The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will go down as the largest in history, as 1,529 entrants took to the felts. Anibal Tacla from Curitiba, Brazil, the same hometown as Team PokerStars Pro member Alexandre Gomes, led Day 1B's finishers. Read more »
After the world faced a bump in the economy, millions of people lost their jobs and most countries world wide had to help boost their local economies. The good news is that things are improving slowly and the world economy is gaining momentum. The casino and gambling industry was also affected by the world economy… Read more »
Being recognized for a whole year’s worth of hard work is something that all poker rooms would like to receive, but in such a competitive market only the best can receive the top prize for each category. The popular eGaming magazine (EGR) recently recognized the industry’s top online poker rooms and casinos with eighteen different… Read more »
Steve "gboro780" Gross is the epitome of consistency in the world of online poker. The 24 year-old poker pro from New Jersey has been among the world's top tournament players for several years across every major online poker site offered to U.S. players. Read more »
As 2009 came to a close, popular poker publication CardPlayer announced its Online Player of the Year (OPOY) award. The winner was New Jersey pro Steve "gboro780" Gross, who became the third honoree of the prestigious award, joining Alex "AJKHoosier1" Kamberis (2008) and Isaac "westmenloAA" Baron (2007). Read more »
Kicking off on February 10th on Full Tilt Poker is the 15th Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS). The quarterly tournament series is the first of 2010 and features 27 events with more than $17 million in guaranteed prize money. Read more »
American poker fans who are intrigued by the newest - and youngest - World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event Champion can now play for a chance to spend a day in Las Vegas with Joe Cada, sponsored by PokerStars. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker has been hosting the FTOPS events since ’06, and the series has undergone some important changes since then. The most remarkable change is in the total prize pool at stake which has grown extremely fast. The first series had a total prize pool of one million dollars distributed in eight tournaments and… Read more »
Just as estimated the 2010 PCA will break all records from previous years, as Day1A garnered a total of 668 players at the Atlantis Resort Casino. The chip lead is currently held by UK PokerStars qualifier Wayne Bentley, who managed to amass a chip stack that exceeds three hundred and twenty nine thousand which is… Read more »
Day 1A of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) played out on Tuesday, with 668 players taking to the felts inside the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. Wayne Bentley, a PokerStars qualifier from Britain, leads the way with 329,500 chips. Read more »
Season 6 of the popular NBC poker program "Poker After Dark" kicked off this week with "Commentators III." In a somewhat surreal scene, announcers from popular poker programs took to the felts at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. Read more »
In a recent post on his blog, Team PokerStars Pro member Daniel Negreanu outlined eight goals he is aiming to accomplish before the year draws to a close. These range from collecting $1 million in tournament earnings to making big strides in his self-imposed bankroll challenge. Read more »
Day 1A of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event attracted a starting grid of 668 entrants. The official number from the world's largest online poker site was passed down around 3:30pm local time in the Bahamas. Read more »
Party Poker players will have their last chance to win a seat to the Premier League IV that will take place in Las Vegas. Players will have to participate in a $450 buy-in tourney on Sunday January 10th at 3:20 pm. The winner of the tournament will receive a package that will be send them… Read more »
It may be over six months away, but Titan Poker is getting players warmed up to battle for their chance to participate in the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Read more »
Being only a few days away from the multi-million dollar series of events called UBOC surely builds anxiety. After all, players don’t get the chance to play for such great prizes every day and play against some members of team UB as well. Since UB wants to start the year with great prizes for all… Read more »
The 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) concluded with the completion of the second November Nine. The crowning of Joe Cada as the 2009 WSOP Main Event champion culminated 57 bracelet events this year. Read more »
DoylesRoom sponsored pro Chris moorman1 Moorman stormed through the competition in 2009, capturing the Yearly PocketFives.com Leaderboard (PLB) title. In addition, he claimed the Monthly PLB for December, his second of 2009. Read more »
After six years and many million dollars awarded throughout a large amount of tournaments, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is back and bigger than ever before. There are a total of fifty events scheduled in just twelve days of play. The main event had a list of registered players that exceeded eleven hundred before the live… Read more »
December was a very good month for some Full Tilt regulars; it’s interesting to see how regulars at the $50/$100 blind level reach profits of up to $1 million per month. The outstanding feat was performed by URnotINdanger2, who has been playing remarkable sessions in the past thirty days which have taken his bankroll into… Read more »
Fans of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe won't have to wait long for the tournament series to air on ESPN. The first episode kicks off on Sunday, January 31st at 11:00pm ET and a total of 10 hours will air. Read more »
For 2010, I order you to honor the following resolution: have fun playing poker. I know, I know, it sounds odd. There is no quantifiable goal here. It's like saying, "I'm going to lose 20 pounds", and then rewarding yourself with a fudge brownie when you see the scale's needle fall to 170 after it was 190 on January 1st. Read more »
Recently, the finale of the "PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge" aired on FOX, with 9/11 first responder Mike Kosowski defeating Daniel Negreanu to pocket $1 million. Playing on the show's fourth episode, but not appearing on air, was Martin Kendell, who sat down with Poker News Daily to recap his experience. Read more »
Yesterday was the first Big Money Sunday of the year and it had four tournaments that captured the attention of thousands of players. In addition to the regular Sunday tournaments, the first Big Little Tournament was played and it received a great turnout as over 46K players registered for the $5 buy-in tournament and a… Read more »
A recently announced promotion will have all Ultimate Bet and Absolute Poker players fighting their way to the top in one of the three No Limit Hold’em tournaments that will award a package to the Super Bowl, worth $12K. There will be a total of three packages at stake and only one package will be… Read more »
