The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back for the second time at the resurrected Full Tilt Poker. FTOPS XXII is set to begin on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, and will run two weeks, concluding with the $600 + $40 Main Event on the final day of the month. FTOPS XXII features 38… Read more »
The poker and sports worlds lost a friend Monday as Los Angeles Lakers’ owner Dr. Jerry Buss passed away at the age of 80. The end came after an extended battle with cancer, resulting in Buss spending much of the past year and a half in the hospital. Buss was a self-made man, he grew… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. Recently I was reading my copy of ESPN The Magazine which featured a complete issue on the different Halls of Fame that are in existence. In one segment of the magazine, a rather cartoonish map of… Read more »
One of the biggest “new” disciplines of poker that have come out in the recent past is that of Chinese Poker. Furthermore, its direct descendant, Open Face Chinese Poker, seems to have captured the fancy of high stakes poker professionals around the world. Yesterday, however, one of those poker pros allegedly uncovered an error in… Read more »
Although there are a few live casinos around the state (and a quick jump across the border will land you in Windsor, Canada’s casino world), some in Michigan prefer to take part of the poker tournaments and games in charitable poker rooms across the state. Recently, several of those rooms were shut down due to… Read more »
If there is one thing close to playing in the actual event (it has been likened to Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day rolled into one), it is the day the schedule is announced for it. Yesterday, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the finalized schedule for the… Read more »
The fallout from a video of the alleged collusion at a major poker tournament continues to be felt as the two players featured in the video have been stripped of their rankings and suspended by the Global Poker Index. As reported here on Poker News Daily recently, a French poker player and reporter, Nordine Bouya,… Read more »
The attention of the United States poker community has been focused on Nevada and New Jersey and this year, and rightly so, as the former has already legalized intrastate online poker and the latter is getting very close. Forgotten in the excitement over the anticipated launch of internet poker in those states is the fact… Read more »
Matt Giannetti became the 19th player to win multiple World Poker Tour (WPT) titles Tuesday, taking the crown at the 2013 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event. Giannetti, who was also a member of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, placing fourth in the Main Event, previously won WPT Malta in… Read more »
Amaya Gaming announced Monday that it has a signed a memorandum of understanding with Bally Technologies to integrate Amaya’s Ongame poker platform as well as its suite of casino games into Bally’s iGaming Platform. The agreement will allow Bally’s to continue on the path to launching an intrastate online poker site in Nevada. Bally Technologies… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event began Day 3 with 36 players situated around four tables and ended with the skilled and fortunate six who made the final table. Matt Giannetti leads the way heading into Tuesday’s action with just over 3 million chips. Nobody has fewer than 20 big… Read more »
The organizers of the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) had the lofty goal of creating one of the most impressive poker spectacles the world has ever seen. It is starting to look like it might just be a spectacle. Already having reconfigured the tournament because interest has proven to be much lower than what was… Read more »
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This is a motto that Mississippi State Representative Bobby Moak (D – Bogue Chitto) will need to adopt if he wants to see intrastate online gambling legalized in his state. For the second time in a year, Rep. Moak had an internet gambling bill which he… Read more »
Online poker site FullTiltPoker.eu went live Monday, pulling players from several countries away from its sister site, FullTiltPoker.com. While the domain names do not share the same suffix, there is virtually no difference between the two sites and players should see almost no changes in their poker experience. The first players to make the shift… Read more »
It’s been a quick tournament at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida, as the field of 369 players was narrowed to 143 after one day and then further whittled to just 36 after Day 2. Coincidentally, 36 was the cutoff for the money, so everyone returning for… Read more »
With a fierce winter storm pounding the Northeast of the United States, thoughts may drift off to sunnier climes where the waves lap softly against the shoreline. A good deal of the poker community has done better than letting their minds drift, actually putting down stakes in Hollywood, FL, for the World Poker Tour’s Lucky… Read more »
Wrapping one of the quicker final tables in recent memory, France’s very own Remi Castaignon came to the final day of the European Poker Tour Main Event in Deauville with a huge chip lead and, after momentarily losing that lead, came back to win the latest EPT title. How big was Castaignon’s lead to start… Read more »
Although we are only about six weeks into 2013, the various Player of the Year races in the poker industry are already being hotly contested. With several major events completed in January, there are players who are claiming their stake, albeit quite early, to being major contenders in the year-long battle. On the Bluff Magazine… Read more »
The European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has reached its penultimate day, with local product Remi Castaignon seizing a huge chip lead for the final table action on Saturday. The 23 players who returned to the felt on Friday, in a stark contrast to the Day Four action the previous day, decided to take… Read more »
During the 1990s, the normal trend in casinos was to remove – or even eliminate – poker tables and rooms to make way for more slot machines. The reason was simple: the slots drew in more money than what could be pulled in from the rake on poker. In the new casinos in Ohio, there… Read more »
It was not a good Thursday to be one of the leaders of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, as those at the top of the pack at the start of play yesterday found themselves outside looking in for today’s action. The 51 players who came back to action at the Casino Barriere… Read more »
After what was an agonizing 45 day wait for its proponents, Governor Chris Christie of the state of New Jersey has conditionally vetoed legislation that would have made the state only the third in the U. S. to license and regulate online gaming and poker. In a press release this afternoon from the Governor’s Office… Read more »
Day Three of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has wrapped up after bursting the money bubble on Wednesday. 51 players will head back to action this morning (East Coast time) with the relatively-unknown Shahaf Hadaya at the helm of the ship. 154 players stepped back into the tournament battlefield of the Casino… Read more »
Over the years, we have seen our share of online poker cheating scandals. After all, for those who really want to do it, it’s not all that hard to cheat when your opponents can’t see you. Cheating live, however, is another animal entirely. Sure, people have been finding ways to break the rules since the… Read more »
PokerStars launched a play money poker app on Facebook this week, a move which many speculate is a precursor to an eventual real money companion site to its standard, downloadable poker client. Currently in the beta testing stage, it is inaccessible to new players right now because it has reached its player limit. PokerStars.net on… Read more »
