Day 2 of the 2016 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event saw significant chip movement as two-thirds of the field that remained after Day 1 was eliminated, leaving just 111 players to continue the trudge toward the final table on Monday. Sam Soverel is the chip leader with 466,400 chips, followed closely by… Read more »
Although it has been rumored to be one of his next big projects in Hollywood, screenwriter/playwright and producer Aaron Sorkin – one of the most prolific writers in Tinseltown who has seen his award-winning work on both television and the silver screen – has reportedly chosen his lead for his next big film. That film… Read more »
Kicking off their 3rd Annual “California Swing,” the World Poker Tour has landed in sunny Southern California – the Commerce Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, to be precise – for their perennial stop at the L. A. Poker Classic. The first stop of a trio of tournaments in California (the Bay 101 Shooting Star in… Read more »
In what may become an iconic moment in poker history (depending on where we are with it, say, five years from now), the inaugural player draft for the Global Poker League is now history. Twelve teams gathered in front of Commissioner Kara Scott on Thursday and, after a four-plus hour ceremony, left the conference room… Read more »
In front of a packed ballroom at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, the 2nd Annual American Poker Awards were held on Thursday evening. Created by the chairman of the Global Poker Index, Alexandre Dreyfus, to celebrate the best of North American poker (much like its counterpart in the European Poker Awards), the ceremonies… Read more »
Although he came to the final table as the second shortest stack, David Ormsby would stick around long enough to become a thorn in the start of day chip leader Robert Forbes’ side, eventually defeating Forbes to take the championship of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Fallsview Poker Classic in Canada on Thursday… Read more »
Despite having several obstacles thrown in their path – and getting through each of them – it was announced late Thursday that PokerStars, the #1 online poker site in the international poker industry, would once again be allowed to play on U. S. shores, albeit only in the state of New Jersey at this time.… Read more »
The complete schedule for the 2016 World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas was unveiled yesterday; the 47th annual running of the world’s most popular poker festival will begin on Wednesday, June 1st and conclude on Thursday, July 14th. The 2016 WSOP technically begins on Tuesday, May 31st,… Read more »
Online poker is once again back on the table in California, as California State Representative Adam Gray introduced Assembly Bill 2863 (AB 2863) on Friday. The bill’s goal is to legalize and regulate intrastate online poker in the Golden State. This has been tried many, many times before in California over the last several years,… Read more »
It was a short day as expected at the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Tuesday, as it took less than four hours to eliminate six players and get the tournament down to the six-handed final table. Robert Forbes defied history; it is not often you see the chip leader after… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event has simply been racing along. It started with 423 players on Sunday and nearly 300 were eliminated that first day. Yesterday, the field was narrowed from the 132 Day 1 survivors to just a dozen by the end of Day 2. From 423 to 12… Read more »
The phrase “hit and run” rarely has a positive connotation. In everyday life, it conjures up images of gangster movies. In poker, it is used to describe an instance when a player joins a table, scoops a big pot right away, then leaves. A hit and run artist typically leaves the player from whom he… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back in action this week as the action headed north of the (U.S.) border to the Fallsview Casino Resort, overlooking Niagara Falls, for the WPT Fallsview Main Event. This is the one of the increasingly rare major tournaments with just one starting day; 423 players turned out for the CAD… Read more »
The creators of the popular syndicated poker show Poker Night in America, Rush Street Productions, have received kudos for the work they have done. In an era in which there has been little to no “new” television programming dedicated to poker, Rush Street Productions came out and provided that content for a rabid audience. Now… Read more »
Almost two months into 2016, the battle is already brewing in the different Player of the Year races that are in the tournament poker world…or at least there is for one of them. The champion of the Aussie Millions Main Event, Ari Engel, has been able to move to the top of the CardPlayer Magazine… Read more »
After dominating Day 5 in seizing the chip lead, Poland’s Dzmitry Urbanovich solidified his position as a player to potentially watch for at this year’s World Series of Poker in dominating the final table on his way to the European Poker Tour Dublin Main Event championship earlier on Saturday. The 20-year old Urbanovich’s lead wasn’t… Read more »
Earlier this week, the Global Poker League inched ever closer to reality. In a ceremony broadcast from their studios in Malta, the GPL’s Alexandre Dreyfus and Laura Cornelius hosted the first-ever Draft Lottery for the inaugural season of the league. After the ceremonies were complete, the 12 teams – and poker fans who watched the… Read more »
It might have been thought that Day 3 of the European Poker Tour stop in Dublin, Ireland would have been a leisurely walk in the park on Thursday. If a player thought that, they wouldn’t have been prepared for the level of carnage that saw the 45 remaining players cut down to only 16 in… Read more »
The 341 survivors from the two starting flights met in a unified field Tuesday at the Royal Dublin Society to continue the track toward the final table in the 2016 European Poker Tour (EPT) Dublin Main Event. Croatia’s Ivan Banic takes the lead into Day 3, topping the remaining field of 127 players with 381,200… Read more »
In what looks like a cost cutting move, Amaya Inc. has decided to merge Full Tilt into the PokerStars gaming platform, effective sometime this coming spring. The two brands will stay separate, but all liquidity, accounts, and the VIP program will be merged under the PokerStars umbrella. In a press release, Amaya explained some of… Read more »
In August 2015, a three-judge appellate court panel ruled against the state of New Jersey in the state’s ongoing push to legalize sports betting. It was nothing new for the Garden State, which has been trying to join an exclusive club of states where sports gambling is actually allowed for several years, but it was… Read more »
We knew this was going to happen, but it is pretty impressive nonetheless. In a major (or minor, for that matter) live poker tournament with two starting days, the second is ALWAYS bigger – and usually significantly bigger – than the first. Yesterday was no exception. Day 1A of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Dublin… Read more »
The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) is getting set to clean up its Sit-and-Go offerings at the end of the month in order to both make games easier to find and more enjoyable for players. On Thursday, Microgaming’s Head of Poker Alex Scott detailed the changes, along with some of the reasoning, in a blog post.… Read more »
The second European Poker Tour Main Event of the year got going Sunday, as Day 1A of the EPT Dublin Main Event kicked off with 147 poker players spending their Valentine’s Day hoping to end up flush with hearts (Do you see what I did there? Valentine’s Day? Hearts? Flush? That’s why they pay me… Read more »
For the first time in over eight years, the European Poker Tour has set their anchor down in the beautiful city of Dublin, Ireland and the Royal Dublin Society for their most recent festival of poker. As their €5000 Main Event kicked off its Day 1A action today, the frenetic play in the €25,000 High… Read more »
