constant aggression. A recent study by a sociology student at Cornell University suggest that the adage, however quaint, may actually be correct. Read more »
According to figures released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, gaming revenues in Atlantic City dipped 13.2% during the 2009 calendar year compared to 2008. All told, area casinos raked in $3.9 billion. Read more »
Spotting theASHMAN103 at the high stakes tables at Full Tilt is nothing new, he was been giving some of the best players in the world a hard time at the tables, and despite his young age he has demonstrated to have the skill to sit at the nosebleed tables against players like Tom “durrrr” Dwan,… Read more »
Titan Poker is offering the opportunity to participate in the tournaments that will be hosted at the Grosvenor Casino in Walsall, England. The tourneys are part of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour tournament series that will be taking place across the UK. The festivities will start of February 20th and will extend until February 28th,… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker had another very successful weekend with their large guaranteed tournaments. Thousand of players took a shot at winning a percentage of the large prize pools that were at stake. There were several poker pros that made deep runs into the Sunday Million; Allen Cunningham finished in 9th place for $17K, while Jeff… Read more »
Poker News Daily has been following the most interesting Tweets since last Friday, encompassing players' last impressions from the Bahamas, their last goodbyes to the late Amir Vahedi, the drives to raise funds for Haiti relief and some NFL quandaries. Read more »
DoylesRoom has added a new tournament to their schedule and it will be played on the first and third Monday of each month. The tournament will be played out as a knockout tourney, each player in the field will have a $10 bounty on their head, and in addition to that each Brunson Ten member… Read more »
The biggest online guaranteed tournaments brought thousands of poker players to the PokerStars tables and once again each guarantee was met and exceeded. The most popular tournament is the Sunday Million and for this weekend a total of 8,885 players had taken on the task of making it to the money, the total prize pool… Read more »
Dover native Steven Gedney hit a record-shattering Bad Beat Jackpot at Caesars Atlantic City of $553,958 last Friday. The behemoth prize pool dwarfed the former largest jackpot of $361,244 and Gedney raked in $276,979 as a result of the beat. Read more »
For the first time since December 2007, Nevada casino "win" increased year over year. In November 2009, revenues grew 4.35%, snapping 22 consecutive months of falling win and perhaps signaling the start of a new streak. Read more »
The official rules for the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) were handed down this week, with tournament organizers adopting a cell phone rule that permits text messaging and Twittering at the table. Read more »
The final episode of Nicknames week on the NBC poker franchise "Poker After Dark" featured Phil "The Unabomber" Laak defeating close friend Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari heads-up to win $120,000. Read more »
From January 25th to 31st, Full Tilt Poker, the world's second largest site, is doubling the prize pools of its guaranteed tournaments. A total of $25 million will be on the line throughout the week, leading up to a special $1.5 million purse for the site's marquee $750,000 Guaranteed on Sunday. Read more »
Companies hurt by the downturn were retailers that sell supplies for private poker tournaments and home games. While business was booming prior to the downturn, many of the major retailers are encouraged by their 2010 prospects. Read more »
