World Team Poker will return for a second year with a Championship Event at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas from May 24th to 26th. The event, which will be filmed for television, will feature the world’s top players from at least 18 countries battling it out in a team-style format. Last year’s field… Read more »
On Sunday, 68 teams were selected for the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Poker players were active on Twitter as the selections were revealed and let their Tweeps know how they felt about who was in and who was out. Poker pro John D’Agostino got the Tweetfest off to a start. He exclaimed, “Greatest time… Read more »
On Monday, Full Tilt Poker announced the debut of the Onyx Cup, a series of six high-stakes live tournaments starting in May in Las Vegas. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill tournaments, either. Instead, five preliminary No Limit Hold’em events will have buy-ins between $100,000 and $300,000, while the Grand Finale comes with a $250,000 price tag… Read more »
Prahlad Friedman is one of the best poker players on the planet, be it in live tournaments or cash games or when he’s playing online. He recently signed a deal to become UB.com’s frontman for their marketing and now bears a UB.com patch at events. We caught up with Friedman at the recent LAPC Main… Read more »
On Saturday, the seventh season of “High Stakes Poker” continued on GSN. The series, which features host Norm Macdonald and sideline reporter Kara Scott, was filmed at the famed Bellagio in Las Vegas. New episodes air on Saturdays at 8:00pm ET and 11:00pm ET, exclusively on GSN. DoylesRoom front man Doyle Brunson’s play was erratic… Read more »
The only member of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine not to sign any sponsorship deal, runner-up Darvin Moon, has recently inked an agreement to become the face of the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT). In an announcement by the HPT last week, Moon’s new deal names him as an ambassador for the… Read more »
If you’re a poker player in the United States, then you know that April 18th is Tax Day this year. With a little over one month to go, players have been scurrying around to collect profit and loss information from online poker sites and weed through their bank accounts searching for deposits and withdrawals. This… Read more »
The televised ESPN Bounty Shootout, held as part of the Bicycle Casino’s Big Event, held its final table on Saturday. The $10,000 buy-in tournament featured a winner-take-all top prize of $171,000 and nine players were left standing, including reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel. Every player who reached the final table… Read more »
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Victor Ramdin won the Big Event’s Main Event on Thursday at the Bicycle Casino, defeating friend and fellow PokerStars pro Joe Hachem heads-up to collect a first place prize of $500,000. Ramdin bested a field of 417 players and nearly went wire-to-wire for the title after amassing a sizable chip lead on Day 2 and… Read more »
It’s not every day that a casino closes its doors. Sure, sometimes a gaming establishment is knocked down to pave the way for a brand new mega-resort, but this isn’t one of those times. The Sahara Las Vegas, once the home of icons like Johnny Carson, is closing in May. This author fondly remembers “Man… Read more »
2011 marks a monumental year for Federated Sports and Gaming. Its brand new poker league will hold four events at the Palms in Las Vegas featuring automatic bids for 200 of the game’s top pros. But how will those players be determined? Poker News Daily sat down with League Commissioner Annie Duke to find out.… Read more »
The home game ended this morning right around 4:00am. I made it to bed in time to credibly tell myself that I really wasn’t seeing a faint light in the East. Cards had gone in the air pretty close to 7:00pm, which, as somebody pointed out toward the end of the “evening,” meant that many… Read more »
The PND Weekly News Update is back! I’m your host Sean Gibson and we’ll be recapping the world of poker. Lets get right down to it! A PokerStars SuperStar Showdown date between Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Daniel Negreanu has been rumored for quite some time. Blom, who is four-and-one in SuperStar Showdowns and riding a… Read more »
The ongoing court battle between Deliverance Poker and two defendants – 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tablist Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and the parent company of Full Tilt Poker, Tiltware LLC – has heated up over the past two weeks, with a flurry of motions presented to the court. On March… Read more »
On Wednesday, the Nevada Gaming Control Board approved the groundwork of a partnership between Caesars Entertainment and gambling giant 888 Holdings that could potentially change the legal landscape of online poker in the state of Nevada. According to a report from the Las Vegas Sun, Caesars formed a relationship with two subsidiaries of 888 Holdings,… Read more »
PokerStars recently made the difficult decision to remove Double or Nothing (DoN) Sit and Gos from its roster of games, presumably because of rampant collusion. In their place, the world’s largest online poker room inserted a similar type of tournament called the Fifty50, which uses a structure that reduces the benefit derived from colluding while… Read more »
Nevada Assembly Majority Whip William Horne introduced AB258 on Thursday calling for legalized intrastate online poker. The news comes one week after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have created the first intrastate internet gambling regime in the U.S. Poker Players Alliance (PPA) Executive Director John Pappas told the Wall Street… Read more »
After making the final table of the Fifth Anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million tournament last weekend, one of the finishers will allegedly not be paid due to a violation of the Terms of Service of the site. According to several reports, including the Netherlands’ second largest newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, the website Make Poker Legal, and the… Read more »
A PokerStars SuperStar Showdown date between Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Daniel Negreanu has been rumored for quite some time. Blom, who is 4-1 in SuperStar Showdowns and riding a four-match win streak, now gets a date with the PokerStars front man. In fact, their match will stretch for two weeks. On March 20th and 27th,… Read more »
In figures reported on Thursday, Nevada casino gaming revenue, or “win,” was flat in January year-over-year according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Statewide, Nevada casinos raked in a total of $877.4 million two months ago, which represented a decrease of 0.67% over the same period one year prior. The good news is that, over… Read more »
On May 8th, the 2011 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker, or SCOOP, will commence. This year’s running, the third overall, is monstrous. A total of 38 events will be held over the course of two weeks and, for each, three levels of buy-ins will be available: Low, Mid, and High. In 2010, a total… Read more »
Recently, 888 Holdings PLC, which operates several online gaming and poker websites, released its fiscal year 2010 reports that showed tremendous growth over the previous 12 months. According to the report, the fourth quarter of last year continued a yearlong surge by the company. For the last three months of 2010, 888 showed revenues of… Read more »
Back in January 2009, young poker phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan issued a six-figure challenge to anyone who had the confidence to take him on head-to-head on the virtual poker tables. The Durrrr Challenge created a ton of buzz at the beginning of that year, but two years later, what excited many in the poker community… Read more »
Another 348 hands of the Tom Dwan Million Dollar Challenge played out on Tuesday in its first action since January. Many in the community were growing tired of the second incarnation of the so-called Durrrr Challenge between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Dan “jungleman12” Cates, but the battle waged on and the latter extended his lead… Read more »
