After an eight hour battle on the tables, former “Octo-Niner” Jeremy Ausmus emerged as the champion of the €1500 Pot Limit Omaha event at the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe last night, while another champion is looking to add to his illustrious career in another No Limit Hold’em tournament. Ausmus came to the six-handed… Read more »
Event #3 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe, the €5000 Mixed Max tournament, came to a conclusion early this morning with Darko Stojanovic stunning Dan O’Brien in taking down the bracelet. The 140 players who originally came to the felt on Sunday had been whittled down to the Final Four by Wednesday afternoon,… Read more »
With online gaming in New Jersey just around the corner, at least one prospective internet operator is getting started on its marketing early. London-based Betfair has launched two sites – LetsPlayNJ.com and BetfairNJ.com – to begin hyping its internet gambling offering in the Garden State. Both websites are exactly the same and both actually display… Read more »
Last week, we gave you a quick report on the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) release of the 2014 portion of the Season XII schedule. Well, it looks like there is a bit of a problem. The WPT World Championship, the most prestigious live poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), overlaps with… Read more »
One of the great things about poker tournaments is that you don’t have to be some sort of seasoned pro to win. You just have to be a good poker player. Sure, experience helps, but if you can play poker well and catch a little luck here and there, you can take down a title… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Event #3: Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em was an important one on Tuesday, as the field was narrowed from 72 to just 16. That 16-player mark was a milestone in the tournament; it both signaled a shift in table size and marked the beginning of the payouts.… Read more »
Late last week, Juicy Stakes Poker management sent an e-mail to its customers announcing that it has been acquired by Zagox Management N.V. Zagox, “a serious partner for all types of online gaming,” according to the e-mail, has already taken over the operation of the site. Poker players are hopeful that this will begin a… Read more »
The first day of World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Event #3: €5,300 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em got underway yesterday and though it is a small field at just 135 players (five more players then registered before the start of Day 2), it is an extremely competitive one. Ville Mattila leads the 67 survivors with 165,000… Read more »
If we could take today’s poker players and drop them into 2006 or thereabouts, Jackie Glazer would be well on her way to becoming a household name. But with the decline of televised poker and the rise of faceless internet poker players, those who might have otherwise become poker celebs have not garnered the attention… Read more »
Garden City Group (GCG), the Full Tilt Poker Claims Administrator authorized by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on its website Friday that former Full Tilt affiliates will be eligible to submit Petitions for Remission. Affiliates were previously excluded from the reimbursement process. In September, a list of ineligible… Read more »
After an eight hour battle, Robin Ylitalo emerged as the champion of the European Poker Tour London’s Main Event, banking an impressive payday of £560,980. At the start of action on Saturday at the Grand Connaught Rooms, Jeff Rossiter held a decent lead with his 5.205 million in chips over one of his main nemesis,… Read more »
After a week of competition, the final table for the European Poker Tour London Main Event is now set with Jeff Rossiter leading an international contingent of players to the felt this afternoon. Sixteen men came back to the tables on Friday at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to work their way down to… Read more »
When he started out, the creator (writer, director, producer and narrator) of the poker documentary Drawing Dead: The Highs and Lows of Online Poker, Mike Weeks, was a newcomer to the movie making business. “(Drawing Dead) was my first film ever, so the expectations going into it were pretty modest,” Weeks admitted in an interview… Read more »
This past year has been an excellent one for poker documentaries (theatrical releases, not so much, as evidenced by Runner Runner and its slightly more than $7 million take in over 3000 theaters in the United States last weekend). One poker documentary, completed earlier this year, has gone under the radar to the poker community,… Read more »
As the launch date for New Jersey online gaming approaches, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has announced that player-to-player (P2P) money transfers will not be allowed. Customers of the various Garden State internet casinos will need to fund their accounts themselves if they wish to play. The rule has been in place… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event was held Tuesday as the 230 survivors from Days 1A and 1B got together in a single field at the beautiful grand Grand Connaught Rooms. Just 107 players made it through the day; emerging on top was the only player with over 600,000… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced its end-of-season schedule yesterday, a lineup which will feature seven stops in 2014. All seven of the tour stops will be in the United States: two in Atlantic City, two in California, and three in Florida, which is quickly becoming a poker hotbed. The first stop of the new… Read more »
A new group of players lined up for Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event Monday, looking to join the 105 who made it out of Day 1A for Day 2 on Tuesday. As expected, the Day 1B field was larger than that of Day 1A: 389 versus 209. Leading the… Read more »
As the Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s London (EPT) stop got underway, the Season 10 EPT London £50,000 Super High Roller came to a close. With more chips than the next two players combined, Germany’s Martin Finger was a strong favorite going into final table play and he did not disappoint, winning the… Read more »
After a month-long layoff, Season 10 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) resumed Sunday with the opening flight of the EPT London Main Event. A total of 209 players paid the £5,250 to participate. This number should be eclipsed easily on Monday, since many prospective runners may have been spending their day on the computer,… Read more »
For U. S. online poker players since 2011’s “Black Friday,” the last couple of years have been some tough times. There are few options for players to take part in, although there are a handful of offshore sites that still cater to players. This has led to the rise of “free play” sites (especially on… Read more »
In the unofficial kickoff to what will be an exciting month of poker on the Old Continent, the European Poker Tour’s £5000 Main Event kicks off today while wrapping up its £50,000 Super High Roller with a powerful final table. The EPT London (the second stop of the Season 10 EPT schedule) has long been… Read more »
As they stuff their turkeys, make final preparations for the family to come home and ensure there’s enough money in the bank for the upcoming Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa season, New Jersey residents will have something else to be thankful for two days before Thanksgiving. It was announced yesterday that the New Jersey online gaming industry, which has… Read more »
Across the United States today, the movie Runner Runner is set to premiere in theaters. In early reviews and predicted box office take, the movie – from Rounders writers Brian Koppelman and David Levien – has taken some hits, however. Long anticipated by the poker community, Runner Runner is the story of Richie Furst (Justin… Read more »
After a week of battling on the tables of the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, Henri Balcazar emerged as the champion of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal tournament, taking home nearly $200,000 in the process. The four days leading up to the tournament (including three Day Ones) saw a number of popular players come… Read more »
