The NYX Gaming Group has purchased ZEN Entertainment, hopefully saving ZEN’s creditors after the company filed for bankruptcy in January. ZEN Entertainment, which has billed itself as a “massive multiplayer online gaming (MMOG) tournament network,” has origins stemming back to 2006. It was that year that the National League of Poker (NLOP) and NLOP.com were… Read more »
Last month, PokerStars released the first draft of the schedule for its popular Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). Now the official schedule has been published. It is very similar to the original draft, with just one event, Triple Stud, dropped from the series. More tournaments have been added, though, increasing the number of events… Read more »
Kevin Eyster led the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown after Day 3. He led after Day 4. And aside from a few minutes, he led Day 5 all the way through, winning his first World Poker Tour title and $660,395. Eyster, going by the screen name “1SickDisease” (and variants) is a highly respected… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker launched an update to its software Tuesday, introducing three new features. The most significant addition is Full Tilt’s take on player segregation, but done in a much gentler manner that at competing poker sites. Player segregation has been a disappointing trend in the online poker world lately in which different sites and… Read more »
It was final table or bust Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown as the last 21 players in the field looked to make Tuesday’s six-handed final table. It took about nine and a half hours to find 15 eliminations, but the final table was finally set with Louisiana’s Kevin Eyster… Read more »
The attorney of former Full Tilt Poker CEO Ray Bitar appeared in Manhattan court Monday as his client did the same via video from Los Angeles. As expected, Bitar pled guilty to two felony counts stemming from the Black Friday indictments of exactly two years ago. The two counts to which Bitar pled were: 1) … Read more »
A few days ago, “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu came up just short of a bracelet at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacfic (WSOP APAC), placing fourth in the A$2,200 Mixed Event. Today, he completed the journey, winning the WSOP PAC Main Event, defeating a total field of 405 players. For the victory, Negreanu won… Read more »
While the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific Championship Event was reaching its final table, two side events (neither awarding a bracelet) were also finished on Sunday. Eleven men returned from the original 37 player field for the penultimate day of the $50,000 High Roller event with Joseph Cheong leading over such names as Jonathan Duhamel,… Read more »
As expected, Day Four at the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC) Championship Event was a quick one, but the final table that will be played out on Monday will feature some excellent talent overall. The fifteen men who came back on Sunday for action in the Crown Casino were looking to eliminate seven… Read more »
The final two tables have been determined in the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC) Championship Event and a name familiar to poker fans from last year’s Las Vegas Championship Event, Russell Thomas, has emerged as the leader of the pack heading to Sunday’s action. 94 players resumed the hostilities on Saturday at the… Read more »
In an exclusive interview with Poker News Daily, poker professional Dutch Boyd disclosed some insights into his upcoming book, “Poker Tilt,” as well as some of his observations on the poker world in general. “I think I could have written the book earlier,” Boyd stated in the interview. “I could have taken advantage of things… Read more »
After a Day Two that was jammed with action around the Crown Casino in Melbourne, the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC) has a new leader in Winfred Yu, with both Rupert Elder and Day One chip leader Daniel Negreanu in hot pursuit. With 262 players returning to the tables on Friday, Negreanu held… Read more »
The first day of the inaugural World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC) Championship Event is in the books and, while it might be a smallish field for one of the prized WSOP bracelets up for grabs in 2013, it doesn’t lack for notable names atop the leaderboard. The players gathered in the Crown Casino… Read more »
After a short test on Titan Poker late last week, the iPoker Network has rolled out anonymous tables to the rest of the poker rooms on the network. The tables, which remove players’ identifying information from the tables, are currently available for No-Limit Hold’em games with $2 through $100 buy-ins with additional tables possible in… Read more »
Lost in between the inaugural 2013 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) event and Phil Ivey’s historic ninth WSOP bracelet was the second event of WSOP APAC, the $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament. Washington, D.C. native Jim Collopy nabbed the $69,662 top prize, not to mention the first WSOP of his career. Collopy did… Read more »
Day 4 was a fairly short one at the 2013 World Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event; it took only about five hours to whittle the field from thirteen players to the final table of six. Leading the charge is Canada’s Chanracy Khun with 2.393 million chips as the final table looms on Wednesday. The chip… Read more »
Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan had better take a look in their rear-view mirrors. Phil Ivey is tailgating. Ivey, the man most would probably consider the greatest living poker player, added to his legend Wednesday, winning the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) $2,200 Mixed Event, earning himself his ninth career WSOP bracelet.… Read more »
Former Full Tilt Poker chief executive Ray Bitar will plead guilty to felony charges stemming from his 2011 “Black Friday” indictment, according to several media sources, including the Wall Street Journal and Diamond Flush Poker. This news in and of itself should not really come as a shock, considering Bitar was arrested in July 2012… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Barcelona Main Event ground down to just two tables Monday as the Day 3 starting field of 42 was narrowed to just 13. Spain’s Sergio Fernandez has a sizable lead going into Tuesday’s action; with 1.268 million chips, he has more than a 400,000 chip advantage on the next… Read more »
Monday was a landmark day in the poker world as the first-ever World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) bracelet was awarded at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. It was perhaps fitting, too, that the inaugural WSOP APAC bracelet was in a tournament format that was also making its initial run: the Accumulator… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain is in the books with a chance at history looming if Sunday’s action continues its course. 148 players came back on Sunday, with local player Sergio Fernandez holding a 37,000 chip lead over Ognjen Sekularac. Day 1A chip leader Manuel Bevand… Read more »
For the first time at the Crown Casino, two events on the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC) were in action, with the “Accumulator” event working down to (or as close as possible) the final table and the $1650 Pot Limit Omaha tournament seeing its first action. Event #1 – $1100 No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
The World Poker Tour stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain has finished off its second Day One, with a Spaniard storming through the Day 1B field to take the overall chip lead in the event. As expected for the second Day One, there was a rush to get in on the action for this… Read more »
The first event of the inaugural World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific (WSOP APAC), the $1100 No Limit Hold’em “Accumulator” tournament, has finished play in its three Day Ones with France’s Antoine Saout the overall leader. After seeing two 330-plus player fields for the first two Day Ones, the Crown Casino and WSOP officials were expecting… Read more »
Last week, the International Federation of Poker announced six of the teams that will compete for the European Nations Cup in just over a week in Paphos, Cyprus. Since that time, three more teams among the fourteen competitors have completed their rosters for the event. As expected, Team Ireland will be throwing some serious players… Read more »
