Harrison "gibler123" Gimbel may have garnered the headlines at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) by winning the Main Event and a $2.2 million paycheck, but he wasn't the only one having a good time at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. Read more »
Banking $2.2 million for winning the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main event was 19 year-old Harrison "gibler123" Gimbel, who became the youngest champion ever of the $10,000 buy-in feature tournament. Gimbel sat down with Poker News Daily shortly after the win to recap his monumental run. Read more »
Italian poker pro Dario Minieri leads the pack for the second straight day in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 buy-in High Roller tournament. Minieri is a member of Team PokerStars Pro. Read more »
This week's brand new installment of the NBC franchise "Poker After Dark" is dubbed "Nicknames." Making her debut on the show is 21 year-old Betfair pro Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, who went by the moniker "The Huntress." Read more »
Everest Poker offered something that all poker players in the world desire: a sponsorship from a poker room. Everest Poker believes in creating new opportunities for normal players, thus they offered $100K sponsorship deals to 10 lucky winners. A total of two hundred players qualified for the promotion, and he elimination process involved live tournaments… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has beefed up its leaderboard prizes, and top performers will receive entries to some of the biggest tournaments worldwide and online. There’s a total of one million dollars in prizes for the players who reach the top of the weekly, monthly, and yearly leaderboards. The multi-table tournament leaderboards received the largest benefits in… Read more »
Extra! Extra! In a thread posted on TwoPlusTwo, an image of 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner Joe Cada allegedly with his arm around former Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole sparked rumors that the two were dating. Read more »
Online gaming operators such as Ladbrokes and William Hill fled to Gibraltar last year in order to escape U.K. government gambling taxes and become more competitive with overseas operators. Now, it appears the relocation could be all for naught. Read more »
The poker world still mourns the loss of beloved player Amir Vahedi, known in Hollywood circles for having been Ben Affleck's first poker tutor. His colleague and close friend Mark Seif recently made declarations on his website regarding the loss of Vahedi and shared the information about his funeral for anyone who wishes to pay their respects to the late poker player. Read more »
On Friday, a top European online poker professional announced that he would quit playing poker, citing fatigue and a depleted bankroll as the reasons. Swedish professional Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, in a rambling blog post issued prior to this last weekend, stated (in a rough translation from the original Swedish) that, "The fire and passion I had for poker is now complete. It's like a bonfire that burned all night and now (it) hisses in the morning." Read more »
After finishing ’09 with some terrible numbers Gus Hansen took some time to re-think his entire strategy. After all, recording a loss that exceeds $5.5 for one year’s play has to hurt even the players with the deepest pockets. Gus Hansen’s online numbers are not good he has ended the last three years in red… Read more »
The largest PCA event has made history and some players have come down to the Bahamas to make history as well; that is the path that Barry Shulman has followed in the Atlantis Resort casino. He has been on the spotlight in several articles at major poker news sites in the past months and he… Read more »
The high roller event started with an impressive field of players, there are past WSOP champions and past PCA winners just to mention a few major events that the different players in the tournament have managed to take down in the previous years. The current world champion Joe Cada entered the tournament and his performance… Read more »
Harrison "gibler321" Gimbel outlasted a talented final table in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event to become the youngest winner ever of the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament. He earned a $2.2 million first place prize. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker awards millions of dollars each weekend: besides the regular tournaments it also offers special tournaments which add to the overall amount at stake each weekend. This past weekend was not the exception as there was a Big Little tournament added to the tournament rotation. The addition of this type of tournament brings… Read more »
At the biggest PCA event ever, competition has been incredibly tough and many poker pros have ran into PokerStars qualifiers that have shown very sharp skills, despite the fact that many PokerStars pros made deep runs, only one of them remains in the tournament: John Duthie, who is the founder of the European Poker Tour… Read more »
Ultimate Bet will be hosting the UBOC tournament series starting on January 20th ; there will be eighteen events and a total of $4 million will be at stake. Some of the variations played will be Hold’em, Omaha, H.O.R.S.E., Heads-up, Pot Limit, No Limit and Snyper. There will be two tournaments that will have a… Read more »
Recently opening on the Las Vegas Strip was CityCenter, an MGM Mirage creation that includes the Aria Resort and Casino. Within the friendly confines of Aria is its poker room, which debuted amid an economic downswing. Nevertheless, it has received high marks. Read more »
More positive news for online poker in Europe: Denmark's state-operated Danske Spil has signed a five-year agreement with PartyGaming, which will use its expertise and know-how to offer online gaming to the Danish market. Read more »
In April, former BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers pled guilty to racketeering charges stemming from his operation of the popular online sports book. He faced up to 33 months in prison and a maximum sentence was handed down on Friday. Read more »
Eight players remain in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). Online poker pros Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo and Tyler "puffinmypurp" Reiman lead the eight-handed final table by a comfortable margin. Read more »
Even tough the PCA is taking place at the Bahamas, players have taken the time to play the biggest guaranteed tournaments that PokerStars offers every Sunday. The Sunday Million had a total of 8,721 entries which made the total guaranteed prize pool grow from $1.5 million to a remarkable $1.7 million. A total of 1,260… Read more »
A flood of table games will soon be headed to casinos in Pennsylvania after the state's House and Senate approved measures allowing their introduction into 14 casinos. Currently, only slot machines are allowed. Read more »
In a tragic story coming out of Las Vegas, World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Amir Vahedi has passed away after complications arising from diabetes, according to fellow poker pro Mark Seif. Read more »
Today, the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event enters its play down day, as the 24 remaining players will become eight when all is said and done. At stake is a $2.2 million first place prize and the title of 2010 PCA Champion. Read more »
