What a difference a day makes. Whereas Day 5 of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was short – just four and a half hours – Day 6, which consisted of just the final table, was long. Very long. Seventeen hours long, counting breaks. The stacks were fairly deep… Read more »
With the U.S. financial markets soaring to new heights in 2013, it was apparent that people were willing to gamble last year. Unfortunately for Nevada, they weren’t willing to gamble on dice, cards, and spinning reels as much as the state would have liked. For the fifth straight year, Silver State casinos lost money and… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker Index (GPI) announced that German poker player Ole Schemion had won the 2013 GPI Player of the Year (POY) title, awarded to the years’ most successful live tournament player. Schemion just beat out GPI’s Player of the Decade Daniel Negreanu for the honor. Schemion began the year in style, placing… Read more »
The news broke rather quietly at about 7:30pm EST on Wednesday, January 8th, as a post on the Facebook page for the Foxwoods Assistant Supervisors & Dealers who are members of the UAW Local 2121. In a little over four hours, though, it had kicked up quite the storm in the poker community. In the… Read more »
Sunday’s Day 5 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was a short one, as only a dozen eliminations were needed to hit the next stopping point in the tournament, the final table. Entering the day, 20 players remained in the event, all with the immediate goal of being one… Read more »
If you look at any of the professional football teams (soccer to those in the United States) in Europe, you will see several online gaming companies as sponsors on their jerseys. Those companies, such as bwin, 888, Bet365 and Paddy Power (among others) have recognized the advertising potential by being associated with a professional sports… Read more »
Day Four of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event is in the books and, with 20 players remaining, Madis Muur has surged to the lead. There are several notables in contention behind him with one of those contenders looking to make European Poker Tour history. Saturday’s action began with 72 players remaining and the… Read more »
The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event reached the money during action on Friday and, by the time the chips were bagged up for the night, British pro Max Silver had moved into the lead as one of only three players over one million chips. At the start of action on Friday, Pascal Lefrancois was… Read more »
The opinions in this editorial do not reflect the positions of the ownership or management of Poker News Daily. For the entirety of his poker career, he has a grand total of one cash at the 2009 World Series of Poker Championship Event. You probably won’t find him in any of the cash games in… Read more »
After more than two years of argument over the issue of the state’s charitable poker room industry, Michigan regulators have reached a compromise that, pending approval, would allow the industry to continue in the state. Those regulations, however, have some charity poker rooms pondering whether they will be able to stay in business. According to… Read more »
The $10,000,000 Guaranteed PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event has worked its way through Day Two with Pascal Lefrancois leading the remaining 215 players who will look to pop the money bubble on Friday. At the start of yesterday’s action, overall Day One leader Shankar Pillai was ahead of the 632 players who made it out… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker is determined to get your rake as quickly as possible. In an update released Wednesday, PokerStars’ little brother introduced a new variation on its popular Rush Poker fast-fold poker game, dubbed “Adrenaline Rush Poker.” Adrenaline Rush is for those people who don’t have the time to wait through the flop, turn, and… Read more »
With the $100,000 High Roller Event coming to a close, Tuesday was time for the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event to begin, the first big Main Event of the year. The PCA is always a highly anticipated poker festival, as it not only kicks off the year, but has… Read more »
The 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 High Roller Event concluded Tuesday as the seven remaining players played their way down to the first big money winner of the new year. Fabian Quoss collected all the chips in the end, cashing for $1,629,940. Going into final table play, the chip stacks… Read more »
Last week, I penned an article titled “There’s Nothing Going on in Poker Right Now” because there wasn’t. The Christmas/New Year week was barren of tournaments and, for the most part, any particularly interesting news. And though people spent much of their time away from work and away from the live poker tables, they didn’t… Read more »
Well, that was fast. After starting with 52 entries yesterday, the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 High Roller Event has already ground its way down to the final table. Of course, with such a small field (and with that buy-in, it’s to be expected) it should not come as a… Read more »
After a brief holiday layoff, live tournament poker is back and kicking off a busy January is the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 Super High Roller event. Last year, the tournament drew 59 entries, creating a prize pool of nearly five and three-quarters million dollars. Scott Seiver won the first highlight… Read more »
Late last week, Full Tilt Poker announced the crowning of its first batch of sponsored Black Card Team Professionals, determined by a competition that spanned the second half of 2013. The dozen poker players will now have their names lit up in red for the next four months. The Black Card sponsorship program was launched… Read more »
Contrary to what seems to be popular belief, poker wasn’t just invented over the past ten or fifteen years. There is an ever-growing population of players who have been a part of the game for most of their adult life. With this in mind, a new tour will take flight in 2014 that will cater… Read more »
While pretty much the entirety of the United States is blanketed by “Winter Storm Hercules” (really, who thought naming winter storms was a good idea?), poker’s elite and droves of online qualifiers have escaped to the sunny climes of Paradise Island, the Bahamas, for the start of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis… Read more »
Although there is still seven years left in the decade of the ‘Teens, the Global Poker Index has taken the step to decide who the “Player of the Decade” is. Now we know that this decade is barely three years old, so the GPI is looking at the “New Age” of poker (and let’s use… Read more »
One of the biggest impacts made by poker in 2013 was in the theatrical world. It seemed that nearly every month there was news about a film project, YouTube series, poker documentary or a new poker book that was making an impact. While some of these films were outstanding (and, admittedly, some not), they kept… Read more »
Whether you are a professional or just a casual player, the start of a new year wipes the slate clean for everyone involved in poker. Everyone’s reset back to zero as to winnings, there’s a fresh array of tournaments and cash games waiting (online or live) and the zeal to play the game has been… Read more »
As the confetti is swept up from the New Year’s Eve celebrations, there are still some things to look back at from the past year. Something that always provides a bit of excitement around the poker world is the gossip that sometimes pops up; it can either run for a couple of days or throughout… Read more »
There are some days in the life of a poker news writer when it can get overwhelming trying to choose something about which to write. There can be so much happening that you want to write everything and write it now. But there are days like today, the first day of the year 2014, when… Read more »
