Ali Nejad is the announcer for NBC’s Poker After Dark as well as the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. He joins us from The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, where he talks about poker, his career and where he is hoping to branch out to in the future. He attended the World Poker Tour’s recent… Read more »
Amid the furor of poker players regarding his testimony in front of a Congressional committee, Commerce Casino board member Tom Malkasian responded late yesterday to Poker News Daily about the brewing controversy. In the statement, Malkasian defended the position he made during testimony by saying, “The Poker Players Alliance is ignoring the grave threat that… Read more »
The poker world watched in earnest late last night as the second installment of the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge kicked off on Full Tilt Poker. Although no official tracking page exists, Dwan got off to a quick $130,000 lead over Dan “JungleMan12” Cates after 1,651 hands, according to the High Stakes DB and Dwan’s… Read more »
Late Thursday, it was revealed that Blanca Games had purchased the CEREUS Poker Network, which consists of UB.com and Absolute Poker. A press release is due out early next week from former owners Tokwiro Enterprises. The purchasing price and terms were not released. Stuart Gordon is the Chief Executive Officer of the CEREUS Network’s new… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal, Poker News Daily visits the Legends of Poker final table, Sorel Mizzi finds himself in hot water once again, and the World Series of Poker Main Event Day 2A airs on ESPN. It’s all coming up… RIGHT AFTER OUR COOL INTRO! Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal… Read more »
Reacting to testimony by the vice chairman of the board of the Commerce Casino during hearings about online poker regulation in Congress, several top poker pros have taken on a protest of the card room. During hearings in July in front of the House Financial Services Committee regarding HR 2267 – the bill Massachusetts’ Representative… Read more »
The rumours have been floating around for a while now but it is now confirmed that on September 1st 2010, Dan Fleyshman, the founder and CEO of Victory Poker, will officially announce the news of Victory Poker moving away from the Everleaf network and over to the Cake network. The Everleaf network is one of… Read more »
Party Gaming and Bwin have recently issued a joint statement which confirms long time rumours of the two companies merging. As they stand on their own both companies are giants, but with this merger it will form the largest listed online gaming companies with a net worth of approximately US$4 billion. This merger will effectively… Read more »
On Wednesday night, Andy Frankenberger, who entered the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Legends of Poker final table as the chip leader, emerged as its champion and banked $750,000. In addition, Frankenberger is now the proud owner of a WPT championship bracelet and a trophy of Wild Bill Hickok. The final table took 184 hands to… Read more »
This interview was taped from the Red Carpet at the WSOP Ante Up for Africa charity event with founders Annie Duke and Don Cheadle. The charity event takes place every year from the World Series of Poker and raises money and awareness for those suffering in the continent of Africa. Ante Up For Africa is… Read more »
On September 1st, Victory Poker, which currently makes its home on the Everleaf Network, will make the jump to the Cake Poker Network. The site, which features pros like Antonio Esfandiari, Andrew “good2cu” Robl, and former World Poker Tour Player of the Year Jonathan “FieryJustice” Little, has become a major force in the online poker… Read more »
Today’s Daily Deal comes form The Bicycle Casino, the home of the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker event where the final table is being taped today. Our topics today include the PokerStars Big Game television show, Holland (otherwise known as The Netherlands) potentially legalizing online poker and Jungleman12 being the next participant in the… Read more »
Recent activity across several of the online poker forums are once again indicating that noted online/live poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi and potential accomplices may have been involved in an attempt to rig multi-table tournaments. Threads appeared on the TwoPlusTwo forum on two occasions over the weekend, with one being squelched by the moderators and… Read more »
European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo champion Liv Boeree is among several poker stars and celebrities expected to appear in London for Poker in the Park this September. Boeree, born in the United Kingdom, will open the festivities in Leicester Square on Thursday, September 2nd, with the festival running until late on Friday, September 3rd.… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event continued airing on ESPN. This time, Day 2A was highlighted and featured nine former Main Event champions gunning for a repeat performance. Embattled PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu was seated at the feature table. On a board of 4-9-Q-A, Adam Fisher 3bet all-in with A-J… Read more »
Andy Frankenberger owns a slight chip lead over the rest of the pack entering the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker. His stack of 3.02 million represents the lone tally at the table over three million. At stake are a $750,000 grand prize and a seat into the end-of-season WPT… Read more »
One month ago, Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “Jungleman12” Cates discussed the logistics of battling in the second installment of the Million Dollar Challenge on Full Tilt Poker. However, despite a 70+ page thread on TwoPlusTwo looking forward to the match, it has yet to take place. Dwan told Cates in a chat on Full… Read more »
On today’s Daily Deal, PartyPoker unleashes a brand new September promotion, Huck Seed and Andrew “luckychewy” Lichtenberger dominate the Doubles Poker Championship, and PKR issues a major software upgrade for its fourth birthday. Sit back, relax, and enjoy today’s edition the Daily Deal… Hello, I’m Sean Gibson and welcome to the Daily Deal by Poker… Read more »
In a story from Gaming Intelligence issued earlier today, Holland looks to be the latest country in Europe to open up its online gaming options to include internet poker. The story from Gaming Intelligence says the country’s Ministry of Justice created a special group called the Online Gaming Advisory Committee to look into the potential… Read more »
Brand new episodes of the PokerStars-sponsored “Big Game” are airing this week on Fox. The high-stakes cash game series pits five poker sharks against a “Loose Cannon” online qualifier staked with $100,000. Each “Loose Cannon” plays 150 hands, with a $50,000 North American Poker Tour passport on the line plus whatever spoils they’ve earned from… Read more »
The Doubles Poker Championship rolled on over the weekend on GSN. Another two regular season matches were held beginning at 9:00pm ET on Saturday night and David Tuchman and Brandon Adams had the call. Full Tilt Poker sponsors the series. Each team received 50,000 in starting chips and the blinds began at 500/1,000. Every player… Read more »
The PokerStars Macau poker room at Casino Grand Lisboa is set to host the quarterly Macau Poker Cup from Sept. 1-5. The series features six tournaments, including a charity event that benefits a local aid organization, plus live satellites to the flagship Red Dragon tournament, which will begin on Sept. 3. The Macau Poker Cup’s… Read more »
This strategy video from CardRunners discusses specific betting strategies and goes into when to employ the donk bet. For those of you that do not know, a donk bet is when a player leads out on a street where on the previous street it was his opponent that made the bet and he just called.… Read more »
We are half way through UBOC5 now and had some exciting results so far with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. Event #1 was a $320 No Limit Hold’em event with a prize pool of $243,810. The tournament was won by “PBDRUNKS” for $54,759. UB.com came close to having a sponsored pro at the… Read more »
The first tournament that begins a long Sunday grind for players was the Sunday Warm-Up had 3,984 players enrolled and created a prize pool of $796,800. This 10 hour tournament led to an eventual win for “YugiohPro” taking home $104,060 which was agreed after a 3-way chop. The final table results were: 1st place –… Read more »
