Over the weekend, 888 Holdings surprised many in the industry by announcing the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer, Gigi Levy. In a brief statement to shareholders on Saturday, 888 Holdings Chairman Richard Kilsby simply announced, “After a difficult first half of 2010, the Company has experienced three consecutive quarters of growth. Following very strong… Read more »
On this week’s episode, Jon Friedberg hosts 2 times WSOP bracelet winner Dutch Boyd. Dutch talks about his view on tournament play and he also talks about the poker site he started with three other partners. Check out Part 2 by clicking the following link The Showdown – Episode 15, Part2 Read more »
The Showdown Episode 15 continues with Dutch Boyd. This is Part 2 of Episode 15. If you haven’t already seen it yet, be sure to watch The Showdown – Episode 15, Part 1. The show is sponsored by UB.com, so if you haven’t signed up for an account, you can do so and make sure… Read more »
Nine players remain in the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Play on Monday was scheduled to last until 10 runners remained, but a double elimination occurred on the final set of hands to trim the field to nine and set up what should be a very abbreviated play down… Read more »
CardRunners presents an awesome Pot Limit Omaha training video from two of their very best instructors who also happen to be two of the top pros in the game today. Here’s the official CardRunners teaser: It seems to good to be true. But it is very, very real. Two PLO masters introduce this expert series.… Read more »
Our interview is with Tri “SlowHabit” Nguyen from DailyVariance, a website dedicated to poker videos and comprehensive strategy guides. Some of the material at the site is from the best mid- and high-stakes players, including Nguyen himself. We asked him about the current state of poker, what’s the best way to learn in today’s climate,… Read more »
On Sunday, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom defeated Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer in a highly anticipated PokerStars SuperStar Showdown rematch. The second encounter between the two ended with Blom notching $66,000 in profit after a four-and-a-half hour battle. In last weekend’s opening match, which also stretched for 2,500 hands, Palmer lodged a slight win over Blom to the… Read more »
A lawsuit has been filed in a Canadian court against the Cake Poker Network alleging that the current owners did not fairly compensate the people who say they were the “brains” behind its creation. In the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on April 5th, two men – Ryan Bennett and Francois… Read more »
The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) returned to Mohegan Sun over the weekend for its $5,000 Main Event. Defending champion Vanessa Selbst joined several PokerStars Team Pros in attendance, including Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, David Williams, Eugene Katchalov, and Barry Greenstein. But the story on Day 1 was the significant drop in entrants… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel has been on a tear as of late. He’s banked a ridiculous $4.3 million in live poker tournaments in 2011, took down the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and won an AUD $250,000 buy-in tournament “Down Under” at the Aussie Millions for $2.4 million. Now, Seidel is poised to make… Read more »
Perhaps venture capitalist Bill Perkins was feeling a little generous on Saturday’s episode of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker.” Perkins ended down over $350,000 during his two-week stint on the longstanding cash game series and was involved in several of the largest pots of the night. You can catch all new episodes of “High Stakes Poker”… Read more »
A quaint field of 92 players turned out for Day 1 of the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Registration remains open until 1:00pm ET on Sunday prior to Day 2 of the $10,000 buy-in tournament and Ali Eslami leads the way with a stack of 147,000. It should come… Read more »
A controversial ruling by the Swedish Supreme Court regarding the “skill versus luck” argument in poker has given advocates on both sides some ammunition. Last week, the Swedish Supreme Court determined that poker is both a skill game and a game of “random chance.” In its decision, the Supreme Court determined that the deciding factor… Read more »
In breaking news from Washington, DC, the nation’s capital has apparently become the first jurisdiction to legalize intrastate online poker. According to a Wall Street Journal article published on Friday, “The city council approved a budget last year allowing the district’s lottery to operate a poker website accessible only inside district boundaries. City officials say… Read more »
April Fools 2011 has come and gone. Considering that I love practical jokes, I was pretty easy on my friends this year. I did punk my Twitter followers with a series of Tweets that started mid-morning with this one: “Driving through beautiful North Cascade Highway. Washington is beautiful… could live here if online poker was… Read more »
The second annual Borgata Spring Poker Open is just a few days away. The series kicks off from the Atlantic City casino on Wednesday, April 13th and runs until Friday, April 29th. The second cycle of the tournament series is anything but a small affair, as 53 events will pan out including the first ever… Read more »
In recent weeks, it was revealed that if the online poker industry were to be legalized and regulated in the United States, then PokerStars and Wynn Resorts would team up to launch PokerStarsWynn.com. On Thursday, a Forbes article contained additional details about the joint venture and recapped how it came to fruition. PokerStarsWynn.com is a… Read more »
In coordination with last month’s announcement of their partnership, UB.com and the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) will be offering two promotions for players to join the action in one of the biggest “minor league” schedules in the United States. For players on UB.net, the educational arm of UB.com, there is a major promotion where one… Read more »
While no official announcement has been made, it appears that PokerStars Team Pros Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier and Lex “RaSZi” Veldhuis are preparing for a kickboxing match sometime before the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Veldhuis confirmed rumors of the fight on his Twitter account Thursday, saying, “I’m fighting (kickboxing) Elky in Las… Read more »
One post on TwoPlusTwo that stood out this week was someone asking if his fellow micro-stakes players strictly followed the Baluga Theorem. If you haven’t heard of the theorem, it was introduced by a player named Andrew “BalugaWhale” Seidman on the TwoPlusTwo forum almost five years ago. It’s a fairly simple concept that says when… Read more »
It’s been a while since I wrote my last column for PND. I’ve had a lot of changes going on both personally and professionally during that time and wanted to share some of my thoughts on what’s been going on and the state of poker. First, poker is one of those games where the difference… Read more »
This week, ChiliPoker became the first online poker room to integrate social media into its poker client. The platform, called ChiliConnect, will allow players to interact with one another by linking their poker accounts with Facebook and Twitter to share their results and set up challenges with friends. Using the new ChiliConnect toolbar located within… Read more »
Eight years ago, a 27-year-old accountant from the hills of Tennessee, Chris Moneymaker, defeated one of the titans of the game, bracelet winner Sammy Farha, heads-up in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. After busting Phil Ivey to make the final table, Moneymaker achieved what many thought was impossible, banked $2.5 million, and… Read more »
Social gaming giant Zynga made a big purchase to improve its poker brand this week. The company behind popular Facebook apps like Farmville and Mafia Wars acquired the entire 16-member team behind Austin, Texas-based MarketZero, which operated the online poker tracking site PokerTableRatings. Among the major players moving over to Zynga include MarketZero founders Gustavo… Read more »
With the second World Team Poker (WTP) Championship Event just around the corner, Team Canada has finalized its roster with the additions of Peter Jetten and Erik Cajelais. Jetten has proven his skills in both the online and live tournament poker world. After running $75 into a $100,000 bankroll online, Jetten has moved on to… Read more »
