While strolling through my local Barnes & Nobles over last weekend, I did what I usually do when I find myself there. I strolled over to the Poker section of the bookstore, but wasn’t able to find the placard that said “Poker” peeking out over the shelf. I asked for some help from a clerk,… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is, like its counterpart in the World Poker Tour, also playing out their next to last event of their Season Ten schedule. The 2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo Main Event has completed its Day Three play earlier this afternoon (U. S. time) with Spain’s Raul Mestre holding down the top slot over… Read more »
After more than six hours of competition, the third shortest stack to start the day, Eric Afriat, completed an unlikely comeback to outduel World Poker Tour Player of the Year leader Mukul Pahuja and take down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown late last night. Afriat came to the final table with only 6.76… Read more »
The Borgata announced Monday the resolution to the counterfeit chip scandal that plagued the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open in January. The resolution was initially ordered by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) and will be enacted by the casino. To review, Event #1 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open… Read more »
My mom once told me, “You can’t get something if you don’t ask.” Phil Ivey has apparently taken advice from my mom. Details have come out of how the man many consider the best poker player in the world allegedly took advantage of a defect in the playing cards to win nearly $10 million playing… Read more »
It was a surprisingly long day at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event on Tuesday, as it took over ten hours to narrow the field from only eighteen to six. But Day 4 did end and the final table has been set with Mukul Pahuja presiding over his… Read more »
After Day 1A of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Sanremo Main Event, we surmised that it would effectively take an act of god for the tournament to end up with a larger field than it did last year. There was no brilliance in this estimation, but still, we were right. It’s not even going to… Read more »
The plan for Monday at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event was to play down to 27 runners, but if time allowed the option to slice off another nine players was an option. It was the latter situation that presented itself last night, so nearly 100 of the… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) returned to action this month with a stop in Sanremo, Italy, a coastal town near the France border. Monday was the start of the EPT Sanremo Main Event with the first of two starting flights. Of the 172 players who paid the €4,600 + €300 to play yesterday, 103 survived… Read more »
Following an exciting three starting flights in which the largest-ever field was seen for a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, Day 2 of the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event took place on Sunday. 673 Day 1 survivors took their seats knowing that it was still going to be a long, hard… Read more »
Demonstrating that he may have a competitive career after his current profession ends, tennis champion Rafael Nadal came up short in a heads up poker battle against arguably the #1 female poker player in the world, Vanessa Selbst. In a special charity poker match at the Casino de Monte Carlo on Saturday, Selbst and Nadal… Read more »
With a massive outpouring of entries over Friday and Saturday’s action, the World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown has become the largest ever event (by number) in the history of the WPT. As the 673 survivors ready for Day 2… Read more »
The next to last stop for the Season XII schedule on the World Poker Tour kicked off yesterday in the sunny climes of Florida. Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, is in the books with two notable names sitting atop… Read more »
The current battle over online gaming and poker in the United States is bringing out important political figures on both sides of the issue. What happens, however, if a person wanted to be with one side and was either turned down or better suitors were found? This is the question that must be asked of… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN) announced this weekend that PokerHost.com has joined its roster of online poker rooms, making the jump from the Merge Gaming Network. Poker Host has been around since 2004, the beginning of the poker boom, but has never really been able to establish itself as a go-to site. In the decade… Read more »
In development since 2012, PokerStars’ new software, dubbed PokerStars 7, is still in the alpha testing phase. But now, anyone who wants a peek into the future of the world’s largest online poker room can give it a try. About a week ago (the last day of March, to be exact), PokerStars opened up PokerStars… Read more »
Online poker cash game tracking site PokerScout.com released its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update yesterday and for about the gabillionth time this year, traffic declined from the previous week. To be a little more exact, rather than rounding up to the nearest gabillion, online poker traffic decreased for the eighth week in a row and… Read more »
Brit Sam Holden, a November Niner at the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event, announced this weekend that he is “semi-retiring” from poker. He explained what made him come to the decision on his blog at 888poker.com, for which he was a poker ambassador. Holden began by saying that he will be… Read more »
As the latest battle for online poker heats up on Capitol Hill and in the change purse of Sheldon Adelson, the pro-online poker side has earned more supporters. Recently, both the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) penned letters to federal lawmakers expressing their… Read more »
Back in the early 2000s, we thought we were seeing an online poker war unfold. The battle for supremacy between PokerStars and the old Full Tilt Poker (and, to a lesser extent, UB.com and Absolute Poker), with their litanies of pros issuing their Sirens’ song to eager players to “come to their site” was entertaining… Read more »
Although they have previously decided against passing legislation, the Mississippi House Gaming Committee has decided to take a closer look at entering into the online gaming world with a study that will examine online gaming and sports betting. According to the Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald’s Mary Perez, the chairman of that committee, Richard Bennett (R-Long Beach)… Read more »
With the end-of-season tournaments on the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour lurking on the horizon, there has been a complete reshuffle of the major Player of the Year races in the poker world. That reshuffle has brought out new contenders for the major awards and perhaps offer some insight into who could… Read more »
Although he only introduced the bill earlier this week, the author of the bill in front of the New York State Legislature immediately turned around and stated that the bill that he wrote wouldn’t be a high priority for him. On Monday, State Senator John Bonacic (R-Mt. Hope) introduced his bill, SB 6913, with the… Read more »
Almost one year into its existence, the online poker industry in Nevada has finally released their first financial figures. Nevada Gaming Control Board regulations stated that such numbers would not be released until three outlets were underway and, with the opening of the South Point Casino’s Real Gaming recently, that goal was met. Those numbers… Read more »
In December, SPIELO G2, a subsidiary of GTECH, revealed that it will be shutting down the International Poker Network (IPN). The plan is for the old, beleaguered network to fade into history by the end of May, but there is still business to settle. One such piece of business, as reported by Pokerfuse.com, is to… Read more »
