Black Friday has claimed another victim. Originally reported by Wicked Chops Poker late last week, the popular NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) has been cancelled indefinitely. The annual invitational tournament had been a highlight of poker television since 2005. The decision to not hold the tournament in 2012 was not completely unexpected. Both PokerStars… Read more »
Regardless of how it works out, you have to admit that the Merge Gaming Network has some guts. The small online poker network is looking to fill the gaping void in the poker market by re-opening its doors to United States customers. The network laid out the welcome mat on Thursday, and while it has… Read more »
An online poker player from the United Kingdom will be serving jail time following his ill-advised threats against the support staff of an online poker room. An article in the Darlington & Stockton Times details out the story of Michael Gallagher, a 35-year old unemployed online poker player from East Cleveland, who apparently wasn’t happy… Read more »
As the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe enters its second Day One on Sunday, poker pros Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Philippe Boucher captured the final two preliminary bracelets awarded on Saturday. In the €10,000 Split Format No Limit Hold’em event, Mizrachi came back yesterday as a member of… Read more »
The players have gathered in Cannes, France, for the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, but there is a bit of unfinished business in two of the preliminary events to take care of as the Championship Event begins. In the €10,000 Split Format No Limit Hold’em tournament – which has… Read more »
Less than a month from now, the World Series of Poker Championship Event “November Nine” will play out in front of a packed Penn & Teller Theater at the Rio in Las Vegas. Over the past few years, the “November Nine” has also been the moment that the new additions to the Poker Hall of… Read more »
On the eve of the Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe, there are still two bracelets left to be awarded. During yesterday’s action, the relatively unknown Tristan Wade defeated a stacked final table in the €3000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout to take his first WSOP bracelet. Although the tournament was a… Read more »
While the World Series of Poker Europe continues in its city, details are emerging as to a card marking scandal that has occurred in a Cannes casino. Fox News and Expatica.com are reporting about the scandal, which involved the usage of infrared ink marked cards that were allegedly used at the Les Princes Casino in… Read more »
With the €10,000 Championship Event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe looming on the horizon, Steve “MrSmokey1” Billirakis etched his name into the annals of WSOP history on Wednesday by taking down his second gold bracelet, while a stacked final table is set for play in the €3000 Shootout event today. Billirakis came… Read more »
Hoping to find a niche on the live tournament circuit and attract young players looking for a game after the obliteration of online poker in the United States, Card Player magazine has announced that it is launching a new poker tour, the Native American Casino Poker Tour (NACPT). As the name implies, the tour stops… Read more »
The second event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) concluded Tuesday with Aussie Andrew Hinrichsen emerging victorious, the sixth Australian in history to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. The €1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament was the largest ever at the WSOPE, as its 771 entrants demolished the previous record… Read more »
CalShark.com, a new free-to-play online poker room, opened yesterday, an event that would not normally be big news, especially because the games are all for play money. What is interesting about this poker room, however, is that it is run by California brick and mortar card rooms and Native American tribes, not an overseas gambling… Read more »
ESPN.com’s monthly ranking of the top ten poker players in the world, called “The Nuts,” has been released and for September, the top five has remained unchanged. In fact, of the ten players on the list, only one was new, meaning that one player had to drop out. That one player: the incomparable Phil Ivey.… Read more »
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) kicked off Friday with the first of seven official bracelet events as the Series moves to Cannes, France after four years in London, England. In another first, Guillaume Humbert became the first Swiss national to win a bracelet, taking the 2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event and its €215,999… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. The saving grace that came last week with the announcement of the long-awaited deal for the sale of Full Tilt Poker to the French investment company Groupe Bernard Tapie looked, at the start, to be what… Read more »
Riding a wave of knockouts at the final table, Germany’s Benny Spindler cruised to the championship at the European Poker Tour’s stop in London, while Philipp Gruissem made EPT history by winning the High Roller event at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. In the Main Event, play was down to five players with Spindler holding a… Read more »
With both events whittling their fields down to the final players, the champions will be determined today at the European Poker Tour London Main Event and the High Roller championship. In the Main Event, play ended yesterday with the elimination of Adria Balaguer in ninth place. Five players, including Balaguer, saw a 10-7-7 flop and,… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced the ten nominees for the Poker Hall of Fame Class of 2011 Tuesday after a public nomination process on WSOP.com, followed by a vetting of all nominations by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The criteria for Poker Hall of Fame induction, according to the World Series… Read more »
Now we’re down to the nitty gritty. Day 4 has wrapped up at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London with just 24 players – three tables – remaining and the title is virtually anyone’s for the taking at this point. There is a virtual three-way tie for the top spot between Mattias Bergstrom (1,838,000 chips),… Read more »
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Groupe Bernard Tapie, the French investment group that signed an “exclusive agreement” to purchase Full Tilt Poker and its assets, is considering offering an equity stake in the new company to certain customers. One of the decisions the Tapie family is still mulling is exactly how… Read more »
Day 3 was moving day at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London, as players were looking to make the money and position themselves for a potential run at the final table. 160 players started the day, and with 104 cashing, there was no doubt the money bubble would burst. When the dust settled at the… Read more »
One current and one former member of Team PokerStars are the targets of a lawsuit by Wynn Las Vegas, which is looking to recover $700,000 it says the two won at the casino by illegally cheating at craps. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Leo Fernandez, who is currently a member of Team PokerStars, and… Read more »
Oftentimes in large, multi-day poker tournaments, the chip leaders at the end of early days fall off the next day, never to be seen again in the event. Not so this weekend at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London stop. Germany’s Benny Spindler, who started Sunday’s Day 2 as the second largest chip stack with… Read more »
Day Two play at the European Poker Tour stop at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in London is in full swing, with the final numbers for the tournament exceeding expectations and bringing new faces to the top of the leaderboard. After 280 players stepped up on Friday with their £5000 buy in, a stunning 411 came… Read more »
One of the most prestigious stops on the European Poker Tour, their annual trek to London, the United Kingdom, is currently underway, with several top professionals on the felt yesterday and for Day 1B action today. The £5000 buy in event started on Friday, drawing the crème of the poker world from both sides of… Read more »
