The UB.com Bad Beat Jackpot has officially reached astronomical heights. The prize pool, which will eventually be claimed when a player’s quad eights or better are cracked, currently stands at over $1 million. It took about an hour for the final $20,000 to tick away towards the seven-figure mark and players are logged into the… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker recently introduced changes to its software that streamlined many processes players face when logged into the site. In addition, Full Tilt announced an adjustment to its policies regarding Full Tilt Points (FTPs). For playing on the site, customers at Full Tilt Poker earn FTPs from cash games, tournaments, and sit and gos.… Read more »
Taking down $1.1 million from FTOPS XIX’s Main event is just the latest accomplishment for poker pro Blair Hinkle. The young gun who goes by the online name of “Blur5f6” and originally hails from Kansas City, also won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2008 in the $2,000 No Limit Hold’em event for over… Read more »
On Sunday, the money bubble popped at the L.A. Poker Classic, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Sixty-three players remain and a top prize of $1.6 million is up for grabs. The tournament will dole out the first seven-figure grand prize of Season IX and Jason “TheMasterJ33” DeWitt holds down the top spot… Read more »
The poker world was stunned last week when Travis Makar, one of the people allegedly involved in the Ultimate Bet super user scandal, called into the DonkDown Radio show and revealed that he had a large number of documents regarding the site’s involvement in the scandal from years ago. Makar stated that he never worked… Read more »
On Thursday, Everest Poker announced that four players from its Live the Dream promotion have been added to its pro team. Last year, Everest Poker’s Live the Dream promotion found 200 qualified candidates from a field of 8,000 players and offered them the opportunity to represent the site in global live tournaments through the 2010… Read more »
The seventh annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship will return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next month and the excitement began building this week with the announcement of the 64-player field. Defending champion Annie Duke will join the world’s top pros and a handful of celebrities to compete for a record payday when the event… Read more »
Beginning on Friday, Carbon Poker unveiled a site redesign, a new logo, and has revamped its VIP Program to make it more valuable for its players. “After a lot of personal testing and user feedback, we’ve created a new look and feel for Carbon Poker,” Atil Singh, the Head of Acquisitions at Carbon Poker, tool… Read more »
Starting this weekend, Full Tilt Poker, where Tom “durrrr” Dwan is a resident red pro, is giving anyone and everyone the chance to square off against the youngster one-on-one for $1.5 million. The Challenge Durrrr promotion begins Saturday, February 26th with the first of four phases, or Challenges. Challenge 1 involves No Limit Hold’em and… Read more »
Reporting from the floor at the LAPC at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, we bring you the PND Weekly News Update. The Los Angeles Poker Classic is one of the biggest events for poker in Southern California each year, bringing out some of the biggest names for the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event tournament,… Read more »
This week, the Poker News Daily exclusive web-based series “The Showdown with Jon Friedberg” welcomes Jason “NovaSky” Koon. He’s fresh off a $458,000 score for final tabling a Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) event and has become one of the top dogs in the industry. UB.com sponsors “The Showdown,” so support the show by… Read more »
A recent article in a major Hollywood trade magazine reports that the new professional poker league founded by Annie Duke and former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack will have televised coverage provided by CBS. On Tuesday, an article in Variety written by Stuart Levine credited unnamed sources saying that the Federated Sports… Read more »
In breaking news from Las Vegas, the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, the home of the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), was robbed at gunpoint for $35,000 early Thursday morning. According to 8 News Now Las Vegas, “Police say the suspect walked into the Rio and began taking chips off of a gaming table.… Read more »
2010 Bluff Magazine Player of the Year Sorel Mizzi was back in the news over the weekend. And to nobody’s surprise, it centered on yet another cheating scandal. Just days after Mizzi’s Full Tilt Poker account was reinstated after a two-and-a-half year ban, a thread popped up on TwoPlusTwo that accused him of cheating November… Read more »
This video is a replay of the 2010 WCOOP Main Event with two of the best MTT online pros on the planet, courtesy of poker training site CardRunners. In addition to videos, CardRunners hosts an active poker strategy forum where members can receive and offer up advice, feedback and more. Go to CardRunners.com for more… Read more »
Less than two months have gone by in 2011, but I have to say that it already feels like a year has passed. When someone referred to me as “The busiest man in poker,” I think they must have been thinking about the past several weeks. And I have barely played any poker. Here’s a… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stop at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach, Florida is in full swing and whether tournament officials want to admit it or not, the turnout has to be more than anyone expected. Things exploded right from the get-go. The first ring event was a $345… Read more »
Carbon Poker, part of the Merge Gaming Network, will be increasing the purse in its weekly guaranteed tournament on Sunday for one week only. Carbon Poker’s popular $50,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em tournament will double its prize pool when it runs this Sunday, February 27th. The tournament, which has a buy-in of $109, will also… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Johnny Chan, and several of poker’s biggest names joined a host of celebrities and NFL players for a charity poker tournament at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend. The tournament was set up to raise money for the Starkey Hearing Foundation and Pros for Africa,… Read more »
The Showdown with Jon Friedberg returns with Episode 8 with special guest Jason Koon who is coming off a deep run at the World Poker Tour’s Festa al Lago event from Bellagio. Once you finish this part 1, be sure to catch The Showdown, Episode 8 – Part 2. The Showdown is officially sponsored by… Read more »
The Showdown Episode 8 continues with guest Jason Koon. If you missed it, be sure to watch The Showdown, Episode 8 – Part 1. The discussion starts with Koon’s bankroll and his potential use of still using a backer. When asked if he’s still going to use a backer, Koon responded: “Well, the thing is… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), sponsored by PokerStars, debuted in 2008 with three $2,500 + $200 events spanning three different countries. The second event of that inaugural season, the San Jose, Costa Rica stop, attracted a field of 398 players, creating a prize pool of close to $1 million. Through the next three seasons,… Read more »
There’s a major change in the offing for the PokerStars-backed European Poker Tour (EPT). The tournament series’ Grand Final, which has been held in Monte Carlo for the past six seasons, will pick up and head to Madrid, Spain. The Casino Gran Madrid will serve as the host venue for the Season 7 EPT Grand… Read more »
The 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) wrapped up early Monday morning, setting records for the size of the field and paying out its first ever million-dollar prize. Sunday’s Main Event, a $600 buy-in tournament hosted by Full Tilt Poker pro Erick Lindgren, was expected to crack all previous records for… Read more »
On Sunday night, the finale of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event aired on ESPN2. The two-hour broadcast featuring commentary from Norman Chad and Lon McEachern hit television airwaves at 10:00pm ET and began with a final table of nine. For the first time, four Americans made the finale. Ronald Lee… Read more »
