Ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and all-around poker legend, Doyle Brunson, announced last week that he has cancer and will soon be undergoing surgery. The good news is that it sounds like it was caught early and as far as cancers go, it is not overly serious. Brunson relayed the news to the… Read more »
With the three starting flights in the books, Sunday saw all of the survivors of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event reconvene for Day 2. 361 players entered Sunday’s play with just 78 remaining to advance to today’s Day 3. It is a close race for the pole position, as… Read more »
Three Day Ones have been completed in the 2015 World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. From that trio of Day Ones, a massive field has been built, guaranteeing a sizeable first place prize. The WPT changed the Lucky Hearts event for 2015, going… Read more »
After his opponent started the day as the chip leader at the final table, Bulgaria’s Ognyan Dimov outlasted Romania’s Dany Parlafes to capture the title at the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event in France this afternoon (evening in France). Coming to the final table of six players (two players, Massou Cohen and Matas Cimbolas,… Read more »
The numbers are in for 2014 and the state of Nevada’s poker rooms, demonstrating a slight drop compared to 2013. At the same time, reports on the Nevada online poker industry have been discontinued due to the regulation of the industry. 2014 wasn’t a bad year for the casinos and card rooms in Nevada, bringing… Read more »
It was a short Day 4 of action in Deauville, France, as the European Poker Tour determined the final 15 players in its Main Event. The Day 3 action on Wednesday had whittled the field from 138 to the money bubble of 87, but that wasn’t good enough for the contenders in France. They continued… Read more »
In further developments in the ongoing federal indictment against businessman/poker player Paul Phua and his son, a federal judge has issued a ruling on a key piece of the case. In a Las Vegas federal court earlier this week, Federal Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen ruled that federal agents were within their rights to conduct an… Read more »
Next month the Global Poker Masters, the brainchild of Global Poker Index owner and Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Dreyfus, will take to the stage in Malta. Earlier this week, however, one of the first issues popped up for the Global Poker Masters as two players were removed from the tournament. Team France, which qualified sixth… Read more »
The Three Stooges are back. The Sheldon Adelson-backed Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) bill has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R – Utah), the same person who introduced it in 2014. Senator Lindsey Graham (R – S.C.) introduced a twin bill in the Senate last year, and while… Read more »
Enough of the separate flights; Tuesday was the time at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event that all of the survivors from Days 1A and 1B came together in a single, unified field for Day 2. 335 of the original 589 made it to Day 2, led by the home country’s Guillaume Darcourt,… Read more »
We’re in the month of February, so that means we are no longer allowed to say, “Happy New Year!” to each other right? It’s hard to believe (for me, anyway), that we are already a month into 2015 and though Punxsutawney Phil says we have six more weeks of winter left, we are getting dangerously close… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) picked up again this week with two starting flights of the €5,300 EPT Deauville Main Event. Nearly half of Day 1A’s 199 players were eliminated at the Casino Barrière as 108 survived to advance to Day 2, while 227 of Day 1B’s 390 players made it to Tuedsay. The top… Read more »
It is shocking when someone in Washington, D.C. admits that gambling might be ok, but when one of most prominent politicians in the United States wants to discuss matters, people just might listen. Last Thursday, Senator John McCain (R – Ariz.) was on ESPN’s Capital Games podcast to talk about the NFL and said that… Read more »
Although there is still one more event left on the schedule, the 2015 Aussie Millions crowned two champions over the past two days. In today’s Main Event final table, Manny Stavropoulos overcame the odds to capture the win and, on Saturday, Richard Yong took his first High Roller championship in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions… Read more »
