Good poker films are few and far between. The fictional stories are usually completely over-the-top and melodramatic (cue music as hero tosses his cards face-up on the table and walks away in slow motion before the camera pans to the felt to reveal he had a royal flush) and the documentaries typically feature people about… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2015 World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event, the first-ever WPT stop in the Dutch capital, saw 194 players belly-up to the tables, creating a total field of 324 when combined with the 130 who played on Monday. Just 97 ended the night with chips and will join the 54 who survived… Read more »
It appears that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nev.) is not content to just let Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO and deep-pocketed Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson fight the war against online poker in the United States by himself. It is increasingly looking like Reid may, in fact, help him out. On his way… Read more »
The World Series of Poker may be starting in a couple weeks, but that doesn’t bother the World Poker Tour, as it is stringing together tournament after tournament after tournament. Just days after the WPT World Championship brought Season XIII to a conclusion, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship kicked off Season XIV. And now, just… Read more »
Following two weeks of battle on the virtual felt in Pennsylvania, the “Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence” challenge concluded on Friday. Although the numbers say there was a winner, in looking deeper into the numbers the contest is being declared a draw. The competition was set up by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science,… Read more »
Although this year’s festivities at the Rio in Las Vegas haven’t begun as of yet (we are less than three weeks away, however), Caesars Entertainment and WSOP officials have announced a big change for the running of the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe. It was announced on Friday that this year’s event will be… Read more »
Battling through a difficult final table, Spain’s Adrian Mateos – the reigning World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion – added the second leg of poker’s “Triple Crown” in winning the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final in Monte Carlo yesterday. With only a six-handed final table (the other two official EPT final table spots,… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle to determine the champion, Sheraz Nasir denied Lu Zhang a shot at making history on the World Poker Tour in winning the first stop of Season XIV’s schedule, the partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship, on Wednesday night. Trevor Delaney held the lead (and 3.19 million chips) as the cards… Read more »
PokerScout.com published its Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update on Saturday, reporting that for the third straight week, internet poker cash game traffic declined. The 3 percent drop seemed to be the responsibility of just about everyone, as out of the top ten networks and sites in PokerScout’s cash game rankings, nine of them saw their… Read more »
It was a short Day 3 at the 2015 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship Main Event as the field was narrowed from 45 to just 15 before prime time television started. Three men have separated themselves from the pack: chip leader Samuel Tsehai, who has 1.522 million chips, Sheraz Nasir with 1.207 million, and… Read more »
The field was slashed Monday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event as more than 300 players were reduced to just 114 on Day 2. It is an extremely close race for the pole position as Germans Ole Schemion and Christopher Frank are one-two with 477,700 chips and 465,200 chips, respectively. Jose… Read more »
It is not exactly play money, but for people who like to play poker for free, these next two weeks should be fun at Full Tilt Poker. Starting today, Full Tilt is hosting Freeroll Mayhem, a tournament series in which players do not have to buy-in to play (if that was not completely obviously by… Read more »
My fellow Poker News Daily writer, Earl Burton, hit on this yesterday, but man, it is really strange that Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has started already considering Season XIII just ended on Friday. Poker is certainly different than other sports with more traditional seasons, so for most poker players, the WPT… Read more »
Just as the World Poker Tour’s season came to an end last week, so does the eleventh season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) this week with the EPT Grand Final Main Event in glitzy Monte Carlo, Monaco. The €10,000 + €600 tournament has a guaranteed first prize of €1 million. Leading the event after… Read more »
It seems like it was just yesterday that Season XIII of the World Poker Tour concluded with Asher Conniff winning his first major championship in becoming the WPT World Champion in Atlantic City. Looking at the calendar, it wasn’t just yesterday, it was a couple of days ago, which makes the beginning of Season XIV,… Read more »
One week into a two-week run against an opponent that isn’t alive, four poker professionals have been able to move into the lead against a poker playing computer program in a casino in Pittsburgh. The “Brains vs. Artificial Intelligence” battle started last week with four pros – World Series of Poker bracelet winner Doug Polk… Read more »
In a poll that presents a skewed version of events, the Sheldon Adelson-led Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling has presented a poll that “shows” the citizens of Pennsylvania “don’t want” online gaming regulation in the Keystone State. On the CSIG website, a new article is presented (oddly with no author) that is entitled “New Poll… Read more »
In an e-mail to affiliates on Friday – in some cases other businesses that have been with the site since its inception in 2001 – PokerStars announced major changes to its affiliate program that will have a seismic effect on the online poker industry. The e-mail, which was posted on several online poker forums by… Read more »
