As we approach the two month mark since online poker’s Black Friday, most of the people named in the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) indictments have remained silent. A couple have pleaded guilty and a couple have made short statements proclaiming that they have violated no laws, but nobody has claimed to not have been… Read more »
Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet Saturday by winning the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud title in Las Vegas. The 30-year-old pro from New York collected $122,909 in prize money and removed his name from the list of the best players in the world that have fallen short of poker’s… Read more »
If you didn’t know the name Jake Cody before now, it’s time to start paying attention. The 22-year-old from Rochdale, England accomplished an extraordinary feat late Friday evening, taking down the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship at the World Series of Poker to complete the last leg of poker’s Triple Crown. Cody has now won events at… Read more »
On Thursday, 888poker announced the final schedule for its 2011 Super Stack series in the United Kingdom. The six-stop tour will take place at London’s Fox Poker Club and Birmingham’s Circus Casino between July 30 and December 18. The buy-in for each of the events is £165 with 20K starting stacks and 40 minute blinds.… Read more »
It was a busy day at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Thursday as a total of six events were spread around the Rio Convention Center in Las Vegas. On top of that, the WSOP announced the inception of a $1 million buy-in tournament starting next year that will benefit One Drop, a foundation which… Read more »
The poker community was stunned this week to find out that the game’s biggest star, Phil Ivey, was boycotting the 2011 World Series of Poker. Ivey, speaking publicly for the first time since Black Friday, released a statement on his Facebook page late Tuesday evening that faulted Full Tilt Poker’s “painful” slowness in returning player… Read more »
With all the hand wringing over the collapse of online poker in the United States since Black Friday, one big thing has been largely ignored by the poker community as a whole: the 42nd Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). The largest and most famous poker festival in the world kicked off Tuesday as thousands… Read more »
