Poker has a long history of helping out those that have some of the most difficult challenges in life. This fact will once again be displayed on Sunday as many poker professionals and celebrities will come together in Las Vegas for a poker tournament in support of autism. On Sunday, the 7th Annual Ante4Autism charity… Read more »
After fighting his way through a final table that took more than 16 hours to complete, the United State’s Kevin Schulz was able to come out on top to take down the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Wednesday night. Instead of the usual EPT eight-handed final table, the PCA combatants had played… Read more »
The Winning Poker Network (WPN) has added Bitcoin as both a deposit and withdrawal currency, making it the largest internet poker network to accept the cryptocurrency. WPN, likely not coincidentally, is also a U.S.-facing network, giving American players an option for funds transfers as traditional means are not always viable with current online gaming laws… Read more »
We are down to the last six players in the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as the first major live poker tournament of the year draws to a close today. Chance Kornuth has a solid lead, holding 7,860,000 chips, compared to Kevin Schulz’s 6,155,000. Though the next closest player… Read more »
In 2012, Russian poker player Marat ‘maratik’ Sharafutdinov inadvertently created an internet meme while negotiating a final table deal during the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event. As the remaining players discussed how much money each player should get, the chip leader typed the sentence “I wont million” in the chat box,… Read more »
Just three tables remain filled at the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as Day 4 wrapped up last night. Three players – Eugenio Mattar, Emrah Cakmak, and Chance Komuth – have eclipsed the 2,000,000 chip mark, but it is Mattar who sits atop the field alone with 2,673,000. One… Read more »
Regulated online poker in the United States is still in its infancy – the legal game did not go live until April 2013 in Nevada – but it has quickly become apparent to the poker sites that it is going to be increasingly difficult for them to go it alone. Competition is a good thing… Read more »
Sunday was the day of the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event during which many players had to make the decision on whether to go for the gold or just try to grab a couple pieces of silver. Day 3 was the day the money bubble burst during the first… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is in the books as several lesser-known players in the tournament poker world ascended to the top of the leaderboard. 507 players stepped back to the felt on Paradise Island in the Bahamas on Saturday with a great deal of work yet to be… Read more »
On Thursday, a magistrate in federal court denied the motion of businessman/poker player Paul Phua and his son, Darren, which would have allowed them to return to the poker tables while they await the illegal gambling case against them in the federal system. Magistrate Judge Bill Hoffman said in his decision that neither Phua presented… Read more »
A busy Friday at the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure wrapped up late last night with a new champion crowned on the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) and the conclusion of the second Day One in the PCA Main Event. $3000 LAPT Bahamas Main Event – Final Day 11 players came back to… Read more »
After over a decade of effort, scientists at the University of Alberta believe they have achieved their goal of creating the “perfect” poker playing program, one that doesn’t make any bad moves and is a winning “player.” According to a study released in Science magazine, those University of Alberta scientists think they have built a… Read more »
The 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure rolled along on Thursday, with the champion determined in the $100,000 Super High Roller tournament as the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Bahamas and PCA Main Events both came to the felt. $100,000 Super High Roller Continuing what has been a great run for him of late,… Read more »
The inaugural countries and the preliminary teams have been determined for March’s Global Poker Masters 2015, the tournament envisioned by its founder, Global Poker Index (GPI) Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Dreyfus, to be poker’s version of soccer’s (football’s) World Cup. The eight countries that have qualified for the Global Poker Masters were determined by the… Read more »
The final table is set for the first Super High Roller event of the year, but perhaps a bigger story of the opening days of the 2015 EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is the turnout for one of PokerStars’ regional tours, the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) that is holding a Main Event during the proceedings… Read more »
It is not every day that two competing online poker rooms work together to provide their players with the best possible product and this is still not one of those days. Two rooms, however, just happen to be offering a huge slate of tournaments this month in such a way that players will certainly benefit.… Read more »
The Global Poker Index (GPI) announced this week a partial player roster for the upcoming inaugural Global Poker Masters event. The competition, which the GPI has nicknamed poker’s World Cup, is scheduled for March 21st and March 22nd at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta festival. This scheduling was carefully planned, as most of the… Read more »
On Friday, David Rebuck, Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), published a paper summarizing the one-year anniversary achievements of the state’s online gambling industry and providing a look forward to future goals. Intrastate online gaming was legalized on February 26, 2013 and formally went live on November 25, 2013. The paper… Read more »
In October 2014, PokerStars disappointed a lot of players in announcing slew of cash game rake and tournament fee increases, scheduled in for two separate dates, November 3rd, 2014, and January 1st, 2015. The world’s largest online poker room had built up a fantastic reputation amongst players for always having its customers in mind with… Read more »
While it is still too early to call online poker in Nevada a failure, things certainly are not going well in the Silver State. The Nevada Gaming Control Board recently released its November Gaming Revenue Report, revealing that online poker revenue continued its decline. According to the report, total internet gaming “win” for November, which… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker’s Gold Rush promotion must be going swimmingly because the online poker room has decided to extend it well into the New Year. Originally slated to end on New Year’s Day, Gold Rush will now last an extra week and a half, ending Sunday, January 11th. Gold Rush is a promotion designed to… Read more »
2015 is now upon us and it is time for the online poker sites to renew the battles that they have built over the years. Later this month, PokerStars will unveil the latest version of one of their more popular tournament schedules. The 4th Annual PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) will take place… Read more »
Many have compared poker to the business world in that difficult decisions have to be made in split-second situations. According to one highly successful investment mogul, however, poker is a piece of cake to the world that he normally lives in. On the Thinking Poker podcast, billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn opined that “the… Read more »
Now that the confetti has been swept up, people have nursed their respective conditions back to normalcy and everyone has now bid adieu to 2014, the New Year celebrations are complete. Thus, it is time to turn to 2015 and wonder what the coming twelve months are going to look like. Never one to back down from a challenge… Read more »
There’s nothing like ranking things in a convoluted standing system to bring out the discussion in people. Whether it is tennis or golf rankings, where the Premier League teams are on their ladder (or, for U. S. citizens, the National Football League) or even NASCAR or Formula One drivers, people like to know who are… Read more »
